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Prolotherapy: Delivering a Non-surgical Solution for
Traumatized
Joints & Chronic Pain
Neck and Back Traction
Spinal Traction or Decompression Therapy rhythmically stretches the neck or low back. It lengthens the spine improving circulation and nutrient delivery to the intervertebral disks helping to increase their height, reducing herniations and improving their flexibility. Pulsed traction is a gentle therapy. It feels great, relaxes tight muscles, restores erect posture and stabilizes the spine. Traction lifts and opens the spinal segments for increased circulation to the disks and surrounding ligaments. Traction to the neck lifts and lengthens the head from the shoulders. In the low back it rejuvenates the aging spine and can reduce disk herniations. A treatment lasts 15 minutes and is done in a series of 6-12 treatments.
Spinal traction on the neck is helpful for headaches, neck pain and degenerative disk disease. Traction to the low back is helpful for back pain, herniated disks, spinal stenosis and degenerative disk disease.
TAP therapy = Traction + Adjustment + Prolotherapy
We use a specific treatment sequence that integrates the beneficial effects of traction with spinal adjustments and prolotherapy. We refer to this integrated spinal care as TAP therapy. The TAP sequence stabilizes the spinal segments in optimal alignment.
Spinal decompression in combination with spinal manipulation and prolotherapy offers significant reduction in pain, stabilization of the degeneration and improved quality of life. Patients have had excellent results with this integrative spinal therapy. After traction, I manipulate/adjust the spine, then do prolotherapy to stabilize the ligaments while the alignment is optimized.
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