Connected Chiropractic Eases Back Pain due to Spinal Stenosis
Stenosis. If you are over 50 and experience pangs of or full-on back pain, stenosis is a familiar condition. Connected Chiropractic treats many 50+ year olds seeking relief of Elgin back pain and leg pain. And for good reason: our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management eases 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 recent practice guideline was just released that gave three recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to ease pain, decrease disability, improve quality of life, and improve 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. Secondly, drug therapy may be tried: serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors or tricyclic antidepressants. Third, 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) Connected Chiropractic offers the first line recommended options for Elgin 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 report shares the effects of manual manipulation in a detailed discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment implemented by 64% of US chiropractic physicians including your own Elgin chiropractor. This recent study is out of Korea, so Cox® Technic is being implemented around the globe now! The authors defined lumbar spinal stenosis as 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 for care of 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 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, decreasing the stresses on the posterior disc, restoring facet joint motion, lowering the disc pressure, creating a larger spinal canal area, increasing disc height, and thus relaxing compressed nerves. The researchers further stated that flexion-distraction focuses on a specific segment of the spine, alters 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 reported 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) Connected Chiropractic finds the same. Our Elgin back pain patients find relief with Cox® Technic, too.
CONTACT Connected Chiropractic
Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Michael McMurray on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains 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 experience relief.
Make your next Elgin chiropractic appointment with Connected Chiropractic. Do not let the all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis stop you! Connected Chiropractic has the treatment for you!
