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

Our San Jose chiropractic patients ask “why”! Why do I suffer with back pain?Why does back pain keep coming back? Excellent questions that may oftentimes be clarified with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Chiropractic Solutions works to keep on top of the latest (with a healthy appreciation of the past!)  research to communicate with you! Let Chiropractic Solutions work with you to get some understanding as to why you suffer with spine-related pain…and how we can 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 works beyond recent studies supporting the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be measured. A group of researchers studied published reviews of other studies regarding the means of how manual therapy influences a body. They found support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune modifications as well as the value of pain reduction with manual therapy. (1) All of these discoveris are great! 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 studying the “why” of Cox® Technic treatment protocols and positive outcomes. At the ACC-RAC annual chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were delivered on Cox® Technic studies. One discussed the ability to calculate lumbar spinous process movement with ultrasound during the administration of flexion distraction manipulation. The researchers highlighted the separation of the spinous process at L3L4, L4L5, L5S1 levels. (2) The second one discussed how they are competent to measure the forces delivered during the Cox Technic FDD spinal manipulation in a patient whose low back pain and leg pain were alleviated. (3) The more measurements possible, the more understanding of “why” something works will evolve! We are so excited to share with our San Jose chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers have planned a new project to examine how implementing guidelines from the American College of Physicians for Low Back Pain may enhance 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 (which is chiropractic forte!) and exercise. (4) Chiropractic Solutions looks forward to this study’s outcomes! It is time!

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox, developer of Cox® Technic protocolson The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes 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 observing, and more.

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