Fort Wayne Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients want to know “why”! Why do I suffer with back pain? Why does back pain keep coming back? Outstanding questions that can often be clarified with examination findings aligned with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Aaron Chiropractic Clinic works to keep abreast of the latest (with a healthy appreciation of the older!) research to communicate with you! Let Aaron Chiropractic Clinic work with you to get some insights as to why you suffer with 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 is successful beyond current studies supportive of the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be measured. A group of researchers analyzed published reviews of other studies involving the means of how manual therapy affects a body. They uncovered support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune modifications as well as the value 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

Aaron Chiropractic Clinic 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 presented about Cox® Technic. One discussed the ability to measure 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 alleviated. (3) The more measurements possible, the more understanding of “why” something works will come! We are so excited to share with our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers plan to examine how applying guidelines from the American College of Physicians for Low Back Pain may boost the treatment of low back pain. The guideline has been around for a long time, but it has 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) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic excitedly awaits this study’s outcomes! It’s time!

CONTACT Aaron Chiropractic Clinic

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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