Irvine DRX9000 Spinal Decompression
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Did You Know?

DRX9000 Spinal Decompression is painless, drug-free and non-surgical. Published scientific studies report effectiveness at 78% to 88.9%.

Medications and injections are only effective at numbing the pain – they do not address the cause of the pain. All medications are associated with some risk.

Physical therapy is a safe alternative to medication, but has similar limitations. Also, muscle strengthening treatments could make Disc Bulges and Disc Herniations worse.

Chiropractic is beneficial for less severe  Disc Bulges and Disc Herniations, but not recommended for severe cases

Of all options surgery is the most dangerous, the most expensive and has the lowest success rate

Surgery also has the longest recovery time and is the most painful treatment option

Comparison Between Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression and Other Treatments?

Patients may consider many different treatment options and these may incude:

Spinal Decompression

Oral Medication and/or Injected Medication

Physical Therapy

Chiropractic Treatment

Surgery

Spinal Decompression

Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression provides relief to back and neck pain sufferers by reducing the pressure within spinal discs. The bones of the spine are methodically separated using the  DRX-9000 Spinal Decompression Unit. As the bones are separated the pressure is reduced within the disc until a vacuum is formed. This vacuum “sucks” the jelly center of the disc back toward the center thereby reducing Disc Bulges or Disc Herniations. Significant Disc Bulge  and Disc Herniation reduction removes pressure from the spinal nerves and dramatically reduces pain and disability. This “sucking” vacuum also pulls very important oxygen, nutrients and fluid into the injured and Degenerated Discs allowing the healing to begin.

The DRX9000 Spinal Decompression treatment motion is computer controlled to provide gentle and painless decompression to the injured discs. The DRX-9000 treatment protocols have been demonstrated by scientific research to be 78% to 88.9% effective. Comparisons of pre-treatment MRIs to MRIs taken after treatment have shown significant, often dramatic, Disc Bulge and Disc Herniation reductions.

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Oral Medication and Injected Medications

Most treatment options available to sufferers of Bulged Discs and Herniated Discs are directed at masking pain, blocking inflammation or relaxing spasmed muscles with medication. The effectiveness of these treatments lasts only for as long as you take the medication even though the problem still exists behind the numbing effects of the drugs. Injections are used to reduce pain and inflammation near the spine. Many varieties of spinal injections exist including cortisone injections for inflammation and epidural pain injections. However, most injections are only a temporary solution and carry with them serious risks including infection.

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Physical Therapy

Physical therapy treatments vary by practitioner. Some methods provide modest benefit for Herniated Disc and Bulging Disc problems while others provide little to no benefit. The least effective methods focus only on pain control and, therefore, have the most of the same limitations as noted above with medication – mainly that they are temporary and do not address the cause of the pain. These treatments include the ice, electrical stimulation, ultrasound, cold laser therapy  treatments, massage, G-5 vibratory massager, iontophoresis ( a combination of electrical stimulation and medication) and phonophoresis (combining medication with ultrasound ). Muscular strengthening regimes, the mainstay of most physical therapy clinics, are often recommended to improve “core” spinal strength. Many of these methods have been shown to be beneficial at preventing future injury. However, research indicates that exercising an unstable spine can actually cause greater harm to the delicate disc and nerve tissue. Therefore, muscle stretching and strengthening techniques should be considered for only less severe spinal disc problems. This would also apply to self-directed exercise routines and exercise programs created by personal fitness trainers.

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Chiropractic Treatment

Research regarding chiropractic treatment of low back and neck pain is quite favorable. However, severe Disc Bulges and Disc Herniations tend to respond less well to chiropractic adjustive intervention. Chiropractic care is often redommended for mild to moderate cases of disc-related back and neck pain. In fact, severe Disc Herniations and Disc Bulges are considered a contraindication to certain chiropractic treatments. A Doctor of Chiropractic is the most qualified professional to determine whether such care would or would not be beneficial in your particular case. If chiropractic intervention is not appropriate for you then Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression would likely be recommended.

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Surgical Treatment Options for Disc Herniations and Disc Bulges

Surgery should always be considered an option of last resort. Surgery is the most dangerous of all available treatment options AND it is associated with the lowest success rates AND it has the longest recovery time AND it is the most expensive AND it is the most painful. In rare circumstances, surgery cannot be avoided. Patients with no other option than to forego conservative treatment and receive surgery include those with progressive neurological deficit  or cauda equina syndrome (bilateral sciatica, motor weakness in the lower extremities and/or loss of bowel and bladder control). Most all other cases should consider less dangerous, non-invasive treatments first.

Surgery has its risks. According to a study published in the respected medical journal, Spine (1991; 16[1]), 1 out of every 575 lumbar discectomy surgeries (a common low back spinal surgery) will involve severe vascular complications. Of these complications 37-61% will result in the patients's death. In other words, approximately 1 out of every 1000 low back discectomy patients will die as a direct result of the surgery.

Also, the risk associated with surgery is not always the procedure itself, but the general anesthesia necessary for the surgery. A small percentage of patients die each year or are permanently disabled as a result of both properly and improperly applied anesthesia. Some surgeons are beginning to incorporate epidural anesthesia into their less-invasive surgical protocols to reduce some of these risks.

The failure rate of surgery for back and neck pain is quite high. Approximately 200,000 patients undergo lumbar spine surgery each year. On average, approximately 53 percent (53%) of all lumbar spine disc surgeries fail to relieve symptoms. This according to a study published in International Orthopedics (1987; 11:255-259). The results from another study published in Spine (2004; 29[17]:1931-7) showed that 20-40 percent of patients fail to gain the desired outcome and 10 percent of patients will actually be worse after the initial surgery. This same study followed the progress of 3,362 patients that received spinal surgery. The results of a SF-36 Health Survey showed that patients with a history of spine surgery fared significantly worse on such areas as physical functioning, general health and mental health as compared to those patients with no prior history of spinal surgery. The researchers went on to comment that “[p]revious back surgery is associated with significantly worse general health status than those without surgery...”

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