Montreal Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Montreal chiropractic patients ask “why”! Why do I have back pain? Why do I keep getting back pain? Outstanding questions that may oftentimes be clarified with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic works to keep abreast of the newest (with a healthy appreciation of the past!) research to share with you! Let Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic 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 asking for more info 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 means of how manual therapy influences a body. They found support for neurovascular, neurological, and neuropeptide/neuroimmune modifications as well as the effectiveness of pain reduction with manual therapy. (1) All of these findings are amazing! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic values the efforts of a group of researchers who have been looking at 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 presented about Cox® Technic. One discussed the ability to measure lumbar spinous process movement with ultrasound during the delivery 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 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 possible, the more understanding of “why” something works will evolve! We can’t wait to share with our Montreal chiropractic patients!

FOLLOWING GUIDELINES

Another group of researchers plan 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 around for a long time, but it’s 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) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic excitedly awaits this study’s outcomes! It’s time!

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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 monitoring, and more.

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