Lower Back Treatment Offers New Hope

Cox® Technic is a 21st century treatment for lumbar spine pain.

If you are suffering with lower back pain, lumbar stenosis, herniated disc, bulging disc, facet syndrome, sciatica, spinal arthritis pain, leg and foot numbness, leg and foot tingling or burning, or restless leg syndrome, then you need to be evaluated to see if the Cox Decompression Technic can help you get out of pain and save you from having to take dangerous medications and potentially life threatening surgery.  Here’s why you shouldn’t wait to be treated by a Cox trained physician…

• –   There are approximately 1.2 million spinal surgeries in the U.S. each year, double the rate in those other countries. (1)
• –   Epidural steroid injection is moderately effective for short-term (but not long-term) symptom relief. (2)
• –   Prolotherapy, facet joint injection, intradiscal steroid injection and percutaneous intradiscal radiofrequency thermocoagulation are not effective. (2)
• –   Surgery for leg pain and herniated disc gives short-term benefits that decline long-term compared with non-surgical therapy. (3)
• –   Surgery for symptomatic spinal stenosis gives short-term benefits that decline long-term compared with non-surgical therapy. (3)
• –   Guidelines sponsored by the American Pain Society and the American College of Physicians recommends spinal manipulation as an effective treatment option for low back pain. (4)
• –   Surgical outcomes for stenosis are nearly equal that of non-surgical outcomes (53% vs. 50% respectively) (5), yet the spine is still intact after non-surgical, non-operative care.
• –   Surgical outcomes for disc herniations’ leg pain (sciatica) are nearly equal those of conservative care (69% vs 61% respectively) (6), yet no surgical intervention opened the spine.
• –   Four to 6 weeks of non-operative, conservative treatment is recommended prior to imaging studies and surgery. (7, 8, 9, 10)
• –   The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons states that “acupuncture or chiropractic manipulation can also be attempted” prior to surgery for stenosis. (11)
• –   Lumbar spinal stenosis patients improved by 76% and their related disability improved by 73% treated with Cox® Technic and/or neural mobilization. (12)

Cox® Technic is spinal manipulation, established, evidence-based, non-surgical treatment for spine pain performed by a trained physician and supported by years of clinical experience, many publications of clinical and laboratory outcomes, and clearly defined protocols for application to attain the highest positive clinical outcomes for acute and chronic back pain as well as failed back surgical syndromes.

Research demonstrates the best treatment for many low back conditions is a conservative, non-surgical one using the Cox Technic.  Everyone deserves to be treated based on the best information and research available, don’t settle for a dangerous option before being evaluated as a candidate for the Cox treatment.

Here is a link to the Cox Technic website: www.Coxtechnic.com.

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References

1. Dance A: For back pain sufferers, surgery isn’t always the answer. LA Times January 12, 2009, http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jan/12/health/he-backpain12 accessed on 6/8/09

2. Chou, R; Atlas, SJ; Stanos, SP; Rosenquist, RW. Nonsurgical Interventional Therapies for Low Back Pain A Review of the Evidence for an American Pain Society Clinical Practice Guideline. SPINE 2009; 34 (10):1078-1093

3. Chou, R; Baisden, J; Carragee, EJ; Resnick, DK; Shaffer, WO; Loeser, JD  Surgery for Low Back Pain A Review of the Evidence for an American Pain Society Clinical Practice Guideline. SPINE 34 (10). MAY 1 2009. p.1094-1109

4.  Chou, R; Loeser, JD; Owens, DK; Rosenquist, RW; Atlas, SJ; Baisden, J; Carragee, EJ; Grabois, M; Murphy, DR; Resnick, DK; Stanos, SP; Shaffer, WO; Wall, EM:   Interventional Therapies, Surgery, and Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation for Low Back Pain An Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline From the American Pain Society.  SPINE 2009; 34 (10):1066-1077

5. Atlas SJ, Keller RB, Su YA et al: Long term outcomes of surgical and nonsurgical management of lumbar spine stenosis: 8 to 10 year results from the Maine Lumbar Spine Study. Spine 2005;30(8):936-43

6. Atlas S, Keller RB, Wu YA, Deyo RA, Singer DE: Long term outcomes of surgical and non-surgical management of sciatica secondary to lumbar disc herniation: 10 year results from the Maine Lumbar Spine Study. Spine 2005; 30(8):927-35

7. Deyo R: Annals of Internal Medicine 112(8)

8. Frymoyer: Backletter 10(7)

9. RAND Study: Journal of Chiropractic 29(11)

10. ACHPR (Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) – a federal government research organization – Clinical Practice Guideline No.14. AHCPR Publication No. 95-0642. Rockville, MD: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, December, 1994.

11.   http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00329 accessed on 6/8/09, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons website, “Lumbar Spinal Stensosis”

12. Murphy DR, Hurwizt EL, Gregory AA, CLary R: A non-surgical approach to the management of lumbar spinal stenosis: a prospective obsercational cohort study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2006; 7:NIL1-NIL8 (February 23, 2006)