This third edition (2005) culminates fifteen years of data collection and clinical application of decompression adjusting of the cervical spine by Dr. Cox. This text provides:


a. Updated literature on the biomechanics of cervical spine pain generation.

b. Stenosis research of the intervertebral disc herniation and degenerative stenosis.

c. Whiplash type injury incidence, chronicity resulting in headache, proprioceptive disturbance, and degeneration.

d. Headache etiology and treatment.

e. Vertebral, carotid, and ophthalmic artery syndromes.

f. Mechanical alterations of cervical spine anatomy with distraction adjusting.

g. Decompression adjusting changes of the intervertebral disc, foramen, and ligaments under decompression Cox® adjusting.

h. Complete updated application Cox® procedures for Protocol I and II patients with the new Cox® decompression table. This is a very extensive treatise on tolerance testing, application, and post care of patients with spine and radicular pain.


i. Chapter 8 is a new chapter revealing actual cases treated by Dr. Cox and other certified practitioners in their clinics. Cases of cervical disc herniation, spinal stenosis, congential and surgical fusion, split cord, etc., are presented by many authors.

j. The increased difficulty factor of treating cervical spine stenosis because of the presence of the spinal cord, as opposed to the lumbar spine, is presented. Myelopathy comparison of conservative and surgical treatment is shown.

k. The clinical examination procedures used by Dr. Cox are presented along with rehabilitation care of the radicular and non radicular patient.


Those of you who have read Dr. Cox's Low Back Pain 6th edition textbook and found it beneficial, will be equally grateful for this textbook on the cervical and thoracic spine mechanics, diagnosis and treatment.

$89           
260 pages
Hardback book