Low Back Pain and Spinal Decompression

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Low Back Pain and Spinal Decompression

Low back pain has become one of the most significant medical problems in today’s world. The statistics on the magnitude of the problem are overwhelming, and the number of chronic back cases continues to grow each day. This epidemic of back pain is enormous: it is the leading workers compensation injury, the leading reason for disability for people under the age of 45, it will strike 90% of all American adults at some point in their life, and is the second leading surgical procedure in the nation, and its only getting worse.

Often, the symptoms of back pain are treated with drugs, heat and cold, bed rest, physical therapy, exercises, acupuncture, TENS, epidural injections, and various types of surgery. Many of these options are simply aimed at providing a temporary reduction of symptoms without altering or correcting the underlying dis-ease causing process. Low back surgery may disrupt the natural biomechanical functions essential to preserve pain-free spinal mobility and surgery in the poorly selected patient can lead to ‘failed back syndrome’. Physicians are faced with the fact that there is no universally accepted standard of care of such patients.

VAX-D can relieve the pain associated with bulging and herniated discs, degenerative disc disease, posterior facet syndrome and radicular (nerve root) pain. Patients can avoid the merry-go-round of drugs and non-specific treatments. Results from all of the independent sources (hospitals, private clinics, clinical studies) show levels of success in the range of 7 or more out of 10 people and with more than 3000 patients a day now receiving VAX-D therapy in the US. A recent two year study conducted in 2008 sponsored by one of the nations leading insurance companies demonstrated positive short and long-term results with VAX-D. Patients had significantly improved pain and disability scores at the end of VAX-D treatment, at 30 days and at 180 days post-treatment. Considering the success of VAX-D one can easily see why VAX-D is the standard of excellence for the best professional sports figures including those in the NBA, NFL, NHL, Olympic athletes and more.

Our clinics offer 3 different VAX-D programs based upon the severity of disc type injury, prior medical history and prognosis for complete recovery. Patient care is usually daily for the first week followed by 3 sessions per week until the condition stablizes. The total number of treatments may vary depending upon the severity of the condition and the response to the treatment. A typical session is about 45 minutes in duration after which patients will receive passive modalities to assist in tissue healing and spinal disc regeneration. Patients find the treatment to be comfortable and relaxing (see VAX-D low back testimonies). Many experience a relief of their pain and symptoms even during the first treatment.

Patients are fitted with a pelvic harness and can either lie face-down or face-up on the vax-d table. The upper body is positioned on the stationary portion of the table and is restrained by the patient holding on to adjustable handgrips, or by the use of passive arm-rest restraints. The VAX-D computer will adjust the tension and position to produce a perfect ‘logarithmic’ decompression curve (regardless of patient size, weight or body structure) allowing the back and trunk muscles to relax ensuring the perfect decompression session each and every time.

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