Spinal decompression. It’s common
today in back pain management for back pain relief. Vancouver Spine Care Centre knows our Vancouver
chiropractic patients are curious about spinal decompression, too. Here is a discussion about Vancouver spinal
decompression and how Vancouver Spine Care Centre addresses spinal decompression with Cox Technic.
Vancouver 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 generated by 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)
Vancouver Spine Care Centre concurs with this description
and aspires to do just that with Vancouver chiropractic care via spinal manipulation in the form of Cox Technic flexion distraction and decompression spinal manipulation.
Vancouver Chiropractic Spinal Decompression: Cox Technic
Cox Technic offered at Vancouver Spine Care Centre is well
documented with biomechanical and clinical research studies to reduce back pain
and neck pain and drop intradiscal pressures. It is effective. That’s why Vancouver Spine Care Centre 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 decreases 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
Vancouver 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, preventing back pain sufferers from crossing
over into the more expensive as well as life-changing
category of chronic pain. (8) This type of Vancouver spinal decompression
eases radiculopathy (leg pain) superiorly
when put up against medical conservative care, primarily
physical therapy (PT). (9) Additionally, patients treated
with spinal decompression as Cox Technic sought less
care (3) and described less pain (4) in the following year of the study than did the PT patients.
Effectiveness and Cost of Chiropractic Spinal Decompression
Vancouver Spine Care Centre offers chiropractic spinal decompression as
spinal manipulation in the form of flexion distraction (aka Cox Technic). Your
Vancouver chiropractor at Vancouver Spine Care Centre is ready to
help Vancouver back pain and neck pain patients get relief of
and control their pain. Vancouver chiropractic spinal decompression in
the form of Cox Technic flexion distraction is insurance coded as spinal
manipulation. It is chiropractic which current
published reports report as being less
expensive than 2% of the total fee to treat a
lumbar herniated disc (10) and costing 40% less than medical doctor started
care for back pain. (11)
Contact Vancouver Spine Care Centre
Schedule a Vancouver chiropractic appointment with
Vancouver Spine Care Centre for economical, quite effective,
evidence-based, non-surgical spinal decompression.