At Pflugerville Wellness Center, our Pflugerville chiropractic patients
get cutting-edge spinal care in the form of Cox®
Technic, known, well-studied
and relieving for back pain. Cox® Technic is truly
around the world…and right here in Pflugerville! In this article,
you will read studies from Spain, Korea,
Japan, and the US about Cox® Technic and how it relieves
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 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 feel “Well, 50% doesn’t seem like that
much.” Pflugerville Wellness Center must share that medicine now considers 30% and even 20% improvement as “minimal clinical
improvement” to declare a medical procedure like spine surgery worthwhile
to offer. (2, 3) Compared to those
markers for a practice to be medically beneficial, Cox®
Technic’s 50% Rule guide and attainment is marvelous! Pflugerville Wellness Center
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 distinctive issues, but the clinical
outcomes are pleasing for Pflugerville 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 some
and when it’s 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 showed 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 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 increases by 17%, and ranges of motion
can be restored to specific spinal segments. (5) Pflugerville Wellness Center
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 enlarged in chronic low back pain
patients treated with joint mobilization and flexion distraction techniques. Why
did this happen? They described that
this treatment created negative pressure in the disc space to draw
the displaced 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! Pflugerville Wellness Center talks
about these biomechanical effects with our Pflugerville back pain
patients daily. It is important
to have science behind what we do.
CONTACT Pflugerville Wellness Center
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 managed much
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 came here from India! We are
so glad he did.
Schedule your Pflugerville chiropractic appointment
today. While Cox® Technic is studied all around
the world, it’s offered right here in Pflugerville for
your spinal health and back pain relief and management.