Huge Lawsuit Strikes Decompression Equipment Manufacturer
I was recently made aware that a massive multi-million dollar lawsuit has been filed against the manufacturers of the DRX 9000/9000C decompression machine.
Now, the DRX is a fine machine and has helped, and will continue to help, many people who are properly screened for candidacy…. and treated with the appropriate protocol for their particular condition. But… seems like the folks at Axiom Worldwide, the DRX’s manufacturer, may have gotten a bit overzealous marketing to various health care providers in regard to their machine’s “money making” ability not to mention the medical literature and claims provided to those doctors for distribution and marketing to patients.
Whether these guys at Axiom may have gone over the line with their marketing campaigns will be up to the powers that be to decide. But don’t get the message mixed up with the messenger.
You see, the DRX is a just a machine that provides non-surgical decompression. A machine based on sound mechanical principals that can, in a favorable number of cases, get anywhere from just acceptable to remarkable results when applied properly to the appropriate type of patient. And of course, it must be carried out by skilled and ethical practitioners.
It is not, however, a panacea or miracle cure for back or neck pain for every single sufferer of pain out there. Surely, nothing has a close to 100% success rate in medicine and a percentage of spine pain sufferers will fail decompression care no matter how good the doc or the technology is and may require other approaches for their pain.
What really has me scratching my head, though, is why there is such fanfare about this whole thing….
You see, non surgical decompression works and Axiom’s purported “Bad Boy” behavior should not influence your opinion on the procedure. That would be tantamount to discrimination.
You know what else. There are medical procedures out there that have a much, much higher failure rate that cost 20 times more that of decompression care. Two examples. One. Epidural injections point blank yield absolutely no relief for around 50% of those who undergo the 3 injection protocol. The cost of those procedures with surgi-center fees is upwards of 20 to 25 thousand bucks. Two. Spinal surgery long term outcome success rate may be even lower than that of spinal injections and recent studies indicate that 5 years out, in general, those that don’t have surgery end up just the same as those who do. What a waste. And it fusion surgery costs the system around $154,000 according to the AMA.
Actuarial calculations find that Spinal Decompression treatment could save the system millions but everyone is ignoring this fact.
How come there’s no squawking about that?
If Axiom Worldwide is guilty as charged, there is no excuse for their behavior. But maybe those squawking about Axiom Worldwide’s ethics issues should chew on the other facts I laid out first.
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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 Anesthesia 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.
Can Medications, Pain Relievers Or Pain Management Procedures Be The Absolute Worst Thing For Serious Herniated Discs or Serious Neck & Back Pain? Part II
A brief word or two on epidurals and pain management procedures today.
First of all, like drugs, epidurals cannot and will not heal anything. The reduce pain in about 50% of the cases. However, pain relief is usually short term in many cases.
Number two. It requires invasive needling of the spinal cord and “epidural space” or the little channel between the spinal cord itself and the internal bony aspect of the spinal canal.
Now, I am not against this procedure in and of itself. But is not an answer to “discogenic” pain or pain originating from disc herniation, bulge and the like. It can be helpful to patients who are in acute distress and cannot even be placed in a prone, lying down position on a spinal decompression machine to treat the disc properly or to those that have let the condition run wild and can barely move without pain.
But keep in mind that an epidural is just the use of a “liquefied” medication that is injected in the area of the swollen or herniated disc so as to bathe it in anti-inflammatory medicine and calm it down…temporarily. That’s it. No healing will be done by an epidural procedure.
The bad news is two fold:
- If fools your body your better or “healed” and you continue with harmful activity and damage the disc further….much further. Quite similar to the affect of oral medications.
- Some feel that too many epidural injections can actually damage the outer shell or “annular” portion of the disc and thus weaken it further.
Both of these downside affects will often lead to significantly more serious issues and could possibly lead to permenant negative changes in the disc tissue.
So, only engage in these procedures with great caution and only if absolutely necessary. I have a pain management doc as part of my team and these procedures are applied very judiciously for our patients.
Want to find out if you’re a candidate. Give us a call at Waterfront Spine Institute for a no charge consultation 201-840-1980 or go to www.waterfrontspinerehab.com for more info and instant free detailed report.
Thank you so much for visiting my site. I encourage you to leave your questions and comments below. And for more information on Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression please fill out the form to the right or give us a call at 201-840-1980
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.
