Colorado has A Non-Surgical Solution for Chronic Low Back Pain in Fort Collins

Vertebral Axial Decompression  is a non-invasive treatment for the management of patients with chronic back pain and leg pain from lumbar disc and facet joint pathology (disease). Vertebral Axial, or Spinal Decompression is an effective and safe procedure without any of the risks associated with surgery, injections, or anesthesia. Time off work or in recovery is minimal, and resolution of symptoms is long lasting. Medicine in the United States is widely regarded as the best in the world. Still, patient dissatisfaction with current treatments for back pain (spine) has rarely been more acute. 

Patients are becoming more educated about their own conditions, and they are seeking out non-invasive treatments such as Vertebral Axial, or Spinal Decompression. In the majority of patients, acute back pain symptoms resolve on their own in one to two months. Those that fail to resolve are then routinely referred to orthopedists or neurosurgeons.

For persons under age 45, low back problems are the most common cause of disability. Treating a patient with chronic low back pain can often be one of the most challenging situations for the physician. Back pain is frequently treated in an episodic manner, with a multitude of treatments such as drugs, heat and cold, bed-rest, chiropractic/ manipulation, physical therapy, exercises, acupuncture, TENS, epidural injections, prolotherapy, IDET (Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy or heat cauterization with an electrothermal catheter) and the various types of surgery.

Many of these are simply aimed at providing temporary reduction of symptoms without altering the underlying disease process or addressing the pathophysiology associated with lumbar discogenic disorders. Physicians are faced with the fact that there is no universally accepted algorithm for the care of such patients. 

Often, the patient is led to surgery. Surgical decompression of intervertebral discs has been established for the management of disabling low back pain and sciatic pain. In many cases surgery may disrupt the natural biomechanical functions essential to preserve pain-free spinal mobility. Before resorting to a surgical approach it makes common sense to try a non-destructive, inherently safe procedure.

Vertebral Axial or Spinal Decompression offers a safe, cost effective and conservative management program to manage acute and chronic low back problems. Vertebral Axial Decompression can relieve the pain associated with herniated discs, degenerative disc disease, posterior facet syndrome and radicular pain.

Related Research:

Journal Of Neuroimaging. MRI Evidence of Non-Surgical Mechanical Reduction, Rehydration, and Repair of the Herniated Lumbar Disc.  Click Here for Article

Occupational Medicine. Clinical Care Update. Decompression: A Treatment for Back Pain. Click Here for Article

Don't suffer another day with severe or chronic neck or low back pain! Call Irwin Family Chiropractic in Fort Collins today for your free no obligation consultation to see if Spinal Decompression treatment is right for your chronic back pain.