January 2023 Healthy News from Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre Treatment Plan for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Relief
Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is reportedly one of the most common spinal conditions in the US, affecting more than 500 million people over 65 years old. (1) As researchers struggle to propose a more systematic approach to managing patient care for lumbar spinal stenosis sufferers, your Toronto chiropractor delivers gentle, safe, relieving treatment. The most recent effort at a system underscored that each LSS patient presents a bit differently 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 typically 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 as well, you don’t want to overlook it. Further, lumbar spinal stenosis isn’t a condition that appears and disappears forever. Its pain can be managed, but its status as a condition remains one that researchers classify as “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 lowered pain and disability for lumbar spinal stenosis patients. (3) Another study noted that chronic back pain sufferers with moderate to severe symptoms got better the most with the chiropractic technique, Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD), compared with physical therapy. (4) Those same patients experienced significantly lower pain scores over the following 12 months than did patients who underwent physical therapy. (5) LSS patients also have altered gait and balance issues. (1,6) CTFDD helps these issues, too! A study regarding the influence of spinal manipulation on balance problems in LSS patients explained that flexion distraction spinal manipulation enhanced function, symptoms, and performance-based mobility in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. (6) We also look forward to the outcomes of a prospective data collection study in its second year of follow-up with patients who underwent CTFDD for relief of their LSS-related back pain. Data collection will be completed later this year with results being published in the years to come. Toronto lumbar spinal stenosis is everywhere, and its relieving partner is your Toronto chiropractor here at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Dean Greenwood on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains his relieving treatment of a spinal stenosis patient with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
As a set of researchers sets up a new study to see if a 6-week education and exercise program will improve the walking capacity of lumbar spinal stenosis patients with neurogenic claudication (7), we} suggest walking and exercising now! Much research exhibits that lumbar spinal stenosis responds to exercise. One study showed that individualized exercise (stretches and strengthening) mixed with manual therapy (like out CTFDD spinal manipulation mobilization!) beat medical care and group exercise with greater symptom and function improvement as well as walking capacity at 2 months of care. (8) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre has just the program of stretching, strengthening, and manipulation for you! We will design it together!
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We are grateful for all of our patients here at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre and look forward to a healthy 2023! Set your next Toronto chiropractic visit with Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre soon to maximize your spine’s health. See you then!