Largo Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Largo chiropractic patients want to know “why”! Why do I have back pain? Why does back pain keep coming back? Outstanding questions that may oftentimes be clarified with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Hollstrom & Associates Inc works to keep abreast of the newest (with a healthy appreciation of the older!) research to share with you! Let Hollstrom & Associates Inc work with you to get some understanding as to why you have spine-related pain…and how we can help you get some relief of chronic back pain.

RESEARCHERS CALL FOR “WHY” MANUAL THERAPY WORKS

Today’s medical literature and researchers are asking for more information on ‘why” manual therapy is successful 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 involving the means of how manual therapy affects a body. They found support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune changes as well as the value of pain decrease with manual therapy. (1) All of these findings are amazing! They want to know more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Hollstrom & Associates Inc appreciates the efforts of a group of researchers who have been looking at the “why” of Cox® Technic treatment protocols and positive 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 measure 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 able to measure the forces delivered throughout the Cox® Technic FDD spinal manipulation in a patient whose low back pain and leg pain were relieved. (3) The more measurements possible, the more knowledge of “why” something works will come! We are so excited to share with our Largo chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers have planned a new project 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 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) Hollstrom & Associates Inc looks forward to this study’s outcomes! It is time!

CONTACT Hollstrom & Associates Inc

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 foundational research, its current research, and its futuristic studies involving ultrasound measurement, force application monitoring, and more.

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