Decompression V.S. Traction – What Is The Difference?

Hey everyone. I often get asked what’s the difference between traction table and a non-surgical decompression table? ’cause sometimes they could look the same. Now I’m gonna start with traction. I don’t recommend traction tables because number one, it could look the same. It straps your waist. There’s a cable that comes out.

However, there’s a linear pull. It doesn’t open and close, and that’s one of the major differences of non-surgical decompression. First traction. I’ll go over that in a minute. So a traction table will pull open and it’s also not calculated to your body weight or computerized, it’s just the pole. Okay?

Another thing too with the traction table is if you pull open, your body will probably go in spasm ’cause your body doesn’t know what to do because it’s just staying open. You might get some temporary relief, but I assure you probably won’t get long-term results. A cheap example of a traction table will be an inversion table.

An inversion table straps to your feet, right? So it pulls open your ankle, your knee joint, and your hip joint, basically dislocating in a way before it ever gets to that lower back. Alright? And then another question is, how long can you be upside down for on an inversion table before you actually black out?

So I don’t recommend them ’cause for me, unless that’s all you had, I, I just almost see it doing more harm than good. Okay with our non-surgical decompression tables, there’s ways of targeting specific vertebral levels by reason and lowering the table. There’s a cable that comes out. We could computerize everything based on the patient’s body weight, based on whether it’s an acute case or it could be chronic in nature.

And the major component I’m gonna show you right here is it still straps around your waist. But here’s the difference of traction. Remember, it’s a steady pull on traction on decompression, pulls open and relaxes. It will pull open and relax, and we could set that to pull open for a certain amount of time, relax for a certain amount of time.

It’s all computerized. That creates a pumping effect, allowing nutrients to fall back in the disc space. Therefore, opening those holes up, getting pressure off the nerve or spinal cord. So if you had spinal cord stenosis, that will open it up, allow the disc to suck back in, allow all the nutrients to go back in.

Um, these tables also very versatile. They raise and they lower depending on what’s going on. That’s exactly how we target specific vertebral levels or spinal levels.

And then one big thing that I wanna talk about is the reason why we get results in this office is because I follow protocols from a Harvard researcher. His name is Dr. Norman Sheley. He’s written over about 180 plus. Research pay bush on non-surgical decompression. We call him the godfather of non-surgical decompression.

And he’s also, uh, like I said, he’s Harvard researcher, but he’s a neurosurgeon. That’s why we get results. We follow his protocols. We use this very versatile table. We can go face up, you could go face down. We have lots of scenarios that we could work with that could computerize different algorithms, and we set protocols to get you results shorter.

Long-term results so you don’t have to deal with this pain for the rest of your life. Please call me if you have any questions. Those are key differences about traction versus non-surgical decompression. Take care.