February 2023 Healthy News from Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Spinal Canal Area Increase and Back Pain Reduction with Chiropractic Care
Degenerated disc. Spinal stenosis. Back Pain. What do they have in common…besides pain? Decreased spinal canal area. With disc degeneration, the disc shrinks, resulting in decreased spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, herniated disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst reduces the spinal canal area. A newly published paper explained how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, specifically Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, increased the spinal canal area and created vertebral motions. The new study just published in January 2023 stated that chiropractic flexion distraction enlarged spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)
Such spinal alterations made more space for involved spinal elements like spinal nerves to move leading to eventual (though sometimes quicker or even immediate for some patients) back pain relief. Outcomes and published research like this are the forces behind our using gentle, safe chiropractic treatment options like Cox® Technic that has research explaining its biomechanical effects on the spine. Bring your stenotic spine and/or degenerated disc to Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation for a pain-relieving treatment plan!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the main 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 frequently 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 improving lumbar flexion with high levels of research evidence (III and IV) support. A common exercise sequence would have a patient lie on the floor, keeping hands along the side of the body and bending the knees with feet flat on the floor, then simply tighten ab and gluteal muscles while pushing the spine flat against the floor. The following exercise would be a knee-chest motion (each single knee then both knees) exercise. (2) There are more such exercises in the series, but Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation be thrilled for our new Carrolltown back pain patients to begin with these simple exercises on day 1 (after we go through a complete examinations and establish a treatment plan, of course). Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation looks forward to talking soon about you and your spinal stenotic, disc degenerative spine and any exercises that may help!
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Have a wonderful February! We look forward to seeing you and your spine this month!