St Peters Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Relief at Old Mill Chiropractic
Chiropractic alleviates conditions like spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is everywhere today. Why? An aging population. We are all aging, and when we achieve a certain age, our bodies compensate us with conditions like spinal stenosis. There’s no problem, though! Chiropractic care is a solution for many spinal stenosis pain patients. Old Mill Chiropractic offers gentle, evidence-based chiropractic care in the form of Cox Technic to help control and relieve back pain due to spinal stenosis.
Lumbar spinal stenosis may result from any of a number of issues like a disc herniation, disc bulge or contained disc, synovial cyst. Any condition that narrows the spinal canal area that allows less space for the spinal nerves and other elements may bring about spinal stenosis and pain. Surgeons and medical device companies offer surgical means to reduce spinal stenosis and open the spinal canal space12. Conservative care back pain specialists like chiropractors and your St Peters chiropractor at Old Mill Chiropractic pursue non-surgical means - like St Peters spinal manipulation and mobilization which are reported to positively affect the water flow and diffusion into the disc, keeping it healthy (1) - to do the same thing: reduce spinal stenosis and widen the spinal canal area.
A comparison of surgical and conservative treatments of spinal stenosis shows that conservative care is more positive. At 6 months post-care – surgical or non-surgical – no significant differences are noted in the spinal stenosis patients. At 12 and 24 months post-care, the surgical spinal stenosis patients had higher disability scores. Surgical spinal stenosis patients underwent higher complication rates than the conservative care spinal stenosis patients. Based on their reviews of the published data, the researchers still don’t feel that there is decisive proof to recommend surgical or non-surgical care to lumbar spinal stenosis sufferers. (2) Old Mill Chiropractic suggests that a trial of 30 days seeking 50% improvement for most St Peters back pain patients with research-documented chiropractic care following the protocols of the Cox Technic System of Care. Old Mill Chiropractic is a reasonable place to start!
Those spinal stenosis patients who display 33% to 50% improvement in pain at 2 weeks of care have better odds of 6 to 7 times greater to exhibit 50% improvement at their 6 months’ disability follow up. (3) Old Mill Chiropractic seeks St Peters pain relief as early as possible, and the treatment plan is established with this in mind. With some patients, a small number of patients, Old Mill Chiropractic may consult a St Peters spinal stenosis patient on a daily basis at the start of care. Old Mill Chiropractic takes good care of our St Peters lumbar spinal stenosis patients!
And lastly Old Mill Chiropractic relies on its experienced clinical judgment and evidence of a patient’s not improving as expected to order more imaging or schedule a surgical consultation as needed. (4) It is well defined in the algorithms of decision making that guide our Cox Technic system of spine pain management and lumbar spinal stenosis.
Schedule your St Peters chiropractic appointment today. Old Mill Chiropractic offers experience in relieving St Peters back pain due to spinal stenosis.
