Juneau Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Juneau chiropractic patients want to know “why”! Why do I have back pain? Why does back pain keep coming back? Understandable questions that may oftentimes be clarified with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Aurora Chiropractic Center works to keep on top of the latest (with a healthy appreciation of the past!) research to share with you! Let Aurora Chiropractic Center work with you to get some insights as to why you have 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 measured. A group of researchers studied published reviews of other studies involving the means of how manual therapy affects a body. They found support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune changes as well as the value 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

Aurora 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 chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were presented about Cox® Technic. One discussed the ability to calculate lumbar spinous process movement with ultrasound during the delivery of flexion distraction manipulation. The researchers noted separation of the spinous process at L3L4, L4L5, L5S1 levels. (2) The second one presented how they are able to assess 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 understanding of “why” something works will come! We are so excited to share with our Juneau 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 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 endorsed is non-pharmacological interventions like spinal manipulation and exercise. (4) Aurora Chiropractic Center excitedly awaits this study’s outcomes! It is time!

CONTACT Aurora 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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