Spinal Decompression Therapy Tips

By Gabriel Dean

Spinal decompression therapy provides relief to people suffering from the severe pain that comes from the displacement of the material that is contained within the vertebral disk. To understand the exact workings of spinal decompression therapy, it is important to first acquaint ourselves with the cause of the problems that it addresses.

The vertebral disk related problems that spinal decompression therapy addresses occur when material that is supposed to be contained with the vertebral disk is forced outside the disk, either due to pressure or due to weakening of the protective outer layer of the vertebral disk that is supposed to keep such vertebral disk material in place. When such material finds its way out of the vertebral disk, it normally gets into space (a micro-space that is) which is supposed to be occupied by nerves, naturally causing pain.

The idea in special decompression therapy is therefore to get the material that is supposed to be in the vertebral disk back to where it is supposed to be. This is not very easy to do, as the both the material in question here, the vertebral disk it is supposed to be and the nerves it is in conflict with are all very sensitive and delicate body parts that have to be handled with utmost care.

Now it has been established in the physical sciences that by creating a region of low pressure somewhere, you can suck objects into such an area from the regions of higher pressure, and this is exactly what spinal decompression therapy does. What happens here is that a region of low pressure is created in the vertebral disk, thereby sucking the disk material which has fallen out of place back where it is supposed to be " and out of the nerves way, thereby relieving the patient of the terrible pain that such a disk-material nerve conflict causes.

The region of low pressure in the vertebral disk is created using mechanical means, aided by cutting edge computer technology, so that the patient receiving spinal decompression therapy is not subjected to any surgery or medication anywhere in the course of the treatment. .

Since the disk material that is responsible for the problems treated with disk decompression has to be gently nudged back to place, it follows that spinal decompression therapy is a gradual process, typically requiring up to 20 sessions before the therapy can be termed as complete. Luckily, spinal decompression sessions are not too involving to the patient, and are pretty much sessions one can attend in between their day to day undertakings, as no recuperation period is really required between the sessions. - 30453

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