Stenosis. If you’re past your 50th
birthday and experience pangs of or full-on
back pain, stenosis is a recognizable term.
Hollstrom & Associates Inc treats many 50+ year old folks seeking relief of Largo back pain and leg pain. And with
good reason: our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management lessens
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 new practice
guideline was just published that provided three
recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to ease
pain, lessen disability, improve quality of
life, and improve walking ability. First, non-drug options: 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. Secondly,
drug therapy may be attempted: serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake
inhibitors or tricyclic antidepressants. Third, these
pharmacological drug therapies aren’t recommended: non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, methylcobalamin, calcitonin, paracetamol, opioids, muscle
relaxants, gabapentin, pregabalin, and
epidural steroidal injections. (1) Hollstrom & Associates Inc offers the first line
recommended options for Largo back pain relief: manual therapy, exercise,
advice, etc.
MANUAL THERAPY OPTION SPECIFICALLY: Flexion Distraction Cox® Technic
Manual therapy is showing itself quite
effective in treating lumbar spinal stenosis issues. A new report
shares the effects of manual manipulation in a detailed
discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment used
by 64% of US chiropractic physicians including your own Largo
chiropractor. This recent study is out of Korea, so Cox®
Technic is being implemented around the globe now! The
authors described that lumbar
spinal stenosis is a degenerative spine disease in which spinal nerves are
compressed as disc degeneration narrows the area between the vertebral bones due to disc degeneration. Spinal stenosis causes
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 lowered
in the experimental group patients over the control group patients. The authors
described how the flexion distraction technique (aka Cox®
Technic) is intended to restore the normal spinal joint function
and movement by opening the facet joints, reducing
the stresses on the posterior disc, restoring facet joint motion, lowering
the disc pressure, making a larger spinal canal area, increasing
disc height, and thus relaxing compressed nerves. The researchers
further explained that flexion-distraction concentrates
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% reduced 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 due
to a severely prolapsed disc. (4,5) Hollstrom & Associates Inc finds the same. Our
Largo back pain patients experience relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT Hollstrom & Associates Inc
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Michael McMurray on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares
the effectiveness and gentleness of the
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his lumbar spinal stenosis
patients who did not think he’d ever find
relief.
Make your next Largo
chiropractic appointment with Hollstrom & Associates Inc. Do not let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis stop
you! Hollstrom & Associates Inc has the treatment for you!