January 2023 Healthy News from Hollstrom & Associates Inc Treatment Plan for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Relief
Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is reportedly one of the most common spinal conditions in the US, affecting more than 500 million people over the age of 62. (1) As researchers struggle to propose a more systematic approach to dealing with patient care for lumbar spinal stenosis sufferers, your Largo chiropractor provides gentle, safe, relieving treatment. The latest effort at a system emphasized that each LSS patient is unique in his/her presentation which restrains any algorithm to be “soft guidance” as to its treatment plan based primarily 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 as well, you don’t want to ignore it. Further, lumbar spinal stenosis isn’t a condition that appears and disappears forever. Its pain can be managed, but its status as a condition remains one that researchers classify as “chronic,” meaning it lasts beyond 90 days. Be hopeful! Your chiropractor can help with lumbar spinal stenosis relief. One study reported that flexion distraction significantly reduced pain and disability for lumbar spinal stenosis patients. (3) Another study noted 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 experienced significantly lower pain scores over the following 12 months than did patients who did physical therapy. (5) LSS patients also experience altered gait and balance issues. (1,6) CTFDD helps these issues, too! A study regarding the influence of spinal manipulation on balance problems in LSS patients documented that flexion distraction spinal manipulation enhanced 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 in late 2023 with results being published in the years to come. Largo lumbar spinal stenosis is everywhere, and its relieving partner is your Largo chiropractor here at Hollstrom & Associates Inc!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Dean Greenwood on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains his alleviating treatment of a spinal stenosis patient with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
As a group of researchers starts a new study to see if a 6-week education and exercise program will improve the walking capacity of lumbar spinal stenosis patients who also have neurogenic claudication (7), we} suggest walking and exercising now! Lots of research exhibits that lumbar spinal stenosis responds to exercise. One study showed that individualized exercise (stretches and strengthening) combined with manual therapy (like out CTFDD spinal manipulation mobilization!) beat medical care and group exercise with more symptom and function improvement as well as walking capacity at 2 months of care. (8) Hollstrom & Associates Inc has just the program of stretching, strengthening, and manipulation for you! We will set it up together!
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We are grateful for all of our patients here at Hollstrom & Associates Inc and look forward to a healthy 2023! Make your next Largo chiropractic appointment with Hollstrom & Associates Inc now to keep your spine in great shape. See you then!