Stenosis. If you’re over 50 and experience pangs of or all-out
back pain, stenosis is a familiar term.
Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka treats many 50+ year old folks seeking relief of Sitka back pain and leg pain. And for
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 population. A new practice
guideline was just published that gave three
recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to relieve
pain, reduce disability, enhance quality of
life, and increase walking ability. First, non-drug options: 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. Third, these
pharmacological drug therapies aren’t recommended: non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, methylcobalamin, calcitonin, paracetamol, opioids, muscle
relaxants, pregabalin, gabapentin, and
epidural steroidal injections. (1) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka offers the first line
recommended options for Sitka 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 paper
shares the effects of manual manipulation in a detailed
discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment used
by 64% of US chiropractic physicians including your own Sitka
chiropractor. This recent study is out of Korea, so Cox®
Technic is being used around the world now! The
authors defined lumbar spinal stenosis as a degenerative spine disease in which spinal nerves are
compressed as
spinal vertebral bones narrow due to disc degeneration. Spinal stenosis triggers
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 reduced
in the experimental group patients over the control group patients. The authors
described how the flexion distraction technique (aka Cox®
Technic) is intended to restore the normal spinal joint function
and movement by gapping the facet joints, decreasing
the stresses on the posterior disc, restoring facet joint motion, lowering
the disc pressure, creating a larger spinal canal area, enlarging
disc height, and thus relaxing compressed nerves. The researchers
further stated that flexion-distraction focuses
on a specific segment of the spine, alters 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% 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 owing to a severely prolapsed disc. (4,5) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka finds the same. Our
Sitka back pain patients experience relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Michael McMurray on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares
the effective, gentle treatment with the
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his lumbar spinal stenosis
patients who did not think he would ever find
relief.
Make your next Sitka
chiropractic appointment with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka. Don’t let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis slow you down! Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka has the treatment for you!