Augusta Spinal Decompression

Spinal decompression. It is ”in” today in back pain management for back pain relief. Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic knows our Augusta chiropractic patients hear about spinal decompression, too. Here is a discussion about Augusta spinal decompression and how Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic addresses spinal decompression with Cox Technic.

Augusta Spinal Decompression Defined

Spinal decompression is defined by the oft-referenced 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) Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic concurs with this characterization and aspires to do just that with Augusta chiropractic care via spinal manipulation in the form of Cox Technic flexion distraction and decompression spinal manipulation.

Augusta Chiropractic Spinal Decompression: Cox Technic

Cox Technic offered at Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic is well documented with biomechanical and clinical research studies to reduce back pain and neck pain and drop intradiscal pressures. It is effective. That is why Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic 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 allows for 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

Augusta 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 high-priced as well as life-changing category of chronic pain. (8) This type of Augusta spinal decompression reduces radiculopathy (leg pain) superiorly when put up against medical conservative care, primarily physical therapy (PT). (9) Additionally, 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

Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic offers chiropractic spinal decompression as spinal manipulation in the form of flexion distraction (aka Cox Technic). Your Augusta chiropractor at Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic is available to help Augusta back pain and neck pain patients get relief of and control their pain. Augusta chiropractic spinal decompression in the form of Cox Technic flexion distraction is insurance coded as spinal manipulation. It is chiropractic which current 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 initiated care for back pain. (11)

Schedule a Augusta chiropractic appointment with Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic for less expensive, quite effective, evidence-based, non-surgical spinal decompression.