Stenosis. If you’re past your 50th
birthday and experience pangs of or all-out
back pain, stenosis is a recognizable condition.
Johnson Chiropractic treats many 50+ year old folks looking
for relief of Richmond back pain and leg pain. And with
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 a growing
diagnosis in our aging population. A recent practice
guideline was just released that provided three
recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to ease
pain, reduce disability, enhance quality of
life, and improve walking ability. First, non-drug options: 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, gabapentin, pregabalin, and
epidural steroidal injections. (1) Johnson Chiropractic offers the first line
recommended options for Richmond back pain relief: manual therapy, exercise,
advice, etc.
MANUAL THERAPY OPTION SPECIFICALLY: Flexion Distraction Cox® Technic
Manual therapy is showing itself quite
effective in treating lumbar spinal stenosis issues. A new report
shares 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 Richmond
chiropractor. This recent study is out of Korea, so Cox®
Technic is being implemented around the globe now! The
authors described 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 triggers
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 reduced
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 opening the facet joints, reducing
the stresses on the posterior disc, restoring facet joint motion, lowering
the disc pressure, making a larger spinal canal area, enlarging
disc height, and thus relaxing compressed nerves. The researchers
further explained that flexion-distraction focuses
on a specific segment of the spine, alters the epiphyseal joint
allowing a distraction of the anterior and posterior longitudinal ligaments,
and relaxes the facet joint. Negative pressure was generated in
the disc space by widening the canal space. (2) They referenced other studies
that discovered a 65% reduced 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) Johnson Chiropractic finds the same. Our
Richmond back pain patients find relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT Johnson Chiropractic
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 did not think he would ever experience
relief.
Schedule your next Richmond
chiropractic appointment with Johnson Chiropractic. Do not let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis slow you down! Johnson Chiropractic has the treatment for you!