Say Goodbye to Back Pain with Spinal Decompression Therapy

Are you experiencing severe back and neck pain or suffering from a spine or disc injury? You don’t have to be in pain, our team at Texas Spine and Sports Therapy can help with. With spinal decompression therapy, you could find relief from your back and neck pain. If you want to learn more, we will explain all you need to know in this article. Keep reading! 

What is Spinal Decompression? 

Spinal decompression is a non-invasive, drug-free treatment option that provides long term pain relief and can restore your natural health. This therapy involves slowly stretching the spine through the use of a traction table or similar motorized device. Spine-Health explains that the spine is gently stretched and relaxed in a controlled manner. With this, it has been found to create a negative intradiscal pressure, which has two main benefits:

1. Pulls the herniated or bulging disc material back into the disc
2. Promotes the passage of healing nutrients into the disc and fosters a better healing environment 

What You Can Expect with Spinal Decompression Therapy 

This treatment option is simple, yet effective. When you come in for your spinal decompression treatment, here is what you can expect:

• First, you will lie down on a motorized table, face up. 
• Next, one of our team members will strap you to the machine with a harness. This will position your back for optimal decompression. 
• Finally, your treatment will begin.You will begin to feel a gradual lengthening of the spine as the discs are received of excessive pressure. 

During this therapy, you should not feel pain. However, in the days following, you could experience minor discomfort but this will subside as your body becomes used to the treatment. Although, if you do find you are feeling any sort of discomfort during your treatment, there will be a safety switch you can easily use at any time during the session that will stop your treatment. 

You can expect your session to last about 30 minutes at a time. For the best results, most patients will need about 20 to 25 treatments scheduled out over a course of six weeks to properly heal, though the amount of treatment needed varies depending on your individual condition. 

Why Does it Work? 

While there are a number of treatments that can also work to reduce disc pressure, they might not be what works for you. Dependent on your condition, you might have to achieve negative pressure to correct the condition of your spine. The stretching and repositioning of your spine is slow and gradual, which means your body won’t lock down or stiffen in response to treatment. 

At Texas Spine and Sports Therapy Center, we use the DRX 9000 spinal decompression system, which is the most advanced decompression table in the industry. Built with computerized sensors that measure your body’s response, it can accurately calibrate the force being applied to your spine. When it senses that your muscles are tensing up, it can automatically adjust to a more gentle level to promote muscle relaxation, allowing the decompression treatment to continue more effectively. 

Who Can Benefit? 

Back pain can be a condition that severely limits what you are able to do day-to-day. If your back pain is preventing you from living a normal and functional life, learn more about this therapy. This therapy could work for you if your pain is caused by: 

• Herniated or bulging discs: a common source of chronic back pain is due to a herniated disc. With this condition, you could feel sharp and spreading pain in one area of the back or neck, or even irritation in the rib cage, thighs, arms, or shoulders. 
• Pinched nerve: where any peripheral nerve is being compressed. This pain can commonly happen in the limbs, joints, and in the hips. With a pinched nerve, you could feel pain down the arms or into your feet. 
• Sciatica: when pressure is placed on the sciatic nerve, you could end up with low back pain.
• Degenerative disc disease: which is an age-related condition that happens when one or more of the discs between the vertebrae of the spinal column breaks down, causing pain. 
• Spinal stenosis: another common cause of back pain is spinal stenosis, which happens when openings within the vertebrae shrink and cause compression.  
• Post-surgical pain: patients who have back pain after surgery could benefit from relieving pent up pressure in the spine. 

Make an Appointment with Texas Spine and Sports Therapy Center

If you are suffering with back pain, come see if spinal decompression therapy is right for you. We offer specialized treatment plans in the Austin, Texas area and can help you understand where your symptoms are coming from — and what it will take for you to find relief. Call us today (512)-806-0015.