At OrthoIllinois Chiropractic, our McHenry chiropractic patients
receive cutting-edge spinal care in the form of Cox®
Technic that is renowned, well-studied
and helpful for back pain. Cox® Technic is truly
around the world…and right here in McHenry! In this article,
you will see studies from Spain, Korea,
Japan, and the US about Cox® Technic and how it eases
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 attain
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 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.” OrthoIllinois Chiropractic must comment that medicine now considers 30% and even 20% improvement as “minimal clinical
improvement” to deem a medical procedure like spine surgery valuable
to offer. (2, 3) Compared to those
markers for a procedure to be medically beneficial, Cox®
Technic’s 50% Rule guide and attainment is amazing! OrthoIllinois Chiropractic
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 McHenry back pain
sufferers who really want to get back to an
agreeable quality of life.
JAPAN & US: TRACTION AND COX® TECHNIC
Traction is effective treatment…for certain patients
and when it is applied to 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 acknowledged that traction research lacks
reproducibility, biomechanical confirmation, and clinical validation of its usefulness.
(4) Cox Technic can share researched effects. Cox®
Technic biomechanical studies documented 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 returned to specific spinal segments. (5) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic
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 treated with joint mobilization and flexion distraction techniques. How does this happen? They explained that
this treatment created negative pressure in the disc space to draw
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! OrthoIllinois Chiropractic talks
about these biomechanical effects with our McHenry back pain
patients all the time. It is vital
to have science behind what we do.
CONTACT OrthoIllinois 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 led 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 to the US from India! We are
so grateful he did.
Schedule your McHenry chiropractic appointment
today. While Cox® Technic is studied all around
the world, it it offered right here in McHenry for
your spinal health and back pain relief and management.