Healthy News January 2023

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is reportedly one of the most common spinal conditions in the US, affecting more than 500 million people over the age of 62. (1) As researchers grapple with a more systematic approach to dealing with patient care for lumbar spinal stenosis sufferers, your Oxford chiropractor delivers gentle, safe, relieving treatment. The latest effort at a system stressed that each LSS patient is unique in her/his experience which restrains 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 characteristically 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 do not want to ignore it. Further, lumbar spinal stenosis isn’t a condition that appears and disappears forever. Its pain can be contained, but its status as a condition remains one that researchers classify as “chronic,” meaning it lasts beyond 90 days. Be hopeful! Satterwhite Chiropractic is experienced in ways to 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 improved most with the chiropractic technique, Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression (CTFDD), compared with physical therapy. (4) Those same patients had significantly lower pain scores over the following 12 months than did patients who underwent physical therapy. (5) LSS patients also experience altered gait and balance issues. (1,6) CTFDD helps these issues, too! A study about the influence of spinal manipulation on balance issues in LSS patients documented that flexion distraction spinal manipulation improved function, symptoms, and performance-based mobility in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. (6) We also look forward to the outcomes of a prospective data collection study in its second year for follow-up with patients who underwent CTFDD for relief of their LSS-associated back pain. Data collection will be completed in late 2023 with results being published in the years to come. Oxford lumbar spinal stenosis is everywhere, and its relieving partner is your Oxford chiropractor here at Satterwhite Chiropractic!

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

As a group of researchers establishes a new study to see if a 6-week education and exercise program will enhanced the walking capacity of lumbar spinal stenosis patients with neurogenic claudication (7), we} suggest walking and exercising now! Much research shows that lumbar spinal stenosis responds to exercise. A study showed that individualized exercise (stretches and strengthening) combined with manual therapy (like out CTFDD spinal manipulation mobilization!) beat medical care and group exercise with greater symptom and function improvement as well as walking capacity at 2 months of care. (8) Satterwhite Chiropractic has just the program of stretching, strengthening, and manipulation for you! We’ll set it up together!

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