Vancouver Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Vancouver chiropractic patients ask “why”! Why do I have back pain? Why do I keep getting back pain? Outstanding questions that may oftentimes be clarified with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Vancouver Disc Centers works to keep abreast of the latest (with a healthy appreciation of the past!) research to communicate with you! Let Vancouver Disc Centers 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 information on ‘why” manual therapy works 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 involving the mechanism of how manual therapy influences a body. They found support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune changes as well as the effectiveness of pain reduction with manual therapy. (1) All of these discoveries are amazing! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Vancouver Disc Centers appreciates the efforts of a group of researchers who have been studying 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 assess 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 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 possible, the more understanding of “why” something works will come! We can’t wait to share with our Vancouver 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 care of low back pain. The guideline has been in the literature 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) Vancouver Disc Centers excitedly awaits this study’s outcomes! It is time!

CONTACT Vancouver Disc Centers

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 original research, its current research, and its futuristic studies involving ultrasound measurement, force application monitoring, and more.

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