What To Do With Lumbar Spinal Stenosis?

What a superb question! Spine surgeons aren’t positive what is best for spinal stenosis, but conservative care is gathering favorable examination in the medical research! Wilson Family Chiropractic performs non-surgical care that alleviates pain for Millville spinal stenosis sufferers. Millville patients suffering from spinal stenosis know come to Wilson Family Chiropractic will find our care gentle and comfortable and commend the research and procedures behind its administration.

 

Before going further lets delve into what is spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is the narrowing of the spinal canal area. Lumbar spinal stenosis comes with age for many of us when deterioration of the spine takes place. It may be due to how the spinal elements were constructed originally. (From time to time some people are born with narrow spinal canals.) Likewise spinal stenosis can be the result of a disc herniation that is injecting itself into the spinal canal, taking up the space that is intended for for the spinal nerves. No matter the cause, spinal stenosis’ narrowing causes pain.

 

When surgeons identify spinal stenosis in a patient they often offer surgical choices to englarge that narrowed space. There are many approaches from which a patient may choose. One choice is decompressive surgery. It is cost-effective for lumbar spinal stenosis, but surgical and conservative treatment approaches result in comparable quality of life at one year follow up. (1) Spinal fusion is another such alternative. A Cochrane Database Review, a big deal in the world of research, reports that there is no significant difference at 6 months and 12 months post spine surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis. Cochrane pulled from 12,966 citations to conclude further that they have very little confidence to determine whether surgical or conservative care is better for lumbar spinal stenosis. They, therefore, offer no new clinical practice recommendations for doctors to follow. They do emphasize though that side-effects from surgery range from 10% to 24% and side effects from conservative care, 0%. There were no side effects from conservative care for lumbar spine stenosis in their review. Further, they report that there were no clear benefits seen with surgery versus no surgery. They warn clinicians to carefully inform patients about possible treatment options “especially given that conservative treatment options have results in no reported side effects.” (2)

 

Wilson Family Chiropractic's chiropractor diagnoses spinal stenosis and will offer chiropractic care and spinal manipulation to conservatively relieve the pain of spinal stenosis. Wilson Family Chiropractic is the site for Millville conservative care of back pain. Wilson Family Chiropractic uses the Cox Technic system of spinal manipulation to open the spinal canal area by 28%, allowing the nerves to breathe, and drop intradiscal pressures to as low as -192mmHg. (3,4)

 

For relief of pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis, contact Wilson Family Chiropractic, the Millville chiropractic practice for gentle relief of back pain. Wilson Family Chiropractic chiropractic care at Millville most certainly is the answer to the question of “what to do with spinal stenosis?” for you!