January 2023 Healthy News from Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic Treatment Plan for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Relief
Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is reportedly one of the most common spinal conditions in the US, affecting over 500 million people over the age of 62. (1) As researchers grapple with a more systematic approach to dealing with patient care for lumbar spinal stenosis patients, your Montreal chiropractor provides gentle, safe, relieving treatment. The latest effort at a system emphasized that each LSS patient is unique in her/his experience which restrains any algorithm to be “soft guidance” as to its treatment plan based initially 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 don’t want to overlook 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! Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is experienced in ways to help with lumbar spinal stenosis relief. One study documented that flexion distraction significantly lowered pain and disability for lumbar spinal stenosis patients. (3) Another study noted 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 had significantly lower pain scores over the following year than did patients who did physical therapy. (5) LSS patients also have altered gait and balance issues. (1,6) CTFDD helps these things, too! A study regarding the influence of spinal manipulation on balance problems in LSS patients explained 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 for follow-up with patients who were treated with CTFDD for relief of their LSS-associated back pain. Data collection will be completed later this year with results being published in the years to come. Montreal lumbar spinal stenosis is everywhere, and its relieving partner is your Montreal chiropractor here at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Dean Greenwood on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes his relieving treatment of a spinal stenosis patient with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
As a set of researchers starts a new study to analyze if a 6-week education and exercise program will enhanced the walking capacity of lumbar spinal stenosis patients with neurogenic claudication (7), we} recommend walking and exercising now! A great deal of research exhibits that lumbar spinal stenosis responds to exercise. One study revealed that individualized exercise (stretches and strengthening) combined 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) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic 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 Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic and look forward to a healthy 2023! Schedule your next Montreal chiropractic visit with Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic soon to keep your spine in great shape. See you then!