Sitka Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Relief at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
Chiropractic alleviates conditions like spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is all around us today. Why? An aging population. We are all aging, and when we achieve a certain age, our bodies compensate us with conditions like spinal stenosis. There’s no problem, though! Chiropractic care is a solution for many spinal stenosis pain patients. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka offers gentle, evidence-based chiropractic care in the form of Cox Technic to help control and relieve back pain due to spinal stenosis.
Lumbar spinal stenosis may result from a variety of issues like a disc herniation, disc bulge or contained disc, synovial cyst. Any condition that shrinks the spinal canal area resulting in less space for the spinal nerves and other elements may bring about spinal stenosis and pain. Surgeons and medical device companies look for surgical means to reduce spinal stenosis and open the spinal canal space12. Conservative care back pain specialists like chiropractors and your Sitka chiropractor at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka seek non-surgical means - like Sitka spinal manipulation and mobilization which are shown to keep the disc healthy by improved water flow and diffusion (1) - to do the same thing: reduce spinal stenosis and open the spinal canal area.
A comparison of surgical and conservative treatments of spinal stenosis shows that conservative care is more positive. At 6 months post-care – surgical or non-surgical – no significant differences are noted in the spinal stenosis patients. At 12 and 24 months post-care, the surgical spinal stenosis patients report higher disability scores. Surgical spinal stenosis patients suffered higher complication rates than the conservative care spinal stenosis patients. Based on their reviews of the published data, the researchers still do not feel that there is conclusive proof to recommend surgical or non-surgical care to lumbar spinal stenosis sufferers. (2) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka suggests that a trial of 30 days seeking 50% improvement for most Sitka back pain patients with research-documented chiropractic care following the protocols of the Cox Technic System of Care. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is a reasonable place to start!
Those spinal stenosis patients who display 33% to 50% improvement in pain at 2 weeks of care have improved odds of 6 to 7 times greater to exhibit 50% improvement at their 6 months’ disability follow up. (3) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka seeks Sitka pain relief as early as possible, and the treatment plan is established with this in mind. With some patients, a small number of patients, Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka may see a Sitka spinal stenosis patient on a daily basis in the beginning. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka takes good care of our Sitka lumbar spinal stenosis patients!
And lastly Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka relies on its experienced clinical judgment and evidence of a patient’s not improving as expected to order more imaging or schedule a surgical consultation as needed. (4) It is fully outlined in the algorithms of decision making that direct our Cox Technic system of spine pain management and lumbar spinal stenosis.
Schedule your Sitka chiropractic appointment today. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka offers experience in relieving Sitka back pain due to spinal stenosis.
