Groton Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Relief at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office

Chiropractic alleviates conditions like spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is everywhere today. Why? An aging population. We are all aging, and when we get to 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. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office 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. Anything that shrinks the spinal canal area that allows less space for the spinal nerves and other elements may cause spinal stenosis and pain. Surgeons and medical device companies look for surgical means to reduce spinal stenosis and open the spinal canal area. Conservative care back pain specialists like chiropractors and your Groton chiropractor at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office offer non-surgical means - like Groton spinal manipulation and mobilization which are reported to positively affect the water flow and diffusion into the disc, keeping it healthy (1) - to do the same thing: reduce spinal stenosis and widen the spinal canal area.

A comparison of surgical and conservative treatments of spinal stenosis demonstrates 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 had higher disability scores. Surgical spinal stenosis patients experienced higher complication rates than the conservative care spinal stenosis patients. Based on their reviews of the published data, the researchers still don’t feel that there is definitive evidence to recommend surgical or non-surgical care to lumbar spinal stenosis sufferers. (2) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office submits that a trial of 30 days looking for 50% improvement for most Groton back pain patients with research-documented chiropractic care following the protocols of the Cox Technic System of Care. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is a good 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 have 50% improvement at their 6 months’ disability follow up. (3) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office seeks Groton pain relief as early as possible, and the treatment plan is geared that way. With some patients, a small number of patients, Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office may consult a Groton spinal stenosis patient daily at the start of care. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office takes good care of our Groton lumbar spinal stenosis patients!

And lastly Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office 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’s fully outlined in the algorithms of decision making that guide our Cox Technic system of spine pain management and lumbar spinal stenosis.

Schedule your Groton chiropractic appointment today. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office offers experience in relieving Groton back pain because of spinal stenosis.