Treatment of severe chronic back and neck pain

Spinal Decompression offers the most advanced technology available for the treatment of severe chronic back and/or neck pain. Conditions treated include herniated discs, bulging or protruding discs, degenerative disc disease, stenosis, spinal arthritis, posterior facet syndrome and sciatica.

Spinal Decompression is revolutionary. It is non-surgical, non-invasive, and has no known side effects. It is proven to be successful even with patients who have had limited success with other conventional therapies like drugs, injections, chiropractic, physiotherapy, massage, acupuncture, and even failed surgery.

Spinal Decompression creates a unique and highly specific force that gently stretches the spine, causing negative pressure to develop in the damaged disc. This causes the disc bulge (or herniation) to move off of the injured nerve and retract back into the disc. At the same time, the negative pressure also draws water, oxygen and nutrients back into the disc, restoring and rejuvenating the disc towards a normal height. During the course of Spinal Decompression care your pain diminishes as the disc heals.

The NEW DRX9000 is considered by many doctors to be the leading technology in Spinal Decompression. The technology behind the DRX9000 allows for customized and specific decompression care for each patient. It is very different from generalized traction, an antiquated device that is unable to single out and target a specific damaged disc the way Spinal Decompression can.
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The DRX9000’s internal computer is programmed by the doctor to target the exact location of your damaged disc for care. During each treatment session, the pulling forces you experience are calculated specifically for you. The DRX9000 on-board computer monitors the decompression forces – 4,000 times per second — and adjusts them as needed based on your body’s response to treatment. This ensures that you experience an accurate and pain-free session.

The Patient Experience

During each treatment session, the patient lies on a heavily-padded comfortable bed, secured into position by an upper- and lower-body harness. Typically, each session is divided into cycles where spinal decompression forces alternate between a maximum and minimum therapeutic level. The cycling of forces in this manner creates a pumping action that simulates the natural processes responsible for re-nourishing and healing your damaged disc. Most patients experience a gentle stretch in the lumbar spine (or neck). Patients find this therapy quite comfortable and even relaxing. Few patients may experience mild muscular soreness during treatment, similar to what one might feel when starting a new exercise regimen. Adjunctive therapies are prescribed to support the benefits of Spinal Decompression therapy. After the course of care is complete, patients return for evaluation and monitoring.

Some Interesting Facts

Research studies consistently show an incredibly high success rate with qualified patients who complete their program of Spinal Decompression care:

• On average, eighty-six percent of patients report immediate resolution of symptoms
• Eighty-four percent remain pain-free 90 days post-treatment
• Use of pain medications is usually completely discontinued or decreased by the patient’s MD
• Daily life activities are resumed – things such as work, bathing, dressing, walking, sleeping and sports.

No other treatment or therapy for severe back and neck pain caused by damaged discs is as effective.
Spinal Decompression is helping thousands of people find relief from their back and neck pain — without injections, medication or surgery.

Dr. Ron Nusbaum is the Director of Back Clinics of Canada. He has been in practice for 21 years, helping those suffering from severe, chronic back pain and neck pain achieve a pain-free life and regain vitality and strength. Dr. Nusbaum has performed more than 4,000 Spinal Decompression sessions over the last two years, and his patients experience an unprecedented success rate when they follow his program of care.

Back Clinics of Canada serves primarily the Southern Ontario Region, but patients do come from across Canada and the United States, and sometimes from overseas.

Following precautions/measures can save you from neck pain:

• Proper posture while sitting – keep your head & back straight.
• While working on computer or viewing TV move around periodically and do some stretching exercises to relieve tension/stiffness of the neck. Avoid continuously sitting for a long time in one position.
• While lifting heavy things do not bend your back & neck. Sit down with your knees bend; keep the heavy object close to your body while lifting.
• Sleep on a hard bed while lying on your back. Do not sleep on your stomach.
• When there is swelling or pain in the neck apply heating pads on the neck.
• Do regular exercises/yogaasanas to keep your neck flexible.

You may get relief in neck pain by doing following exercises if the pain is not due to any injury or other medical reasons.

Stretch your arms in front of you, parallel to the ground at shoulder height level and palms of both the hands should be facing ground. Close the fists in such a way that your thumbs remain inside; rotate your fists in clockwise direction. While rotating fists your hands should remain straight & may not bend at elbow. Now rotate your fists in anticlockwise direction & keep normal breathing. You should do these exercise 15-20 times from both the hands.

• Place your both the hands on shoulders & join elbows in front of you & make big zero in clock wise direction. While rotating your arm your elbows should touch each other with every rotation. Repeat this exercise in anticlockwise direction. You should do at least ten rotations in both the directions with normal breathing. You can do these exercises in your office also while working on computers for long time.

• Raise your both the hands over your head & catch the right wrist with your left hand & left wrist with your right hand. Take a deep breath & pull the right hand with your left hand in such a way that elbow of your right hand should come behind your head. Now exhale & repeat this exercise from left hand.

• Interlock fingers of both the hands & place them behind your head. Take deep breath & put pressure in opposite direction from hand to your head & from head to hand. It will strengthen the muscles of your upper spine.

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