Spinal Decompression Newport Beach
What this is used for
- Disc bulges and herniations
- Pain travelling into a leg or arm
- Degenerative disc changes
- Symptoms that ease when you sit down
Decompression is motorised traction with a computer deciding the pattern. You lie on a table in a harness, and the machine applies and releases a pull along the axis of the spine over a session of roughly fifteen to twenty minutes.
What Spinal Decompression Newport Beach involves
The pull is not constant. It builds, holds, and eases in a cycle, because a sustained pull triggers the surrounding muscle to guard against it and the guarding cancels out the effect. Varying the force keeps the muscle from catching on, which is the whole reason the equipment exists rather than a simple weight and pulley.
Spinal Decompression Newport Beach patients receive is set to the individual: the angle changes depending on which level is involved, and the load is worked up over the first few sessions rather than started at target.
What a session feels like
A steady stretch through the low back or neck that comes and goes. Most people find it unremarkable. Some find it noticeably relieving while it is running, which is a good sign but not a reliable predictor of the final result.
Who tends to benefit
People with disc bulges or herniations, with pain that travels into a leg or arm along a nerve path, with degenerative disc changes, or with stenosis-type symptoms that ease when they sit down. It is also worth considering for those who have had back surgery and have symptoms at an adjacent level.
It is not for everyone. Fracture, advanced osteoporosis, spinal hardware, tumour and pregnancy all rule it out, and we screen for those before booking a course. If the examination suggests decompression is the wrong tool, we will say so rather than sell a package.