Stenosis. If you are past your 50th
birthday and experience pangs of or full-on
back pain, stenosis is a recognizable term.
Wilson Family Chiropractic treats many 50+ year old folks seeking relief of Millville back pain and leg pain. And for
good reason: our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management lessens
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, reduce disability, improve quality of
life, and increase walking ability. First, non-drug options: 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 attempted: serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake
inhibitors or tricyclic antidepressants. Third, these
pharmacological drug therapies are not recommended: non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, calcitonin,
methylcobalamin, paracetamol, opioids, muscle
relaxants, gabapentin, pregabalin, and
epidural steroidal injections. (1) Wilson Family Chiropractic offers the first line
recommended options for Millville 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
shares 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 Millville
chiropractor. This recent study is out of Korea, so Cox®
Technic is being used 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 reduced
in the experimental group patients over the control group patients. The authors
described how the flexion distraction technique (aka Cox®
Technic) is intended to restore the normal spinal joint function
and movement by gapping the facet joints, reducing
the stresses on the posterior disc, restoring facet joint motion, decreasing
the disc pressure, creating a larger spinal canal area, enlarging
disc height, and thus 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 generated in
the disc space by widening the canal space. (2) They referenced other studies
that found a 65% reduced pressure
inside the disc (3) and related that not only is back pain alleviated
with flexion distraction, but so too is pain and physical function owing to a severely prolapsed disc. (4,5) Wilson Family Chiropractic finds the same. Our
Millville back pain patients experience relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT Wilson Family Chiropractic
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Michael McMurray on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares
the effective, gentle treatment with the
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his lumbar spinal stenosis
patients who did not think he would ever find
relief.
Make your next Millville
chiropractic appointment with Wilson Family Chiropractic. Don’t let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis slow you down! Wilson Family Chiropractic has the treatment for you!