St Peters Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our St Peters chiropractic patients want to know “why”! Why do I suffer with back pain? Why do I keep getting back pain? Excellent questions that can often be answered with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Old Mill Chiropractic works to keep abreast of the newest (with a healthy appreciation of the older!) research to communicate with you! Let Old Mill 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 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 analyzed published reviews of other studies involving the mechanism of how manual therapy influences a body. They uncovered support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune modifications as well as the effectiveness of pain reduction with manual therapy. (1) All of these findings are great! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Old Mill Chiropractic values the efforts of a group of researchers who have been looking at 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 delivered about Cox® Technic. One discussed the ability to assess lumbar spinous process movement with ultrasound during the delivery 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 can’t wait to share with our St Peters chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers plan to test how applying guidelines from the American College of Physicians for Low Back Pain may enhance the care 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) Old Mill Chiropractic looks forward to this study’s outcomes! It’s time!

CONTACT Old Mill 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 original research, its current research, and its futuristic studies involving ultrasound measurement, force application monitoring, and more.

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