subject: Decompression Therapy - A Look Into a Back Pain Relief Option [print this page] Normally speaking, "decompression therapy", "back decompression" or "spinal decompression" pertains to techniques that would present treatment or pain relief through the removal of pressure or impingement on nerves that branch out from the spinal cord.
The following are some of the problems that lead to intense chronic back pain and spinal decompression therapy, with the use of a spinal decompression machine, can be undertaken to treat or relieve these problems:
Protruding discs,
Herniated discs,
Sciatica,
Stenosis of the Spine,
Isthmic and Degenerative Spondylolisthesis (Instability in the spine brought on by degenerative changes.
Surgical and Non-Surgical Decompression Therapy...
There are surgical and non-surgical spinal decompression techniques that can be undertaken. Osteopathic and chiropractic spinal manipulation massages may be involved in non-surgical spinal decompression. Both the VAX-D and the DRX9000 are specialized tables that are quite common in decompression therapy and these will be discussed individually.
There are two procedures which have to be implemented to achieve surgical spinal decompression. The first is microdiscectomy (also called microdecompression). This minimally-invasive operation involves extracting the herniated portion of the nucleus pulposus (the soft, jelly-like center of the intervertebral disc) with a laser while using a loupe or an operating room microscope to amplify the operative site.
The second surgery to be implemented is laminectomy which is done to ease the strain on a pinched nerve by extracting a small portion of the arch of a lumbar vertebra. Naturally, when compared with endoscopic spine surgeries, a bigger probability of issues is indicated with this open and obtrusive surgery. Producing the same results, many patients favor undergoing a minimally-invasive laminotomy to laminectomy.
Presently, surgical spinal decompression therapy is an optional operation for chronic low back pain if relief could not be obtained through conservative and non-surgical spine decompression methods.
Decompression Therapy - A Look Into a Back Pain Relief Option
