Stenosis. If you’re past your 50th
birthday and experience pangs of or full-on
back pain, stenosis is a common condition.
OrthoIllinois Chiropractic treats many 50+ year olds wanting relief of McHenry back pain and leg pain. And for
good reason: our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management lessens
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 recent practice
guideline was just published that gave three
recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to relieve
pain, lessen disability, improve 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. Second,
drug therapy may be tried: serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake
inhibitors or tricyclic antidepressants. Number 3, these
pharmacological drug therapies are not recommended: non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, calcitonin,
methylcobalamin, paracetamol, muscle relaxants, opioids, gabapentin, pregabalin, and
epidural steroidal injections. (1) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic offers the first line
recommended options for McHenry 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 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 McHenry
chiropractor. This recent study is out of Korea, so Cox®
Technic is being implemented 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 for care of 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
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, decreasing
the stresses on the posterior disc, restoring facet joint motion, decreasing
the disc pressure, making 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, alters 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 revealed a 65% decreased pressure
inside the disc (3) and related that not only is back pain alleviated
with flexion distraction, but so too is pain and physical function due
to a severely prolapsed disc. (4,5) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic finds the same. Our
McHenry back pain patients find relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT OrthoIllinois 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 find
relief.
Schedule your next McHenry
chiropractic appointment with OrthoIllinois Chiropractic. Do not let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis stop
you! OrthoIllinois Chiropractic has the treatment for you!