Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression for Bulging Discs, Herniated Discs and Ruptured Discs

Call our office at (949) 857-1888 to schedule a complimentary consultation and MRI Review. You can also request an appointment online by clicking here.

You found this page because you or someone you know is suffering with a bulging, degenerated or herniated disc and are  experiencing back or neck pain, sciatica, pain down your arm or your leg or numbness and tingling. You may have  tried numerous drugs, chiropractic, physical therapy or massage therapy, dangerous spinal injections or maybe even spinal surgery just to discover it didn’t work.

The problem is that those treatments don’t create healthier discs.

It’s that simple.

Please read closely.

A symptom, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is:

something that indicates the existence of something else.

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It’s like the dashboard of your car when the check engine light comes on. It means that there’s something wrong with your engine. There’s no problem with the light itself. The light is simply telling you that there’s a problem that needs to be fixed.

You can put a piece of duct tape over  the light or even remove the dashboard and do surgery to cut the wires that are  keeping the light on, but it will not fix the problem. If you  ignore the light your car will eventually stop working since you are neglecting the problem.

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One of the major distinctions in our office is that we don’t treat ‘symptoms’. We do not treat ‘conditions’. We create a treatment plan for you to address the underlying problem in your disc that is causing your pain and other symptoms.

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Now let’s talk about the anatomy of the spinal disc:

The healthy spinal disc is 86% water and needs water, oxygen and nutrients to continue to survive.

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A unique feature of the spinal disc is that it is avascular (‘without blood’) which is a fancy word that means it does  not have a direct blood supply. The only way the disc gets the water, oxygen and nutrients – the circulation – that it needs to survive is by a very specific mechanism called the ‘pump mechanism’ of disc nutrition. This mechanism works as we move and works like a pump. If you injure the disc the pump mechanism does not work properly
and over time will cause bulging discs, herniated discs and degenerative disc disease and, possibly, spinal stenosis.

So the main problem causing your pain and symptoms is the failure of the pump mechanism.

Now let’s say we have a generic water pump providing water (AKA ‘circulation’) to a plant.

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If one day that pump fails it will cause a decrease in circulation to that plant. Well, what happens to any type of tissue – whether it be plant, animal or human tissue – if it loses circulation?

Exactly.

It will cause the tissue to become weak and eventually die. This is exactly what is happening in your spinal discs. The pump mechanisms are no longer working and the disc needs circulation to be able to heal and repair.

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The treatment that we provide in our office will fix your pump mechanism that is not working in your injured spinal discs.

 

So you have a decision to make. You can either continue to treat the symptoms of your serious spinal discs which has not worked up to this point or you can finally do something to fix the underlying cause of you’re disc problems.

The Solution

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Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression provides relief to severe back and neck pain sufferers by gently reducing the pressure within spinal discs. The bones of the spine are slowly and methodically separated using the state-of-the-art DRX9000 Spinal Decompression Unit. As the vertebrae are separated pressure is slowly reduced within the disc (intradiscal pressure) until a vacuum is formed. This vacuum “sucks” the gelatinous center of the disc back inside thereby reducing the disc bulge or disc herniation. Significant disc bulge reduction removes pressure off the spinal nerves and drastically reduces pain and disability. This “sucking” vacuum also pulls much-needed oxygen, nutrients and fluid into injured and degenerated discs allowing the healing to begin.

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Conditions that Respond Well to Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression:

  • Sciatica
  • Numbness, Tingling or Sharp Pain in the Arms or Down the Legs
  • Bulging Disc in the Low Back
  • Bulging Disc in the Neck
  • Herniated Disc in the Low Back
  • Herniated Disc in the Neck
  • Ruptured Disc in the Low Back
  • Ruptured Disc in the Neck
  • Pinched Nerve
  • Degenerative Disc Disease

Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression is Gentle and Painless

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The treatment motion is computer controlled to provide gentle and painless decompression of the injured spinal discs. Advanced DRX9000 decompression techniques separate slowly and cycle between brief moments of pulling and relaxing (oscillation). This reduces protective muscle spasm that contributed to the poor success rate of outdated “traction” techniques. The DRX9000 also incorporates advanced angulated elongation methods to target specific discs of the spine (for example: L5/S1 at the base of the spine). “Angulated Elongation” refers to the angle at which the healing decompression force is applied. This allows the treatment to rely less on brute force (separating multiple levels with high force as seen with outdated traction techniques) and more on finesse (using less decompressive force to focus on a single spinal segment) to rehabilitate individual spinal discs.

Call our office at (949) 857-1888 to schedule a complimentary consultation and MRI Review. You can also request an appointment online by clicking here.