It would not be an overstatement to say that spinal decompression machines has greatly revolutionized the treatment of back and neck pains resulting from the displacement of vertebral disk material into the space surrounding the disk.
What normally happens when the vertebral disk material finds its way out of the disk and into the space surrounding the disk is that the material ends up in putting pressure on some sensitive nerves accommodated in that space immediately outside the vertebral disk, causing anguishing pain to the person who happens to find themselves in that situation.
Now before the spinal decompression machines appeared, there used to be very few really viable treatment of the pain resulting from this situation where vertebral disk material strays into space that is supposed to be occupied by nerves, causing pain.
The simplest thing to do was always to just take analgesics " but this was to be done while understanding that the long term use of these medications would the patient no good, especially taking into consideration that you needed a pretty powerful painkiller to numb the kind of pain we are talking about here.
Using rest, massage, ice or heat were other methods that were employed in the treatment of the vertebral disk-material related back and neck pain, but these methods did not always yield the type of relief the patient was seeking for, leading to a perpetual search for a lasting cure to the condition.
Other relatively simple treatments of vertebral disk related back and neck pains included the likes of physical therapy and chiropractic treatment " but the drawback with these tended to be that the results that could be achieved with them tended to be very transient, meaning that the best a patient could expect out of them would be temporary relief, before the often anguishing pains arose again.
And while surgery could be used to get more enduring relief, many people would hesitate having their back opened up if wasn't a (directly) life-threatening condition they were suffering from, as the risks of such surgery were simply too great to wish away.
Then came the discovery of spinal decompression machines. While the spinal decompression therapy performed with these machines is not a panacea (as it doesn't treat all vertebral disk material related back and neck pain and it is not absolutely risk free), it does, at least, give a considerable number of people suffering from back and neck pain resulting from the displacement of vertebral disk material a way of accessing permanent relief from the condition without having their backs opened up. - 30453
What normally happens when the vertebral disk material finds its way out of the disk and into the space surrounding the disk is that the material ends up in putting pressure on some sensitive nerves accommodated in that space immediately outside the vertebral disk, causing anguishing pain to the person who happens to find themselves in that situation.
Now before the spinal decompression machines appeared, there used to be very few really viable treatment of the pain resulting from this situation where vertebral disk material strays into space that is supposed to be occupied by nerves, causing pain.
The simplest thing to do was always to just take analgesics " but this was to be done while understanding that the long term use of these medications would the patient no good, especially taking into consideration that you needed a pretty powerful painkiller to numb the kind of pain we are talking about here.
Using rest, massage, ice or heat were other methods that were employed in the treatment of the vertebral disk-material related back and neck pain, but these methods did not always yield the type of relief the patient was seeking for, leading to a perpetual search for a lasting cure to the condition.
Other relatively simple treatments of vertebral disk related back and neck pains included the likes of physical therapy and chiropractic treatment " but the drawback with these tended to be that the results that could be achieved with them tended to be very transient, meaning that the best a patient could expect out of them would be temporary relief, before the often anguishing pains arose again.
And while surgery could be used to get more enduring relief, many people would hesitate having their back opened up if wasn't a (directly) life-threatening condition they were suffering from, as the risks of such surgery were simply too great to wish away.
Then came the discovery of spinal decompression machines. While the spinal decompression therapy performed with these machines is not a panacea (as it doesn't treat all vertebral disk material related back and neck pain and it is not absolutely risk free), it does, at least, give a considerable number of people suffering from back and neck pain resulting from the displacement of vertebral disk material a way of accessing permanent relief from the condition without having their backs opened up. - 30453
