Healthy News January 2023

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is seemingly one of the most common spinal conditions in the US, impacting more than 500 million people over 65 years old. (1) As researchers struggle to propose a more systematic approach to dealing with patient care for lumbar spinal stenosis patients, your Ashburn chiropractor provides gentle, safe, relieving treatment. The most recent attempt at a system emphasized that each LSS patient is unique in her/his experience which limits any algorithm to be “soft guidance” as to its treatment plan based primarily on the LSS patient's pain relief in spinal flexion. (2) Since spinal stenosis is typically a systemic issue, which means that 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 is not a condition that appears and disappears forever. Its pain can be managed, but it’s often “chronic,” meaning it lasts beyond 90 days. Have hope! Your chiropractor can help with lumbar spinal stenosis relief. One study documented that flexion distraction significantly reduced pain and disability for lumbar spinal stenosis patients. (3) Another study reported that chronic back pain sufferers with moderate to severe symptoms got better the most with the chiropractic technique, Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD), compared with physical therapy. (4) Those same patients experienced significantly lower pain scores over the following year than did patients who underwent physical therapy. (5) LSS patients also experience altered gait and balance concerns. (1,6) CTFDD helps these things, too! A study regarding the influence of spinal manipulation on balance problems in LSS patients documented that flexion distraction spinal manipulation enhanced function, symptoms, and performance-based mobility in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. (6) We also anticipate the outcomes of a prospective data collection study in its second year of follow-up with patients who underwent CTFDD for relief of their LSS-related back pain. Data collection will be done in late 2023 with findings being published in the years to come. Ashburn lumbar spinal stenosis is everywhere, and its relieving partner is your Ashburn chiropractor here at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Dean Greenwood on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains his relieving treatment of a spinal stenosis patient with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

As a set of researchers starts a new study to see if a 6-week education and exercise program will improve the walking capacity of lumbar spinal stenosis patients who also have neurogenic claudication (7), we} suggest walking and exercising now! Much research shows that lumbar spinal stenosis responds to exercise. A study revealed that individualized exercise (stretches and strengthening) in combination with manual therapy (like out CTFDD spinal manipulation mobilization!) outperformed medical care and group exercise with more symptom and function improvement as well as walking capacity at 2 months of care. (8) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn has just the program of stretching, strengthening, and manipulation for you! We will design it together!

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We appreciate all of our patients here at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn and look forward to a healthy 2023! Set your next Ashburn chiropractic visit with Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn now to keep your spine in great shape. See you then!