What To Do With Lumbar Spinal Stenosis?

What a superb question! Spine surgeons aren’t positive how best to treat spinal stenosis, but conservative care is gathering more and more attention in the medical research! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre performs non-surgical care that alleviates pain for Toronto spinal stenosis sufferers. Chiropractic patients in Toronto who havespinal stenosis know come to Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre will find our care gentle and comfortable and applaud the research and procedures that make up its administration.

 

Before going further lets delve into what is spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is the narrowing of the spinal canal area. Lumbar spinal stenosis comes with age for a good deal of us when deterioration of the spine begins to appear. This may have to do with how the spinal elements first developed at birth. (From time to time some people are born with narrow spinal canals.) Spinal stenosis could also be caused by a disc herniation that is implanting itself into the spinal canal, taking up the space that is intended for for the spinal nerves. No matter the cause, spinal stenosis’ narrowing is painful.

 

Often when a surgeon sees that a patient has spinal stenosis they will give surgical options to enlarge that narrowed space. There are many approaches from which you may pick. Decompressive surgery is one such example. 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 fusion is another such choice. 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)

 

Chiropractors like yours at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre see spinal stenosis and give chiropractic care and spinal manipulation to conservatively relieve the pain of spinal stenosis. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is the site for Toronto conservative care of back pain. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre 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, contact Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre, the Toronto chiropractic practice for gentle relief of back pain. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre chiropractic care at Toronto may well be the answer to the question of “how to alleviate my pain from spinal stenosis?” for you!