February 2023 Healthy News from Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre Spinal Canal Area Englargement and Back Pain Reduction with Chiropractic Care
Do you suffer with 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, resulting in decreased 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 recently published paper explained how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, namely 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 changes made more space for involved spinal elements like spinal nerves to glide leading to eventual (though sometimes quicker or even instantaneous for some patients) back pain relief. Outcomes and published research like this are the forces behind our using 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 Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre 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 describes 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 treatment. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been standard since the 1930s as they restrict lumbar extension while enhancing lumbar flexion, supported by high levels of research evidence. A typical exercise sequence would have a patient lie on the floor, hands at the side, knees bent, then simply tighten ab 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 Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre be thrilled for our new Toronto back pain patients to start with these simple moves on day 1 (after we examine your spine and establish a treatment plan, of course). Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre 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!