What is Spinal Decompression Therapy? How do you help?
Perhaps we need to briefly tell you why we might benefit from this treatment and why, before discussing spinal cord decompression therapy. As the name suggests, spinal pressure reduction therapy is a cure for spinal problems related to compression or compression. There are numerous different vertebral diseases that are the result of compression of nerves exiting the spine. The most common are intervertebral discs, spinal stenosis, sciatica and pinching nerves.
Although the precise mechanisms of these various conditions are different, they all involve compression or compression of the spinal nerve roots. There is a surgical procedure for spinal decompression, but this article will focus on the nonsurgical methods available for decompressing the spinal column. In many cases, these non-surgical techniques can reduce or eliminate the need for surgery. Several studies suggest that the technology we are discussing reduces the need for dorsal surgery from 47% to 60%. Thus, theoretically, the more widespread use of nonsurgical spinal decompression methods can effectively eliminate about one need for every two spinal surgical procedures. It is truly great news for those with spinal nerves interposed, regardless of the cause of compression.
So how does it work? The basic concept is very simple. The nerve exiting the spinal cord is pressed against the intervertebral disc which is the spinal stenosis of the spondylosis which is the nomenclature of the spondyloarthritis. Pressure is applied to the nerves, inflammation occurs, chemical changes occur in the nerves, and the nerves are excited. The results are low back pain, hip and leg muscle pain, many of it, and blinking and even weakness. Depending on the nature of the nerve compression and the amount of chemical change occurring in the pressure nerve of each patient, the signs and symptoms vary from patient to patient. The important thing to remember is that the first task is to reduce the nerve. Inflammation and chemical changes need to be addressed in order for the body to heal properly.
Step 1: Pressure is applied from the spinal nerve to stop ongoing nerve damage. There are several ways to oppress the oppressed nerves. The general term for this is called spinal cord decompression. Actually we should actually call it a spinal nerve decompression therapy. Rather than decompress the spine, it is more accurate than decompressing the spinal nerve. So, how do you decompress the spinal nerve? The answer is straight. Add traction. Spinal cord traction has been used to treat back pain due to nerve compression for thousands of years.
The most important question is to apply transactions most efficiently to the spine in order to effectively decompress the spinal nerve. There are several ways.
You probably remember seeing the picture of a patient stretched over a harness with a pulley or weight. It was rejected that this old traction style is not effective. Probably because it was inefficient to actually separate the spine and decompress the spinal nerve root.
Then there are several home based methods of decompression of the spinal cord. The two most popular ones are big exercise balls that you can use to invert you and use it to stretch the spinal column, not to force the spine by gravity. Both have advantages and disadvantages and for our discussion these should be left to follow-up at home after true medical spinal decompression therapy.
It leaves two competing expertise to provide spinal decompression therapy in a medical setting. One therapy is called spinal decompression therapy. It consists of a table like a traction and uses a computerized sensor to monitor muscle contraction. This is important as adding traction to the spell will cause reflection on the spine that resists the decompression force. This is called muscle stretch reflex. Therefore, this monitoring of the muscle stretch reflex is important to provide an effective force to depress the spinal cord and the pinched nerve. The spinal decompression device measures the transaction time with the relaxation of the muscles. Without considering this reflex muscle contraction, the force used to decompress the spine gives traction to the muscles of the spinal cord and in fact does not only decompress the picked nerve.
In fact, some scientists believe that traction of the old school could not produce superior results, as reflex muscle contraction hat can not be made when the spinal muscle is extended. In this case the traditional traction device was limited to stretching the spine and there was little effect in decompressing the spinal nerve. Modern spinal decompression devices appear to have this disorder to true spinal nerve depressor decompression.
An alternative to the spinal cord decompression treatment table is a technique called flexion-distraction therapy. Flexion Distraction Therapy is unique and is one of the only decompression methods that treats a patient while the patient is lying face down. This is important for several reasons.
We talked about the stretch reflex of the muscle of the spinal muscles. The spinal muscle contracts and resists the decompression of the spell. Muscles have more reflections. Another important reflection is called an agonist / antagonist reflection. Simply put, this is a reflection that relaxes the spine when the stomach muscle gets shorter. This reflection may be one of the reasons that Flexion Distraction Therapy has a substantial effect on the pinnered spinal nerve.
While the patient is down on the table, the Flexion Distraction Table bends slightly. This has the effect of shortening the muscle of the stomach and alleviating the reflection of the spine. By slight deflection of the spinal column before applying traction, flexion distraction therapy abolishes or significantly reduces the stretch reflex of the muscles of the back muscles. Therefore, if the spine is slightly bent, resistance to traction of the spine muscle is minimized, and the spinal nerve can be effectively decompressed. Another advantage of Flexion Distraction Therapy is that the flexion movement of the table mechanically releases the lumen where most spinal nerve compression occurs.
Therefore, the characteristic of Flexion Distraction Therapy, which is ideal for decompression of the spinal cord, due to the nature of surgery, resistance to the relaxation and distraction of the spine muscles disappears, the region of the greatest nerve compression is mechanically expanded, the effectiveness of decompression of the spinal nerve root sex.
It can be very effective in reducing spinal cord decompression techniques for nonsurgical decompression of spinal nerve roots and other symptoms associated with compression of the spinal nerve roots. They are usually managed with additional therapies that are designed to reduce nerve infections and restore proper neurochemistry. Either one is worth considering before considering surgery to depressurize the pinched spinal nerve.
Studies support the effectiveness of both of these competitive technologies for nonsurgical decompression of spinal nerve roots.
