What To Do With Lumbar Spinal Stenosis?

That is  an excellent question! Spine surgeons are not positive what is best for spinal stenosis, but conservative care is gathering favorable examination in the medical research! Minster Chiropractic Center provides non-surgical care that alleviates pain for Minster spinal stenosis sufferers. Chiropractic patients in Minster dealing withspinal stenosis know come to Minster Chiropractic Center will find our care gentle and comfortable and praise the research and protocols behind its administration.

 

Before going further lets delve into what is spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is the narrowing of the spinal canal area. For many of us lumbar spinal stenosis occurs with age when erosion of the spine occurs. This may have to do with how the spinal elements were constructed from the beginning at birth. (In some cases people are born with narrow spinal canals.) It may be due to a disc herniation that is pushing itself into the spinal canal, taking up the space that is intended for for the spinal nerves. Regardless of the cause, spinal stenosis’ narrowing creates pain.

 

When surgeons observe spinal stenosis in a patient they often offer surgical choices to widen that narrowed space. There are many directions from which a patient may take. Decompressive surgery is one such type. It is cost-effective for lumbar spinal stenosis, but surgical and conservative treatment approaches result in comparable quality of life at one year follow up. (1) Spinal fusion is another such alternative. A Cochrane Database Review, a big deal in the world of research, reports that there is no significant difference at 6 months and 12 months post spine surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis. Cochrane pulled from 12,966 citations to conclude further that they have very little confidence to determine whether surgical or conservative care is better for lumbar spinal stenosis. They, therefore, offer no new clinical practice recommendations for doctors to follow. They do emphasize though that side-effects from surgery range from 10% to 24% and side effects from conservative care, 0%. There were no side effects from conservative care for lumbar spine stenosis in their review. Further, they report that there were no clear benefits seen with surgery versus no surgery. They warn clinicians to carefully inform patients about possible treatment options “especially given that conservative treatment options have results in no reported side effects.” (2)

 

When your chiropractor at Minster Chiropractic Center sees spinal stenosis they will treat it with chiropractic care and spinal manipulation to conservatively relieve the pain of spinal stenosis. Minster Chiropractic Center is the site for Minster conservative care of back pain. Minster Chiropractic Center uses the Cox Technic system of spinal manipulation to open the spinal canal area by 28%, allowing the nerves to breathe, and drop intradiscal pressures to as low as -192mmHg. (3,4)

 

When lumbar spinal stenosis is causing you pain, contact Minster Chiropractic Center, the Minster chiropractic practice for gentle relief of back pain. Minster Chiropractic Center chiropractic care at Minster may well be the answer to the question of “how can I manage my pain from spinal stenosis?” for you!