Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression | Natural Back Pain Treatment

Spinal Decompression

Also known as non-surgical decompression, this type of therapy can often be used very effectively in treatment of severe and often debilitating painful spinal conditions involving the low back or neck.

What is Spinal Decompression therapy?

Back pain due to a herniated, degenerated or bulging disc or stenosis of the spine can be debilitating and change your life in devastating ways. In the past, surgery was the only answer. Today, the use of our spinal decompression table allows us to relieve the pain, weakness and loss of sensation that is often a part of disabling back conditions.

How does spinal decompression therapy work to relieve pain?

Using a state-of-the-art computerized technology and the Accu-SPINA® Decompression machine, we are able to create a gentle stretch and relaxation in the painful areas of the spine. The computer program is customized by Dr. Zilliox for each individual patient. It works by, over time, separating the vertebrae, causing a vacuum-like effect moving the herniated or bulging disc back where it belongs. There is also a vacuum-like effect that draws nutrients and hydration into the affected areas. This helps them to heal faster and more completely. This specialized treatment is not traction; traction cannot do this.

Accu-SPINA® | What makes IDD Therapy dramatically more effective than basic spinal decompression therapy?

By combining technology with the science of biomechanics, we have developed a treatment to enable clinicians to target individual spinal segments, both lumbar and cervical, which gently creates space in the vertebrae surrounding an injured disc. Precise cycling from active to passive tensions enable the Accu-SPINA® to deliver graduating neuromuscular re-education to spinal structures and surrounding tissues while decompressing and rehydrating the disc.

[In technical terms, during the treatment, the intradiscal pressure is reduced from a positive to a negative pressure. This negative pressure may induce a flow of water, oxygen and nutrients into the vertebral disc area to promote improvement in disc health.]

Using the Accu-SPINA® system, IDD Therapy® treatment delivers a highly effective and effortless physical therapy session for the patient.

A hallmark of our approach is that we continually evaluate the potential & capabilities of the Accu-SPINA system, applying the latest advancements in technology and medicine to consistently deliver the best outcomes for patients.

What conditions are treated with non-surgical decompression?

Fortunately, many common back pain problems such as Disc Herniation (Fig.1), with or without Sciatica (Fig.2), Degenerating Discs (Fig.3), and Spinal Stenosis (Fig.4) are treated with a high level of success. The risk is very low, and the benefit is often life changing for the better.

What is the difference between non-surgical spinal decompression and surgical decompression?

Surgical decompression is done under anesthesia and is performed by medical professionals with instruments that cut open the skin and other tissues with the intent to remove disc, bone growths and parts of the vertebrae that may be causing nerve pressure. Often following the removal of these structures, the spine is unstable and must be secured with screws and metal plates which are placed there permanently.