What To Do With Lumbar Spinal Stenosis?

Wonderful question! Spine surgeons aren’t sure what is best for spinal stenosis, but conservative care is receiving more and more attention in the medical research! Amelia Chiropractic Clinic performs non-surgical care that is quite relieving to Fernandina Beach spinal stenosis sufferers. Fernandina Beach patients suffering from spinal stenosis know come to Amelia Chiropractic Clinic will find our care gentle and comfortable and esteem the research and guidelines that are the pillars of its administration.

 

You may be thinking, “what is spinal stenosis?”. Spinal stenosis is what happens when the spinal canal area is narrowed. For many of us lumbar spinal stenosis comes with age when deterioration of the spine begins to appear. One reason this happens may be due to how the spinal elements initially formed. (Some people are born with narrow spinal canals.) Spinal stenosis could also be caused by a disc herniation that is implanting itself into the spinal canal, taking up the space that is meant for the spinal nerves. No matter the cause, spinal stenosis’ narrowing causes pain.

 

When surgeons observe spinal stenosis in a patient they often provide surgical opportunities to broaden that narrowed space. There are many paths from which you may pick. Decompressive surgery is one such type. It is an inexpensive option for lumbar spinal stenosis, but surgical and conservative treatment approaches result in comparable quality of life at one year follow up. (1) Spinal fusion can also be instrumental against spinal stenosis. 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)

 

Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic notices spinal stenosis and treats it with chiropractic care and spinal manipulation to conservatively relieve the pain of spinal stenosis. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is the place for Fernandina Beach conservative care of back pain. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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)

 

If you suffer from pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis, call Amelia Chiropractic Clinic, the Fernandina Beach chiropractic practice for gentle relief of back pain. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic chiropractic care at Fernandina Beach may definitely be the answer to the question of “how to alleviate my pain from spinal stenosis?” for you!