Spinal Decompression Therapy is performed on a specially designed table in either a face up or face down position. Clinical consideration and your comfort are used in deciding which position will be best for you. You will remain fully dressed during the treatment.

Once comfortable on the table the computer-controlled traction device is programmed to deliver a gentle stretching force to the spinal vertebra. The system applies the gentle force then releases it approximately every minute throughout the session. The total treatment time is typically 20 minutes. Most patients report simply feeling a subtle and gentle stretching affect. Since Decompression Therapy is a comfort-based procedure, patients usually report a sense of relief and relaxation during the session. Many patients even fall to sleep.

The gentle stretching and relaxing of the spine allows a normal disc to get nutrition. This stretching promotes nutrition intake into the discs, something often lost in damaged and degenerative disc conditions. In a healthy spine, nutrition is achieved naturally with daily motions and body positions and accounts for the increase of disc thickness in the morning and decrease at night. A disc with fewer nutrients and hydration, is more likely to become injured and painful. Decompression can re-supply the disc with nutrients and blood contact that help the disc heal from the inside out. Also the dramatic decrease of pressure in the disc (decompression) can foster the drawing in of a bulge and help take pressure off a “pinched” spinal nerve.