Back Pain Solutions

Most people with lower back pain know that working out, or otherwise stressing the lower back, can actually increase the intensity of the back pain. Athletes, especially, but almost everyone else as well, know that once you injure a disc, which is the soft jelly material between your spinal vertebrae, it can severely limit your daily routines and the quality of your life.

In general, low back pain is due to the "loading" of stress on to the spine - due to bad posture, repetitive tasks, and heavy lifting. Over time, these activities begin to restrict normal motion, and the discs in the lower back degenerate and/or lose their integrity, thus leading to a number of conditions, including herniated discs and arthritis.

Most people believe that surgery is the only option for pain relief. However, due to recent advances in medical technology, there is a revolution in a non-surgical technique that is FDA approved and safe. This new therapy is Spinal Disc Decompression. The treatment uses specialized equipment to position the discs to receive adequate nutrition, heal and strengthen. Decompression Therapy works to relieve pressure on the discs, and lowers intradiscal pressure. The lowered intradiscal pressure causes blood cells, nutrients and water to flow into the affected discs and increases the disc's ability to recover.

Treatment requires a commitment of four to six weeks. Each treatment session lasts 40 minutes.

The patient relaxes on a decompression table. The treatment is a gradual process, gently allowing the herniated discs to return to their natural state. Clinical studies have been performed to evaluate the effect of spinal decompression on herniated discs. The research findings of patients with herniated and degenerative disc disease, who underwent spinal decompression therapy treatments show that 70-80% of patients who complete the therapy report they were treated successfully.

The American health care system spends more than $50 billion dollars annually on back pain treatment.

According to the American Chiropractic Association, one-half of all Americans admit to having back pain each year and chronic back pain is the number one disability in persons under age forty five.

One of the reasons that your discs do not heal properly after an injury is that as we age the nutrient supply to the discs diminishes. Without a proper blood supply, the disc tissue has difficulty healing and the injured disc condition continues.

If you injure a muscle or break a bone, that tissue heals because the body provides a blood/nutrient supply. An example would be a fracture; once a bone is fractured, the bone is often stronger in the fractured area than it was prior to the injury. On the other hand, when a disc is injured, it cannot heal properly, and the result is a permanent weak link. Over time, excessive forces on the disc can cause this injury to flair up often resulting in a life time of pain and suffering.

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