Good
question! Spine surgeons are not certain what is best for
spinal stenosis, yet
conservative care is gathering more
and more attention in the medical research! Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc
offers
non-surgical care
that alleviates pain for Fort Wayne spinal stenosis sufferers. Our patients at Fort Wayne who have spinal stenosis come to Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc will find our care gentle and
comfortable and praise the
research and
procedures backing its administration.
So what exactly is spinal stenosis? Spinal
stenosis is the result of narrowing in the spinal canal area.
For many of us
lumbar
spinal stenosis occurs with age when deterioration of the spine develops. This
may have to do with how the spinal elements originally
developed at birth. (Sometimes people are born with narrow spinal canals.) Likewise spinal stenosis can be the effect of a disc
herniation that is injecting itself into the spinal canal, taking up the space that is meant for the spinal nerves. No matter the cause, spinal stenosis’ narrowing causes pain.
When surgeons discover
spinal stenosis in a patient they often offer surgical choices
to widen that narrowed space. There are many procedures
from which you may take. Decompressive
surgery is one such procedure.. It is cost-effective for lumbar spinal stenosis, but surgical and conservative
treatment approaches result in comparable quality of life at one year follow
up.
(1) Spinal stenosis can also be battled
with 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)
Chiropractors like yours
at Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc see
spinal stenosis and treat it
with
chiropractic care and
spinal manipulation to
conservatively relieve the pain of spinal stenosis. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc is the locale
for Fort Wayne conservative care of back pain. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc 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,
call Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc, the Fort Wayne chiropractic
practice for gentle relief of back pain. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc
chiropractic care at Fort Wayne
may well be the answer to the
question of “what can I do about my spinal
stenosis?” for you!
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