CHIROPRACTIC COX® TECHNIC CREATES VERTEBRAL MOTION &
INCREASED SPINAL CANAL SPACE
Do you experience 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 shrinks, leading to a reduced spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc
bulge, protruding disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst,
spinal cyst diminishes the spinal canal area. A new 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 stated that chiropractic
flexion distraction improved spinal area, height, and
width due
to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)
Such spinal modifications
made more space for impacted spinal elements like
spinal nerves to move 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.
Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic invites you to share your degenerated disc and/or spinal
stenosis with us!
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the main researcher in Cox® Technic studies, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson
as he details the research behind The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management.
TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise to Open Lumbar Spinal Canal Area
Back pain sufferers are often 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 limit lumbar
extension while improving lumbar flexion, supported by high levels of research evidence. A typical
exercise sequence 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 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 we’d be thrilled for
our new Montreal back pain patients to begin with these simple
exercises on day 1 (after we examine
your spine and establish a treatment plan, of course). Dr. Hoang's 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 anticipate
seeing you and your spine this month!