A Personal Note from Dr. Steve Gandee

HOW SPINAL DECOMPRESSION WORKS

IT’S FDA APPROVED!

THERE IS NO PAIN WITH DECOMPRESSION CARE

Compression is when you have a balloon between your hands and slowly squeeze your hands together. You are compressing the balloon. If you compress too far, too fast, the balloon will pop. Not good. This balloon illustration is similar to what your back does to your discs, affecting the nerves, usually from some type of accident or injury. Decompression in when you take this compressed balloon and slowly pull your hands open, the balloon pulls itself back into its original position. This is good. The pressure is off. Relief! No more pain! Over time your body can heal naturally.

Our spinal decompression table is computer controlled and gives you a very gentle, consistent, non-invasive traction. There is NO PAIN with a decompression treatment. The old hospital traction units actually caused your spinal muscles to tighten, trying to protect itself, taunt, tight, spastic muscles actually interfere with your body’s ability to heal. We will program into the computer the necessary instructions based on your physical examination, personal history, age, physical condition, any x-rays and diagnosis. When we place you on the decompression table, usually on your back, you’ll lay there all relaxed and the computerized table does the rest. Some of our patients even fall asleep during the twenty minute treatment protocol. Relaxed muscles are the key to healing during the traction treatment. If your body is not relaxed, then to a large degree it is fighting the traction and you will not get the full benefit of what the decompression table can do and you will not heal as fast.

Here is what is happening to your spine when you are on the decompression table and answers why so many varied health problems can be helped with our treatment. Computerized spinal decompression therapy creates negative pressure in the disc which literally sucks the herniated or bulging disc back into its best, more normal position, thus taking pressure off of the nerve root. Simultaneously, the slow movement of the traction from relaxing to contracting to relaxing stimulates fluid movement within the disc, called imbibition; this type of movement rehydrates the disc with blood, oxygen and nerve energy that promotes healing.

By producing and sustaining this negative pressure between and within your disc, spinal decompression enables your disc to decompress, thus replenishing the much needed nutrients, fluids and oxygen to your injured, deteriorated or degenerated disc while at the same time working like a vacuum to draw your bulging, herniated or compressed disc back into place, reducing your nerve interference allowing your body to heal.

It’s wonderful just being able to help your painful lower back, neck or knee, but the really exciting, tell everyone, revolutionary healing, comes from the reduced pressure on your nerves. Pinched nerves can cause weakness in your immune system and allows disease to attack your body. Strong bodies free from nerve interference can and do fight sickness and disease on a regular basis. Bodies weakened by nerve interference can become sick and diseased. If your pinched nerve happens to go to your stomach, you will in turn have stomach issues. If the pinched nerve goes to your prostate, then you will have prostate issues, if your pinched nerve goes down to your leg, you can develop sciatica, and so on. If you reduce the nerve interference, then of course your body will have the opportunity to strengthen and begin the healing process related to any number of health conditions.

We have found that disc problems usually heal more quickly and easily than do systemic (organ) related conditions. Numbness, tingling and pain usually gets better in less time, and with fewer treatments than does say, kidney or lung issues. The basic reason for the time difference is that decompression therapy works directly on the disc. A direct result of a deteriorated or degenerated disc is nerve interference called a pinched nerve. But decompression really helps the healing process of the body no matter the name of your condition.

Our spinal decompression table is F.D.A. approved. Once you have been approved for care by one of our staff, we can begin your treatment. There are no negative side effects to decompression treatments. There is no pain, discomfort or other problems associated with decompression treatments. Our state of the art decompression units helps neck and lower back pain, as well as, shoulders, hips, knees, carpal tunnel, numbness, stenosis, sciatica, arthritis pain and neuropathy tingling. We believe that if the people of Ohio realized the healing ability associated with these types of decompression units, our office would have a line out the door and clear to the road, waiting for treatment. If you have any questions about decompression and what it could do for you or a loved one, please just ask us. We are here to help you and your family. You have to keep in mind that it is your body, no one else’s and you are only going to be as healthy as you take care of yourself. Decompression treatments work and these treatments are revolutionizing the healthcare industry towards using more non-invasive treatments while using less drugs and doing less surgery.

So don’t risk surgery so quickly. We like to say try decompression first, drugs second and surgery last.

Plus think about this...if you aren’t doing anything to help your body heal, to get stronger, then you are allowing your body to weaken, get sick, more painful. Your body will not stay the same, you must either help it stay as healthy as possible or you are allowing your body to weaken and become more painful with each passing day.

There is no better way to get stronger, healthier, stop your pain than with decompression treatments. So don’t put it off, it’s your body, your life, your future, your health!

I look forward to a consultation with you soon!

Dr. Steve Gandee