Spinal decompression. It’s popular
today in back pain management for back pain relief. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka knows our Sitka
chiropractic patients hear about spinal decompression, too. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
shares this discussion about Sitka spinal
decompression and how Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka addresses spinal decompression with Cox Technic.
Sitka Spinal Decompression Defined
Spinal decompression is defined by the oft-referenced
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 generated by spinal decompression over time may help
reduce herniated discs and take
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)
Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka agrees with this characterization
and seeks to do just that with Sitka chiropractic care via spinal manipulation with the procedure
known as Cox Technic flexion distraction and decompression spinal manipulation.
Sitka Chiropractic Spinal Decompression: Cox Technic
Cox Technic offered at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka 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 Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka chooses to apply 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 creates
lumbar spine intradiscal pressure decreases 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
Sitka 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, keeping back pain sufferers from crossing
over into the more costly as well as life-altering
category of chronic pain. (8) This type of Sitka spinal decompression
eases radiculopathy (leg pain) superiorly
when put up against medical conservative care, primarily
physical therapy (PT). (9) Further, patients treated
with spinal decompression as Cox Technic needed less
care (3) and described less pain (4) in the year
following the study than did the PT patients.
Effectiveness and Cost of Chiropractic Spinal Decompression
Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka offers chiropractic spinal decompression as
spinal manipulation in the form of flexion distraction (aka Cox Technic). Your
Sitka chiropractor at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is ready to
help Sitka back pain and neck pain patients reduce
and control their pain. Sitka chiropractic spinal decompression in
the form of Cox Technic flexion distraction is insurance coded as spinal
manipulation. It’s chiropractic which recently
published studies detail as being less
expensive than 2% of the total fee to treat a
lumbar herniated disc (10) and costing 40% less than medical doctor initiated
care for back pain. (11)
Contact Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
Schedule a Sitka chiropractic appointment with
Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka for economical, quite effective,
evidence-based, non-surgical spinal decompression.