February 2023 Healthy News from Aaron Chiropractic Clinic Spinal Canal Area Increase and Back Pain Reduction with Chiropractic Care
Do you experience back pain? Spinal stenosis? Degenerative disc disease? Do you know what they have in common (besides pain)? Decreased spinal canal area. With disc degeneration, the disc diminishes, leading to a reduced spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, protruding disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst reduces the spinal canal area. A newly published paper detailed how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, specifically Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, expanded the spinal canal area and produced vertebral motions. The new study just published in January 2023 reported that chiropractic flexion distraction increased spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)
Such spinal tranformations set the scene for involved spinal elements like spinal nerves to ‘breathe’ leading to subsequent (though occasionally faster or even instantaneous for some patients) back pain relief. Outcomes and supporting research like this are the forces behind our use of 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 Aaron Chiropractic Clinic for a pain-relieving treatment plan!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the main research investigator in Cox® Technic studies, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details the research behind The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Back pain sufferers are frequently advised to perform exercise that strengthen spinal, gluteal, and core muscles as a way to round out 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 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 (pulling one knee to chest then the other knee then both knees to chest) exercise. (2) There are more such exercises in the series, but we’d be excited for our new Fort Wayne back pain patients to begin with these easy exercises on day 1 (after we go through a complete examinations and establish a treatment plan, of course). Aaron Chiropractic Clinic 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 anticipate seeing you and your spine this month!