Stenosis. If you are over 50 and experience pangs of or all-out
back pain, stenosis is a common term.
Spine & Sports Rehab Center treats many 50+ year old folks seeking relief of Baton Rouge back pain and leg pain. And for
good reason: our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management lessens
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 population. A recent practice
guideline was just released that gave three
recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to relieve
pain, decrease 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. Third, these
pharmacological drug therapies are not recommended: non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, methylcobalamin, calcitonin, paracetamol, muscle relaxants, opioids, pregabalin, gabapentin, and
epidural steroidal injections. (1) Spine & Sports Rehab Center offers the first line
recommended options for Baton Rouge 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 detailed
discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment implemented
by 64% of US chiropractic physicians including your own Baton Rouge
chiropractor. This recent study is out of Korea, so Cox®
Technic is being implemented around the world now! The
authors defined lumbar spinal stenosis as a degenerative spine disease in which spinal nerves are
compressed as disc degeneration narrows the area between the vertebral bones 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 treating 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, decreasing
the stresses on the posterior disc, restoring facet joint motion, reducing
the disc pressure, forming 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 found 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 due
to a severely prolapsed disc. (4,5) Spine & Sports Rehab Center finds the same. Our
Baton Rouge back pain patients experience relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT Spine & Sports Rehab Center
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 didn’t think he would ever get
relief.
Make your next Baton Rouge
chiropractic appointment with Spine & Sports Rehab Center. Don’t let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis stop
you! Spine & Sports Rehab Center has the treatment for you!