Spinal Decompression
and Flexion Distraction
Spinal decompression works by gently stretching the spine. That changes the force and position of the spine. This will take pressure off the spinal disks, which are gel-like cushions between the bones in your spine.
Over time, negative pressure from this therapy may cause bulging or herniated disks to retract. That can take pressure off the nerves and other structures in your spine. This in turn, helps promote movement of water, oxygen, and nutrient-rich fluids into the disks so they can heal.
Non Surgical Spinal Decompression
At Lakeridge Chiropractic we use Cox Tables. Decompression is a non-surgical, doctor-controlled, hands-on spinal manipulation performed by a chiropractor with the patient lying on The Cox Table. This table permits the effective administration of flexion-distraction and spinal decompression adjustment and manipulation.
Well-researched and documented, flexion-distraction and decompression helps relieve spinal pain and return patients to their desired quality of life by:
- dropping intradiscal pressure
- widening the spinal canal foraminal area
- reducing pressure on the spinal nerves
- returning motion to the spinal joints
Evidence-based Cox Technique is appropriate for conditions causing low back and leg pain as well as neck and arm pain. It also reduces pain attributable to:
- Disc herniation
- Slipped disc
- Ruptured disc
- Facet Syndrome
- Spinal Stenosis
- Spondylolisthesis
- Post-surgical continued pain (pain after back surgery) aka FBSS (failed back surgical syndrome)
- other conditions
