Richmond Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Relief at Johnson Chiropractic

Chiropractic relieves conditions like spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is everywhere today. Why? An aging population. We are all aging, and when we get to a certain age, our bodies reward us with conditions like spinal stenosis. There is no problem, though! Chiropractic care is a solution for many spinal stenosis pain patients. Johnson Chiropractic offers gentle, evidence-based chiropractic care in the form of Cox Technic to help control and relieve back pain due to spinal stenosis.

Lumbar spinal stenosis may be the result of any of a number of issues like a disc herniation, disc bulge or contained disc, synovial cyst. Any issue that narrows the spinal canal area that allows reduced space for the spinal nerves and other elements may cause spinal stenosis and pain. Surgeons and medical device companies offer surgical means to reduce spinal stenosis and open the spinal canal area. Conservative care back pain specialists like chiropractors and your Richmond chiropractor at Johnson Chiropractic seek non-surgical means - like Richmond spinal manipulation and mobilization which are shown to positively affect the water flow and diffusion into the disc, keeping it healthy (1) - to do the same thing: reduce spinal stenosis and widen the spinal canal area.

A comparison of surgical and conservative treatments of spinal stenosis explains that conservative care is better. At 6 months post-care – surgical or non-surgical – no significant differences are noted in the spinal stenosis patients. At 12 and 24 months post-care, the surgical spinal stenosis patients report higher disability scores. Surgical spinal stenosis patients underwent higher complication rates than the conservative care spinal stenosis patients. Based on their reviews of the published data, the researchers still don’t feel that there is conclusive evidence to recommend surgical or non-surgical care to lumbar spinal stenosis sufferers. (2) Johnson Chiropractic offers that a trial of 30 days looking for 50% improvement for most Richmond back pain patients with research-documented chiropractic care following the protocols of the Cox Technic System of Care. Johnson Chiropractic is a reasonable place to start!

Those spinal stenosis patients who show 33% to 50% improvement in pain at 2 weeks of care have increased odds of 6 to 7 times higher to have 50% improvement at their 6 months’ disability follow up. (3) Johnson Chiropractic looks for Richmond pain relief as early as possible, and the treatment plan is established with this in mind. With some patients, a small number of patients, Johnson Chiropractic may see a Richmond spinal stenosis patient daily at the start of care. Johnson Chiropractic takes good care of our Richmond lumbar spinal stenosis patients!

And lastly Johnson Chiropractic relies on its experienced clinical judgment and evidence of a patient’s not improving as expected to order more imaging or schedule a surgical consultation as needed. (4) It is well defined in the algorithms of decision making that direct our Cox Technic system of spine pain management and lumbar spinal stenosis.

Schedule your Richmond chiropractic appointment today. Johnson Chiropractic offers experience in relieving Richmond back pain because of spinal stenosis.