Colorado Springs Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Relief at The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR

Chiropractic eases conditions like spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is all around us today. Why? An aging population. We are all aging, and when we achieve a certain age, our bodies reward us with conditions like spinal stenosis. There is no problem, though! Chiropractic care is a solution for many spinal stenosis pain patients. The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR 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 be the result of any of a number of issues like a disc herniation, disc bulge or contained disc, synovial cyst. Any issue that narrows the spinal canal area that causes reduced 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 Colorado Springs chiropractor at The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR seek non-surgical means - like Colorado Springs spinal manipulation and mobilization which are shown to keep the disc healthy by improved water flow and diffusion (1) - to do the same thing: diminish spinal stenosis and widen the spinal canal area.

A comparison of surgical and conservative treatments of spinal stenosis demonstrates that conservative care is more positive. At 6 months post-care – surgical or non-surgical – no significant differences are reported 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 experienced 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 conclusive proof to endorse surgical or non-surgical care to lumbar spinal stenosis sufferers. (2) The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR suggests that a trial of 30 days looking for 50% improvement for most Colorado Springs back pain patients with research-documented chiropractic care following the protocols of the Cox Technic System of Care. The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR is a reasonable place to start!

Those spinal stenosis patients who display 33% to 50% improvement in pain at 2 weeks of care have increased odds of 6 to 7 times higher to exhibit 50% improvement at their 6 months’ disability follow up. (3) The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR looks for Colorado Springs pain relief as early as possible, and the treatment plan is established with this in mind. In some cases, a small number of patients, The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR may visit with a Colorado Springs spinal stenosis patient daily at the start of care. The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR takes good care of our Colorado Springs lumbar spinal stenosis patients!

And lastly The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR 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 fully outlined in the algorithms of decision making that lead our Cox Technic system of spine pain management and lumbar spinal stenosis.

Schedule your Colorado Springs chiropractic appointment today. The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR offers experience in relieving Colorado Springs back pain due to spinal stenosis.