Spinal decompression. It is ”in”
today in back pain management for back pain relief. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic knows our McHenry
chiropractic patients are curious about spinal decompression, too. Here is a discussion about McHenry spinal
decompression and how OrthoIllinois Chiropractic addresses spinal decompression with Cox Technic.
McHenry Spinal Decompression Defined
Spinal decompression is defined by the well-known
website “WebMD” as a gentle stretching of the spine that changes the force and
position of the spine to take pressure off the spinal discs. How? The negative
pressure produced from spinal decompression over time may assist by reducing herniated discs and taking
pressure off of the spinal nerves and other spinal structures and allow water,
oxygen, and nutrient-rich fluids to get into the discs so they can heal. (12)
OrthoIllinois Chiropractic goes along with this characterization
and aspires to do just that with McHenry chiropractic care via spinal manipulation with the system
known as Cox Technic flexion distraction and decompression spinal manipulation.
McHenry Chiropractic Spinal Decompression: Cox Technic
Cox Technic offered at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is well
documented with biomechanical and clinical research studies to reduce back pain
and neck pain and drop intradiscal pressures. It’s effective. That
is why OrthoIllinois Chiropractic uses it. A team of chiropractic
and medical researchers and research-center based as well as private-practice clinicians
design the studies, participate in them, and publish the outcomes of these multi-disciplinary,
federally funded, multi-facility, randomized clinical control trials using the
published protocols documented in textbooks and journals. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Biomechanical Outcomes (6)
Spinal decompression via Cox Technic biomechanically allows for
lumbar spine intradiscal pressure drops to as low as -192
mmHg and increases in intervertebral foramen nerve opening area by 28% and disc height by 2mm. (7) Spinal
decompression via Cox Technic creates cervical spine
intradiscal pressure drops of as much as 168 kPa (kilopascals) which is about
1260 mmHg. (13) Cox Technic spinal decompression reduces
pressure on the spinal discs and nerves.
Clinical Outcomes
McHenry chiropractic spinal decompression with
Cox Technic produces back pain relief for lumbar spine back
pain patients in an average of 12 visits and 29 days. (8) In the 1000 cases
study, 91% of participating chiropractic patients found relief in less than 90
days, curbing back pain sufferers from entering the more costly as well as life-changing
category of chronic pain. (8) This type of McHenry spinal decompression
reduces radiculopathy (leg pain) commandingly
compared to medical conservative care, mainly
physical therapy (PT). (9) Additionally, patients treated
with spinal decompression as Cox Technic obtained less
care (3) and reported less pain (4) in the following year of the study than did the PT patients.
Effectiveness and Cost of Chiropractic Spinal Decompression
OrthoIllinois Chiropractic offers chiropractic spinal decompression as
spinal manipulation in the form of flexion distraction (aka Cox Technic). Your
McHenry chiropractor at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is available to
help McHenry back pain and neck pain patients get relief of
and control their pain. McHenry chiropractic spinal decompression in
the form of Cox Technic flexion distraction is insurance coded as spinal
manipulation. It’s chiropractic which recently
published studies document as costing less than 2% of the total fee to treat a
lumbar herniated disc (10) and costing 40% less than medical doctor started
care for back pain. (11)
Contact OrthoIllinois Chiropractic
Schedule a McHenry chiropractic appointment with
OrthoIllinois Chiropractic for economical, quite effective,
evidence-based, non-surgical spinal decompression.