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Healthy News February 2023 Chiropractic Care Aimed to Open Spinal Canal Area and Decrease Back Pain

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CHIROPRACTIC COX® TECHNIC CREATES VERTEBRAL MOTION & INCREASED SPINAL CANAL SPACE

Degenerated disc. Spinal stenosis. Back Pain. What do 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 the area of the spinal cancal. A new paper detailed how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, namely Cox® Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, increased the spinal canal area and produced vertebral motions. The new study just published in January 2023 reported that chiropractic flexion distraction increased spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)

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Such spinal tranformations made more space for affected spinal elements like spinal nerves to glide leading to eventual (though sometimes quicker or even immediate for some patients) back pain relief. Outcomes and published research like this are the forces behind our use of gentle, safe chiropractic treatment approaches like Cox® Technic that has research explaining its biomechanical effects on the spine. Spinal Care 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.

picture of Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic knee to chest exercise for lumbar spine

TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise to Open Lumbar Spinal Canal Area

Back pain sufferers are often advised to perform exercise that strengthen spinal, gluteal, and core muscles as a way to complement their in-office chiropractic care. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been the norm for a long time, going back to the 1930s as they limit lumbar extension while improving lumbar flexion with high levels of research evidence (III and IV) support. A common exercise sequence would have a patient lie on the floor, hands at the side, knees bent, then just tighten ab and gluteal muscles while flattening the spine against the floor. The following exercise would be a knee-chest motion (each single knee then both knees) exercise. (2) There are more such exercises in the series, but Spinal Care Clinic be excited for our new Burlington and Hamilton back pain patients to start with these easy moves on day 1 (after we examine your spine and establish a treatment plan, of course). Spinal Care Clinic looks forward to meeting you soon and learning more about your spine, degenerated disc, and/or spinal stenosis and sharing any exercises that may help!

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Have a wonderful February! We look forward to seeing you and your spine this month!

 
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