Spinal decompression: an effective treatment for herniated disc and chronic back pain. Non-surgical spinal decompression therapy is: Noninvasive Conservative Painless Safe Supervised by a health professional who holds a doctorate degree Effective for a variety of back conditions (herniated disc, chronic pain, arthrosis, facet syndrome, etc.) If you are visiting our website …It […]
Spinal decompression: an effective treatment for herniated disc and chronic back pain.
Non-surgical spinal decompression therapy is:
- Noninvasive
- Conservative
- Painless
- Safe
- Supervised by a health professional who holds a doctorate degree
- Effective for a variety of back conditions (herniated disc, chronic pain, arthrosis, facet syndrome, etc.)
If you are visiting our website …It is because you suffer from a condition described below!
This site was designed for those who suffer from chronic back pain, herniated disc or disc herniation, bulging of a disc, sciatica, leg pain, degenerative disc disease, tingling, numbness, pain in arms, neck pain, and for some patients with spinal stenosis and finally for those who underwent back surgery but still suffering from pain.
What are your treatment options?
Types of Care |
Efficiency |
| Acupuncture | Unlikely |
| Heat & cryotherapy (cold) | Unlikely |
| Electrotherapy (ultrasond, tens, etc.) | Unlikely |
| Exercices | Unlikely |
| Osteopathy | Unlikely |
| Massage Therapy | Unlikely |
| Surgery | likely |
| Spinal decompression | likely |
Spinal decompression demystified
Spinal decompression reduces the pressure that builds up inside the discs. This technique consists of a mechanical disc decompression by suction causing decompression of the disc. The pain decreases because of resorption of the herniated disc, bulging disc or because of the reduced pressure on the nerves or spinal cord: that is to say that the disc returns to its original shape when the bulge or bulging disc disappears and the pressure on the spinal nerves is therefore eliminated.
Spinal decompression achieves this by creating a negative pressure inside the disc, known as negative intra-discal pressure. This essentially creates a vacuum to suck the bulging and herniated material inside the disc space by reducing the pressure.
The same phenomenon happens when you break the window of a pressurized airplane flying at high altitude: everything that is inside the airplane (positive pressure) is violently expelled to the outside (negative pressure).
When there is a bulging of the intervertebral disc and / or herniated disc, the ligaments that hold up the disk material has become stretched or torn. Spinal Decompression strengthens the ligament bands that hold the disc material in place, allowing healing and preventing a recurrence.
In most cases, the healing process requires only a few weeks of outpatient treatment.
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There are several causes which explains why you may end up with an herniated disc. The degenerative discs process leads to a destruction of the latter, a loss of elasticity, and stability. You can feel the vertebrae in your back, but you can not see what lies between each vertebra. If you could, you would […]
There are several causes which explains why you may end up with an herniated disc.
The degenerative discs process leads to a destruction of the latter, a loss of elasticity, and stability.
You can feel the vertebrae in your back, but you can not see what lies between each vertebra. If you could, you would see small discs, mainly composed of water but also a substance resembling jelly. These cushions act as shock absorbers. These gelatinous discs compress and stretch when you move. Over time, jelly compresses and can become less flexible. This, combined with a possible impact, leads to the breakdown of the disk that often exerts pressure on the nerve. When the cartilage between the vertebrae tears, the disc is pushed out of his position and may pinch or rub on the surrounding nerves, which are extremely sensitive to pain. Although this may lead to symptoms, recent studies conducted on people without any back or leg problem have shown that a significant number of people have one or more herniated discs without feeling pain or sumptoms.
Some risk factors:
- lifting weights inappropriately
- Overweight
- Sudden Pressure
- Arduous repetitive activities
- Congenital weakness of the discal tissues
- Sudden trunk rotation
- In the event of insufficient movement of the vertebral column causes by a job where you are in a constant sitting position, the rear portion of the disc will be compressed and thus weakened. Tears and swelling of the disc can then occur.
The inflammatory and degenerative processes in the connecting structures relate to vertebral discs, ligaments and joints located in the back of the vertebrae. If ligaments start loosening, the entire structure of the column becomes unstable. This produces a misalignment of the vertebrae and an overload of rear joints causing a premature wear out leading to osteoarthritis. This pain is typically limited to the low back region.
This degenerative discs process leads to a destruction of the latter, a loss of elasticity, and stability. Some parts of the disc may protrude (discal hernia) into the spinal cord canal by compressing the spinal cord or nerve roots. This causes the patient to feel a very distinctive radiating pain. If the pain radiates down the leg, we refer to it as sciatic pain or sciatic syndrome.
In the case of an increased vulnerability of the vertebral column, as we just described, the effect of humidity, cold, or the act of lifting heavy loads as well as sudden movements may immediately cause severe pain.
A gentle conservative treatment for herniated disc: non-surgical spinal decompression therapy Once diagnosed by a competent health professional, the treatment of herniated disc can be done, in some cases, with conservative treatment, without resorting to surgery. Our method is scientifically recognized: it is a distraction with a high-tech device that enables safe treatment. Non-surgical spinal […]
A gentle conservative treatment for herniated disc: non-surgical spinal decompression therapy
Once diagnosed by a competent health professional, the treatment of herniated disc can be done, in some cases, with conservative treatment, without resorting to surgery. Our method is scientifically recognized: it is a distraction with a high-tech device that enables safe treatment.
Non-surgical spinal decompression and its specialized equipment is used in all our clinics.
What will happen during the treatment?
Lumbar treatment : after a comprehensive exam, allowing the clinician to determine the nature of the vertebral infringement, the patient is laid down on the table and a traction force on the lumbar spine is applied, mobilizing the segment of the spine causing the problem. Thus, movements of deep traction or distraction are induced by the practitioner with precision and gentleness: all these movements are done without feeling any pain.
Cervical Treatment : The patient is lying flat on his back on the treatment table, allowing a segmental traction and mobilization of the cervical spine.
Other types of treatment may be required in some cases.
Every patient is unique, no two patients have with exactly the same condition, the same threshold of tolerance to pain and the same resilience.In this regard, we customize our treatment to respond to the unique needs of each of our patients, while maintaining a treatment protocol which has been proven.
Current therapies for disc pathology
- medication and limited activity
- spinal rehabilitation
- interventional pain management
- spinal manipulation
- spinal surgery
- non-surgical spinal decompression
Non-surgical spinal decompression
- Spinal decompression is a term that describes the relief of pressure on one or many pinched nerves (neural impingement) of the spinal column
- Spinal decompression can be achieved both surgically and non-surgically and is used to treat conditions that result in chronic back pain such as disc bulge, disc herniation, sciatica, spinal stenosis, and isthmic and degenerative spondylolisthesis.
- Non-surgical spinal decompression was originally developed and pioneered in 1985, by Dr. Allan Dyer, PhD, MD, a canadian doctor who had served as Deputy Minister of Health in Ontario, Canada.
- Non-invasive procedure designed to target underlying disc pathology
Goals of treatment
- actively distract and passively retract the spine in order to affect intervertebral disc space
- reduce intradiscal pressures
- increase fluid and nutrient exchange
- promote disc regeneration
- retract nucleic material of bulging or herniated disc
Guarding reflex
- Traditional spinal traction causes natural guarding reflex
- Muscles contract or spasm to prevent distraction (deep traction or decompression) in order to protect the spine
- Old style traction devices are not able to bypass or overpower reflex contractions and achieve distraction of the disc space – (aka spinal decompression)
If you have a herniated disc, you should carefully read the following: A health problem as serious needs to be taken care of by a competent health professional. Such a condition when poorly managed can have a disastrous effect on your health for the rest of your days. [flv:https://www.sosherniateddisc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Welcome-to-3Drx-HybridOnline.com_.flv] The facts about herniated discs: Herniated […]
If you have a herniated disc, you should carefully read the following:
A health problem as serious needs to be taken care of by a competent health professional. Such a condition when poorly managed can have a disastrous effect on your health for the rest of your days.
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The facts about herniated discs:
- Herniated Discs are not all inherently painful
- Most bulging discs are not symptomatic
- A bulging disc may be as painful as an herniated disc
- Surgery or non-surgical spinal decompression is required to correct an herniated disc
- In most cases, surgery actually offers poor curative results for an herniated disc
- Herniated Discs does notworsen with time but the disc does end up with degenerative disc disease.
- Most herniated discs won’t resolve on their own. The pain may subside because of posture and structural compensation
- Herniated discs cannot be diagnosed with an x-ray. You need an MRI
- Herniated discs are not always due to injury
- Herniated discs can happen because of a spinal rotational decompensation caused by a pelvis misalignment
- Medical treatment is not necessary for most herniated discs
- Many disc pain conditions are misdiagnosed
If I were to gather a group of middle age folks (45 average age) who have NEVER had back pain before and shoot MRIs on them all, here’s what we would find:
- 38% would have disc bulges,
- 37% disc protrusions (aka: contained herniations),
- 11% disc extrusions (aka: non-contained herniations),
- 0% disc sequestrations (aka: free fragments) and
- 4% nerve root compression by the disc herniation.
A more shocking statistic is that 60% of asymptomatic middle aged people would have findings of disc bulge or worse (protrusion, extrusion) on MRI!
Disc herniation, the leading cause of lombosciatica, is a result of a long and silent degenerative disc which will decompensate more or less abruptly on the occasion of an effort, sometimes minimal.
The lombosciatica almost never an “accident” occurring on a perfectly healthy spine.
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