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!
CONTACT
Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
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 involving
ultrasound measurement, force application observing, and more.
Make
your Sitka chiropractic appointment soon.