Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office Eases Back Pain due to Spinal Stenosis
Stenosis. If you’re past your 50th birthday and experience twinges of or full-on back pain, stenosis is a recognizable term. 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 eases the back pain and leg pain related to lumbar spinal stenosis.
TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS
Lumbar spine stenosis is a growing diagnosis in our aging society. A new practice guideline was just published that provided three recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to ease pain, reduce disability, improve quality of life, and improve 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. Number 3, these pharmacological drug therapies are not recommended: non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, calcitonin, methylcobalamin, paracetamol, muscle relaxants, opioids, pregabalin, gabapentin, 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 showing itself quite effective in treating 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 Groton chiropractor. This latest study is out of Korea, so Cox® Technic is being used 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 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 described how 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, reducing 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, 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% reduced pressure inside the disc (3) and reported that not only is back pain alleviated with flexion distraction, but so too is pain and physical function owing 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 explains the effectiveness and gentleness of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his lumbar spinal stenosis patients who did not think he would ever experience relief.
Make your next Groton chiropractic appointment with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. Don’t 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!
