Excellent question! Spine surgeons are not sure how best to treat spinal stenosis, after all conservative care is receiving more consideration in the medical research! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre gives non-surgical care that is quite relieving to Toronto spinal stenosis sufferers. Our patients at Toronto suffering from spinal stenosis come to Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre will find our care gentle and comfortable and esteem the research and protocols that make up its administration.

 

First of all, what is spinal stenosis? Spinal stenosis is what happens when the spinal canal area is narrowed. In particular lumbar spinal stenosis occurs with age for many of us when deterioration of the spine develops. One reason this happens may be due to how the spinal elements at first devloped. (Sometimes people are born with narrow spinal canals.) Likewise spinal stenosis can be the impact of a disc herniation that is implanting itself into the spinal canal, taking up the space that is intended for for the spinal nerves. No matter the cause, spinal stenosis’ narrowing is painful.

 

When surgeons identify spinal stenosis in a patient they often give surgical options to broaden that narrowed space. There are many directions from which you may take. Decompressive surgery is one such example. It is an affordable treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis, but surgical and conservative treatment approaches result in comparable quality of life at one year follow up. (1) Also a patient may consider spinal fusion. A Cochrane Database Review, a big deal in the world of research, reports that there is no significant difference at 6 months and 12 months post spine surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis. Cochrane pulled from 12,966 citations to conclude further that they have very little confidence to determine whether surgical or conservative care is better for lumbar spinal stenosis. They, therefore, offer no new clinical practice recommendations for doctors to follow. They do emphasize though that side-effects from surgery range from 10% to 24% and side effects from conservative care, 0%. There were no side effects from conservative care for lumbar spine stenosis in their review. Further, they report that there were no clear benefits seen with surgery versus no surgery. They warn clinicians to carefully inform patients about possible treatment options “especially given that conservative treatment options have results in no reported side effects.” (2)

 

When your chiropractor at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre sees spinal stenosis they will treat it with chiropractic care and spinal manipulation to conservatively relieve the pain of spinal stenosis. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is the place for Toronto conservative care of back pain. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre uses the Cox Technic system of spinal manipulation to open the spinal canal area by 28%, allowing the nerves to breathe, and drop intradiscal pressures to as low as -192mmHg. (3,4)

 

For relief of pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis, schedule an appointment with Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre, the Toronto chiropractic practice for gentle relief of back pain. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre chiropractic care at Toronto may well be the answer to the question of “how to alleviate my pain from spinal stenosis?” for you!