February 2023 Healthy News from Minster Chiropractic Center Spinal Canal Area Englargement and Back Pain Reduction with Chiropractic Care
Degenerated disc. Spinal stenosis. Back Pain. What do they have in common…besides pain? Reduced spinal canal area. With disc degeneration, the disc reduces, leading to a reduced spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, herniated disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst reduces the spinal canal area. A new paper explained how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, namely Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, expanded the spinal canal area and created vertebral motions. The new study just published in January 2023 reported that chiropractic flexion distraction enlarged spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)
Such spinal tranformations allowed affected spinal elements like spinal nerves to ‘breathe’ leading to eventual (though occasionally quicker or even instantaneous for some patients) back pain relief. Outcomes and supporting research like this are the forces behind our use of gentle, safe chiropractic treatment approaches like Cox® Technic that has research explaining its biomechanical effects on the spine. Minster Chiropractic Center invites you to share your degenerated disc and/or spinal stenosis with us!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the main researcher in Cox® Technic studies, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details the research behind The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Back pain sufferers are often recommended exercises to strengthen spinal, gluteal, and core muscles as a way to supplement their in-office chiropractic care. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been standard since the 1930s as they control lumbar extension while enhancing lumbar flexion with high levels of research evidence (III and IV) support. A common exercise sequence would have a patient lie on the floor, hands at the side, knees bent, then simply tighten ab and gluteal muscles while flattening the spine against the floor. The following exercise would be a knee-chest motion (each single knee then both knees) exercise. (2) There are additional such exercises in the series, but we’d be excited for our new Minster back pain patients to start with these simple exercises on day 1 (after we examine your spine and establish a treatment plan, of course). Minster Chiropractic Center looks forward to talking soon about you and your spinal stenotic, disc degenerative spine and any exercises that may help!
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Have a wonderful February! We look forward to seeing you and your spine this month!