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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, resulting in reduced spinal canal area. With spinal stenosis, a(n) disc bulge, protruding disc, osteophyte, discal cyst, synovial cyst, spinal cyst reduces the spinal canal area. A newly published paper detailed how chiropractic flexion distraction treatment, specifically 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 enlarged spinal area, height, and width due to increased nerve foraminal area. (1)

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Such spinal modifications set the scene for impacted spinal elements like spinal nerves to ‘breathe’ leading to subsequent (though occasionally quicker or even immediate for some patients) back pain relief. Outcomes and published research like this are the forces behind our using gentle, safe chiropractic treatment options like Cox® Technic that has research explaining its biomechanical effects on the spine. Chiropractic Care invites you to share your degenerated disc and/or spinal stenosis with us!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ram Gudavalli, the guiding researcher in Cox® Technic studies, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details the research behind The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

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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 round out their in-office chiropractic care. Classic lumbar flexion (Williams) exercises have been standard for a long time, going back to the 1930s as they control lumbar extension while improving lumbar flexion with high levels of research evidence (III and IV) support. A common 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 just tighten abdominal and gluteal muscles while pushing the spine flat 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 Chiropractic Care be excited for our new West Palm Beach back pain patients to start with these simple moves on day 1 (after we go through a complete examinations and set a treatment plan, of course). Chiropractic Care 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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