Stenosis. If you are past your 50th
birthday and experience pangs of or full-on
back pain, stenosis is a common condition.
Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office treats many 50+ year olds seeking relief of Groton back pain and leg pain. And with
good reason: our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management relieves
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 society. A recent practice
guideline was just released that gave three
recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to ease
pain, decrease 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. Number 3, 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) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office offers the first line
recommended options for Groton 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 paper
describes the effects of manual manipulation in a comprehensive
discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment implemented
by 64% of US chiropractic physicians including your own Groton
chiropractor. This latest 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
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 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
explained that the flexion distraction technique (aka Cox®
Technic) is intended 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, increasing
disc height, and thereby relaxing compressed nerves. The researchers
further explained that flexion-distraction concentrates
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 generated in
the disc space by widening the canal space. (2) They referenced other studies
that revealed a 65% decreased 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) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office finds the same. Our
Groton back pain patients experience relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Michael McMurray on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes
the effectiveness and gentleness of the
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his lumbar spinal stenosis
patients who did not think he’d ever find
relief.
Make your next Groton
chiropractic appointment with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. Do not let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis slow you down! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office has the treatment for you!