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Healthy News February 2023 Chiropractic Care Aimed to Open Spinal Canal Area and Decrease Back Pain

 picture of a Auburn spinal stenotic canal

CHIROPRACTIC COX® TECHNIC CREATES VERTEBRAL MOTION & INCREASED SPINAL CANAL SPACE

Do you have back pain? Spinal stenosis? Degenerative disc disease? Do you know what they have in common (besides pain)? Reduced spinal canal area. With disc degeneration, the disc shrinks, leading to a decreased spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, herniated disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst diminishes the spinal canal area. A new paper explained how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, specifically Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, enlarged the spinal canal area and created vertebral motions. The new study just published in January 2023 stated that chiropractic flexion distraction increased spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)

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Such spinal alterations set the scene for involved spinal elements like spinal nerves to ‘breathe’ leading to subsequent (though sometimes faster or even instantaneous for some patients) back pain relief. Outcomes and published 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 Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. for a pain-relieving treatment plan!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the principal research investigator in Cox® Technic research projects, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the research behind The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

image of Auburn chiropractic knee to chest exercise for lumbar spine

TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise to Open Lumbar Spinal Canal Area

Back pain sufferers are frequently advised to perform exercise that strengthen spinal, gluteal, and core muscles as a way to complement their in-office chiropractic care. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been standard since the 1930s as they limit 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 abdominal and gluteal muscles while flattening the spine against the floor. The next would be a knee-chest motion (each single knee then both knees) exercise. (2) There are more such exercises in the series, but Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. be thrilled for our new Auburn back pain patients to start with these easy moves on day 1 (after we go through a complete examinations and set a treatment plan, of course). Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. 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!

 
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