Pain from Spinal Stenosis
“Hey Dad, are you ready?”
Your daughter’s voice echoes down the hall, but you don’t want to move from the chair.
“Just a moment.”
In five minutes, you’ll have struggled to walk the few feet from your chair to the car where your daughter waits for you to take her to the fall festival. She’ll wander around, looking at jewelry and mugs while you search for the next place to sit.
Back pain has become the extra guest on any outing, and it’s exhausting. You wish you could walk with your daughter at the festival, take your wife contra dancing, zip down the hallway at work when the boss calls a surprise meeting.
But pain has taken that away. Pain is the army surrounding your body, keeping you from the things you love.
If you are having pain when standing which goes away when you sit, you could have spinal stenosis.
Spinal Stenosis
Spinal stenosis is a chronic condition which must be contained and controlled. Basically, the hollow where your spinal cord travels narrows to compress the cord. Most often, it happens because of a degenerative process in your body such as arthritis.
While stenosis most often occurs in your neck or lower back, the symptoms will usually show up as numbness or tingling in extremities such as the legs or shoulders and arms. With lower back, or lumbar, stenosis, you’ll have pain when walking, but find relief when you sit down. With neck, or cervical, stenosis, you’ll experience pain in your neck.
Long Axis Traction Can Help
If you want to avoid surgery (and with price tags starting at $90,000, who doesn’t?), chiropractors can help with long axis traction. Long axis traction allows the chiropractor to decompress your spinal cord, helping you to find relief from the pain.
Chiropractors are generals in the war on stenosis. Using long axis traction, they can help your spinal cord find relief and battle the bulges caused by this narrowing.
Unfortunately, it’s best to think of stenosis as an ongoing siege, a chronic condition which must be contained and controlled rather than something which can be cured. But with a chiropractor on your side, you have a better chance of containing the pain and avoiding surgery.
I treat people from all across the region, and I am located in Weaverville, NC. Many of my clients live in Mars Hill, Marshall and Asheville.
Give me a call or text today at 828-777-6115 and let’s break the siege of pain together!