At Johnson Chiropractic, our Richmond chiropractic patients
receive cutting-edge spinal care in the form of Cox®
Technic, recognized, researched
and relieving for back pain. Cox® Technic is really
around the world…and right here in Richmond! In this piece,
you’ll see studies from Spain, Korea,
Japan, and the US regarding Cox® Technic and how it relieves
back pain.
SPAIN: 50% AND SUPERIOR CLINICAL OUTCOMES
A recent research paper by researchers and
physiotherapists in Spain reports that patients treated with flexion distraction spinal manipulation reach
at least 50% improvement. Further, flexion distraction outcomes stand
superior to high velocity low amplitude thrust technique outcomes. (1) A note
on this 50% improvement marker: Cox® Technic protocols look for
at least 50% improvement within the first month of care for most spine pain
conditions at which time (a) visit frequency is decreased by 50% and
(b) treatment would now include some range of motion treatment to spinal
segments. And if you say “Well, 50% doesn’t seem like that
much.” Johnson Chiropractic must comment that medicine now considers 30% and even 20% improvement as “minimal clinical
improvement” to declare a medical procedure like spine surgery worthwhile
to do. (2, 3) Contrasted with those
markers for a practice to be medically beneficial, Cox®
Technic’s 50% Rule guide and attainment is marvelous! Johnson Chiropractic
finds that many of our patients attain even more improvement:
60%, 70%, 80%, 90% and higher. All cases and patients differ and
have their own distinctive concerns, but the clinical
outcomes are pleasing for Richmond back pain
sufferers who really want to return to an
agreeable quality of life.
JAPAN & US: TRACTION AND COX® TECHNIC
Traction is effective treatment…for some
and when it is applied to the proper
patient. 83.2% of patients did in a Japanese study. These researchers presented
that lumbar traction can deliver a distractive force and that
patients showed an immediate response to it. They
also admitted that traction research is short on
reproducibility, biomechanical confirmation, and clinical validation of its effectiveness.
(4) Cox Technic can present researched effects. Cox®
Technic biomechanical studies documented that the lumbar spine disc
pressures drop to as low as -192mmHg, the lumbar canal area enlarges
by 28%, the disc height increases by 17%, and ranges of motion
can be restored to specific spinal segments. (5) Johnson Chiropractic
proposes that Cox® Technic is well-researched, segment
specific spinal manipulation with predictable clinical outcomes.
KOREA: COX® TECHNIC POSITIVELY IMPACTS THE SPINE
And in Korea, researchers discovered that
disc heights significantly enlarged in chronic low back pain
patients handled with flexion distraction and joint
mobilization techniques. How does this happen? They described that
this treatment produced negative pressure in the disc space to draw
the displaced disc content back to the center and removed painful stimuli from the annular fibers to decrease
pain. (6) Just what Gudavalli et al found
in their biomechanical research of the effects of Cox® Technic flexion
distraction on the lumbar spine in the 1990’s! Johnson Chiropractic talks
about these biomechanical effects with our Richmond back pain
patients daily. It is key
to have science behind what we do.
CONTACT Johnson Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST
with Ram Gudavalli, PhD, on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. Gudavalli is the principle
investigator who has led much
of the biomechanical and clinical research studies – retrospective, prospective
and experimental with cadavers – into the effects of Cox Technic
flexion distraction. He, too, adds to the world-wide flare of Cox®
Technic as he moved to the US from India! We’re
so grateful he did.
Schedule your Richmond chiropractic appointment
today. While Cox® Technic is researched all around
the world, it it offered right here in Richmond for
your spinal health and back pain relief and management.