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Lead
Parker University
With
University of Houston
Whittier College
Private Practice
Miami University
This study aims to assess the effect of chiropractic distraction manipulation in reducing postural sway and improving performance-based mobility and disability in patients with the clinical diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis. This study will identify if distraction spinal manipulation will reduce postural sway center of pressure (COP) movements as determined by a force plate, if distraction spinal manipulation will improve simple measures of performance-based mobility and if distraction spinal manipulation will improve perception of balance confidence and will reduce self-rated stenosis associated disability.
Age
48–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
Age greater than 48 years old
Patient has leg or buttock pain while walking
Patient feels relief of symptoms with bending (flexing) forward
Patient feels relief when using a shopping cart of bicycle
Patient has motor or sensory disturbance while walking
Patient has normal and symmetrical foot pulses
Patient has lower extremity weakness
Patient has low back pain
Duration of symptoms and signs for more than 1 month
Able to stand and walk without assistive devices for at least 20 minutes
Able to give written informed consent and complete interviews and questionnaires in English
You may not be if
Complicated spinal pain due to fracture, tumor, infection, or severe spondyloarthropathy
Has other severe co-morbidities, including progressive neurological deficit
Other serious pathologies of the locomotor system
No correspondence availability through email
Inability to read/ comprehend English
Compensation or seeking compensation from a third-party liability or workers' compensation
Previous spinal manipulation within the past month
