Plainville Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Plainville chiropractic patients want to know “why”! Why do I have back pain? Why do I keep getting back pain? Understandable questions that may oftentimes be answered with examination findings aligned with research-documented findings. Research can help illuminate that, and Layden Chiropractic works to keep abreast of the latest (with a healthy appreciation of the older!) research to communicate with you! Let Layden Chiropractic work with you to get some insights as to why you have 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 requesting more info on ‘why” manual therapy works 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 regarding the mechanism of how manual therapy affects a body. They found support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune modifications as well as the effectiveness of pain reduction with manual therapy. (1) All of these discoveries are amazing! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Layden Chiropractic values the efforts of a group of researchers who have been studying the “why” of Cox® Technic treatment protocols and positive results. At the ACC-RAC chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were presented about Cox® Technic. One discussed the ability to measure lumbar spinous process movement with ultrasound throughout 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 done, the more knowledge of “why” something works will come! We can’t wait to share with our Plainville 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 in the literature 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) Layden Chiropractic looks forward to this study’s outcomes! It is time!

CONTACT Layden 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 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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