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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 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 reduces, resulting in 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 new paper explained how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, namely Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, enlarged the spinal canal area and created vertebral motions. The new study just published in January 2023 reported that chiropractic flexion distraction enlarged spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)

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Such spinal tranformations made more space for involved spinal elements like spinal nerves to glide leading to subsequent (though sometimes quicker or even immediate for some patients) back pain relief. Outcomes and published research like this are the forces behind our choice to use gentle, safe chiropractic treatment approaches like Cox® Technic that has research explaining its biomechanical effects on the spine. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc invites you to share your degenerated disc and/or spinal stenosis with us!

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

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

Back pain sufferers are frequently advised to perform exercise that strengthen spinal, gluteal, and core muscles as a way to supplement their in-office chiropractic care. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been standard for a long time, going back to the 1930s as they limit lumbar extension while enhancing lumbar flexion with high levels of research evidence (III and IV) support. A common exercise series would have a patient lie on the floor, hands at the side, knees bent, then just tighten abdominal and gluteal muscles while flattening the spine against the floor. The following exercise would be a knee-chest motion (each single knee then both knees) exercise. (2) There are additional such exercises in the series, but Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc be excited for our new Fort Wayne back pain patients to start with these easy exercises on day 1 (after we go through a complete examinations and set a treatment plan, of course). Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc 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 anticipate seeing you and your spine this month!

 
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