Spinal decompression therapy is a treatment intended to provide pain relief for one’s back by creating a healing environment for a variety of back problems, including degenerative, slipped, bulging, or prolapsed back discs.
Spinal decompression therapy enhances circulation and blood flow to the spinal discs, carrying oxygen and nutrient-rich fluids to injured areas of the spine.
These enhanced circulations can promote tissue repair, cell renewal, long-term improvement and healing.
How Spinal Decompression Treatment Work?
This treatment involves slowly and gently stretching the spine, creating negative intradiscal pressure that reduces the pressure on the discs and nerves. A spinal decompression treatment machine can supply negative vacuum effect to draw back discs in the normal position.
Spinal Decompression Procedure
There are three primary components to spinal decompression: a spinal decompression table, a harness and a computerized spinal decompression drive. During spinal decompression treatment, the patient lies down on the spinal decompression table, fully clothed, with the harness placed around the patient’s pelvis.
The table offers a solid snug base for you to lie on while the spinal decompression-drive machine attached to the harness gradually stretches your spine. The doctor operates the decompression drive attached to the harness to slowly stretch your spine and relieve pressure on the tight vertebrae and compressed intervertebral disks.
People with bad backs continuously ask, “What is spinal decompression therapy?”. Spinal decompression therapy focuses on the same principles of elongating the spine that chiropractors and osteopaths have been using for decades to ease tension and pressure in their patients’ lives.
Spinal Decompression Therapy
Spinal Decompression Therapy is very effective nonsurgical and has very little recovery time. Thankfully there is usually no downtime for most patients after spinal decompression therapy. Most patients can continue with their normal daily activities while under treatment.
Moreover, many patients undergo three or more spinal decompression treatments per week, so there is not considerable downtime to this treatment approach. A little relief should become apparent with each spinal decompression treatment session. So, some patients might see improvement in just a few sessions, while others in five or six, and still others may need up to 100 spinal decompression sessions to heal a herniated or bulging disc.
