January 2023 Healthy News from Executive Chiropractic of Iowa Treatment Plan for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Relief

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is seemingly one of the most common spinal conditions in the US, affecting more than 500 million people over 65 years old. (1) As researchers grapple with a more systematic approach to dealing with patient care for lumbar spinal stenosis sufferers, your West Des Moines chiropractor provides gentle, safe, pain easing treatment. The most recent effort at a system underscored that each LSS patient presents a bit differently which restrains any algorithm to be “soft guidance” as to its treatment plan based initially on the LSS patient's pain relief in spinal flexion. (2) Since spinal stenosis is typically a systemic issue, meaning if you have spinal stenosis in the lumbar spine, you likely have it in other spinal areas like the cervical too, you don’t want to ignore it. Further, lumbar spinal stenosis isn’t a condition that appears and disappears forever. Its pain can be managed, but its status as a condition remains one that researchers classify as “chronic,” meaning it lasts beyond 90 days. Have hope! Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is experienced in ways to help with lumbar spinal stenosis relief. One study reported that flexion distraction significantly reduced pain and disability for lumbar spinal stenosis patients. (3) Another study stated 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 12 months than did patients who did physical therapy. (5) LSS patients also experience altered gait and balance issues. (1,6) CTFDD helps these issues, too! A study regarding the influence of spinal manipulation on balance issues in LSS patients documented that flexion distraction spinal manipulation improved 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 findings being published in the years to come. West Des Moines lumbar spinal stenosis is everywhere, and its relieving partner is your West Des Moines chiropractor here at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa!

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 sets up a new study to see if a 6-week education and exercise program will improve the walking capacity of lumbar spinal stenosis patients with neurogenic claudication (7), Executive Chiropractic of Iowa suggests]}