Oxford Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Oxford chiropractic patients ask “why”! Why do I suffer with 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 Satterwhite Chiropractic works to keep on top of the latest (with a healthy appreciation of the older!) research to share with you! Let Satterwhite Chiropractic 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 requesting more information on ‘why” manual therapy succeeds beyond current studies supporting the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be assessed. A group of researchers studied published reviews of other studies regarding the mechanism of how manual therapy affects a body. They uncovered support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune changes as well as the value of pain decrease with manual therapy. (1) All of these discoveries are great! They want to know more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Satterwhite Chiropractic appreciates the efforts of a group of researchers who have been studying the “why” of Cox® Technic treatment protocols and beneficial outcomes. At the ACC-RAC chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were delivered about Cox® Technic. One discussed the ability to assess lumbar spinous process movement with ultrasound during the administration of flexion distraction manipulation. The researchers highlighted the separation of the spinous process at L3L4, L4L5, L5S1 levels. (2) The second one discussed how they are competent to assess the forces delivered during the Cox® Technic FDD spinal manipulation in a patient whose low back pain and leg pain were alleviated. (3) The more measurements done, the more understanding of “why” something works will come! We are so excited to share with our Oxford 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 has not been put into action. 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) Satterwhite Chiropractic looks forward to this study’s outcomes! It’s time!

CONTACT Satterwhite Chiropractic

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 using ultrasound measurement, force application observing, and more.

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