Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction and Decompression is a gentle, non-force chiropractic adjusting approach.  With the use of a specialized table that moves in normal spinal ranges of motion, the physician is able to open compressed spinal disc spaces, traction the spine and reduce pressure on nerve tissue and other spinal structures.

 

Named after its developer, James M. Cox DC DACBR, Cox® Technic is a union of chiropractic and osteopathic principles.  Cox® Technic is spinal manipulation, a non-surgical, established, evidence-based, non-surgical treatment for spine pain performed by a trained and certified 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. All this is to help restore a patient's quality of life.

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Cox® Technic is safe. Biomechanical studies on Cox® Technic flexion-distraction document that flexion-distraction motions as applied to the spinal structures are well within safe limits.

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Cox® Technic is a hands-on, doctor-controlled spinal adjusting procedure that is segment specific in its application. If there is an L5S1 disc herniation, the L5S1 segment is addressed until the disc herniation pain is reduced, and the segment is able to move through its normal ranges of motion painfree. Its sessions are a few minutes in length, under doctor control at all times, and shown to reduce intervertebral disc pressures to as low as -192mm HG pressure, open the spinal canal space by 28%, and increase the disc height. The Cox® Technic treatment plan is individualized by patient response, not by number of treatments or number of minutes. 

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