February 2023 Healthy News from Apple Country Chiropractic Spinal Canal Area Increase 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 shrinks, resulting in reduced spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, herniated disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst affects the spinal canal area. A new paper detailed how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, specifically Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, increased the spinal canal area and produced vertebral motions. The new study just published in January 2023 stated that chiropractic flexion distraction improved spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)
Such spinal modifications made more space for impacted spinal elements like spinal nerves to move 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 choice to use gentle, safe chiropractic treatment approaches like Cox® Technic that has research explaining its biomechanical effects on the spine. Bring your stenotic spine and/or degenerated disc to Apple Country Chiropractic for a pain-relieving treatment plan!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the principal research investigator in Cox® Technic studies, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes 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 round out their in-office chiropractic care. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been the norm since the 1930s as they control lumbar extension while improving 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 pushing the spine flat against the floor. The following exercise would be a knee-chest motion (pulling one knee to chest then the other knee then both knees to chest) exercise. (2) There are more such exercises in the series, but we’d be thrilled for our new Williamson back pain patients to begin with these simple exercises on day 1 (after we go through a complete examinations and establish a treatment plan, of course). Apple Country Chiropractic looks forward to meeting you soon and learning more about your spine, degenerated disc, and/or spinal stenosis and sharing any exercises that may help!
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Have a wonderful February! We anticipate seeing you and your spine this month!