Stenosis. If you’re past your 50th
birthday and experience twinges of or all-out
back pain, stenosis is a common term.
Aaron Chiropractic Clinic treats many 50+ year old folks seeking relief of Fort Wayne back pain and leg pain. And for
good reason: our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management lessens
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 society. A recent practice
guideline was just published that gave three
recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to ease
pain, reduce disability, improve 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 attempted: serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake
inhibitors or tricyclic antidepressants. Third, these
pharmacological drug therapies are not recommended: non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, calcitonin,
methylcobalamin, paracetamol, muscle relaxants, opioids, gabapentin, pregabalin, and
epidural steroidal injections. (1) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic offers the first line
recommended options for Fort Wayne 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 detailed
discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment used
by 64% of US chiropractic physicians including your own Fort Wayne
chiropractor. This latest study is out of Korea, so Cox®
Technic is being used around the globe now! The
authors described that lumbar
spinal stenosis is a degenerative spine disease in which spinal nerves are
compressed as
spinal vertebral bones narrow 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 reduced
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, creating a larger spinal canal area, increasing
disc height, and thereby 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 revealed a 65% reduced pressure
inside the disc (3) and related that not only is back pain relieved
with flexion distraction, but so too is pain and physical function due
to a severely prolapsed disc. (4,5) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic finds the same. Our
Fort Wayne back pain patients experience relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT Aaron Chiropractic Clinic
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Michael McMurray on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes
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 find
relief.
Make your next Fort Wayne
chiropractic appointment with Aaron Chiropractic Clinic. Don’t let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis slow you down! Aaron Chiropractic Clinic has the treatment for you!