Are All Decompression Clinics Created Equal Or What To Look For When Choosing A Decompression Center? Part I
For quite awhile now, I’ve been conducting several consultations each week with severe pain sufferers who have already “treated” with… and failed… other centers offering some sort of
decompression program. When I ask why they would visit with me after failing “decompression” procedures they would all respond in a similar fashion something like this …. “I sensed decompression should work for me but wasn’t. My friend/doctor/one of our other patients told me about your clinic and it sounded almost totally different from the care I was receiving at the other place”.
So here’s a quick list of what to look for before agreeing to a starting a decompression program:
- Decompression therapy should last between 25-40 minutes per session.. Non- Surgical Decompression CANNOT work with less than adequate number of cycles per session. (not 10 or 15 minutes like many clinics are doing)
- Rest time during the decompression treatment is as important as the actual decompression time.
- The amount of force should start at no more than 40 pounds for most woman and 50 pounds for most men. As treatment progresses, I rarely go over 75-80 pounds regardless of the patient’s size including the huge professional and high level athletes and bodybuilders that have treated with me. You should barely sense anything is happening when on the treatment. If you’re muscles are sensing the decompression and contracting it will definitely nullify any positive affects of the decompression and may even injure the discs further.(not half the body weight or other such nonsense)
- Decompression bracing must be applied appropriately as what goes on in between sessions can seriously affect your outcome to treatment. (varies patient to patient)
- Ask the clinic director or doctor: Will a doc who is a decompression expert be monitoring my care visit to visit? It cannot be a physical therapist, tech or any one who is not highly trained in the details of proper decompression application. It is not simply getting strapped on a table by a tech and lying there for a few minutes. Decompression is delicate balance of high level technology and artful application of that technology.
More on which decompression technology is best and other questions answered on my next communiqué……
Dr. Dave Podell
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About Dr. Podell, DC: Dr. Dave Podell, DC has been in active practice for over 25 years and has seen countless numbers of the most difficult and previously failed cases. As the clinic director of the Watefront Spine Institute in Edgewater, New Jersey, just minutes from the GW Bridge, Lincoln Tunnel and midtown Manhattan, Dr. Podell, DC runs one of the Northeast’s most advanced and evolutionary multi-disciplinary clinics for the treatment of disc herniation and associated ailments. Dr. Podell, DC sits on the advisory board of Spinal Aid Centers Of America and trains other health care providers in the science and art of non surgical spinal decompression in his Edgewater facility. He continues to train and advance his clinic’s state of the art spinal rehabilitation programs and is known nationwide in his field. He is additionally certified in neurodiagnostic evaluations, Spinal Manipulation Under Anasthesia and Disability Impairment rating. In addition to NSSD, he had received advanced training in Spinal Chiropractic Biophysics, Active Therapeutic Techniques, MedX and Spine Force Spinal Rehabilitation, Extremity manipulation, orthopedics and neurology.
