Spinal Decompression Centre - Melbourne Australia

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NON-SURGICAL SPINAL DECOMPRESSION, TRACTION AND INVERSION THERAPY?

Dr. Ilan Sommer DC (USA)
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NON-SURGICAL SPINAL DECOMPRESSION, TRACTION AND INVERSION THERAPY?
Traction is a one dimensional, unilateral pull of the spine, not specifying any one segment. The downward intradiscal pressure when a person is standing is (positive) +100 mmHg of pressure and when sitting is (positive) +140 mmHg. When generalized traction or inversion therapy is performed, the intradiscal pressure drops down to 40 mmHg of positive downward pressure. This is the point that muscle spasms can be relieved, however not enough to create transfer of fluid from outside of the disc back into the nucleus palposus or the center of the disc. Inversion therapy is just another form of generalized traction, pulling the ankles, the knees, the hips, the low back, the mid back and the neck, never creating enough of a decrease in the intradiscal space to allow for the transfer of the fluid outside of the disc back into the center of the disc.
With Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression Therapy, the intradiscal pressure goes down to (negative) -160 mmHg and (negative) -192 mmHg creating the transfer of fluid from outside of the disc into the center of the disc, vacuuming back in the protrusions or herniations as well.

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