February 2023 Healthy News from Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic Spinal Canal Area Englargement and Back Pain Reduction with Chiropractic Care
Degenerated disc. Spinal stenosis. Back Pain. What do they have in common…besides pain? Reduced spinal canal area. With disc degeneration, the disc diminishes, leading to a reduced spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, protruding disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst affects the the area of the spinal cancal. A recently published paper explained how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, namely Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, increased the spinal canal area and created 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 involved spinal elements like spinal nerves to glide leading to eventual (though occasionally quicker or even instantaneous 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. 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 principal research investigator in Cox® Technic research projects, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details the research behind The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Back pain sufferers are regularly advised to perform exercise that strengthen spinal, gluteal, and core muscles as a way to round out their in-office chiropractic treatment. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been the norm since the 1930s as they restrict 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 additional such exercises in the series, but we’d be thrilled for our new Montreal back pain patients to begin with these easy moves on day 1 (after we go through a complete examinations and set 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 look forward to seeing you and your spine this month!