February 2023 Healthy News from Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office Spinal Canal Area Increase and Back Pain Reduction with Chiropractic Care
Degenerated disc. Spinal stenosis. Back Pain. What do they have in common…besides pain? Reduced spinal canal area. With disc degeneration, the disc diminishes, resulting in decreased spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, herniated disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst reduces the spinal canal area. A newly published paper explained how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, specifically Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, enlarged the spinal canal area and produced vertebral motions. The new study just published in January 2023 stated that chiropractic flexion distraction improved spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)
Such spinal changes allowed affected spinal elements like spinal nerves to ‘breathe’ leading to subsequent (though sometimes quicker or even immediate for some patients) back pain relief. Outcomes and supporting research like this are the forces behind our using gentle, safe chiropractic treatment options like Cox® Technic that has research explaining its biomechanical effects on the spine. Bring your stenotic spine and/or degenerated disc to Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office for a pain-relieving treatment plan!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the main researcher in Cox® Technic research projects, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details the research behind The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Back pain sufferers are regularly advised to perform exercise that strengthen spinal, gluteal, and core muscles as a way to complement their in-office chiropractic care. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been standard since the 1930s as they control lumbar extension while enhancing lumbar flexion, supported by high levels of research evidence. A common exercise series would have a patient lie on the floor, hands at the side, knees bent, then simply tighten abdominal and gluteal muscles while flattening the spine against the floor. The next would be a knee-chest motion (pulling one knee to chest then the other knee then both knees to chest) exercise. (2) There are additional such exercises in the series, but Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office be excited for our new Groton back pain patients to begin with these easy moves on day 1 (after we go through a complete examinations and establish a treatment plan, of course). Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office looks forward to meeting you soon and learning more about your spine, degenerated disc, and/or spinal stenosis and sharing any exercises that may help!
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Have a wonderful February! We look forward to seeing you and your spine this month!