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)? Reduced spinal canal area. With disc degeneration, the disc diminishes, leading to a decreased spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, herniated disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst affects the spinal canal area. A recently published paper detailed how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, specifically Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, enlarged the spinal canal area and produced vertebral motions. The new study just published in January 2023 reported that chiropractic flexion distraction increased spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)

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Such spinal changes set the scene for affected spinal elements like spinal nerves to ‘breathe’ leading to subsequent (though sometimes faster or even immediate for some patients) back pain relief. Outcomes and supporting research like this are the forces behind our using gentle, safe chiropractic treatment options like Cox® Technic that has research explaining its biomechanical effects on the spine. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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.

picture of Fernandina Beach chiropractic flexion exercise (knee to chest)

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

Back pain sufferers are regularly recommended exercises to strengthen spinal, gluteal, and core muscles as a way to supplement their in-office chiropractic care. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been the norm since the 1930s as they restrict lumbar extension while improving lumbar flexion with high levels of research evidence (III and IV) support. A typical exercise series would have a patient lie on the floor, hands at the side, knees bent, then simply 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 more such exercises in the series, but we’d be excited for our new Fernandina Beach back pain patients to start with these easy moves on day 1 (after we go through a complete examinations and set a treatment plan, of course). Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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 look forward to seeing you and your spine this month!

 
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