Baton Rouge Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Baton Rouge 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 that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help illuminate that, and Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers works to keep abreast of the newest (with a healthy appreciation of the past!) research to share with you! Let Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers 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 works beyond current studies supporting the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be measured. A group of researchers analyzed published reviews of other studies regarding the mechanism of how manual therapy influences a body. They found support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune changes as well as the value of pain reduction with manual therapy. (1) All of these findings are great! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers appreciates the efforts of a group of researchers who have been studying the “why” of Cox® Technic treatment protocols and beneficial results. At the ACC-RAC chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were delivered about Cox® Technic. One discussed the ability to calculate 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 able to measure 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 done, the more understanding of “why” something works will come! We can’t wait to share with our Baton Rouge 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 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 endorsed is non-pharmacological interventions like spinal manipulation and exercise. (4) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers 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 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 observing, and more.

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