Sitka Spinal Decompression

Spinal decompression. It’s common today in back pain management for back pain relief. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka knows our Sitka chiropractic patients are curious about spinal decompression, too. Here is a 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 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 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 goes along with this description and aspires 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 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 falls 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 allows for 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 results in 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 entering the more high-priced as well as life-altering category of chronic pain. (8) This type of Sitka spinal decompression lessens radiculopathy (leg pain) commandingly when put up against medical conservative care, mainly physical therapy (PT). (9) Further, patients treated with spinal decompression as Cox Technic obtained 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 report as costing less than 2% of the total price to treat a lumbar herniated disc (10) and costing 40% less than medical doctor started care for back pain. (11)

Schedule a Sitka chiropractic appointment with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka for economical, quite effective, evidence-based, non-surgical spinal decompression.