Stenosis. If you’re over 50 and experience pangs of or full-on
back pain, stenosis is a familiar condition.
Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation treats many 50+ year olds seeking relief of Tonawanda back pain and leg pain. And with
good reason: our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management relieves
the back pain and leg pain related to lumbar spinal
stenosis.
TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS
Lumbar spine stenosis is an emerging
diagnosis in our aging society. A recent practice
guideline was just released that gave three
recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to ease
pain, lessen disability, improve quality of
life, and increase walking ability. Non-drug options
are first: advice on lifestyle and behavioral changes with exercise, manual
therapy, rehab, acupuncture, post-operative rehab and 12 weeks of cognitive
behavioral therapy if surgery has already been done. Secondly,
drug therapy may be tried: serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake
inhibitors or tricyclic antidepressants. Third, these
pharmacological drug therapies aren’t recommended: non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, methylcobalamin, calcitonin, paracetamol, muscle relaxants, opioids, gabapentin, pregabalin, and
epidural steroidal injections. (1) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation offers the first line
recommended options for Tonawanda back pain relief: manual therapy, exercise,
advice, etc.
MANUAL THERAPY OPTION SPECIFICALLY: Flexion Distraction Cox® Technic
Manual therapy is showing itself quite
effective in addressing lumbar spinal stenosis issues. A new paper
describes the effects of manual manipulation in a detailed
discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment implemented
by 64% of US chiropractic physicians including your own Tonawanda
chiropractor. This recent study is out of Korea, so Cox®
Technic is being implemented around the globe now! The
authors explained that lumbar
spinal stenosis is a degenerative spine disease in which spinal nerves are
compressed as disc degeneration narrows the area between the vertebral bones due to disc degeneration. Spinal stenosis triggers
not only back pain but also other issues like intermittent claudication, leg
pain sciatica, and lower extremity weakness. Cox® Technic was used in a
comparison study for care of stenosis. The patients’ visual
analogue scale and Oswestry Disability Index scores were significantly reduced
in the experimental group patients over the control group patients. The authors
explained that the flexion distraction technique (aka Cox®
Technic) is designed to restore the normal spinal joint function
and movement by opening the facet joints, decreasing
the stresses on the posterior disc, restoring facet joint motion, lowering
the disc pressure, making a larger spinal canal area, enlarging
disc height, and thereby relaxing compressed nerves. The researchers
further stated that flexion-distraction concentrates
on a specific segment of the spine, affects the epiphyseal joint
allowing a distraction of the anterior and posterior longitudinal ligaments,
and relaxes the facet joint. Negative pressure was produced in
the disc space by widening the canal space. (2) They referenced other studies
that discovered a 65% reduced pressure
inside the disc (3) and reported that not only is back pain relieved
with flexion distraction, but so too is pain and physical function owing to a severely prolapsed disc. (4,5) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation finds the same. Our
Tonawanda back pain patients experience relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Michael McMurray on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes
the effectiveness and gentleness of the
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his lumbar spinal stenosis
patients who did not think he would ever experience
relief.
Make your next Tonawanda
chiropractic appointment with Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation. Don’t let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis stop
you! Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation has the treatment for you!