Richmond Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Richmond chiropractic clients want to know “why”! Why do I suffer with back pain? Why does back pain keep coming back? Excellent questions that may oftentimes be clarified with examination findings aligned with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Johnson Chiropractic works to keep on top of the latest (with a healthy gratitude of the past!) research to communicate with you! Let Johnson Chiropractic work with you to get some insights 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 requesting more info on ‘why” manual therapy succeeds beyond recent studies supportive of the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be measured. A group of researchers analyzed published reviews of other studies regarding the means of how manual therapy affects a body. They uncovered support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune modifications as well as the effectiveness of pain decrease with manual therapy. (1) All of these discoveries are amazing! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Johnson 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 presented about Cox® Technic. One showed the ability to measure lumbar spinous process movement with ultrasound throughout 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 competent to measure the forces delivered throughout 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 knowledge of “why” something works will come! We are so excited to share with our Richmond chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers have planned a new project to test how implementing guidelines from the American College of Physicians for Low Back Pain may boost the care of low back pain. The guideline has been around for a long time, but it’s not been put into action. A study has been approved by several 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) Johnson Chiropractic looks forward to this study’s outcomes! It is time!

CONTACT Johnson 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 describes 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 observing, and more.

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