Excellent question! Spine surgeons aren’t certain the best treatment plan for spinal stenosis, but conservative care is acquiring more and more attention in the medical research! Amelia Chiropractic Clinic offers non-surgical care that is quite soothing to Fernandina Beach spinal stenosis sufferers. Our patients at Fernandina Beach suffering from spinal stenosis come to Amelia Chiropractic Clinic will find our care gentle and comfortable and appreciate the research and practices behind its administration.

 

Before going further lets delve into what is spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is the narrowing of the spinal canal area. In particular lumbar spinal stenosis comes with age for many of us when erosion of the spine occurs. One reason this happens may be due to how the spinal elements first developed. (In some cases people are born with narrow spinal canals.) Spinal stenosis could also be caused by a disc herniation that is inserting itself into the spinal canal, taking up the space that is supposed to be for the spinal nerves. No matter the cause, spinal stenosis’ narrowing creates pain.

 

Often when a surgeon observes that a patient has spinal stenosis they will provide surgical options to broaden that narrowed space. There are many procedures from which one may pick. Decompressive surgery is one such option.. It is an affordable treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis, but surgical and conservative treatment approaches result in comparable quality of life at one year follow up. (1) Spinal fusion can also be a weapon against spinal stenosis. 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)

 

When your chiropractor at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic recognizes spinal stenosis they will treat it with chiropractic care and spinal manipulation to conservatively relieve the pain of spinal stenosis. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is the site for Fernandina Beach conservative care of back pain. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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)

 

If you suffer from pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis, call Amelia Chiropractic Clinic, the Fernandina Beach chiropractic practice for gentle relief of back pain. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic chiropractic care at Fernandina Beach most certainly is the answer to the question of “what can I do about my spinal stenosis?” for you!