Is Vancouver Spinal Traction Face Down Or Face Up Best? Face Down!

January 23, 2018

Face up? Face down? When handling neck pain or low back pain that is an issue for your Vancouver chiropractor and for the spine researcher (and sometimes the interested patient!) about which position is most advantageous. For the Vancouver back pain specialist who is a hands-on treating doctor, prone (face down) is more useful so he or she is able to get his or her hands on the spine. For your Vancouver spine specialist, prone is certainly preferred as Cox Technic flexion distraction and decompression spinal manipulation is used. At Vancouver Disc Centers prone spinal care is our back pain relief department, and research approves!

PROS OF PRONE TREATMENT

Vancouver Disc Centers grounds its Vancouver chiropractic treatment on research. Vancouver Disc Centers keeps abreast of13 new spinal care research. In a new study of traction, patient-rated disability and pain scores showed that traction in the prone position brought about immediate and significant improvements. (1) Another study found that a hallmark of spinal traction may well lie in the fluid exchange in the disc as trunk muscle activity is minimal. (2) Vancouver Disc Centers perceives the values of relaxing the trunk muscles, improving the fluid exchange in the disc (as Vancouver Disc Centers knows nutrition of the disc counts on this and is why disc nutrition supplementation is often included in the treatment plan), and distracting the spine.

COX TECHNIC PRONE MANIPULATION

Vancouver Disc Centers applies a special form of spinal distraction called Cox Technic that is documented in the medical research literature and gentle in its relief of back pain and neck pain.  In using Cox Technic flexion distraction spinal manipulation for back pain relief, your Vancouver chiropractor has you lie prone (face down) on a specially designed chiropractic treatment table that has a stationary chest support piece and movable support piece for your legs. Researchers note that the proper forces a chiropractor is to apply to the lumbar or cervical spine on this type of table during Cox Technic can be instructed reliably for clinical reproducibility by chiropractors like yours at Vancouver Disc Centers. This means a patient can be treated by one proficient chiropractor like another proficient chiropractor. (3,4,5) Your Vancouver chiropractor is so trained. Using the appropriate forces allows the best chance to replicate the clinical back pain relief for Vancouver low back pain patients as chiropractic researchers have recorded in their research studies. That is exciting to your Vancouver chiropractor and relieving to the Vancouver chiropractic patients at Vancouver Disc Centers!

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Listen to this PODCAST about a Cox® Technic physician’s own experience with Cox Technic as well as his patient's whose improvement really increased with prone spine manipulation treatment with Cox® Technic because supine (face up) treatment worsened his pain.

Schedule your Vancouver chiropractic visit with Vancouver Disc Centers today. Your Vancouver back pain relief treatment plan incorporates chiropractic treatment in the prone/face down position with Cox® Technic.

 
Vancouver spinal traction applied lying face down – prone – is best according to the latest research. Visit Vancouver Disc Centers.