At Palmer Chiropractic Center, our Lynchburg chiropractic patients
receive cutting-edge spinal care in the form of Cox®
Technic that is known, researched
and relieving for back pain. Cox® Technic is really
around the world…and right here in Lynchburg! 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 recent research paper by researchers and
physiotherapists in Spain describes how patients cared
for with flexion distraction spinal manipulation get
at least 50% improvement. Further, flexion distraction outcomes are
superior to high velocity low amplitude thrust technique outcomes. (1) A note
on this 50% improvement marker: Cox® Technic protocols seek
at least 50% improvement within the first month of care for most spine pain
conditions at which time (a) visit frequency is decreased by 50% and
(b) treatment would now include some range of motion treatment to spinal
segments. And if you think “Well, 50% doesn’t seem like that
much.” Palmer Chiropractic Center must comment that medicine now sees 30% and even 20% improvement as “minimal clinical
improvement” to declare a medical procedure like spine surgery valuable
to do. (2, 3) Compared to those
markers for a procedure to be medically beneficial, Cox®
Technic’s 50% Rule guide and attainment is amazing! Palmer Chiropractic Center
finds that many of our patients get even greater improvement:
60%, 70%, 80%, 90% and higher. All cases and patients differ and
have their own unique issues, but the clinical
outcomes are pleasing for Lynchburg back pain
sufferers who just want to return to an
agreeable quality of life.
JAPAN & US: TRACTION AND COX® TECHNIC
Traction is effective treatment…for some
and when it is used with 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 instant response to it. They
also admitted that traction research is short on
reproducibility, biomechanical confirmation, and clinical validation of its usefulness.
(4) Cox Technic can present researched effects. Cox®
Technic biomechanical studies found that the lumbar spine disc
pressures drop to as low as -192mmHg, the lumbar canal area increases
by 28%, the disc height increases by 17%, and ranges of motion
can be restored to specific spinal segments. (5) Palmer Chiropractic Center
offers 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 revealed that
disc heights significantly increased in chronic low back pain
patients handled with joint mobilization and flexion distraction techniques. How does 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 reduce
pain. (6) Just what Gudavalli et al discovered
in their biomechanical research of the effects of Cox® Technic flexion
distraction on the lumbar spine in the 1990’s! Palmer Chiropractic Center talks
about these biomechanical effects with our Lynchburg back pain
patients daily. It is important
to have science behind what we do.
CONTACT Palmer Chiropractic Center
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 directed a great deal
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 here from India! We are
so grateful he did.
Schedule your Lynchburg chiropractic appointment
today. While Cox® Technic is studied all around
the world, it it offered right here in Lynchburg for
your spinal health and back pain relief and management.