At The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR, our Colorado Springs chiropractic patients
get cutting-edge spinal care in the form of Cox®
Technic that is renowned, researched
and relieving for back pain. Cox® Technic is really
around the world…and right here in Colorado Springs! In this piece,
you will see papers from Spain, Korea,
Japan, and the US about Cox® Technic and how it relieves
back pain.
SPAIN: 50% AND SUPERIOR CLINICAL OUTCOMES
A new research paper by researchers and
physiotherapists in Spain reports that patients cared
for with flexion distraction spinal manipulation attain
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 decreased 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.” The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR must remind you that medicine now looks
at 30% and even 20% improvement as “minimal clinical
improvement” to deem a medical procedure like spine surgery valuable
to perform. (2, 3) Compared to those
markers for a practice to be medically beneficial, Cox®
Technic’s 50% Rule guide and attainment is marvelous! The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR
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 concerns, but the clinical
outcomes are pleasing for Colorado Springs back pain
sufferers who really want to return to a pleasing quality of life.
JAPAN & US: TRACTION AND COX® TECHNIC
Traction is effective treatment…for some
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 showed 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 share researched effects. Cox®
Technic biomechanical studies found that the lumbar spine disc
pressures drop to as low as -192mmHg, the lumbar canal area enlarges
by 28%, the disc height gets bigger by 17%, and ranges of motion
can be returned to specific spinal segments. (5) The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR
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 flexion distraction and joint
mobilization techniques. How does this happen? They described that
this treatment created negative pressure in the disc space to pull
the displaced disc content back to the center and removed 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! The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR talks
about these biomechanical effects with our Colorado Springs back pain
patients all the time. It’s important
to have science behind what we do.
CONTACT The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR
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 much
of the biomechanical and clinical research studies – retrospective, prospective
and experimental with cadavers – about the effects of Cox Technic
flexion distraction. He, too, enhances the world-wide flare of Cox®
Technic as he came to the US from India! We are
so grateful he did.
Schedule your Colorado Springs chiropractic appointment
today. While Cox® Technic is studied all around
the world, it’s offered right here in Colorado Springs for
your spinal health and back pain relief and management.