May 2024 Healthy News from Minster Chiropractic Center Exercise and Relieving Treatment for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

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OUR ‘THING’ – Relieving Care for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Back Pain

A degenerative spinal condition, lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) impacting many older adults. Lumbar spinal stenosis is a huge problem for quite a few people – 103 million worldwide – and 11% of older US adults which increases with age. (1) LSS waxes and wanes and may get worse over time.  Standing and walking may aggravate it while sitting and bending forward usually improve it. (3) Typical medical recommendations are to adapt activity, analgesia, physical therapy, and even epidural steroid injections whose long-term benefits are questionable. (2) Non-medical recommendations are reported as effective, especially a diverse approach of manual therapy and exercise for older patients experiencing lumbar spinal stenosis with neurogenic claudication that was pronounced as effective while epidural steroids were not. (3) A new study highlighted the desire of chiropractors to collaborate with healthcare professionals to enhance integrated, coordinated patient centered healthcare for older adults, the number of whom is growing quickly. (4) We chiropractors offer multiple non-drug, non-surgical methods via individualized treatment plans – spinal manipulation and mobilization (with Cox® Technic), nutrition, exercise, bracing, etc. - to relieve spine-related pain like back pain due to LSS. Spine pain relief is our ‘thing’!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Keith Bartley on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson  about the use of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management treatment protocols to successfully handle lumbar spinal stenosis.  

Minster exercise for lumbar spinal stenosis 

TIP OF THE MONTH: Do Your ‘Thing’: Exercise for LSS

Of three non-surgical interventions for lumbar spinal stenosis – medical care, group exercise, and manual therapy/individualized exercise – manual therapy/individualized exercise produced greater short-term symptom and physical function improvement as well as better walking capacity. (5) That is our approach! We utilize the gentle Cox® Technic manual therapy with exercise. A recent review of exercise for lumbar spinal stenosis and associated neurogenic claudication found that most exercise recommendations featured supervised, lumbar flexion, and aerobic fitness exercises (like cycling in a flexed posture) while stretches, strengthening exercises, and psychologically informed approaches were part of the most effective treatment plans. (6) If lumbar spinal stenosis is your ‘thing,’ exercise will most likely be your ‘thing,’ too! We determine together which ones are best for you.

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