At Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka, our Sitka chiropractic patients
get cutting-edge spinal care in the form of Cox®
Technic, recognized, researched
and relieving for back pain. Cox® Technic is really
around the world…and right here in Sitka! In this article,
you will read studies from Spain, Korea,
Japan, and the US regarding Cox® Technic and how it relieves
back pain.
SPAIN: 50% AND SUPERIOR CLINICAL OUTCOMES
A new 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 stand
superior to high velocity low amplitude thrust technique outcomes. (1) A note
on this 50% improvement marker: Cox® Technic protocols look for
at least 50% improvement within the first month of care for most spine pain
conditions at which time (a) visit frequency is reduced by 50% and
(b) treatment would now include some range of motion treatment to spinal
segments. And if you say “Well, 50% doesn’t seem like that
much.” Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka must remind you that medicine now sees 30% and even 20% improvement as “minimal clinical
improvement” to declare a medical procedure like spine surgery worthwhile
to do. (2, 3) Contrasted with those
markers for a practice to be medically beneficial, Cox®
Technic’s 50% Rule guide and attainment is marvelous! Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
finds that many of our patients attain even more improvement:
60%, 70%, 80%, 90% and higher. All cases and patients differ and
have their own unique concerns, but the clinical
outcomes are satisfactory for Sitka back pain
sufferers who really want to get back to a pleasing quality of life.
JAPAN & US: TRACTION AND COX® TECHNIC
Traction is effective treatment…for certain patients
and when it is used with the proper
patient. 83.2% of patients did in a Japanese study. These researchers presented
that lumbar traction can deliver a distractive force and that
patients exhibited an instant response to it. They
also acknowledged that traction research lacks
reproducibility, biomechanical confirmation, and clinical validation of its effectiveness.
(4) Cox Technic can present researched effects. Cox®
Technic biomechanical studies documented 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) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
proposes 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 discovered that
disc heights significantly enlarged in chronic low back pain
patients treated with joint mobilization and flexion distraction techniques. Why
did this happen? They described that
this treatment produced negative pressure in the disc space to pull
the moved disc content back to the center and removed painful stimuli from the annular fibers to decrease
pain. (6) Just what Gudavalli et al found
in their biomechanical research of the effects of Cox® Technic flexion
distraction on the lumbar spine in the 1990’s! Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka shares these biomechanical effects with our Sitka back pain
patients all the time. It’s key
to have science behind what we do.
CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
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 led a great deal
of the biomechanical and clinical research studies – retrospective, prospective
and experimental with cadavers – into the effects of Cox Technic
flexion distraction. He, too, enhances the world-wide flare of Cox®
Technic as he moved here from India! We’re
so glad he did.
Schedule your Sitka chiropractic appointment
today. While Cox® Technic is researched all around
the world, it’s offered right here in Sitka for
your spinal health and back pain relief and management.