New Treatment For Back Pain

February 23, 2006

From the 1 of March the Osteopathy and Manual Medicine Service at the

Policlínica San José in Vitoria-Gasteiz, administrative capital of

the Basque Autonomous Community, will have the very first Vertebral

Axial Decompression Table in Spain. Patented by the North American

firm, Vax-D, this will be the third Table in Europe (they have just

acquired two more in Great Britain).

The new table enables the treatment of problems of the spinal column,

in the lumbar region, where there is acute and/or chronic pain caused

by disc hernias, degeneration of the discs, posterior facet syndrome,

discoarthrosis and sciaticas.

The treatment uses an exclusive system for the decompression of the

intervertebral discs and the vertebral articulations, thus enabling

the introduction of the herniated disc apart from separating the

vertebrae to improve their functioning and to produce a stretching of

the contacted muscles.

This system for vertebral decompression is what differentiates this

treatment from any other system used for complaints of this kind.

The treatment has been successfully carried out in the USA for more

than ten years and the equipment to arrive in Vitoria-Gasteiz in

March will be the first in Spain. The technique has an efficacy rate

of about 80%, depending on the pathology.

Over the last few years, Dr. J.C. Vicente, Director of the Osteopathy

and Manual Medicine Service, has undertaken a thorough-going

monitoring of the operation of the Vax-D in the USA, sending patients

to be treated there with this method and, thus, confirming its

efficacy and positive results. The experience was the motive for

bringing the treatment technique to Vitoria-Gasteiz. It will be, in

many cases, an alternative to surgery, thus reducing the risks

inherent in the operation theatre as well as cutting the recovery

time for patients with these complaints.

The treatment is painless and involves daily sessions of 30 minutes

over a period of 20 days.

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