Fernandina Beach Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients ask “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 that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help illuminate that, and Amelia Chiropractic Clinic works to keep abreast of the newest (with a healthy appreciation of the older!) research to communicate with you! Let Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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 info on ‘why” manual therapy is successful beyond current studies supporting the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be assessed. A group of researchers analyzed published reviews of other studies involving the means of how manual therapy affects a body. They found support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune changes as well as the value of pain decrease with manual therapy. (1) All of these discoveries are great! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Amelia Chiropractic Clinic values the efforts of a group of researchers who have been looking at the “why” of Cox® Technic treatment protocols and beneficial outcomes. At the ACC-RAC chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were presented about Cox® Technic. One discussed 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 competent 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 knowledge of “why” something works will evolve! We are so excited to share with our Fernandina Beach 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 care of low back pain. The guideline has been around for a long time, but it’s not been implemented. A study has been approved by multiple 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) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic excitedly awaits this study’s outcomes! It is time!

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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 using ultrasound measurement, force application monitoring, and more.

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