The Benefits of Spinal Decompression (DTS)!
Spinal decompression therapy
(DTS) works and relieves
referral pain for people who have non-acute back and neck pain that
is not the result of a disease or injury. Individuals who have
chronic back pain, degenerative disc disease or herniated discs
report that relief is found with spinal decompression therapy (DTS).
Before you go under the knife and opt for spinal
surgery, you should seriously consider spinal decompression therapy
(DTS).
More than 70 percent of patients who have spinal decompression
therapy (DTS) report success. Surprisingly, these numbers are comparable
to the results of spinal surgery. In fact, many people who have had
spinal surgery in the past and who still have pain are finding that
spinal decompression therapy (DTS) can help them.
However, it should be
noted that individuals who are pregnant and patients who have had spinal surgery involving hardware
such as titanium cages or pedicle screws will not be
good candidates for spinal decompression therapy (DTS).
Spinal decompression therapy
(DTS) in conjunction with additional modalities effectively relieves the pain and disability resulting from disc injury and degeneration, by repairing damaged discs and reversing dystrophic changes in nerves. Spinal decompression addresses the functional and mechanical aspects of discogenic pain and disease through non-surgical decompression of lumbar intervertebral discs. Studies verify the significant reduction of intradiscal pressures into the negative range, to approximately minus 150 mm/HG, which result in the non-surgical decompression of the disc and nerve root. Conventional traction has never demonstrated a reduction of intradiscal pressure to negative ranges; on the contrary - many traction devices actually increased intradiscal pressure, most likely due to reflex muscle spasm. The spinal decompression table is designed to apply distraction tension to the patient’s lumbar spine without eliciting reflex
Para vertebral muscle contractions.
Research indicates the disc is responsible for a significant number of Lumbar/Leg pain and neck/arm pain syndromes. Compression increases intradiscal pressure leading to annular compromise and possible extrusion of nuclear material.
By significantly reducing intradiscal pressure, spinal decompression promotes retraction of the herniation into the disc and facilitates influx of oxygen, proline and other substrates. The promotion of fibro elastic activity stimulates repair and inhibits leakage of irritant sulphates and carboxylates from the nucleus. The most recent trial sought to correlate clinical success with MRI evidence of disc repair in the annulus, nucleus, facet joint and foramina as a result of treatment and found that reduction of disc herniation ranged between 10% and 90% depending on the number of sessions performed, while annulus patching and healing was evident in all cases.1
REFERENCE:
1
A Clinical Trial on Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression Using Vertebral Axial Distraction Delivered by a Computerized Traction Device
Bruce Gundersen, DC, FACO; Michael Henrie, MS II, Josh Christensen, DC.
The Academy of Chiropractic Orthopedists Quarterly Journal of ACO - June 2004
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