Saturday, June 20, 2009

Decompression Helps Low Back Pain

By Dr. Randall Pruitt

Chronic low back pain is a condition that many people suffer from. If you have suffered for any length of time you most likely have tried many treatment options to find relief.

In most cases of low back pain the disc is the source of discomfort. Many studies have shown that the disc is overwhelmingly to blame for episodes of low back pain. The facet joints and the SI joints also contribute but as as commonly as the disc.

An important thing to understand about the disc is that it is only pain sensitive in the outer 1/3. This is important to understand because often damage can occur over time and you may never know, until the outer 1/3 of the disc is contacted by the inner material. This is why back pain can come on so suddenly out of the blue.

The disc is very susceptible to dehydration and degeneration primarily because if it's lack of a direct blood supply. It receives it's vital nutrients and hydration from the bones above and below where a rich blood supply is present. Once the disc becomes damaged the disc loses it's ability to maintain hydration and it becomes dry and much more likely to deteriorate.

Recent research also show that once a disc becomes degenerative it's lack of hydration actually allows an infiltration of pain sensitive nerves. So once the disc is painful, the entire disc becomes pain sensitive.

The most common treatments for low back pain don't address this issue. Only one actually increases the amount of hydration into the disc and that is spinal decompression. This treatment accelerates the amount of hydration that goes into the disc so that the disc can regenerate.

Muscle contraction response is a common problem when applying any type of traction force to the spine, however the technology known as spinal decompression has a patented computer technology that allows it to overcome contraction of these muscles in real time. This allows a true spinal decompression effect to take place.

Spinal decompression creates 2 desirable effects for the disc. One is that is draws in any herniated or bulging material centrally to decrease nerve compression or irritation.And secondly it brings in a fresh supply of nutrition so that the raw materials are present for the disc to heal.

Unlike most treatment that are primarily concerned with the symptoms spinal decompression actually deals with the primary source of the patients pain, which in most cases is the disc.

If you have tried other treatments with little to no success you really owe it to yourself to look into spinal decompression. The benefits are lasting unlike most of the other treatments available. - 14130

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