Spinal Decompression

• Non-surgical spinal decompression is a treatment used to ease the discomfort of lower back pain. This technique is used most often in case of a slipped or herniated disc. This method of non-surgical pain relief has also proven effective in treating other conditions such as bulging of the discs in the spine, sciatica, nerves that have become pinched in the spine, pain in the leg due to other spinal conditions, pain in the arm that radiates, and degenerative disc disease; a disease that causes the spinal discs to break down on their own due to age.
  
  

How It Works

• Non-surgical spinal decompression is the newest type of traction treatment for lower back pain on the market today. The treatment works by relieving the pain caused by the conditions mentioned above. In most of these conditions, the pain involved is caused by some sort of trauma to a spinal nerve. Spinal decompression alleviates the discomfort to the affected nerve over a course of many treatment sessions. Gradually the pain subsides as the vertebrae are lifted and spread apart in small increments each and every visit. As the vertebrae spread apart, the pain subsides and you feel very little to no discomfort in comparison to when you first started the treatment.
  
  

Costs

• As of 2009, many doctors able to deliver this non-surgical method of pain relief for lower back ailments do not do so because the treatment is relatively new. Lack of evidence in clinical trials means many doctors are not convinced to purchase the equipment to perform such a treatment. The equipment to perform this treatment is extremely expensive and those costs, therefore, must be passed on to the patients. Therefore, non-surgical spinal decompression therapy is normally used as a last resort to try to relieve the symptoms of lower back pain depending on the condition that is causing such pain.