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

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

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 decreased spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, herniated disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst diminishes the the area of the spinal cancal. A recently published paper explained how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, specifically Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, increased the spinal canal area and produced vertebral motions. The new study just published in January 2023 stated that chiropractic flexion distraction enlarged spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)

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Such spinal modifications made more space for affected spinal elements like spinal nerves to move leading to eventual (though sometimes faster or even immediate for some patients) back pain relief. Outcomes and published 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 Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries for a pain-relieving treatment plan!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the guiding 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.

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

Back pain sufferers are regularly recommended exercises to 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 for a long time, going back to the 1930s as they control 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, keeping hands along the side of the body and bending the knees with feet flat on the floor, then just tighten abdominal and gluteal muscles while pushing the spine flat 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 we’d be thrilled for our new Manchester back pain patients to start with these easy moves on day 1 (after we examine your spine and set a treatment plan, of course). Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries looks forward to meeting you soon and learning more about your spine, degenerated disc, and/or spinal stenosis and sharing 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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