February 2023 Healthy News from Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. 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 diminishes, leading to a reduced spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, herniated disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst reduces the the area of the spinal cancal. A recently published paper detailed how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, specifically Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, expanded the spinal canal area and created 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 alterations made more space for affected spinal elements like spinal nerves to move leading to subsequent (though sometimes quicker or even instantaneous for some patients) back pain relief. Outcomes and supporting research like this are the forces behind our using gentle, safe chiropractic treatment options like Cox® Technic that has research explaining its biomechanical effects on the spine. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. invites you to share your degenerated disc and/or spinal stenosis with us!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the principal researcher 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 advised to perform exercise that strengthen spinal, gluteal, and core muscles as a way to supplement their in-office chiropractic care. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been the norm since the 1930s as they restrict lumbar extension while enhancing lumbar flexion with high levels of research evidence (III and IV) support. A typical exercise series would have a patient lie on the floor, keeping hands along the side of the body and bending the knees with feet flat on the floor, then simply tighten abdominal and gluteal muscles while flattening the spine 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 additional such exercises in the series, but Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. be excited for our new Auburn back pain patients to start with these simple exercises on day 1 (after we examine your spine 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!