What To Do With Lumbar Spinal Stenosis?

Wonderful question! Spine surgeons are not certain what is best for spinal stenosis, but conservative care is obtaining a higher regard in the medical research! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office offers non-surgical care that is quite relieving to Groton spinal stenosis sufferers. Groton patients who have spinal stenosis know come to Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office will find our care gentle and comfortable and commend the research and protocols that are the pillars of its administration.

 

So what exactly is spinal stenosis? Spinal stenosis is the narrowing of the spinal canal area. Lumbar spinal stenosis happens with age for a good deal of us when erosion of the spine takes place. It may be due to how the spinal elements were established originally. (Sometimes people are born with narrow spinal canals.) It could also be a disc herniation that is inserting itself into the spinal canal, taking up the space that is supposed to be for the spinal nerves. Regardless of the cause, spinal stenosis’ narrowing causes pain.

 

When surgeons identify spinal stenosis in a patient they often provide surgical options to broaden that narrowed space. There are many directions from which you may pick. Decompressive surgery is one such case. It is an affordable treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis, but surgical and conservative treatment approaches result in comparable quality of life at one year follow up. (1) Spinal stenosis can also be battled with spinal fusion. A Cochrane Database Review, a big deal in the world of research, reports that there is no significant difference at 6 months and 12 months post spine surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis. Cochrane pulled from 12,966 citations to conclude further that they have very little confidence to determine whether surgical or conservative care is better for lumbar spinal stenosis. They, therefore, offer no new clinical practice recommendations for doctors to follow. They do emphasize though that side-effects from surgery range from 10% to 24% and side effects from conservative care, 0%. There were no side effects from conservative care for lumbar spine stenosis in their review. Further, they report that there were no clear benefits seen with surgery versus no surgery. They warn clinicians to carefully inform patients about possible treatment options “especially given that conservative treatment options have results in no reported side effects.” (2)

 

Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office's chiropractor sees spinal stenosis and will treat it with chiropractic care and spinal manipulation to conservatively relieve the pain of spinal stenosis. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is the spot for Groton conservative care of back pain. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office uses the Cox Technic system of spinal manipulation to open the spinal canal area by 28%, allowing the nerves to breathe, and drop intradiscal pressures to as low as -192mmHg. (3,4)

 

When lumbar spinal stenosis is causing you pain, call Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office, the Groton chiropractic practice for gentle relief of back pain. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office chiropractic care at Groton may definitely be the answer to the question of “how can I manage my pain from spinal stenosis?” for you!