February 2023 Healthy News from Chiropractic Solutions Spinal Canal Area Increase and Back Pain Reduction with Chiropractic Care
Do you experience back pain? Spinal stenosis? Degenerative disc disease? Do you know what they have in common (besides pain)? Decreased spinal canal area. With disc degeneration, the disc reduces, leading to a decreased spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, herniated disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst affects the spinal canal area. A new paper detailed how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, specifically Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, increased the spinal canal area and produced vertebral motions. The new study just published in January 2023 stated that chiropractic flexion distraction improved spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)
Such spinal tranformations made more space for involved spinal elements like spinal nerves to move leading to subsequent (though occasionally faster or even immediate for some patients) back pain relief. Outcomes and published research like this are the forces behind our choice to use gentle, safe chiropractic treatment approaches like Cox® Technic that has research explaining its biomechanical effects on the spine. Chiropractic Solutions invites you to share your degenerated disc and/or spinal stenosis with us!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the guiding 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 recommended exercises to strengthen spinal, gluteal, and core muscles as a way to round out their in-office chiropractic treatment. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been the norm since the 1930s as they limit lumbar extension while improving lumbar flexion with high levels of research evidence (III and IV) support. A typical exercise sequence would have a patient lie on the floor, hands at the side, knees bent, then simply tighten ab and gluteal muscles while pushing the spine flat against the floor. The next would be a knee-chest motion (each single knee then both knees) exercise. (2) There are more such exercises in the series, but Chiropractic Solutions be thrilled for our new San Jose back pain patients to start with these easy exercises on day 1 (after we go through a complete examinations and establish a treatment plan, of course). Chiropractic Solutions 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 look forward to seeing you and your spine this month!