San Jose Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our San Jose chiropractic clients want to know “why”! Why do I suffer with back pain? Why does back pain keep coming back? Outstanding questions that can often be answered with examination findings aligned with research-documented findings. Research can help illuminate that, and Chiropractic Solutions works to keep on top of the latest (with a healthy gratitude of the past!) research to communicate with you! Let Chiropractic Solutions work with you to get some understanding as to why you have spine-related pain…and how we can facilitate your path to get some relief of chronic back pain.

RESEARCHERS CALL FOR “WHY” MANUAL THERAPY WORKS

Today’s medical literature and researchers are asking for more information on ‘why” manual therapy succeeds beyond recent studies supporting the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be assessed. A group of researchers studied published reviews of other studies involving the mechanism of how manual therapy influences a body. They uncovered support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune modifications as well as the value of pain decrease with manual therapy. (1) All of these discoveries are amazing! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Chiropractic Solutions appreciates the efforts of a group of researchers who have been looking at the “why” of Cox® Technic treatment protocols and beneficial outcomes. At the ACC-RAC chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were presented about Cox® Technic. One showed the ability to assess lumbar spinous process movement with ultrasound during the delivery of flexion distraction manipulation. The researchers noted separation of the spinous process at L3L4, L4L5, L5S1 levels. (2) The second one discussed how they are able to assess the forces delivered during the Cox® Technic FDD spinal manipulation in a patient whose low back pain and leg pain were relieved. (3) The more measurements possible, the more knowledge of “why” something works will come! We can’t wait to share with our San Jose chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers have planned a new project to test how applying guidelines from the American College of Physicians for Low Back Pain may boost the treatment of low back pain. The guideline has been around for a long time, but it has not been implemented. A study has been approved by multiple Institutional Review Boards: Duke, Dartmouth, University of Iowa, and Advarra. The first line treatment recommended is non-pharmacological interventions like spinal manipulation and exercise. (4) Chiropractic Solutions looks forward to this study’s outcomes! It’s time!

CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox, developer of Cox® Technic protocols, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, its development, its original research, its current research, and its futuristic studies using ultrasound measurement, force application monitoring, and more.

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