CHIROPRACTIC COX® TECHNIC CREATES VERTEBRAL MOTION &
INCREASED SPINAL CANAL SPACE
Do you suffer with back pain?
Spinal stenosis? Degenerative disc disease? Do you know what they have in
common (besides pain)? Reduced spinal canal area. With disc
degeneration, the disc diminishes, resulting
in reduced spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc
bulge, protruding disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst,
spinal cyst affects the spinal canal area. A new paper explained
how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, specifically Cox®
Technic spinal manipulation and mobilization, enlarged
the spinal canal area and produced 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 alterations
made more space for affected spinal elements like
spinal nerves to move leading to subsequent
(though occasionally faster or even instantaneous
for some patients) back pain relief. Outcomes and supporting
research like this are the forces behind our choice to use
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 Satterwhite Chiropractic
for a pain-relieving treatment plan!
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the main research
investigator in Cox® Technic studies, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson
as he describes 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 frequently recommended exercises to 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 since the 1930s as they limit lumbar
extension while improving lumbar flexion with high
levels of research evidence (III and IV) support. A typical
exercise series 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 abdominal
and gluteal muscles while pushing the spine flat against
the floor. The following exercise would be a knee-chest motion (each single knee
then both knees) exercise. (2) There are additional such exercises
in the series, but we’d be excited for
our new Oxford back pain patients to start with these simple
exercises on day 1 (after we examine
your spine and establish a treatment plan, of course). Satterwhite Chiropractic
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!