Groton Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Groton chiropractic clients ask “why”! Why do I have back pain? Why do I keep getting back pain? Understandable questions that can often be answered with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help illuminate that, and Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office works to keep on top of the latest (with a healthy gratitude of the past!) research to communicate with you! Let Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office work with you to get some understanding as to why you experience 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 succeeds beyond recent studies supportive of the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be assessed. A group of researchers analyzed published reviews of other studies involving the mechanism of how manual therapy influences a body. They found support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune changes as well as the effectiveness of pain reduction with manual therapy. (1) All of these discoveries are great! They want to know more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office values 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 chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were delivered about Cox® Technic. One showed the ability to calculate 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 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 alleviated. (3) The more measurements possible, the more understanding of “why” something works will evolve! We are so excited to share with our Groton chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers have planned a new project to examine 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 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) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office excitedly awaits this study’s outcomes! It is time!

CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office

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.

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