Stenosis. If you’re over 50 and experience pangs of or all-out
back pain, stenosis is a common condition.
Back And Neck Care Center treats many 50+ year old folks wanting relief of Severna Park back pain and leg pain. And for
good reason: our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management eases
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 recent practice
guideline was just released that provided three
recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to relieve
pain, reduce disability, improve 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. Second,
drug therapy may be tried: serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake
inhibitors or tricyclic antidepressants. Number 3, these
pharmacological drug therapies aren’t recommended: non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, methylcobalamin, calcitonin, paracetamol, muscle relaxants, opioids, pregabalin, gabapentin, and
epidural steroidal injections. (1) Back And Neck Care Center offers the first line
recommended options for Severna Park back pain relief: manual therapy, exercise,
advice, etc.
MANUAL THERAPY OPTION SPECIFICALLY: Flexion Distraction Cox® Technic
Manual therapy is showing itself quite
effective in addressing lumbar spinal stenosis issues. A new paper
describes the effects of manual manipulation in a detailed
discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment implemented
by 64% of US chiropractic physicians including your own Severna Park
chiropractor. This latest 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 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
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, decreasing
the disc pressure, forming a larger spinal canal area, increasing
disc height, and thus relaxing compressed nerves. The researchers
further explained 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 relieved
with flexion distraction, but so too is pain and physical function owing to a severely prolapsed disc. (4,5) Back And Neck Care Center finds the same. Our
Severna Park back pain patients find relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT Back And Neck Care Center
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 didn’t think he would ever find
relief.
Schedule your next Severna Park
chiropractic appointment with Back And Neck Care Center. Don’t let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis slow you down! Back And Neck Care Center has the treatment for you!