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Topeka KS Spinal Decompression Treatment
You may be feeling pain throbbing in your lower back, neck pain, or upper back. Your fingers may tingle or you may feel a radiating pain in your arms or legs. You may even feel the pain is so great, that it’s difficult to walk.
If any of this is true, you may experience relief from spinal decompression therapy without surgery, medication or injections.
What is Spinal Decompression?
Spinal Decompression is non-surgical treatment. It works on the forces that can help distract those areas that are inflamed, to relieve pressure off the nerves. It may actually help re-educate muscles, ligaments, and tendons, creating a healthier disc environment. Your spine is made of vertebrae, disc, and nerves.
The vertebrae are bone and the disc contains a jelly-like substance which separates the vertebrae. When you have a disc injury, it means the vertebrae will pinch the disc, making the disc spread out. When the disc spreads out, it can touch the nerve, sending pain throughout the body. (This is just one of the many conditions often helped by Spinal Decompression).
The forces of decompression work on the concept of gentle distraction therapy. Gentle distraction therapy is the compression and decompression of the disc. A membrane that prevents fluids from moving in and out of the spinal column connects the vertebrae. This membrane allows fluids to enter the spinal column at a much slower rate than it allows them to leave. This helps to protect the integrity of the fluid inside the spinal column. During the decompression stage, a partial vacuum is formed that may relieve the pressure between the vertebrae, allowing the disc to reshape back closer to its normal form. When the decompression is released, the pressure with-in the spinal column equalizes at a much quicker rate, often leaving the overall process with a net effect of relieving the pressures on the disc. Through compression and decompression, the tissue surrounding the disc may heal because this process also creates blood flow and oxygen to the injured area. The blood flow and oxygen send nutrition to the injured area, often allowing a faster recovery.
How is Spinal Decompression Different from Traction? Traction is a straight pulling that’s against a certain poundage and it stretches against the irritated ligaments and tendons. It puts a pulling load against the entire spine. It does not apply a different pulling load to each disc within the spine or only apply the pulling load to a specific target within the spine. It is also a constant decompression and the partial vacuum created in the spinal column is equalized in only about one minute. The rest of the time is only stretching the muscles, tendons and ligaments, many times to the patient’s distress. Patients can often experience pain with this method.
Spinal decompression is designed to work the muscles.
This is a slow gentle process, so it typically allows the muscles and tendons to respond to the treatment. Patients generally do not go into spasm. The treatment doesn’t just work the joint, but also works on the muscles and tendons. Motorized and computerized spinal decompression allows the ability to target the injured disc, usually creating better results than traction.
What do Patients Experience?
Patients usually feel comfortable and very relaxed during the treatment.
They typically feel a very gentle pulling or contraction. In fact, many patients fall asleep during the treatment. After the treatment is complete, some patients feel the same good sensation as if they just worked out. When they get up from the table, the pain is often reduced, because this process was not forceful. Most patients feel an immediate relief from the first treatment. In fact, most patients even look forward to receiving their next treatment.
In the past, patients who did not get better with regular chiropractic treatment often were required to go for surgery. This treatment may offer a new alternative for patients. It often helps create stabilization in the spine, which typically allows the patients to respond better to the benefits available from other forms of treatment such as nutrition and spinal manipulation.
How are Patients Treated? Patients are treated fully clothed.
During treatment for mid- and low-back problems, patients are fitted into a harness that fits around the pelvis, as well as a thoracic harness, as they typically lie face up on the table. For neck problems, patients lie face up on the table while resting their head and neck in a non-restrictive cervical unit. The table is operated by a computerized console. The treatment is personalized, based on the mechanics and the neurological feedback of each patient’s muscles and tendons, allowing each patient’s spine to respond to the treatment. Each treatment of decompression takes between 10 – 20 minutes. The average number of treatments, typically for each patient, range between 20 to 32 treatments, scheduled within a five to ten week period of time.
What if You are Not Sure if this Treatment is for You? If you are not sure if this treatment is for you, no problem. Just call and schedule your two free treatments. Our doctors will give you a personized evaluation of your spinal health with a recommendation on how to improve your condition. You will then have all the details to make a decision on your next step.
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