Not too long ago, if you had a herniated or bulging disc, you only had two options:
1) Take handfuls of pain pills and learn to live with the pain as it eventually gets worse.
2) Take a chance on spinal surgery that does not have a great success rate and may make you worse.
The fact of the matter was, If you had a herniated or bulging disc, you were stuck between a rock and a hard place. Nothing non-surgical was proven to work and surgery had its obvious and scary drawbacks. Just like the neighborhoods we grew up in as kids have changed, so has medical technology. The only difference is, some of the advancements in medical technology have been good!
In recent years we have seen the emergence of what has been nothing short of a miracle for countless herniated and bulging disc sufferers. When non-surgical spinal decompression and the DRX 9000 first burst on the scene many patients and doctors were extremely skeptical. They asked, “why not traction, isn’t it the same?”
When you have a herniated disc, the outer shell of your spinal disc becomes torn. This allows the gel-like inner material of the disc to leak out and put pressure on the delicate spinal nerves. And in some cases, even the spinal cord itself. Just the weight of gravity pressing down on your spine as you stand and walk around will put pressure and squeeze the inner gel-like substance out even more. Even if the weight of gravity does not make the herniation worse (which it will most likely do over time), it keeps the herniation from going back into the disc where it belongs.
This makes sense if you think about it…Pull or distract the spine, and then the individual spinal bones will separate a little. If the individual spinal bones separate a little, it will create an opportunity for the herniated disc material to go back into place. So, what’s wrong with traction? Good question. Here’s a great answer!
Pass The Ketchup, Please…
If you’ve ever squeezed out some ketchup or mustard. What happens when you stop squeezing the bottle? The bottle goes back to its normal shape. And when that happens, a little bit of the ketchup or mustard at the end of the spout gets sucked back into the bottle. That’s what everyone hoped would happen with traction of the spine. The only problem is, your body and spine are much more complicated than a bottle of ketchup! When traction is applied to your spine, your muscles are pulled and have to stretch before the spinal bones can be separated. Since the area is injured, as soon as your muscles feel the traction forces pulling, they react to protect the injured area. The way they protect an injured area is to SPASM!!! This means they tighten up all at once as hard as a rock! If you have a herniated or bulging disc, you know what spasm is, and it ain’t no picnic. This reaction is definitely NOT what you want to create. It’s what you want to END!
That’s why doctors and patients were so skeptical when the DRX 9000 first came out. Doctors knew traction didn’t get the results from a clinical and scientific view. And patients that had tried it knew, plain and simple, it didn’t get them better and could hurt like heck!
Here’s why the DRX 9000 is so much different than ordinary traction…The DRX 9000 has a state-of-the-art computer system that senses exactly what your body is doing an amazing…17 Times per Second! This is extremely important because as the DRX 9000 begins to s-l-o-w-l-y and gently distract your spine, it knows almost INSTANTLY if your muscles are reacting to the treatment. If they are, the distraction immediately stops, BEFORE YOUR MUSCLES CAN CONTRACT AND GO INTO SPASM!!!!
The computer keeps sensing your body 17 times per second and as soon as your body is relaxed the distraction begins again. This process of cat and mouse continues, each time distracting your spine a teeny, tiny bit. In no time, your spinal bones are distracted and this is where the magic happens! When your spinal bones are distracted properly, a negative pressure is created inside the disc. Think back to that ketchup or mustard squeeze bottle again. The ketchup or mustard was sucked back into the bottle because when you stopped squeezing and the bottle went back to its normal shape…A negative pressure was created!!!
Is this case, the DRX 9000′s distraction of the spinal bones causes a similar negative pressure and the herniated part of your disc is sucked back into place. The entire procedure is painless, all because of this amazing technology and computer system.
Since everything else for herniated discs had failed so miserably, doctors and patients had a hard time believing this “theory” would actually work. That was until clinical trials proved just how well the DRX 9000 actually worked.
THE PROOF: 89% Success Rate…Up To One-Tenth The Cost.
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