Effects of Decompression Therapy for 6 Cases with Lumbar Herniated Disc

Kwon, Won-An; Lee, Seungho; Lee, Jae Hong

doi:10.5762/kais.2012.13.5.2133

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“…3 In addition, spinal decompression therapy has advantages such as three-dimensional traction in the body regions where general traction is not applicable, psychological stability, and the generation of effects within the range that does not put stress on the ligament and muscle. 4 Kwon et al 5 reported that the application of spinal decompression therapy in patients with lumbar disk herniation was effective in reducing herniated disks and regenerating disks, and had statistically significant effects on pain reduction and increases in flexibility and muscle activity. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the therapeutic effects of spinal decompression therapy on pain and disability in patients with chronic low back pain.…”

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The Effects of Spinal Decompression Therapy on Pain and Disability in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain

Jeon²,

Jeong³

et al. 2017

J Kor Phys Ther

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The Effects of Spinal Decompression Therapy on Pain and Disability in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain

Jeon²,

Jeong³

et al. 2017

J Kor Phys Ther

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“…They insisted that disk height can be recovered based on their results. Kwon et al11 ) performed acupuncture, cupping therapy, medicine treatment, and decompression therapy in six patients with disk disease. They reported significant differences in disk height and disk herniation index, and positive changes as results of their research.…”

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“…Only disk separation was discussed as the mechanism that explains the effectiveness of conventional traction therapy, and the effectiveness of automatic traction therapy for patients with chronic discogenic back pain in relation to spine decompression remains unclear. By comparison, Kwon et al11 ) suggested that decompression therapy supplemented the limitation of traction therapy and had a great advantage of inducing physical change to the disk. It is known that it can measure load applied to the spine by using an electronic control system and allows delivery of traction force to the spine because based on the result, muscle tone did not occur by controlling the speed of traction therapy.…”

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Effect of spinal decompression on the lumbar muscle activity and disk height in patients with herniated intervertebral disk

Kang

Jeong

Choi³

2016

J Phys Ther Sci

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[Purpose] This study was conducted to clarify the difference in therapeutic effects between traction and decompression therapies, and their clinical therapeutic significance. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects were 31 patients aged 35 to 50 years who had unilateral or bilateral lumbar and radicular leg pain. An intervention program was implemented in 31 patients with lumbar herniated intervertebral disks. For the experimental group, 15 subjects were randomly selected to receive decompression therapy and trunk stabilization exercise. For the control group, 16 subjects were randomly selected to receive traction therapy and trunk stabilization exercise. [Results] Activities of the rectus abdominis, transverse abdominis, and external oblique muscles increased significantly in both groups. However, the activity of the erector spine muscle decreased, which was the only significant change in muscle activity among those of the other muscles in both groups. The disk herniation index in the experimental group decreased significantly in comparison with that in the control group, and the difference in the change in disk herniation index between the groups was significant. [Conclusion] Decompression therapy was demonstrated to be more effective clinically than conventional traction therapy as an intervention method for disk disease.

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“…Non-surgical spinal decompression (NSD) therapy is used to overcome the drawbacks of traction and decompressing the spinal nerve roots non-surgically by using a sensitive computerized feedback mechanism [ 9 , 20 , 21 ]. This system is designed to provide a motorized segmental distraction for a specified time [ 22 ] which may induce physical changes to the disc [ 23 , 24 ]. As a computerized logarithm controls the force of decompression, the NSD device can estimate the actual load that should be applied to the spine and permits the provision of spinal traction force based on this.…”

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Effects of non-surgical decompression therapy in addition to routine physical therapy on pain, range of motion, endurance, functional disability and quality of life versus routine physical therapy alone in patients with lumbar radiculopathy; a randomized controlled trial

Amjad

Mohseni-Bandpei

Gilani

et al. 2022

BMC Musculoskelet Disord

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Background Lumbar radiculopathy is an extensively common complaint reported by patients of low back pain (LBP), resulting in several impairments. A comparatively novel technique, non-surgical spinal decompression (NSD), is introduced, which uses a sensitive computerized feedback mechanism and decompresses the spinal nerve roots through segmental distraction. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of NSD therapy in addition to routine physical therapy on pain, lumbar range of motion (ROM), functional disability, back muscle endurance (BME), and quality of life (QOL) in patients with lumbar radiculopathy. Methods A total of sixty patients with lumbar radiculopathy were randomly allocated into two groups, an experimental (n = 30) and a control (n = 30) group, through a computer-generated random number table. Baseline values were recorded before providing any treatment by using a visual analogue scale (VAS), Urdu version of Oswestry disability index (ODI-U), modified-modified Schober’s test (MMST), prone isometric chest raise test, and Short Form 36-Item Survey (SF-36) for measuring the pain at rest, functional disability, lumbar ROM, BME, and QOL, respectively. All patients received twelve treatment sessions over 4 weeks, and then all outcome measures were again recorded. Results By using the ANCOVA test, a statistically significant (p < 0.05) between-group improvement was observed in VAS, ODI-U, BME, lumbar ROM, role physical (RP), and bodily pain (BP) domains of SF-36, which was in favour of NSD therapy group. The between-group difference was 1.07 ± 0.32 cm (p < .001) for VAS, 5.65 ± 1.48 points (p < .001) for ODI-U, 13.93 ± 5.85 s (p = 0.002) for BME, 2.62 ± 0.27 cm (p < .001) for lumbar flexion, 0.96 ± 0.28 (p < .001) for lumbar extension, 5.77 ± 2.39 (p = 0.019) for RP and 6.33 ± 2.52 (p = 0.016) for BP domain of SF-36. For these outcomes, a medium to large effect size (d = 0.61–2.47, 95% CI: 0.09–3.14) was observed. Conclusion It was concluded that a combination of non-surgical spinal decompression therapy with routine physical therapy is more effective, statistically and clinically, than routine physical therapy alone in terms of improving pain, lumbar range of motion, back muscle endurance, functional disability, and physical role domain of quality of life, in patients with lumbar radiculopathy, following 4 weeks of treatment. Trial registration WHO Iranian registry of clinical trials (IRCT20190717044238N1) Dated: 23.12.2019.

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Effects of Decompression Therapy for 6 Cases with Lumbar Herniated Disc

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

The Effects of Spinal Decompression Therapy on Pain and Disability in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain

The Effects of Spinal Decompression Therapy on Pain and Disability in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain

Effect of spinal decompression on the lumbar muscle activity and disk height in patients with herniated intervertebral disk

Effects of non-surgical decompression therapy in addition to routine physical therapy on pain, range of motion, endurance, functional disability and quality of life versus routine physical therapy alone in patients with lumbar radiculopathy; a randomized controlled trial

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