If you suffer from low back or neck pain, you owe it to yourself to try Spinal Decompression Therapy. This new therapy is based on the technique of gently stretching spinal vertebra and succeeds in reducing or even eliminating pain for many.

Back pain is the second most frequent reason that people visit their doctors with more than 14 million office visits reported annually. Unfortunately, the options are often pain medication or surgery. According to Ellis Health Centre – Spinal Decompression Therapy offers an alternative. Spinal Decompression Therapy is a non-invasive procedure, which offers not only pain relief but even long-term results for many of the typical causes of back pain.

Spinal Decompression Therapy uses a computerized program with specific times and weights individualized for each patient to electronically stretch and decompress your spinal structures. During the pull phase, injured discs are gently stretched apart, producing a suction force inside the disc. This draws disc buldges and herniations back into the center of the disc along with oxygen, water, nutrients, and other healing substances. Spinal Decompression Therapy uses FDA cleared equipment.

Dr. Ellis states, “This is the newest approach to safely and comfortably treat the actual cause of low back (lumbar) or neck (cervical) pain…without surgery. Back pain sufferers with bulging, herniated discs, sciatica (pain shooting down a person’s legs), degenerative disc conditions and more, finally have an alternative to often risky, expensive surgery. There are thousands of these devices around the country, but Spinal Decompression Therapy appears to offer the best results and the best long-term benefits”.

Dr. Ellis continues, “Spinal Decompression Therapy, which we offer in our clinic, is an exciting treatment plan. Combined with core stabilization exercises and therapeutic rehabilitation we’re promoting the bodies own healing power. In our practice we strive in helping our patient’s get their lives back to where they were before their back and neck pain. Spinal Decompression Therapy, along with a proactive approach to the patients’ rehabilitation may be the best way to achieve long lasting results.”

Many patients report that this therapy has almost immediate results and begin to feel pain relief within a few treatment sessions. Dr. Ellis says, “pain is the body’s way of telling you something is wrong, and is usually the only indication that you have structural damage in your discs. Pain relief is usually the first sign that things are getting better. However we stress to our patients that pain relief does not mean your discs are healed. We recommend our patients stay with our prescribed treatment protocol in order to achieve the best long-term results.”

Some of the benefits of Spinal Decompression Therapy include:

• This is a non-surgical procedure, no injections, needles and totally non-invasive
• Recovery time, if any, is minimal
• Patient comfort is a key component for determining appropriateness of treatment at all times
• Patients are always fully clothed and can stop the procedure at any time with the press of a button.

“We want to get the word out to the greater St. James area that there really is an alternative to surgery and that people really don’t have to suffer any longer. For many people Spinal Decompression Therapy may be the answer to helping them end their suffering” says Dr. Ellis.

For more information about Spinal Decompression Therapy, contact Ellis Health Centre.

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