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, herniated disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst,
spinal cyst reduces 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 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 affected spinal elements like
spinal nerves to move leading to eventual
(though occasionally faster 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 options like Cox® Technic that has research explaining its biomechanical effects on the spine.
Bring your stenotic spine and/or degenerated disc to Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
for a pain-relieving treatment plan!
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the guiding 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.
TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise to Open Lumbar Spinal Canal Area
Back pain sufferers are regularly recommended exercises to strengthen spinal,
gluteal, and core muscles as a way to supplement
their in-office chiropractic treatment. Classic lumbar flexion
(Williams) exercises have been standard 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 typical
exercise sequence would have a patient lie on the floor, keeping
hands along the side of the body and bending the knees with feet flat on the
floor, then simply tighten ab
and gluteal muscles while flattening the spine against
the floor. The next would be a knee-chest motion (each single knee
then both knees) exercise. (2) There are more such exercises
in the series, but we’d be excited for
our new La Grande back pain patients to begin with these simple
exercises on day 1 (after we examine
your spine and set a treatment plan, of course). Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
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!