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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, 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)

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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.

picture of La Grande chiropractic knee to chest exercise for lumbar spine

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!

 
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