February 2023 Healthy News from Most Chiropractic Clinic Spinal Canal Area Increase and Back Pain Reduction with Chiropractic Care
Do you have 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, protruding disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst affects 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 stated that chiropractic flexion distraction enlarged spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)
Such spinal modifications set the scene for impacted spinal elements like spinal nerves to ‘breathe’ leading to subsequent (though occasionally quicker or even immediate 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 Most Chiropractic Clinic for a pain-relieving treatment plan!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the principal 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.
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 standard for a long time, going back to the 1930s as they control lumbar extension while enhancing lumbar flexion, supported by high levels of research evidence. A typical exercise series would have a patient lie on the floor, hands at the side, knees bent, then simply tighten ab 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 more such exercises in the series, but Most Chiropractic Clinic be excited for our new Murfreesboro back pain patients to begin with these simple moves on day 1 (after we go through a complete examinations and set a treatment plan, of course). Most Chiropractic Clinic 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!