What To Do With Lumbar Spinal Stenosis?

Great question! Spine surgeons are not certain how best to treat spinal stenosis, yet conservative care is acquiring more consideration in the medical research! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation delivers non-surgical care that is quite soothing to Carrolltown spinal stenosis sufferers. Our patients at Carrolltown dealing with spinal stenosis come to Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation will find our care gentle and comfortable and appreciate the research and practices that are the pillars of its administration.

 

What is spinal stenosis first of all? Spinal stenosis is the result of narrowing in the spinal canal area. Lumbar spinal stenosis happens with age for many of us when erosion of the spine develops. 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 could also be a disc herniation that is inserting itself into the spinal canal, taking up the space that is meant for the spinal nerves. Regardless of the cause, spinal stenosis’ narrowing is painful.

 

When surgeons see spinal stenosis in a patient they often give surgical options to widen that narrowed space. There are many procedures from which a patient may take. One avenue is decompressive surgery. 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 can also be instrumental against spinal stenosis. 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)

 

Your Carrolltown chiropractor at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation notices spinal stenosis and gives chiropractic care and spinal manipulation to conservatively relieve the pain of spinal stenosis. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is the place for Carrolltown conservative care of back pain. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation 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)

 

For relief of pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis, schedule an appointment with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation, the Carrolltown chiropractic practice for gentle relief of back pain. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation chiropractic care at Carrolltown may well be the answer to the question of “how can I manage my pain from spinal stenosis?” for you!