About St Peters Chiropractic and St Peters Cervical Spine Stenosis

Your spinal cord is the thickest as it exits the brain and extends through the smallest canal space of the spine's vertebral column in the neck down to the largest canal space of the column in the low back! This seems at odds, but it works…most of the time.

narrowing of the cervical spinal canal space

Spinal stenosis is the narrowing of the spinal canal space. In the cervical spine, the canal space is very tight. The average canal size is 14 mm. In that 14 mm, the spinal cord of 7 mm and soft tissues (ligaments, veins, dura) of 3 mm leave little space for much else. Cervical spine stenosis is measured at 11 mm or less, so it doesn't take a large disc herniation or much disc degeneration to affect stenosis in the neck. * Cox Technic flexion distraction and decompression opens this canal space to alleviate pain.

A thorough, clinical examination that may include imaging is important to your recovery and pain-free maintenance of spinal stenosis.

In office, Old Mill Chiropractic uses Cox Technic Flexion Distraction and Decompression to widen the canal space, drop the intradiscal pressure and increase the disc height to relieve pain.

You will welcome the Cox Technic manipulation that gently "pulls you apart," as many patients describe the treatment or say they need. Depending on the severity of your pain and symptoms, gentler Protocol I may be applied until 50% relief of pain or more restoring Protocol II may be applied to guide your recovery.

In office adjunctive care may hasten your recovery.

At home you may want to consider nutritional supplements that help rebuild disc cartilage, exercises that strengthen your neck, sleep on a supportive mattress and pillow, and modify your daily activities as needed.

• Cervical Spine Stenosis Controlled with Epidural Steroid Injection and long-y-axis Cox Technic Decompression
• A patient wants to run own care, results not as desired: cervical spine pain with right arm pain 
• C5-6 and C6-7 Disc Herniation with Stenosis Causing Nerve Root Impingement
  
• Cervical Spine Degenerative Stenosis in a Post Surgical Continued Pain (FBSS) Patient
  
• Stenosis, Myelomalacia, C5-6, C6-7 Disc Protrusions
  
• Cervical Spine Stenosis and Radiculopathy
  

Contact Old Mill Chiropractic for pain relief of your cervical spine stenosis.