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Sitka Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

Our Sitka chiropractic patients want to know “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 aligned with research-documented findings. Research can help illuminate that, and Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka works to keep abreast of the newest (with a healthy appreciation of the past!)  research to share with you! Let Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka work with you to get some insights as to why you have 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 succeeds beyond current studies supporting the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be measured. A group of researchers studied published reviews of other studies regarding the means of how manual therapy affects a body. They found support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune modifications as well as the effectiveness of pain decrease with manual therapy. (1) All of these findings are great! They want to know more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka values the efforts of a group of researchers who have been looking at the “why” of Cox® Technic treatment protocols and beneficial results. At the ACC-RAC annual chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were delivered on Cox® Technic studies. One discussed the ability to measure lumbar spinous process movement with ultrasound throughout the delivery of flexion distraction manipulation. The researchers highlighted the separation of the spinous process at L3L4, L4L5, L5S1 levels. (2) The second one presented how they are competent 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 evolve! We can’t wait to share with our Sitka chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers plan to test how implementing guidelines from the American College of Physicians for Low Back Pain may boost the treatment of low back pain. The guideline has been in the literature for a long time, but it has not been implemented. A study has been approved by multiple Institutional Review Boards: Duke, Dartmouth, University of Iowa, and Advarra.  The first line treatment recommended is non-pharmacological interventions like spinal manipulation (which is chiropractic forte!) and exercise. (4) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka 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 protocolson 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 involving ultrasound measurement, force application observing, and more.

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