Georgetown Spinal Decompression

Spinal decompression. It’s common today in back pain management for back pain relief. Dr. Butwell knows our Georgetown chiropractic patients hear about spinal decompression, too. Here is a discussion about Georgetown spinal decompression and how Dr. Butwell addresses spinal decompression with Cox Technic.

Georgetown Spinal Decompression Defined

Spinal decompression is defined by the oft-referenced website “WebMD” as a gentle stretching of the spine that changes the force and position of the spine to take pressure off the spinal discs. How? The negative pressure produced from spinal decompression over time may assist by reducing herniated discs and taking pressure off of the spinal nerves and other spinal structures and allow water, oxygen, and nutrient-rich fluids to get into the discs so they can heal. (12) Dr. Butwell goes along with this description and aspires to do just that with Georgetown chiropractic care via spinal manipulation with the system known as Cox Technic flexion distraction and decompression spinal manipulation.

Georgetown Chiropractic Spinal Decompression: Cox Technic

Cox Technic offered at Dr. Butwell is well documented with biomechanical and clinical research studies to reduce back pain and neck pain and drop intradiscal pressures. It’s effective. That is why Dr. Butwell chooses to apply it. A team of chiropractic and medical researchers and research-center based as well as private-practice clinicians design the studies, participate in them, and publish the outcomes of these multi-disciplinary, federally funded, multi-facility, randomized clinical control trials using the published protocols documented in textbooks and journals. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Biomechanical Outcomes (6)

Spinal decompression via Cox Technic biomechanically allows for lumbar spine intradiscal pressure drops to as low as -192 mmHg and increases in intervertebral foramen nerve opening area by 28% and disc height by 2mm. (7) Spinal decompression via Cox Technic creates cervical spine intradiscal pressure drops of as much as 168 kPa (kilopascals) which is about 1260 mmHg. (13) Cox Technic spinal decompression takes pressure off the spinal discs and nerves.

Clinical Outcomes

Georgetown chiropractic spinal decompression with Cox Technic results in back pain relief for lumbar spine back pain patients in an average of 12 visits and 29 days. (8) In the 1000 cases study, 91% of participating chiropractic patients found relief in less than 90 days, keeping back pain sufferers from entering the more high-priced as well as life-altering category of chronic pain. (8) This type of Georgetown spinal decompression lessens radiculopathy (leg pain) superiorly compared to medical conservative care, mainly physical therapy (PT). (9) Additionally, patients cared for with spinal decompression as Cox Technic obtained less care (3) and reported less pain (4) in the following year of the study than did the PT patients.

Effectiveness and Cost of Chiropractic Spinal Decompression

Dr. Butwell offers chiropractic spinal decompression as spinal manipulation in the form of flexion distraction (aka Cox Technic). Your Georgetown chiropractor at Dr. Butwell is ready to help Georgetown back pain and neck pain patients reduce and control their pain. Georgetown chiropractic spinal decompression in the form of Cox Technic flexion distraction is insurance coded as spinal manipulation. It’s chiropractic which current published studies document as being less expensive than 2% of the total fee to treat a lumbar herniated disc (10) and costing 40% less than medical doctor initiated care for back pain. (11)

Schedule a Georgetown chiropractic appointment with Dr. Butwell for less expensive, quite effective, evidence-based, non-surgical spinal decompression.