Stenosis. If you are past your 50th
birthday and experience pangs of or all-out
back pain, stenosis is a recognizable term.
New Roads Chiropractic Center treats many 50+ year old folks wanting relief of New Roads back pain and leg pain. And with
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 an emerging
diagnosis in our aging population. A recent practice
guideline was just released that provided three
recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to relieve
pain, reduce 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. Second,
drug therapy may be tried: serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake
inhibitors or tricyclic antidepressants. Third, these
pharmacological drug therapies aren’t recommended: non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, methylcobalamin, calcitonin, paracetamol, opioids, muscle
relaxants, pregabalin, gabapentin, and
epidural steroidal injections. (1) New Roads Chiropractic Center offers the first line
recommended options for New Roads back pain relief: manual therapy, exercise,
advice, etc.
MANUAL THERAPY OPTION SPECIFICALLY: Flexion Distraction Cox® Technic
Manual therapy is proving to be quite
effective in treating lumbar spinal stenosis issues. A new report
describes the effects of manual manipulation in a detailed
discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment used
by 64% of US chiropractic physicians including your own New Roads
chiropractor. This recent study is out of Korea, so Cox®
Technic is being used around the world 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 designed 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, decreasing
the disc pressure, forming 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, 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 relieved
with flexion distraction, but so too is pain and physical function owing to a severely prolapsed disc. (4,5) New Roads Chiropractic Center finds the same. Our
New Roads back pain patients find relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT New Roads Chiropractic Center
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Michael McMurray on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares
the effectiveness and gentleness of the
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his lumbar spinal stenosis
patients who didn’t think he’d ever get
relief.
Make your next New Roads
chiropractic appointment with New Roads Chiropractic Center. Don’t let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis slow you down! New Roads Chiropractic Center has the treatment for you!