At Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office, our Groton chiropractic patients
receive cutting-edge spinal care in the form of Cox®
Technic, known, well-studied
and helpful for back pain. Cox® Technic is truly
around the world…and right here in Groton! In this piece,
you’ll read studies from Spain, Korea,
Japan, and the US regarding Cox® Technic and how it eases
back pain.
SPAIN: 50% AND SUPERIOR CLINICAL OUTCOMES
A new research paper by researchers and
physiotherapists in Spain reports that patients treated with flexion distraction spinal manipulation attain
at least 50% improvement. Further, flexion distraction outcomes stand
superior to high velocity low amplitude thrust technique outcomes. (1) A note
on this 50% improvement marker: Cox® Technic protocols look for
at least 50% improvement within the first month of care for most spine pain
conditions at which time (a) visit frequency is reduced by 50% and
(b) treatment would now include some range of motion treatment to spinal
segments. And if you say “Well, 50% doesn’t seem like that
much.” Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office must comment that medicine now looks
at 30% and even 20% improvement as “minimal clinical
improvement” to deem a medical procedure like spine surgery worthwhile
to offer. (2, 3) Contrasted with those
markers for a practice to be medically beneficial, Cox®
Technic’s 50% Rule guide and attainment is marvelous! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
finds that many of our patients get even more improvement:
60%, 70%, 80%, 90% and higher. All cases and patients vary and
have their own distinctive issues, but the clinical
outcomes are pleasing for Groton back pain
sufferers who really want to return to a reasonable quality of life.
JAPAN & US: TRACTION AND COX® TECHNIC
Traction is effective treatment…for certain patients
and when it’s applied to the right type of
patient. 83.2% of patients did in a Japanese study. These researchers presented
that lumbar traction can provide a distractive force and that
patients exhibited an immediate response to it. They
also admitted that traction research is short on
reproducibility, biomechanical confirmation, and clinical validation of its effectiveness.
(4) Cox Technic can share researched effects. Cox®
Technic biomechanical studies found that the lumbar spine disc
pressures drop to as low as -192mmHg, the lumbar canal area enlarges
by 28%, the disc height gets bigger by 17%, and ranges of motion
can be returned to specific spinal segments. (5) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
proposes that Cox® Technic is well-researched, segment
specific spinal manipulation with predictable clinical outcomes.
KOREA: COX® TECHNIC POSITIVELY IMPACTS THE SPINE
And in Korea, researchers discovered that
disc heights significantly increased in chronic low back pain
patients handled with flexion distraction and joint
mobilization techniques. Why
did this happen? They explained that
this treatment created negative pressure in the disc space to pull
the displaced disc content back to the center and got rid
of painful stimuli from the annular fibers to decrease
pain. (6) Just what Gudavalli et al found
in their biomechanical research of the effects of Cox® Technic flexion
distraction on the lumbar spine in the 1990’s! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office shares these biomechanical effects with our Groton back pain
patients all the time. It is vital
to have science behind what we do.
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
Listen to this PODCAST
with Ram Gudavalli, PhD, on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. Gudavalli is the principle
investigator who has headed much
of the biomechanical and clinical research studies – retrospective, prospective
and experimental with cadavers – about the effects of Cox Technic
flexion distraction. He, too, adds to the world-wide flare of Cox®
Technic as he came to the US from India! We’re
so thankful he did.
Schedule your Groton chiropractic appointment
today. While Cox® Technic is researched world-wide, it’s offered right here in Groton for
your spinal health and back pain relief and management.