Spinal Decompression
Welcome Back Spinal Care Centre is excited to bring the first multi-directional spinal decompression therapy to Toronto. This is a non-surgical, drug-free treatment for low back and neck pain and associated neurological symptoms. Many people across North America have found relief from the pain associated with degenerative joint disease, herniated or bulging discs, spinal stenosis, facet syndrome, "pinched" nerves, and other spinal afflictions. If neck or low back symptoms have not resolved with other types of treatment, spinal decompression therapy should be considered.
We utilize the Antalgic-Trak Decompression Chair, a revolutionary new technology, to apply safe and comfortable decompression to your spine.
How does spinal decompression therapy differ from standard traction?
When spinal joints are irritated, the postural muscles around the spine react by going into spasm to guard against further injury. Typically, when traction is applied to those joints, the body's normal reaction is to pull away in the opposite direction.
Welcome Back's spinal decompression unit contains a sensitive computer feedback mechanism to overcome this phenomenon. With precise, computer-controlled tension, the appropriate disc levels are gently and painlessly distracted, creating a negative pressure within the disc. This facilitates an important physiological process known as imbibition: the transfer of fluids, nutrients and oxygen back into the disc, increasing vital circulation. Over time, this helps to: increase the disc height; promote the retraction of bulging/herniated discs; and relieve pressure on the nerves causing the pain.
A typical course of management consists of approximately 20-30 spinal decompression sessions.
What makes Antalgic-Trak so special?
Unlike all other decompression tables, the Antalgic-Trak is the first spinal decompression chair in the world. It was designed by experienced clinicians and robotic engineers.
The Antalgic-Traks greatest advantage is its unique multi-directional capability which enables us to position your spine into a variety of postures. The neck and low back sections can each move in 10 different directions. Gentle range-of-motion therapy using the moveable sections can also be applied as your spine is being decompressed. These technical innovations help to improve and restore joint function and disc health.
This results in a level of precise targeting of the problem area which is unobtainable with other decompression tables. This improved efficiency allows us to use less force to achieve better results.
What if I'm in pain and I can't lie in a comfortable position?
Antalgic-Trak can make you comfortable by positioning itself into your "condition posture" (how you bend or lean to avoid pain). Initially, Antalgic-Trak duplicates that posture. As you improve, we begin to move the adjustable sections back towards a normal neutral spinal posture.
Doctors and therapists have embraced this new and improved technology and hail its creation as one of the most dramatic improvements in non-surgical spinal therapy ever. The sophisticated state-of-the-art, articulating features have changed everything.
It makes every other system seem obsolete!