For patients with persistent or chronic back pain, leg pain, and or arm pain, spinal decompression therapy treatment may be the perfect solution. It is one of the best nonsurgical solutions available today for bulging discs, herniated discs, or spinal stenosis.
Spinal decompression therapy can be suitable for patients experiencing back pain caused by spinal pressure, disc herniations, bulges, spinal stenosis, or compression. Doctors typically recommend spinal decompression for post patients in good or fair overall health.
Please keep in mind that some conditions may require other treatments or surgery. At a consultation appointment, a spinal specialist can diagnose the exact cause of your back pain and explain what type of treatment will likely work best for you, such as non-surgical spinal decompression therapy.
Spinal decompression therapy is not indicated for pregnant women, as it results in minor abdominal pressure. Patients may also be excluded from this procedure and may also be excluded from this treatment by spinal instability due to osteoporosis or other causes.
Patients who have had prior spinal surgery will be required to reveal the type of procedure done in the past to see if they are candidates for this one. And unless the bone is fused, metallic plates or screws or other hardware in the back can make a patient an unsuitable candidate for today’s natural spinal decompression treatment.
The other health issues that would prevent someone from getting spinal decompression therapy treatment would be severe nerve damage, Grade 3 or Grade 4 spondylolisthesis and disc pace infections. Patients with a previous history of an aortic aneurysm or those with metastatic cancer that has spread to the bone are not good candidates either.
