February 2023 Healthy News from Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation Spinal Canal Area Increase and Back Pain Reduction with Chiropractic Care
Do you have back pain? Spinal stenosis? Degenerative disc disease? Do you know what they have in common (besides pain)? Reduced spinal canal area. With disc degeneration, the disc shrinks, leading to a decreased spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, protruding disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst reduces the spinal canal area. A newly published paper explained how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, namely Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, expanded the spinal canal area and created vertebral motions. The new study just published in January 2023 reported that chiropractic flexion distraction enlarged spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)
Such spinal alterations made more space for impacted spinal elements like spinal nerves to move leading to subsequent (though occasionally faster or even instantaneous for some patients) back pain relief. Outcomes and supporting research like this are the forces behind our use of gentle, safe chiropractic treatment options like Cox® Technic that has research explaining its biomechanical effects on the spine. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation invites you to share your degenerated disc and/or spinal stenosis with us!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the principal researcher in Cox® Technic studies, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the research behind The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Back pain sufferers are regularly advised to perform exercise that strengthen spinal, gluteal, and core muscles as a way to supplement their in-office chiropractic care. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been standard since the 1930s as they control lumbar extension while enhancing lumbar flexion with high levels of research evidence (III and IV) support. A typical exercise series would have a patient lie on the floor, keeping hands along the side of the body and bending the knees with feet flat on the floor, then just tighten ab and gluteal muscles while flattening the spine against the floor. The following exercise would be a knee-chest motion (pulling one knee to chest then the other knee then both knees to chest) exercise. (2) There are more such exercises in the series, but Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation be excited for our new Tonawanda back pain patients to start with these easy moves on day 1 (after we examine your spine and establish a treatment plan, of course). Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation looks forward to talking soon about you and your spinal stenotic, disc degenerative spine and any exercises that may help!
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Have a wonderful February! We anticipate seeing you and your spine this month!