At Layden Chiropractic, our Plainville chiropractic patients
get cutting-edge spinal care in the form of Cox®
Technic, renowned, well-studied
and helpful for back pain. Cox® Technic is truly
around the world…and right here in Plainville! In this piece,
you will read studies from Spain, Korea,
Japan, and the US about Cox® Technic and how it eases
back pain.
SPAIN: 50% AND SUPERIOR CLINICAL OUTCOMES
A recent research paper by researchers and
physiotherapists in Spain reports that patients cared
for with flexion distraction spinal manipulation reach
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 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 feel “Well, 50% doesn’t seem like that
much.” Layden Chiropractic must share that medicine now looks
at 30% and even 20% improvement as “minimal clinical
improvement” to declare a medical procedure like spine surgery worthwhile
to perform. (2, 3) Compared to those
markers for a procedure to be medically beneficial, Cox®
Technic’s 50% Rule guide and attainment is marvelous! Layden Chiropractic
finds that many of our patients get even more improvement:
60%, 70%, 80%, 90% and higher. All cases and patients vary and
have their own distinctive issues, but the clinical
outcomes are satisfactory for Plainville 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 certain patients
and when it is applied to the proper
patient. 83.2% of patients did in a Japanese study. These researchers presented
that lumbar traction can provide a distractive force and that
patients showed an instant response to it. They
also acknowledged 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 enlarges
by 28%, the disc height increases by 17%, and ranges of motion
can be restored to specific spinal segments. (5) Layden Chiropractic
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 revealed that
disc heights significantly enlarged in chronic low back pain
patients treated with flexion distraction and joint
mobilization techniques. How does this happen? They explained that
this treatment produced negative pressure in the disc space to draw
the moved 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! Layden Chiropractic shares these biomechanical effects with our Plainville back pain
patients all the time. It’s vital
to have science behind what we do.
CONTACT Layden Chiropractic
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 moved here from India! We are
so glad he did.
Schedule your Plainville chiropractic appointment
today. While Cox® Technic is researched all around
the world, it it offered right here in Plainville for
your spinal health and back pain relief and management.