Millions of people experience chronic back pain, affecting their daily lives. They find it impossible to enjoy life. Worse, back pain can also cause depression, anxiety, and low moods. Chronic back pain can impair your entire life.
Have you been living with persistent neck or back pain? Do you have sciatic nerve pain that degenerative spinal discs have caused? Have you had to resort to medication to seek lasting relief? Spinal decompression therapy is a method that can give you that lasting relief without having to resort to surgery or medicine.
What Is Spinal Decompression Therapy?
Spinal decompression therapy is a groundbreaking treatment that utilizes motorized traction to stretch your spine. It involves the careful and systematic stretching of your spine in a gentle and non-surgical manner to immediately alleviate disc-related pressure. As an outcome, misaligned discs may retract, releasing tension off nerves in your spine. It stimulates blood, oxygen, and nutrients flow to your spine and the spinal discs so they can heal.
Chiropractors administer spinal decompression therapy in several sessions. Each session provides pain and pressure alleviation. The patients’ schedules may vary from three to four visits each week for four weeks. You will notice changes and results in just the first few sessions.
How Does It Work?
The chiropractor puts a harness on you. This harness will help you achieve favorable decompression in the lower back or neck. During the session, you will become aware of the stretching of your spine.
The stretching will occur when your discs are gradually undergoing decompression. The misaligned discs go back into place, allowing blood flow to resume. It also relieves pain from nerves that are under pressure.
What Does It Treat?
Several conditions qualify for spinal decompression therapy. Your chiropractor will let you know whether you are eligible for the treatment. The following are conditions it treats:
- Bulging discs – If untreated, a bulging disc can rupture. A bulging disc is usually a disc out of alignment with the spine. It puts pressure on the nerves, causing pain in the general area.
- Herniated discs – These are spinal discs that crack or rupture, spilling their gel fluid. The leaking fluid irritates nerves and causes a burning sensation.
- Degenerative discs – These are discs affected by age. They may have little fluid or tears on their outer covering.
What Are The Benefits?
Notable benefits come with spinal decompression therapy. These benefits are ideal if you have been suffering from back pain for a long time.
- Pain relief – Spinal decompression therapy is a guaranteed method to relieve your back of pain. Although some people with a significant spinal injury report some discomfort at the beginning of the treatment, it goes away as they progress.
- Realignment of the spine – Spinal decompression therapy helps the spine realign to its original form. The decompression is possible through computer-aided stretching.
For more on spinal decompression therapy, Visit Healing Hands Center for Integrative Medicine at our office in Montclair, New Jersey. You can call (973) 783-1800 today to schedule an appointment.