Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office Eases Back Pain due to Spinal Stenosis

Stenosis. If you are past your 50th birthday and experience pangs of or full-on back pain, stenosis is a common condition. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office treats many 50+ year olds seeking relief of Groton back pain and leg pain. And with 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 a growing diagnosis in our aging society. A recent practice guideline was just released that gave three recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to ease pain, decrease 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. 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, opioids, muscle relaxants, gabapentin, pregabalin, and epidural steroidal injections. (1) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office offers the first line recommended options for Groton 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 treating lumbar spinal stenosis issues. A new paper describes the effects of manual manipulation in a comprehensive discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment implemented by 64% of US chiropractic physicians including your own Groton chiropractor. This latest study is out of Korea, so Cox® Technic is being implemented around the globe now! The authors described that lumbar spinal stenosis is 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 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 opening the facet joints, reducing the stresses on the posterior disc, restoring facet joint motion, lowering the disc pressure, making a larger spinal canal area, increasing disc height, and thereby 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 generated 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 relieved with flexion distraction, but so too is pain and physical function due to a severely prolapsed disc. (4,5) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office finds the same. Our Groton back pain patients experience relief with Cox® Technic, too.

CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office

Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Michael McMurray on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the effectiveness and gentleness of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his lumbar spinal stenosis patients who did not think he’d ever find relief.                                     

Make your next Groton chiropractic appointment with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. Do not let the all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis slow you down! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office has the treatment for you!

 
Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office offers research-recommended treatment – Cox® Technic – for relief of symptoms due to spinal stenosis. 
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