Stenosis. If you’re past your 50th
birthday and experience pangs of or all-out
back pain, stenosis is a common condition.
Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn treats many 50+ year old folks looking
for relief of Ashburn back pain and leg pain. And for
good reason: our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management eases
the back pain and leg pain associated with 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 released that gave three
recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to ease
pain, lessen disability, improve quality of
life, and increase walking ability. First, non-drug options: 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 tried: serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake
inhibitors or tricyclic antidepressants. Third, these
pharmacological drug therapies are not recommended: non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, methylcobalamin, calcitonin, paracetamol, muscle relaxants, opioids, gabapentin, pregabalin, and
epidural steroidal injections. (1) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn offers the first line
recommended options for Ashburn 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 report
shares 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 Ashburn
chiropractor. This latest study is out of Korea, so Cox®
Technic is being used around the globe now! The
authors explained 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 reduced
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, 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 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 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 related 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) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn finds the same. Our
Ashburn back pain patients find relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Michael McMurray on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares
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 Ashburn
chiropractic appointment with Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn. Don’t let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis stop
you! Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn has the treatment for you!