Spinal Decompression Therapy

What is Spinal Decompression Therapy?

Spinal Decompression Therapy is one of the best non-surgical techniques to relieve pain. It uses a decompression table which aids in moving the herniated disc or bulging disc into place without surgery. This technique helps prevent many back surgeries. Patients who suffer from herniated discs or bulging discs get lots of pain relief. Many microdiscectomy surgeries and laminectomy surgeries are prevented using Spinal Decompression Therapy.

What is a Decompression Table?

Patients are strapped into the table using a harness and the table will begin to stretch the patient. These techniques should only be performed by a chiropractor. The machine will stretch your body where the damaged disc is. It will not hurt, it will just feel like stretching. The poundage of the stretching can be determined by your car accident physician.

How the Table works

Generally, there is a computerized technology on the table that can target certain areas in your body where there are injuries. As the table stretches the spine, the negative pressure can retract the disc material that is herniated or bulging back into the disc. This is a natural way of healing the damaged discs after a car accident injury.

The Protocol

Patients that have been injured in a car accident in Bradenton generally get a protocol of 12 sessions on the decompression table. More sessions can be recommended depending on the severity of the injuries. On the initial visit, your car accident physician should be able to give you a treatment protocol that has all of the therapies you will be doing in the office in Bradenton. X-Rays will be taken the same day. MRI imaging will always be prescribed in order for our auto injury physicians to see the injuries. Spinal Decompression in conjunction with other therapies should ease the inflammation and pain after your car accident.

How effective is Spinal Decompression Therapy?

In a study done in 1998, 71% of patients that had a pain scale from 0 to 5, reduced their pain to a 0 or a 1. In another study 80% of patients that suffered from chronic back pain got relief in less than 8 weeks. Spinal Decompression therapy is effective and can be used to prevent surgery.