Patients with Lumbar Disc Herniations showed a 90% reduction in pain and disability was recorded.
Also rehydration of the disc was also shown on post MRI Imaging.
Also numbness and weakness was resolved
in 13 or 14 patients as well.
Eyerman
This study revealed an improvement of 4.46
points in the patients pain scale reduction and a 5.23 reduction one year after
treatment.
Shealy, Koladia, Wesemann
64% of patients experienced total remission of pain and normal function.
Pain scales reduced from 6.36 to 2.09 The
population of this study suffered from chronic dysfunction for 17.2 months.
Tilaro, Miscovitch
Treatment success was 71% reducing pain scales
from 5 to 0-1 in 778 cases of low back pain due to herniated discs,
degenerative disc disease, facet arthropathy, and decreased spine mobility.
Goose, Naguszewski
Summaries of many studies on the efficacy of spinal decompression by multiple authors.
A study of 52 patients.
94% achieved improvements in pain and 83 % achieved 50% or greater pain relief.
Shealy, Guam, Gabriel, Koladia.
A study of 14 patients with verified ruptured lumbar discs on MRI, with surgery as the recommendation, after IDD therapy, all participants achieved good to excellent pain reduction.
Shealy
A study
of 415 patients. Patients who were surgical candidates, or were advised to have surgery,
showed a 92 % success rate.
McClure, Farris
A study of 415 patients . Of patients who were surgical candidates, or were advised to have surgery, showed a 92 % success rate after using spinal decompression instead of surgery.
McClure, Farris
A study of 30 patients over 12.5 weeks.
Low Back Pain decreased by 6.2 to 1.6 and disc height measured pre and post treatment on CT scan went from 7.5 mm to 8.8mm. Increase in disc height and and reduction in pain were significantly correlated.
Apfel, Cakmakkaya,Martin, Richmond, Macario, George, Schafer, Pergolizzie
Synopsis of Research On Cervical and Lumbar Decompression by multiple authors.
Postoperative mechanical back pain associated with same level degeneration is not uncommon in patients undergoing a single level discectomy and is associated with substantial healthcare costs.
Parker, McGrirt, Whitham, Long, Bydon