Spinal decompression. It’s popular
today in back pain management for back pain relief. Apple Country Chiropractic knows our Williamson
chiropractic patients are curious about spinal decompression, too. Here is a discussion about Williamson spinal
decompression and how Apple Country Chiropractic addresses spinal decompression with Cox Technic.
Williamson 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 assist by reducing herniated discs and taking
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)
Apple Country Chiropractic concurs with this definition
and seeks to do just that with Williamson chiropractic care via spinal manipulation with the chiropractic method
known as Cox Technic flexion distraction and decompression spinal manipulation.
Williamson Chiropractic Spinal Decompression: Cox Technic
Cox Technic offered at Apple Country Chiropractic 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 Apple Country Chiropractic 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 drops 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
Williamson 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 expensive as well as life-changing
category of chronic pain. (8) This type of Williamson spinal decompression
lessens radiculopathy (leg pain) commandingly
compared to medical conservative care, primarily
physical therapy (PT). (9) Further, patients cared for
with spinal decompression as Cox Technic obtained less
care (3) and reported less pain (4) in the following year of the study than did the PT patients.
Effectiveness and Cost of Chiropractic Spinal Decompression
Apple Country Chiropractic offers chiropractic spinal decompression as
spinal manipulation in the form of flexion distraction (aka Cox Technic). Your
Williamson chiropractor at Apple Country Chiropractic is available to
help Williamson back pain and neck pain patients reduce
and control their pain. Williamson chiropractic spinal decompression in
the form of Cox Technic flexion distraction is insurance coded as spinal
manipulation. It’s chiropractic which current
published reports document 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)
Contact Apple Country Chiropractic
Schedule a Williamson chiropractic appointment with
Apple Country Chiropractic for less expensive, quite effective,
evidence-based, non-surgical spinal decompression.