What a great
question! Spine surgeons are not sure how best to treat
spinal stenosis, but
conservative care is benefiting
from a higher regard in the medical research! Paramus Medical & Sports Rehabilitation Center
offers
non-surgical care
that is quite relieving to Paramus spinal stenosis sufferers. Paramus patients with spinal stenosis know come to Paramus Medical & Sports Rehabilitation Center will find our care gentle and
comfortable and praise the
research and
procedures that make up its administration.
What is spinal stenosis first of
all? Spinal
stenosis is the result of narrowing in the spinal canal area.
Lumbar spinal stenosis occurs with age for a good deal of us when degeneration of the spine develops. It may be due to how the spinal elements were formed at first. (From time to time
some people are born with narrow spinal canals.) Likewise spinal stenosis can be the effect of a disc
herniation that is injecting itself into the spinal canal, taking up the space that is meant for the spinal nerves. No matter the cause, spinal stenosis’ narrowing is painful.
Surgeons discover
spinal stenosis and offer surgical choices to open
that narrowed space. There are many approaches
from which one may choose. Decompressive surgery is one such kind. It is an affordable treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis, but surgical and conservative
treatment approaches result in comparable quality of life at one year follow
up.
(1) Spinal stenosis can also be battled
with spinal fusion. 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 Paramus chiropractor at Paramus Medical & Sports Rehabilitation Center observes
spinal stenosis and offers
chiropractic care and
spinal manipulation to
conservatively relieve the pain of spinal stenosis. Paramus Medical & Sports Rehabilitation Center is the place
for Paramus conservative care of back pain. Paramus Medical & Sports Rehabilitation 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)
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