Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers Eases Back Pain due to Spinal Stenosis
Stenosis. If you’re over 50 and experience pangs of or all-out back pain, stenosis is a familiar condition. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers treats many 50+ year old folks looking for 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 related to lumbar spinal stenosis.
TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS
Lumbar spine stenosis is an emerging diagnosis in our aging population. A new practice guideline was just published that gave three recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to ease pain, reduce disability, improve 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. 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, calcitonin, methylcobalamin, paracetamol, muscle relaxants, opioids, pregabalin, gabapentin, and epidural steroidal injections. (1) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers 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 latest 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 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, decreasing the disc pressure, creating a larger spinal canal area, increasing disc height, and thus relaxing compressed nerves. The researchers further stated that flexion-distraction focuses 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 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) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers finds the same. Our Baton Rouge back pain patients find relief with Cox® Technic, too.
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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 would ever experience relief.
Make your next Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment with Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers. Don’t let the all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis slow you down! Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers has the treatment for you!
