Healthy News January 2023

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is seemingly one of the most common spinal conditions in the US, affecting over 500 million people over 65 years old. (1) As researchers struggle to propose a more systematic approach to dealing with patient care for lumbar spinal stenosis patients, your Fort Wayne chiropractor provides gentle, safe, pain easing treatment. The most recent effort at a system stressed that each LSS patient is unique in his/her presentation which limits 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 characteristically a systemic issue, which means that if you have spinal stenosis in the lumbar spine, you likely have it in other spinal areas like the cervical too, you don’t want to overlook it. Further, lumbar spinal stenosis is not a condition that appears and disappears forever. Its pain can be contained, but it’s often “chronic,” meaning it lasts beyond 90 days. Have hope! 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 improved most with the chiropractic technique, Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD), compared with physical therapy. (4) Those same patients had significantly lower pain scores over the following year than did patients who did physical therapy. (5) LSS patients also experience altered gait and balance issues. (1,6) CTFDD helps these things, too! A study regarding the influence of spinal manipulation on balance issues in LSS patients documented that flexion distraction spinal manipulation improved function, symptoms, and performance-based mobility in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. (6) We also anticipate the outcomes of a prospective data collection study in its second year for follow-up with patients who underwent CTFDD for relief of their LSS-related back pain. Data collection will be done in late 2023 with results being published in the years to come. Fort Wayne lumbar spinal stenosis is everywhere, and its relieving partner is your Fort Wayne chiropractor here at Aaron Chiropractic Clinic!

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 set of researchers establishes a new study to analyze if a 6-week education and exercise program will improve the walking capacity of lumbar spinal stenosis patients with neurogenic claudication (7), Aaron Chiropractic Clinic recommends