Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation Eases Back Pain due to Spinal Stenosis
Stenosis. If you are past your 50th birthday and experience pangs of or full-on back pain, stenosis is a common term. 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 eases the back pain and leg pain related to lumbar spinal stenosis.
TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS
Lumbar spine stenosis is a growing diagnosis in our aging population. A new practice guideline was just released that provided three recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to relieve pain, lessen disability, enhance 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. Second, drug therapy may be tried: serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors or tricyclic antidepressants. Number 3, 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 report describes the effects of manual manipulation in a comprehensive discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment used 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 world now! The authors defined lumbar spinal stenosis as a degenerative spine disease in which spinal nerves are compressed as spinal vertebral bones narrow due to disc degeneration. Spinal stenosis causes 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 lowered 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, forming a larger spinal canal area, increasing 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 due 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’d ever find relief.
Schedule your next Tonawanda chiropractic appointment with Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation. Do not let the all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis slow you down! Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation has the treatment for you!
