How Spinal Decompression works
Today advances in spinal traction have brought promising results for patients with disc herniations and degenerative disc diseases. Non-surgical disc decompression is one such treatment, being advertised increasingly, that has brought initial relief for many, from debilitating back pain. However decompression/traction can only bring temporary results since gravity will re-compress the structurally weakened disc and injured spinal areas over time. Subluxation, abnormal spinal angles, and loss of the normal lordotic curves will gradually and continually collapse under gravity once again.
Understanding Spinal Decompression
It is very important to know that muscles support and maintain normal spinal curves. Ninety percent of disc problems are caused by postural breakdown of the normal lordotic curves of the cervical and lumbar spine. Therefore, without postural curve correction with muscle rehabilitation, the effects of decompression/traction will be lost over time and once again, the degenerative process will advance. To permanently correct the lumbar spine, at least 60% correction of the normal lordotic curve of the cervical spine must be achieved. This is why, for many acute lumbar disc cases, decompression of the lumbar disc is performed only during the acute pain episode. Once pain reduction occurs, the patient is then decompressed from the cervical spine down, in order to correct and restore the cervical curve, the original cause. In other words, you must fix the neck with rehab and curve correction, in order to stabilize and enhance the benefits of spinal decompression of the lumbar spine!