What a great question! Spine surgeons aren’t certain about the best route for spinal stenosis, still conservative care is benefiting from a higher regard in the medical research! Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers gives non-surgical care that is quite relieving to Baton Rouge spinal stenosis sufferers. Our patients at Baton Rouge dealing with spinal stenosis come to Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers will find our care gentle and comfortable and praise the research and guidelines that make up its administration.

 

What is spinal stenosis first of all? Spinal stenosis is the result of narrowing in the spinal canal area. For a good number of us lumbar spinal stenosis occurs with age when erosion of the spine takes place. It may be due to how the spinal elements were established initially. (Sometimes people are born with narrow spinal canals.) It may be due to a disc herniation that is inserting itself into the spinal canal, taking up the space that is meant for the spinal nerves. Regardless of the cause, spinal stenosis’ narrowing creates pain.

 

Surgeons see spinal stenosis and provide surgical choices to widen that narrowed space. There are many paths from which you may pick. One procedure is decompressive surgery. It is an affordable treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis, but surgical and conservative treatment approaches result in comparable quality of life at one year follow up. (1) Spinal fusion is another such alternative. A Cochrane Database Review, a big deal in the world of research, reports that there is no significant difference at 6 months and 12 months post spine surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis. Cochrane pulled from 12,966 citations to conclude further that they have very little confidence to determine whether surgical or conservative care is better for lumbar spinal stenosis. They, therefore, offer no new clinical practice recommendations for doctors to follow. They do emphasize though that side-effects from surgery range from 10% to 24% and side effects from conservative care, 0%. There were no side effects from conservative care for lumbar spine stenosis in their review. Further, they report that there were no clear benefits seen with surgery versus no surgery. They warn clinicians to carefully inform patients about possible treatment options “especially given that conservative treatment options have results in no reported side effects.” (2)

 

Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers's chiropractor recognizes spinal stenosis and will give chiropractic care and spinal manipulation to conservatively relieve the pain of spinal stenosis. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is the site for Baton Rouge conservative care of back pain. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers uses the Cox Technic system of spinal manipulation to open the spinal canal area by 28%, allowing the nerves to breathe, and drop intradiscal pressures to as low as -192mmHg. (3,4)

 

When lumbar spinal stenosis is causing you pain, call Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers, the Baton Rouge chiropractic practice for gentle relief of back pain. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers chiropractic care at Baton Rouge is the answer to the question of “how can I manage my pain from spinal stenosis?” for you!