Augusta Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Augusta chiropractic clients ask “why”! Why do I suffer with back pain? Why do I keep getting back pain? Outstanding questions that can often be answered with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help illuminate that, and Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic works to keep abreast of the latest (with a healthy gratitude of the past!) research to communicate with you! Let Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic work with you to get some insights as to why you suffer with spine-related pain…and how we can facilitate your path to get some relief of chronic back pain.

RESEARCHERS CALL FOR “WHY” MANUAL THERAPY WORKS

Today’s medical literature and researchers are requesting more info on ‘why” manual therapy is successful beyond current studies supportive of the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be assessed. 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 discoveries are amazing! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic appreciates the efforts of a group of researchers who have been studying the “why” of Cox® Technic treatment protocols and positive outcomes. At the ACC-RAC chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were presented about Cox® Technic. One showed the ability to assess lumbar spinous process movement with ultrasound during 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 measure 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 possible, the more understanding of “why” something works will come! We are so excited to share with our Augusta 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 enhance the care of low back pain. The guideline has been around 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) Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic looks forward to this study’s outcomes! It is time!

CONTACT Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic

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

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