Stenosis. If you’re past your 50th
birthday and experience pangs of or full-on
back pain, stenosis is a common term.
Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation treats many 50+ year olds wanting relief of Carrolltown back pain and leg pain. And for
good reason: our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management eases
the back pain and leg pain associated with lumbar spinal
stenosis.
TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS
Lumbar spine stenosis is an emerging
diagnosis in our aging population. A new practice
guideline was just published that gave three
recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to relieve
pain, decrease disability, enhance quality of
life, and increase walking ability. Non-drug options
are first: 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, calcitonin,
methylcobalamin, paracetamol, opioids, muscle
relaxants, pregabalin, gabapentin, and
epidural steroidal injections. (1) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation offers the first line
recommended options for Carrolltown 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 paper
describes the effects of manual manipulation in a comprehensive
discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment used
by 64% of US chiropractic physicians including your own Carrolltown
chiropractor. This recent study is out of Korea, so Cox®
Technic is being implemented around the globe 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 opening the facet joints, decreasing
the stresses on the posterior disc, restoring facet joint motion, reducing
the disc pressure, making a larger spinal canal area, increasing
disc height, and thereby relaxing compressed nerves. The researchers
further explained that flexion-distraction concentrates
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 produced in
the disc space by widening the canal space. (2) They referenced other studies
that discovered a 65% decreased 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 due
to a severely prolapsed disc. (4,5) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation finds the same. Our
Carrolltown back pain patients find relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Michael McMurray on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains
the effectiveness and gentleness of the
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his lumbar spinal stenosis
patients who didn’t think he would ever experience
relief.
Make your next Carrolltown
chiropractic appointment with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation. Do not let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis slow you down! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation has the treatment for you!