Stenosis. If you’re over 50 and experience twinges of or full-on
back pain, stenosis is a common term.
Moses Chiropractic treats many 50+ year old folks wanting relief of West Palm Beach back pain and leg pain. And for
good reason: our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management relieves
the back pain and leg pain related to 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 gave three
recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to relieve
pain, reduce disability, enhance quality of
life, and increase 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 attempted: serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake
inhibitors or tricyclic antidepressants. Third, 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) Moses Chiropractic offers the first line
recommended options for West Palm Beach back pain relief: manual therapy, exercise,
advice, etc.
MANUAL THERAPY OPTION SPECIFICALLY: Flexion Distraction Cox® Technic
Manual therapy is proving to be quite
effective in addressing lumbar spinal stenosis issues. A new report
describes the effects of manual manipulation in a comprehensive
discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment used
by 64% of US chiropractic physicians including your own West Palm Beach
chiropractor. This latest study is out of Korea, so Cox®
Technic is being implemented around the globe 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 for care of 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
explained that the flexion distraction technique (aka Cox®
Technic) is intended to restore the normal spinal joint function
and movement by gapping the facet joints, reducing
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 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 produced in
the disc space by widening the canal space. (2) They referenced other studies
that found a 65% decreased pressure
inside the disc (3) and related 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) Moses Chiropractic finds the same. Our
West Palm Beach back pain patients find relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT Moses Chiropractic
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Michael McMurray on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains
the effectiveness and gentleness of the
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his lumbar spinal stenosis
patients who didn’t think he’d ever get
relief.
Schedule your next West Palm Beach
chiropractic appointment with Moses Chiropractic. Don’t let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis slow you down! Moses Chiropractic has the treatment for you!