Stenosis. If you are past your 50th
birthday and experience pangs of or full-on
back pain, stenosis is a common term.
Amelia Chiropractic Clinic treats many 50+ year olds seeking relief of Fernandina Beach 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 an emerging
diagnosis in our aging society. A new 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. 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. Secondly,
drug therapy may be tried: serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake
inhibitors or tricyclic antidepressants. Number 3, these
pharmacological drug therapies are not recommended: non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, calcitonin,
methylcobalamin, paracetamol, opioids, muscle
relaxants, gabapentin, pregabalin, and
epidural steroidal injections. (1) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic offers the first line
recommended options for Fernandina Beach 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
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 Fernandina Beach
chiropractor. This recent study is out of Korea, so Cox®
Technic is being implemented around the world now! The
authors defined lumbar spinal stenosis as 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 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 lowered
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, reducing
the stresses on the posterior disc, restoring facet joint motion, lowering
the disc pressure, forming a larger spinal canal area, increasing
disc height, and thus relaxing compressed nerves. The researchers
further stated 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 found a 65% reduced pressure
inside the disc (3) and reported that not only is back pain alleviated
with flexion distraction, but so too is pain and physical function due
to a severely prolapsed disc. (4,5) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic finds the same. Our
Fernandina Beach back pain patients find relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT Amelia 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 didn’t think he would ever experience
relief.
Schedule your next Fernandina Beach
chiropractic appointment with Amelia Chiropractic Clinic. Do not let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis slow you down! Amelia Chiropractic Clinic has the treatment for you!