Wonderful
question! Spine surgeons aren’t
sure how best to treat
spinal stenosis, still
conservative care is receiving more
consideration in the medical research! Malverne Health & Wellness
performs
non-surgical care
that alleviates pain for Malverne spinal stenosis sufferers. Our patients at Malverne who have spinal stenosis come to Malverne Health & Wellness will find our care gentle and
comfortable and praise the
research and
protocols that make up its administration.
First of all, what is spinal stenosis? Spinal
stenosis is the result of narrowing in the spinal canal area.
For many of us
lumbar
spinal stenosis occurs with age when deterioration of the spine emerges. It may be due to how the spinal elements were formed originally. (Some people are born with narrow spinal canals.) It may be due to a disc
herniation that is pushing itself into the spinal canal, taking up the space that is designed for the spinal nerves. Regardless
of the cause, spinal stenosis’ narrowing creates
pain.
When surgeons see
spinal stenosis in a patient they often give surgical opportunities
to widen that narrowed space. There are many approaches
from which you may take. Decompressive surgery is one such type. 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) Also a patient may consider 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)
If you suffer from pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis,
contact Malverne Health & Wellness, the Malverne chiropractic
practice for gentle relief of back pain. Malverne Health & Wellness
chiropractic care at Malverne
may definitely be the answer to the
question of “what to do with spinal stenosis?” for you!
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