Nashua Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Nashua chiropractic patients ask “why”! Why do I have back pain? Why does back pain keep coming back? Excellent questions that can often be clarified with examination findings aligned with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Moriarty Chiropractic works to keep abreast of the latest (with a healthy appreciation of the past!) research to communicate with you! Let Moriarty Chiropractic 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 requesting more information on ‘why” manual therapy succeeds beyond recent studies supportive of the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be measured. A group of researchers analyzed published reviews of other studies involving the mechanism of how manual therapy affects a body. They uncovered 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 amazing! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Moriarty Chiropractic appreciates the efforts of a group of researchers who have been studying 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 presented about Cox® Technic. One discussed the ability to assess 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 throughout the Cox® Technic FDD spinal manipulation in a patient whose low back pain and leg pain were relieved. (3) The more measurements done, the more knowledge of “why” something works will come! We are so excited to share with our Nashua 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 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) Moriarty Chiropractic excitedly awaits this study’s outcomes! It is time!

CONTACT Moriarty Chiropractic

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 foundational research, its current research, and its futuristic studies using ultrasound measurement, force application observing, and more.

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