Chiropractic Solutions 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 condition. Chiropractic Solutions treats many 50+ year old folks wanting relief of San Jose back pain and leg pain. And with good reason: our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management relieves the back pain and leg pain associated with lumbar spinal stenosis.
TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS
Lumbar spine stenosis is a growing diagnosis in our aging society. A new practice guideline was just published that provided three recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to ease pain, decrease disability, enhance 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. Number 3, these pharmacological drug therapies are not recommended: non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, methylcobalamin, calcitonin, paracetamol, muscle relaxants, opioids, gabapentin, pregabalin, and epidural steroidal injections. (1) Chiropractic Solutions offers the first line recommended options for San Jose back pain relief: manual therapy, exercise, advice, etc.
MANUAL THERAPY OPTION SPECIFICALLY: Flexion Distraction Cox® Technic
Manual therapy is proving to be quite effective in addressing lumbar spinal stenosis issues. A new report shares the effects of manual manipulation in a comprehensive discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment implemented by 64% of US chiropractic physicians including your own San Jose chiropractor. This recent study is out of Korea, so Cox® Technic is being implemented around the world now! The authors explained that lumbar spinal stenosis is a degenerative spine disease in which spinal nerves are compressed as disc degeneration narrows the area between the vertebral bones 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 treating 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 gapping the facet joints, reducing the stresses on the posterior disc, restoring facet joint motion, reducing the disc pressure, making a larger spinal canal area, enlarging disc height, and thereby relaxing compressed nerves. The researchers further explained that flexion-distraction focuses 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 due to a severely prolapsed disc. (4,5) Chiropractic Solutions finds the same. Our San Jose back pain patients experience relief with Cox® Technic, too.
CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions
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 didn’t think he’d ever find relief.
Make your next San Jose chiropractic appointment with Chiropractic Solutions. Do not let the all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis stop you! Chiropractic Solutions has the treatment for you!
