Spinal Decompression Therapy: Is It Right for You?

The discomfort resulting from back pain can affect your daily activities and quality of life. It can make it hard or even impossible to focus on any task, causing much inconvenience. If you have experienced such pain, the persistent symptoms may make you want to find immediate and long-term relief.

You may have explored different options such as heat packs, massages, epidurals, or exercises in your quest to get relief. However, the respite could often be temporary, and you get back to experiencing discomfort. Fortunately, spinal decompression therapy can help you.

What Is Spinal Decompression?

Spinal decompression therapy is a treatment that aims to reduce the conditions and pain affecting the spine. Untreated spinal nerve disorders can cause a lot of pain. You can also develop issues that may be more disabling, like bone spurs, incontinence, and paralysis.

Benefits of Spinal Decompression

The main benefit of spinal decompression is the improvement of your spinal nerve functioning. You remain injury free, pain free, and active due to the nerves in your spine. Your ability to move your limbs and muscles can decrease if your spine has pinched nerves. The therapy ensures your spinal nerves and spine are free from any pressure to improve your well-being.

Spinal decompression therapy helps prevent back pain caused by spinal health problems. As such, it is a preventative health care treatment that helps reduce your risk of injuring your back or spine. It offers relief for individuals who want an effective and quick solution for their pain. You can resume your usual activities after the therapy without any downtime.

Who Needs Spinal Decompression?

Spinal decompression may be the treatment for you if you experience numbness in your legs or arms or have lower back pain. You may also need the treatment if your doctor diagnoses you with a chronic illness such as:

·      Facet syndrome

·      Bulging disc

·      Spinal stenosis

·      Herniated disc

·      Degenerative disc disease

Spinal decompression improves your overall spinal health, and also suits women who experience back pain due to pregnancy, children suffering from childhood spinal conditions such as scoliosis, elderly, and your  those with a compromised immune system compromised. 

You may also need spinal decompression therapy if you are an active adult and need to treat chronic pain without downtime or painkillers.

Recovery 

Spinal decompression therapy is nonsurgical. Thus, the treatment may require little to no period of recovery. Most patients resume their daily routines immediately after the treatment. You can also go for multiple therapy sessions in one week. The treatment provides improvements after several sessions. Some people may need up to six therapy sessions to experience significant improvement.

For more about spinal decompression, visit Nova Chiropractic at one of our offices in Charlotte, North Carolina or call  (704) 817-8185 to book your appointment.