Toronto Back Pain Patients Favorite Question: Why? Research Answers

April 29, 2025

Our Toronto chiropractic patients want to know “why”! Why do I have back pain? Why does back pain keep coming back? Understandable questions that may oftentimes be answered with examination findings that line up with research-documented findings. Research can help explain that, and Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre works to keep on top of the latest (with a healthy appreciation of the older!) research to share with you! Let Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre work with you to get some insights as to why you have spine-related pain…and how we can 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 current studies supporting the peripheral, segmental spinal, and supraspinal mechanisms which can be measured. 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 changes as well as the value of pain decrease with manual therapy. (1) All of these findings are great! They want to understand more.

RESEARCH ON THE “WHY” OF COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES

Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre appreciates 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 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 assess the forces delivered during 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 understanding of “why” something works will come! We can’t wait to share with our Toronto 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 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 and exercise. (4) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre excitedly awaits this study’s outcomes! It is time!

CONTACT Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre

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

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