That is  a great question! Spine surgeons aren’t certain how best to treat spinal stenosis, yet conservative care is earning a higher regard in the medical research! Connected Chiropractic delivers non-surgical care that is quite relieving to Elgin spinal stenosis sufferers. Elgin patients suffering from spinal stenosis know come to Connected Chiropractic will find our care gentle and comfortable and praise the research and practices that are the pillars of its administration.

 

Before going further lets delve into what is spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is the narrowing of the spinal canal area. For many of us lumbar spinal stenosis comes with age when degeneration of the spine occurs. One reason this happens may be due to how the spinal elements initially formed. (Some people are born with narrow spinal canals.) Likewise spinal stenosis can be the result of a disc herniation that is implanting itself into the spinal canal, taking up the space that is intended for for the spinal nerves. Whatever the cause, spinal stenosis’ narrowing creates pain.

 

Often when a surgeon identifies that a patient has spinal stenosis they will give surgical choices to open that narrowed space. There are many procedures from which one may take. One choice is decompressive surgery. It is an affordable treatment 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 option. 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)

 

Your Elgin chiropractor at Connected Chiropractic detects spinal stenosis and gives chiropractic care and spinal manipulation to conservatively relieve the pain of spinal stenosis. Connected Chiropractic is the place for Elgin conservative care of back pain. Connected 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)

 

If you suffer from pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis, contact Connected Chiropractic, the Elgin chiropractic practice for gentle relief of back pain. Connected Chiropractic chiropractic care at Elgin most certainly is the answer to the question of “how can I manage my pain from spinal stenosis?” for you!