Your spine plays a vital role in upper body movement and protecting the organs in your chest, but it also helps with so much more. This highly flexible part of your skeleton has more than 450 working parts, withstands hundreds of pounds of pressure, and sends messages throughout your body through the spinal cord.
When dealing with back pain, which as many as 80% of Americans will struggle with during their lives, spinal problems can contribute to the discomfort. The effects can be limiting in everyday life, but to alleviate the pain due to spinal conditions, nonsurgical decompression can be very helpful.
Dallas, Texas, residents struggling with back problems from spinal conditions can find help from Dr. Corey Skinner and our dedicated medical team at Action Chiropractic Dallas.
Pain and other symptoms in your back, like numbness, tingling, and arm and leg pain, can stem from several spinal issues, including:
Another possible cause is cervical spondylosis. When the cervical discs shorten in size, it can lead to spinal compression and pinched nerves.
This treatment can help alleviate pain and nerve pressure by opening up spaces in your spinal column. We accomplish this through mechanical traction, which gently stretches the spine to relieve pressure, reposition damaged discs, and allow an influx of healing nutrients into those areas.
The treatment starts with you on the traction table, your hips attached to a harness at the lower part of the table. This can be done with you lying face down or face up. Your upper body remains still as the table slides back and forth, providing traction and relaxation. You will experience the stretching of your spine, but it won’t be painful.
When first-line treatments to reduce spinal pain fail to be effective, like ice or heat therapy, resting, pain medications, stretches, or back braces, nonsurgical decompression becomes an option. Other back conditions may indicate this method as well, such as degenerative disc disease (DDD), frequent issues with slipped discs, spinal stenosis, spinal cord injuries, and sciatica.
Back pain happens to people all the time, but you don’t have to live with it, and treatments like nonsurgical decompression can help. Make an appointment online or by phone with Dr. Skinner and Action Chiropractic Dallas today to find the best solution for your spinal problems.
