Non Surgical Decompression And Spinal Stenosis: Can It Help?

Spinal Stenosis or the narrowing of the spinal canal or a nerve canal opening is not uncommon especially as we age.  Commonly, routine therapies, medication and the like have not been particularly effective.

So, can non-invasive spinal decompression methods help???

Answer:  Yes – but not in all types of stenosis.

Stenosis can be bony or functional.  In bony stenosis, the internal walls of the bone have thickened like stalagmites or stalactites which poke inward into a cavern or a cave.  This hard bone narrows the canal size and compresses the spinal cord and nerves.  Patients often get relief by leaning forward or sitting but have difficulty standing and walking any distance. These types of cases do not respond well to non surgical decompression and often do need surgical decompression often called a laminectomy.

However, sometime the stenosis is functional. In other words, multiple disc bulges or herniation are poking or leaning into the  spinal canal and functionally narrowing it.  Non Surgical Decompression methods can help these cases by reducing the bulges/herniation and rehydrating discs to enhance the space in between each vertebrae. While these cases are challenging , just a small percentage of pressure reduction can reduce symptoms and pain to a much more tolerable level and thus allow the patients to avoid surgical interventions.  Thus, the outcomes can be quite satisfactory.

Each case is different and needs to be evaluated by an experienced decompression specialist.

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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.