Stenosis. If you’re over 50 and experience pangs of or full-on
back pain, stenosis is a familiar term.
Layden Chiropractic treats many 50+ year olds wanting relief of Plainville 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 an emerging
diagnosis in our aging society. A recent practice
guideline was just published that provided three
recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to ease
pain, lessen disability, enhance 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. Second,
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, pregabalin, gabapentin, and
epidural steroidal injections. (1) Layden Chiropractic offers the first line
recommended options for Plainville 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 comprehensive
discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment implemented
by 64% of US chiropractic physicians including your own Plainville
chiropractor. This latest study is out of Korea, so Cox®
Technic is being used around the globe 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 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 reduced
in the experimental group patients over the control group patients. The authors
explained that the flexion distraction technique (aka Cox®
Technic) is designed to restore the normal spinal joint function
and movement by gapping the facet joints, reducing
the stresses on the posterior disc, restoring facet joint motion, lowering
the disc pressure, making a larger spinal canal area, enlarging
disc height, and thus relaxing compressed nerves. The researchers
further explained 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% decreased 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) Layden Chiropractic finds the same. Our
Plainville back pain patients find relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT Layden Chiropractic
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Michael McMurray on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes
the effective, gentle treatment with the
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his lumbar spinal stenosis
patients who didn’t think he’d ever find
relief.
Make your next Plainville
chiropractic appointment with Layden Chiropractic. Don’t let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis stop
you! Layden Chiropractic has the treatment for you!