February 2023 Healthy News from Connected Chiropractic Spinal Canal Area Increase and Back Pain Reduction with Chiropractic Care
Do you have back pain? Spinal stenosis? Degenerative disc disease? Do you know what they have in common (besides pain)? Reduced spinal canal area. With disc degeneration, the disc reduces, leading to a decreased spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, protruding disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst reduces the the area of the spinal cancal. A new paper explained how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, namely Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, increased the spinal canal area and produced vertebral motions. The new study just published in January 2023 reported that chiropractic flexion distraction improved spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)
Such spinal changes set the scene for impacted spinal elements like spinal nerves to ‘breathe’ leading to eventual (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 options like Cox® Technic that has research explaining its biomechanical effects on the spine. Connected Chiropractic invites you to share your degenerated disc and/or spinal stenosis with us!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the guiding research investigator 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 advised to perform exercise that strengthen spinal, gluteal, and core muscles as a way to enhance their in-office chiropractic care. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been the norm since the 1930s as they control lumbar extension while enhancing lumbar flexion, supported by high levels of research evidence. A common exercise sequence would have a patient lie on the floor, hands at the side, knees bent, then just tighten ab and gluteal muscles while flattening the spine against the floor. The following exercise would be a knee-chest motion (each single knee then both knees) exercise. (2) There are additional such exercises in the series, but we’d be thrilled for our new Elgin back pain patients to begin with these easy moves on day 1 (after we go through a complete examinations and set a treatment plan, of course). Connected Chiropractic looks forward to meeting you soon and learning more about your spine, degenerated disc, and/or spinal stenosis and sharing any exercises that may help!
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Have a wonderful February! We look forward to seeing you and your spine this month!