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

 picture of a Ashburn spinal stenotic canal

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

Do you have back pain? Spinal stenosis? Degenerative disc disease? Do you know what they have in common (besides pain)? Decreased spinal canal area. With disc degeneration, the disc reduces, leading to a reduced spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, protruding disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst reduces the the area of the spinal cancal. A recently published paper detailed how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, specifically 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 improved spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)

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Such spinal changes set the scene for involved spinal elements like spinal nerves to ‘breathe’ 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 choice to use gentle, safe chiropractic treatment approaches like Cox® Technic that has research explaining its biomechanical effects on the spine. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn invites you to share your degenerated disc and/or spinal stenosis with us!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the principal researcher 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 Ashburn chiropractic knee to chest exercise for lumbar spine

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

Back pain sufferers are frequently advised to perform exercise that strengthen spinal, gluteal, and core muscles as a way to enhance their in-office chiropractic treatment. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been standard for a long time, going back to the 1930s as they restrict lumbar extension while enhancing lumbar flexion, supported by high levels of research evidence. A common exercise series 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 next would be a knee-chest motion (pulling one knee to chest then the other knee then both knees to chest) exercise. (2) There are more such exercises in the series, but Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn be excited for our new Ashburn back pain patients to start with these easy exercises on day 1 (after we go through a complete examinations and set a treatment plan, of course). Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn 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 anticipate seeing you and your spine this month!

 
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