Minster Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Minster chiropractic clients ask “why”! Why do I suffer with back pain? Why do I keep getting back pain? Excellent questions that can often be clarified with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help illuminate that, and Minster Chiropractic Center works to keep abreast of the latest (with a healthy gratitude of the older!) research to share with you! Let Minster Chiropractic Center work with you to get some insights as to why you experience 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 asking for more information on ‘why” manual therapy succeeds beyond recent 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 modifications 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

Minster Chiropractic Center values the efforts of a group of researchers who have been studying 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 during the administration 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 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 understanding of “why” something works will evolve! We are so excited to share with our Minster 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 around for a long time, but it has not been implemented. A study has been approved by several 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) Minster Chiropractic Center looks forward to this study’s outcomes! It is time!

CONTACT Minster 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 using ultrasound measurement, force application observing, and more.

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