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Manahawkin Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

Our Manahawkin chiropractic clients ask “why”! Why do I suffer with back pain?Why do I keep getting back pain? Excellent questions that may oftentimes be clarified with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Manahawkin Chiropractic Center works to keep on top of the latest (with a healthy gratitude of the past!)  research to communicate with you! Let Manahawkin Chiropractic Center work with you to get some understanding 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 requesting more info on ‘why” manual therapy succeeds beyond current studies supportive of the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be assessed. A group of researchers analyzed published reviews of other studies regarding the means of how manual therapy affects a body. They found support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune changes 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

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 outcomes. At the ACC-RAC annual chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were delivered on Cox® Technic studies. One showed the ability to measure lumbar spinous process movement with ultrasound throughout the administration of flexion distraction manipulation. The researchers highlighted the separation of the spinous process at L3L4, L4L5, L5S1 levels. (2) The second one presented 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 possible, the more knowledge of “why” something works will come! We are so excited to share with our Manahawkin chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers plan 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 put into action. 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) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center looks forward to this study’s outcomes! It’s 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 foundational research, its current research, and its futuristic studies involving ultrasound measurement, force application monitoring, and more.

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