Concord, NC Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Concord, NC chiropractic clients ask “why”! Why do I suffer with back pain? Why do I keep getting back pain? Outstanding questions that may oftentimes be answered with examination findings aligned with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Pure Chiropractic works to keep abreast of the latest (with a healthy gratitude of the older!) research to communicate with you! Let Pure Chiropractic work with you to get some insights as to why you suffer with spine-related pain…and how we can help you 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 is successful beyond recent studies supportive of 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 affects a body. They found support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune modifications as well as the effectiveness of pain decrease with manual therapy. (1) All of these findings are amazing! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Pure Chiropractic values the efforts of a group of researchers who have been looking at the “why” of Cox® Technic treatment protocols and positive 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 measure lumbar spinous process movement with ultrasound throughout the delivery 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 done, the more knowledge of “why” something works will come! We can’t wait to share with our Concord, NC chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers plan to test how implementing guidelines from the American College of Physicians for Low Back Pain may boost the care of low back pain. The guideline has been around for a long time, but it’s not been put into action. A study has been approved by several 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) Pure Chiropractic excitedly awaits this study’s outcomes! It is time!

CONTACT Pure Chiropractic

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 foundational research, its current research, and its futuristic studies using ultrasound measurement, force application monitoring, and more.

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