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Article #297: VAX-D Results

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Vertebral axial decompression therapy is down, which unloads the spine and reduces
a very useful tool for people who have intradiscal pressure. The causes of
horrible back problems because it is mechanical low back pain may include
relatively inexpensive and it does not degenerative disc disease, degenerative
involve surgery. Data was collected from spondylosis with limitation of range of
twenty-two medical centers for patients motion, facet arthropathy, relative
who received VAX-D therapy for low back lateral recess stenosis from a
pain, which was sometimes accompanied by combination of the above,
referred leg pain. Only patients who microenvironment presure changes
received at least ten sessions and had a affecting the thecal and epidural space
diagnosis of herniated disc, degenerative from disc bulging, subligamentous and/or
disc, or facet syndrome, which were extruded herniation, and segmental
confirmed by diagnostic imaging, were instability.
included in this study. A number of potential mechanisms are
The data contained the patients' specifically addressed by the lumbar
quantitative assessments of their own vertebral body separation achieved during
pain, mobility, and ability to carry out therapy. With aging, disc desicction
the usual 'activities of daily living'. occurs, disc height is lost, and this
The treatment was successful in 71% of process is accelerated with activities
the 778 cases, when success was defined which produce high physical loading of
as a reduction in pain to 0 or 1, on a 0 the lumbar spine. Osteophytes develop
to 5 scale. Improvements in mobility and along the anterolateral and posterior
activities of daily living correlated border of the vertebral bodies, and facet
strongly with pain reduction. The causes arthropathy increases as degenerative
of back pain and their relationship to disc change advances . Normal vertebral
this therapy are also discussed. body separation is lost as the disc
Although imaging procedures, including CT degenerates. blood supply to the nerve
and MRI, are able to accurately define roots of the cauda equina is sensitive to
structural pathology, the correlation of compression. Even at pressures of only
these anatomic findings with physiology, 5-10 mmHg, the flow in over 20% of the
back pain, and other clinical complaints venules was completely stopped. Flow in
is imprecise. Although surgical all the capillaries stopped at pressures
decompression, epidural blocks, and between 20 and 50 mmHg. A pressure of 30
spinal instrumentation can sometimes help mmHg is slightly less than one pound per
patients suffering from back pain, these square inch, so solute transport is
treatments do not completely take the easily reduced. Even vertebral
biomechanical function of the disc into distractions of 1 or 2 mm per disc would
account, and may leave patients reduce ligamental redundancy and help to
unrelieved of their suffering. restore canal/foraminal patency, reduce
Low back pain is aggravated by activities venous congestion and increase axoplasmic
that increase axial loading on the spine, flow.
such as sitting, standing, and lifting. For greater resources on Vax-D and
Patients may describe some relief with especially about spine or even about
walking, but more particularly, by lying Lumbar please visit these links.






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