West Des Moines Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Relief at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa

Chiropractic alleviates conditions like spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is everywhere today. Why? An aging population. We are all aging, and when we achieve a certain age, our bodies compensate us with conditions like spinal stenosis. There is no problem, though! Chiropractic care is a solution for many spinal stenosis pain patients. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa offers gentle, evidence-based chiropractic care in the form of Cox Technic to help control and relieve back pain due to spinal stenosis.

Lumbar spinal stenosis may be the result of a variety of issues like a disc herniation, disc bulge or contained disc, synovial cyst. Anything that narrows the spinal canal area resulting in reduced space for the spinal nerves and other elements may bring about spinal stenosis and pain. Surgeons and medical device companies offer surgical means to reduce spinal stenosis and open the spinal canal space12. Conservative care back pain specialists like chiropractors and your West Des Moines chiropractor at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa offer non-surgical means - like West Des Moines spinal manipulation and mobilization which reportedly positively affect the water flow and diffusion into the disc, keeping it healthy (1) - to do the same thing: diminish spinal stenosis and open the spinal canal area.

A comparison of surgical and conservative treatments of spinal stenosis shows that conservative care leads in outcomes. At 6 months post-care – surgical or non-surgical – no significant differences are reported in the spinal stenosis patients. At 12 and 24 months post-care, the surgical spinal stenosis patients had higher disability scores. Surgical spinal stenosis patients experienced higher complication rates than the conservative care spinal stenosis patients. Based on their reviews of the published data, the researchers still don’t feel that there is decisive proof to endorse surgical or non-surgical care to lumbar spinal stenosis sufferers. (2) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa suggests that a trial of 30 days looking for 50% improvement for most West Des Moines back pain patients with research-documented chiropractic care following the protocols of the Cox Technic System of Care. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is a reasonable place to start!

Those spinal stenosis patients who show 33% to 50% improvement in pain at 2 weeks of care have improved odds of 6 to 7 times greater to have 50% improvement at their 6 months’ disability follow up. (3) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa seeks West Des Moines pain relief as early as possible, and the treatment plan is established with this in mind. With some patients, a small number of patients, Executive Chiropractic of Iowa may consult a West Des Moines spinal stenosis patient daily in the beginning. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa takes good care of our West Des Moines lumbar spinal stenosis patients!

And finally Executive Chiropractic of Iowa relies on its experienced clinical judgment and evidence of a patient’s not improving as expected to order more imaging or schedule a surgical consultation as needed. (4) It’s well defined in the algorithms of decision making that lead our Cox Technic system of spine pain management and lumbar spinal stenosis.

Schedule your West Des Moines chiropractic appointment today. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa offers experience in relieving West Des Moines back pain because of spinal stenosis.