Vancouver Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Relief at Vancouver Disc Centers

August 22, 2017

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 compensate us with conditions like spinal stenosis. There’s no problem, though! Chiropractic care is a solution for many spinal stenosis pain patients. Vancouver Disc Centers 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 

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. Anything that shrinks 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 Vancouver chiropractor at Vancouver Disc Centers pursue non-surgical means - like Vancouver spinal manipulation and mobilization which are shown to keep the disc healthy by improved water flow and diffusion (1) - to do the same thing: reduce spinal stenosis and widen the spinal canal area.

Surgical vs Non-Surgical Care 

A comparison of surgical and conservative treatments of spinal stenosis explains 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 do not feel that there is conclusive proof to endorse surgical or non-surgical care to lumbar spinal stenosis sufferers. (2) Vancouver Disc Centers submits that a trial of 30 days seeking 50% improvement for most Vancouver back pain patients with research-documented chiropractic care following the protocols of the Cox Technic System of Care. Vancouver Disc Centers is a reasonable place to start!

Early Improvement Under Care 

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 higher to have 50% improvement at their 6 months’ disability follow up. (3) Vancouver Disc Centers seeks Vancouver pain relief as early as possible, and the treatment plan is established with this in mind. In some cases, a small percent of patients, Vancouver Disc Centers may see a Vancouver spinal stenosis patient daily in the beginning. Vancouver Disc Centers takes good care of our Vancouver lumbar spinal stenosis patients!

And finally Vancouver Disc Centers 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 if needed. (4) It’s fully outlined in the algorithms of decision making that lead our Cox Technic system of spine pain management and lumbar spinal stenosis.

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Schedule your Vancouver chiropractic appointment today. Vancouver Disc Centers offers experience in relieving Vancouver back pain because of spinal stenosis.