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Murfreesboro Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

Our Murfreesboro chiropractic patients ask “why”! Why do I have back pain?Why do I keep getting back pain? Excellent questions that may oftentimes be clarified with examination findings aligned with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Most Chiropractic Clinic works to keep abreast of the latest (with a healthy appreciation of the past!)  research to communicate with you! Let Most Chiropractic Clinic work with you to get some understanding as to why you experience 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 works beyond recent studies supportive of 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 changes 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

Most Chiropractic Clinic appreciates the efforts of a group of researchers who have been looking at the “why” of Cox® Technic treatment protocols and positive results. At the ACC-RAC annual chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were presented on Cox® Technic studies. One discussed the ability to measure 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 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 understanding of “why” something works will come! We are so excited to share with our Murfreesboro 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 enhance the treatment 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 recommended is non-pharmacological interventions like spinal manipulation (which is chiropractic forte!) and exercise. (4) Most Chiropractic Clinic excitedly awaits this study’s outcomes! It’s 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 foundational research, its current research, and its futuristic studies involving ultrasound measurement, force application monitoring, and more.

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