Spinal decompression techniques such as vertebral axial decompression (VaxD) are giving many people with chronic back pain a new hope for a normal life. While these techniques are not right for everyone, treatments such as VaxD are proving very effective for treating sciatica, herniated or bulging discs and degenerative disc disease. Spinal decompression procedures are making it possible to get relief from back pain without surgery, injections or dangerous and addictive medications.

There are many reasons why people begin to suffer from chronic back pain. Sometimes it is just a sign of the aging process, while other times it is the result of long-term repetitive stress due to an occupation, poor spinal posture and slow deterioration of spinal health. Injuries to the cervical spine of the neck and the lumbar spine of the lower back are also common causes of back pain. Treatments such as VaxD address the core issues that cause many cases of pain in the spinal column.

In order to understand what these spinal decompression techniques are addressing, it is important to understand how the spinal column works. This important component of the human body consists of 25 vertebrae with intervertebral discs between each of them to act as shock absorbing shields and allow the spine to bend, twist and turn. People who are not suffering from back pain have tough and flexible cartilage pads with inner jelly-like components that the discs rely when pressure is put upon them and are similar to a sponge. People with back pain might be experiencing a bulging of these pads, or the jelly-like material within the disc may even become ruptured. Many other back pain sufferers experience pain associated with pinched nerves from cervical spine injuries and sciatica.

Spinal decompression techniques such as VaxD alleviate the pain associated with spinal problems using FDA compliant machines that gently stretch the spine, gradually reducing the pressure on the affected discs by slowly drawing the vertebrae apart. VaxD is particularly successful in this area because it uses the patented smooth logarithmic curve method to distract the spine. This procedure is giving hope to millions of Americans for a life without pain.