Healthy News January 2023

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is seemingly one of the most common spinal conditions in the US, affecting more than 500 million people over the age of 62. (1) As researchers struggle to propose a more systematic approach to managing patient care for lumbar spinal stenosis patients, your Largo chiropractor delivers gentle, safe, relieving treatment. The most recent effort at a system underscored that each LSS patient is unique in her/his experience which restrains any algorithm to be “soft guidance” as to its treatment plan based primarily on the LSS patient's pain relief with spinal flexion. (2) Since spinal stenosis is characteristically a systemic issue, meaning if you have spinal stenosis in the lumbar spine, you likely have it in other spinal areas like the cervical as well, you do not want to ignore it. Further, lumbar spinal stenosis is not a condition that appears and disappears forever. Its pain can be contained, but its status as a condition remains one that researchers classify as “chronic,” meaning it lasts beyond 90 days. Have hope! Your chiropractor can help with lumbar spinal stenosis relief. One study documented that flexion distraction significantly decreased pain and disability for lumbar spinal stenosis patients. (3) Another study stated that chronic back pain sufferers with moderate to severe symptoms improved most with the chiropractic technique, Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD), compared with physical therapy. (4) Those same patients experienced significantly lower pain scores over the following 12 months than did patients who underwent physical therapy. (5) LSS patients also experience altered gait and balance issues. (1,6) CTFDD helps these issues, too! A study about the influence of spinal manipulation on balance issues in LSS patients documented that flexion distraction spinal manipulation enhanced function, symptoms, and performance-based mobility in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. (6) We also look forward to the outcomes of a prospective data collection study in its second year of follow-up with patients who underwent CTFDD for relief of their LSS-associated back pain. Data collection will be completed in late 2023 with findings being published in the years to come. Largo lumbar spinal stenosis is everywhere, and its relieving partner is your Largo chiropractor here at Hollstrom & Associates Inc!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Dean Greenwood on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains his alleviating treatment of a spinal stenosis patient with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

As a set of researchers sets up a new study to analyze if a 6-week education and exercise program will improve the walking capacity of lumbar spinal stenosis patients who also have neurogenic claudication (7), we} recommend walking and exercising now! Much research indicates that lumbar spinal stenosis responds to exercise. One study revealed that individualized exercise (stretches and strengthening) in combination with manual therapy (like out CTFDD spinal manipulation mobilization!) beat medical care and group exercise with greater symptom and function improvement as well as walking capacity at 2 months of care. (8) Hollstrom & Associates Inc has just the program of stretching, strengthening, and manipulation for you! We will design it together!

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We appreciate all of our patients here at Hollstrom & Associates Inc and look forward to a healthy 2023! Set your next Largo chiropractic visit with Hollstrom & Associates Inc soon to keep your spine in great shape. See you then!