Manahawkin Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Manahawkin chiropractic clients want to know “why”! Why do I have back pain? Why do I keep getting back pain? Outstanding questions that can often be clarified with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help illuminate that, and Manahawkin Chiropractic Center works to keep on top of the latest (with a healthy gratitude of the older!) research to share with you! Let Manahawkin Chiropractic Center work with you to get some understanding as to why you experience 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 works beyond current 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 changes as well as the effectiveness of pain reduction with manual therapy. (1) All of these findings are amazing! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Manahawkin Chiropractic Center values the efforts of a group of researchers who have been looking at the “why” of Cox® Technic treatment protocols and beneficial results. At the ACC-RAC chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were delivered about Cox® Technic. One showed the ability to calculate 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 able to measure the forces delivered throughout 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 evolve! We can’t wait to share with our Manahawkin 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 enhance the treatment of low back pain. The guideline has been in the literature for a long time, but it’s not been implemented. A study has been approved by multiple Institutional Review Boards: Duke, Dartmouth, University of Iowa, and Advarra. The first line treatment endorsed is non-pharmacological interventions like spinal manipulation and exercise. (4) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center looks forward to this study’s outcomes! It is time!

CONTACT Manahawkin Chiropractic Center

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 involving ultrasound measurement, force application observing, and more.

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