Virtue Specialty Care

A tightly woven network of specialists

Virtue Specialty Care was born out of patient requests for an interconnected group of providers working in coordination with each other. The gold standard of healthcare is when an ecosystem comes together for the patient — that is the goal we were formed to realize.

Meet Dr. Hazen About Cox® Technic

Dr. Lee Hazen, DC · Chiropractic, Spine & Extremity Pain

The flagship

Trained by the developer. Teaching it for 30 years.

Dr. Hazen began his career under the mentorship of Dr. James Cox — the developer of Cox® Technic — completed a 400-hour post-graduate program in Chiropractic Orthopedics, and as a Cox® Technic instructor has trained chiropractors across the country. As post-graduate faculty he remains active in clinical research, including treatment-outcome studies for complex degenerative and post-surgical spine conditions.

30+

Years teaching Cox® Technic nationwide

Years serving Murrieta–Temecula

192 mmHg

Intradiscal pressure drop under flexion-distraction

28%

Wider foraminal area for the spinal nerves

Our specialists

A growing directory of specialists coordinated under the Virtue umbrella.

Dr. Lee Hazen
DC
Chiropractic · Spine & Extremity Pain
Murrieta · Temecula
Dr. Lee Hazen has dedicated more than three decades to helping patients overcome spine and extremity pain through advanced, research-driven chiropractic care. A Cum Laude graduate of Cleveland Chiropractic College of Los Angeles, he began his career under the mentorship of Dr. James Cox — developer of the Cox® Technic — and completed a 400-hour post-graduate program in Chiropractic Orthopedics through the National University of Health Sciences. For 28 years he has served the Murrieta–Temecula community, and as a Cox® Technic instructor for more than 30 years he has trained chiropractors across the country. As a post-graduate faculty member he remains active in clinical research, including treatment-outcome studies for complex degenerative and post-surgical spine conditions.
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Our signature treatment

Cox® Technic

Cox® Technic is non-surgical, doctor-controlled, hands-on spinal manipulation performed on a specially designed table, administering flexion-distraction and decompression. It is a gentle, well-researched alternative to more aggressive treatments — guiding the spinal-pain patient from “pain” to “no pain” as quickly as possible.

You receive it in the lineage of the technique itself: Dr. Lee Hazen trained under Dr. James Cox — the developer of Cox® Technic — and has taught it to chiropractors across the country for more than thirty years.

What the research shows

Drops intradiscal pressure to as low as −192 mm Hg
Widens the spinal canal foraminal area by up to 28%
Reduces pressure on the spinal nerves
Returns motion to the spinal joints

Conditions we treat

Evidence-based Cox® Technic is appropriate for a wide range of spine and extremity pain:

Disc herniation (lumbar, cervical, thoracic)
Slipped or ruptured disc
Spinal stenosis
Sciatica & radiculopathy (leg pain)
Neck & arm pain
Low back pain
Facet syndrome
Spondylolisthesis
Degenerative disc disease
Synovial cyst
Continued pain after back surgery (FBSS)
Whiplash-type injuries
Scoliosis (to maintain mobility)
Pregnancy-related back pain
Headache & pelvic pain
Knee & extremity pain

The woven network at work

How referral coordination works

Your doctor refers you

Virtue Primary Care physicians — or any referring provider — send patients directly to the right specialist in the network.

We coordinate the visit

Records, imaging, and the reason for referral arrive before you do. No repeating your story from zero.

Findings flow back

Your primary care physician gets the findings and the plan — one interconnected ecosystem around your care.

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