January 2023 Healthy News from Minster Chiropractic Center Treatment Plan for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Relief

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is seemingly one of the most common spinal conditions in the US, impacting over 500 million people over 65 years old. (1) As researchers grapple with a more systematic approach to dealing with patient care for lumbar spinal stenosis patients, your Minster chiropractor delivers gentle, safe, pain easing treatment. The latest effort at a system underscored that each LSS patient presents a bit differently which limits any algorithm to be “soft guidance” as to its treatment plan based initially on the LSS patient's pain relief in spinal flexion. (2) Since spinal stenosis is typically a systemic issue, meaning if you have spinal stenosis in the lumbar spine, you likely have it in other spinal areas like the cervical too, you do not want to ignore it. Further, lumbar spinal stenosis is not a condition that appears and disappears forever. Its pain can be contained, but its status as a condition remains one that researchers classify as “chronic,” meaning it lasts beyond 90 days. Have hope! Minster Chiropractic Center is experienced in ways to help with lumbar spinal stenosis relief. One study documented that flexion distraction significantly decreased pain and disability for lumbar spinal stenosis patients. (3) Another study stated that chronic back pain sufferers with moderate to severe symptoms got better the most with the chiropractic technique, Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD), compared with physical therapy. (4) Those same patients had significantly lower pain scores over the following 12 months than did patients who did physical therapy. (5) LSS patients also have altered gait and balance concerns. (1,6) CTFDD helps these things, too! A study about the influence of spinal manipulation on balance issues in LSS patients explained that flexion distraction spinal manipulation improved function, symptoms, and performance-based mobility in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. (6) We also look forward to the outcomes of a prospective data collection study in its second year of follow-up with patients who were treated with CTFDD for relief of their LSS-related back pain. Data collection will be completed later this year with findings being published in the years to come. Minster lumbar spinal stenosis is everywhere, and its relieving partner is your Minster chiropractor here at Minster Chiropractic Center!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Dean Greenwood on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains his relieving treatment of a spinal stenosis patient with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

 

As a set of researchers begins a new study to analyze if a 6-week education and exercise program will enhanced the walking capacity of lumbar spinal stenosis patients with neurogenic claudication (7), Minster Chiropractic Center suggests]}