Groton Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

Our Groton chiropractic clients want to know “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 aligned with research-documented findings. Research can help illuminate that, and Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office works to keep abreast of the latest (with a healthy gratitude of the older!)  research to communicate with you! Let Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office work with you to get some insights as to why you have 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 asking for more info on ‘why” manual therapy works beyond recent studies supporting the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be measured. A group of researchers studied published reviews of other studies involving the means of how manual therapy affects a body. They uncovered support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune modifications as well as the value of pain reduction with manual therapy. (1) All of these discoveris are great! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office appreciates 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 annual chiropractic research meeting this past March 2025, two platform abstracts were delivered on Cox® Technic studies. 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 able to measure the forces delivered throughout 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 come! We are so excited to share with our Groton chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers have planned a new project to test 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 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 (which is chiropractic forte!) and exercise. (4) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office excitedly awaits this study’s outcomes! It’s time!

CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox, developer of Cox® Technic protocolson 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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