Main Differences Between Spinal Decompression and Physical Therapy

As you may be aware, both spinal decompression and physical therapy can be used to treat pain that originates in the neck and spine.  That said, it is important to realize that physical therapy is designed to rehabilitate your muscles.  In most cases, if a bone is out of place, or pinching a nerve, this therapy will not move it back into alignment. On the other hand, computer guided spinal traction can easily manipulate the discs in your spine and neck in order to relieve nerve damage.

Typically, when you first have an accident that causes neck or back pain, you will be sent for physical therapy. 

Unfortunately, if a disc is even slightly out of alignment, the added stress from this therapy can make things much worse. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that people often experience a significant increase in pain after going for physical therapy.  Regardless of whether you have a minor injury, or a more severe one, you should do everything possible to make sure that your spinal column is in proper alignment.

If you do not know where to begin with treatment, you should at least ask your doctor to send you for chiropractic treatment. Ideally, you should look to have any bone issues addressed before you try to use therapy to adjust the condition of your muscles. Without a question, if you can gain access to spinal decompression, you should see if you can have this type of therapy first, ahead of all the others.