February 2023 Healthy News from Hollstrom & Associates Inc 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, resulting in reduced spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, protruding disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst diminishes the the area of the spinal cancal. A new 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 reported that chiropractic flexion distraction enlarged spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)
Such spinal modifications set the scene for involved spinal elements like spinal nerves to ‘breathe’ leading to subsequent (though sometimes quicker or even instantaneous 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. Hollstrom & Associates Inc invites you to share your degenerated disc and/or spinal stenosis with us!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the principal research investigator 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.
Back pain sufferers are frequently recommended exercises to strengthen spinal, gluteal, and core muscles as a way to enhance their in-office chiropractic treatment. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been standard since the 1930s as they restrict 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, keeping hands along the side of the body and bending the knees with feet flat on the floor, then simply tighten ab and gluteal muscles while pushing the spine flat against the floor. The next 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 Hollstrom & Associates Inc be excited for our new Largo back pain patients to start with these simple moves on day 1 (after we go through a complete examinations and establish a treatment plan, of course). Hollstrom & Associates 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!