Fort Wayne Walking and Non-Drug Therapy for Back Pain and Stenosis
Lumbar spinal stenosis and its related back pain is common and troubling for many. Dementia, neurogenic claudication, decreased walking distance, poor balance, lessened quality of life, and modified posture often accompany spinal stenosis. Disc herniations, disc degeneration, and other spinal canal space invaders invite spinal stenosis. At Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc, Fort Wayne spinal stenosis sufferers who want to uninvite spinal stenosis have a partner by their side.
THE IMPACT OF LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS
Research keeps presenting lumbar spinal stenosis as being linked to issues like dementia development, walking capacity, and lower quality of life. A new study reported that lumbar spinal stenosis was an independent risk factor for acquiring dementia. Of 1220 patients, 10.8% of the lumbar spinal stenosis patients experienced dementia as opposed to just 4.4% of the control group members. (1) Older adults with lumbar spinal stenosis were described as changing their posture with a forward bend to improve their ability and tolerance for walking. Researchers who looked into this phenomenon found that this posture was more of a forward shift of the pelvis while walking and standing. They deduced that limited walking in symptomatic spinal stenosis patients was more associated with spine loading which increased 7%. (2) Whatever it is linked to, decreased walking ability isn’t beneficial. Someday it will be nice to more fully understand the part stenosis plays in relationship to inhibited walking, but for now, Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc will keep encouraging walking for spinal stenosis patients, slow and steady and distance furthered as able.
THE TREATMENT OF LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS: Walk
Since spinal stenosis is so common a condition in older folks, multiple guidelines and articles are published and with good reason. Reduced walking ability and quality of life are documented side-effects of lumbar spinal stenosis. These two issues remain the main indicators for back surgery in older patients. Sadly, 40% of those who undergo spinal surgery for the lumbar spinal stenosis still state walking issues post-surgery. (3) Recommendation 1 of a more recent guideline for managing lumbar spinal stenosis and associated neurogenic claudication encouraged non-surgical multimodal care to include non-drug therapy with education, advice, lifestyle changes, home exercise, manual therapy, acupuncture (trial), rehab, and therapy. (4) An update to the 2013 Cochrane review of research reports regarding the outcomes of treatments for lumbar spine stenosis related neurogenic claudication that decreased walking revealed that manual therapy and exercise to improve walking distance together was an effective treatment approach. Epidural steroids were not. (5) Conservative, non-surgical care of Fort Wayne spinal stenosis is recommended by spine researchers and by Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Nate McKee on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a patient with lumbar spinal stenosis and balance issues. Relief with Cox® Technic is described.
Schedule your Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment soon for pain relief of spinal stenosis that can get you walking (more) again!
