Spinal Decompression

Many patients report a decrease in pain after the first couple of sessions. Generally, significant improvement is obtained by the second week of therapy.

Patients are on the system for 30-45 minutes, every day for the first 2 weeks, three times a week for the following 2 weeks, and followed up by 2 times a week for the last 2 weeks.

Ever since I started using Spinal Decompression spinal disc decompression machine, I’ have been flooded with questions from both physicians and patients regarding which cases it will best help. Obviously proper patient selection is vital to favorable results, so let me explain to you of the Inclusion and Exclusion criteria so you may make the right decision since not everybody qualifies for Spinal Decompression treatment.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Pain as a result of herniated and bulging lumbar discs that is in excess of four weeks old.
- Persistent pain from a failed back surgery that is greater than six months old.
- Persisting pain from degenerated disk not reacting to 4 weeks of treatment
- Patients available for 4 weeks of therapy protocol.
- Patient at least eighteen years of age.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Appliances such as pedicle screws and rods
- Pregnancy
- Prior lumbar fusion less than six months old
- Metastatic cancer
- Severe osteoporosis
- Spondylolisthesis ().
- Compression fracture of lumbar spine below L-1 (recent).
- Pars defect.
- Pathologic aortic aneurysm.
- Abdominal or pelvic cancer.
- Disc space infections.
- Severe peripheral neuropathy.
- Hemiplegia, paraplegia, or cognitive dysfunction.

The majority patients do not experience any side effects. However, there have been some mild instances of muscle spasm for a short amount of time.

Decompression is achieved by utilizing a specific mix of spinal positioning and varying the degree and level of force. The trick to producing this decompression is the gentle pull that is generated by a logarithmic curve. When distractive forces are produced on a logarithmic curve the typical proprioceptor response is avoided. Preventing this response allows decompression to occur at the targeted area.

NO. Spinal Decompression is comfortable and completely safe for all patients. The system has emergency stop switches for both the operator and the patient. These switches (a requirement of the FDA) cancel the treatment right away thereby avoiding any injuries.

Traction is effective at treating a couple of the conditions arising from herniated or degeneration. Traction can’t address the source of the problem. Spinal Decompression creates a negative pressure inside the disk. This effect causes the disk to pull in the herniation and the rise in negative pressure also induces the flow of blood and nutrients back into the disk allowing the body’s natural fibroblastic response to heal the injury and re-hydrate the disk. Traction and inversion tables, at best, can lower the intradiscal pressure from a +90 to a +30 mmHg. Spinal Decompression is clinically proven to reduce the intradiscal pressure to between a -150 to -200 mmHg. Traction leads to the body’s normal response to stretching by producing painful muscle spasms that aggravate the pain in affected area.

In most cases Spinal Decompression treatment is not contra-indicated for patients that have had spinal surgery. Many patients have found success with Spinal Decompression after a failed back surgery.

Anybody who has recent spinal fractures, surgical fusion or metallic hardware, surgically repaired aneurysms, infection of the spine, and/or moderate to severe osteoporosis.

Anybody who has been advised they need surgery but wants to avoid it, anybody who has been informed there is nothing more offered to help, anybody who failed to significantly respond to conservative options (medications, physical therapy, injections, chiropractic, acupuncture), or anyone who still has pain but wishes to obtain the type of care they want.