Carrolltown Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Carrolltown chiropractic clients ask “why”! Why do I suffer with back pain? Why does back pain keep coming back? Outstanding questions that can often be answered with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help illuminate that, and Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation works to keep on top of the latest (with a healthy gratitude of the past!) research to communicate with you! Let Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation work with you to get some understanding as to why you suffer with 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 requesting 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 studied published reviews of other studies regarding the mechanism of how manual therapy affects a body. They found support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune changes as well as the effectiveness of pain decrease with manual therapy. (1) All of these findings are great! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation appreciates the efforts of a group of researchers who have been studying 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 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 relieved. (3) The more measurements done, the more knowledge of “why” something works will come! We can’t wait to share with our Carrolltown chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers have planned a new project to examine how applying guidelines from the American College of Physicians for Low Back Pain may enhance the treatment 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) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation excitedly awaits this study’s outcomes! It’s time!

CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation

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 foundational research, its current research, and its futuristic studies involving ultrasound measurement, force application observing, and more.

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