Spinal Decompression in Houston

Deciding if spinal decompression therapy is the right course of treatment is the first step in our Houston Heights team’s three-part approach to personalized, conservative pain management. Spinal decompression therapy is recommended for a variety of conditions:

• Muscle Strain: An injury to the muscle or the tendons attached to the muscle, commonly due to overstretching or overuse.
• Whiplash Injuries: Neck pain, stiffness, headaches, and sometimes neurological symptoms typically caused by a rapid back-and-forth movement of the neck, like that experienced in a car accident.
• Arthritis: In the spine, it can lead to pain, stiffness, and reduced mobility, commonly seen in osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
• Spinal Stenosis: Numbness or weakness in the legs or arms caused by the narrowing of spaces in the spine, which creates pressure on the spinal cord and nerves.
• Herniated Discs: When the soft inner material of a spinal disc protrudes through a tear in the outer layer, causing pain and nerve irritation.
• Sciatica: Pain that radiates along the path of the sciatic nerve, which runs from the lower back down to the legs.
• Lumbar Radiculopathy: Nerve pain in the lumbar (lower back) region of the spine due to compression or irritation of nerve roots.
• Intervertebral Joint Dysfunction: Dysfunction or abnormal movement of the intervertebral joints that can lead to pain and limited mobility.
• Lumbar Facet Syndrome: A disorder affecting the facet joints in the lumbar spine, causing pain, stiffness, and reduced mobility in the lower back.
• Spondylolisthesis: When one of the vertebrae slips out of place onto the vertebra below it, often due to a defect, fracture, or degenerative changes in the spine, it causes pain and nerve compression.

For the best results, spinal decompression therapy sessions should be repeated in our Houston Heights pain clinic multiple times per week or month to alleviate chronic neck and back pain. Since it often takes years of trauma to compress the structures in the spine, spinal decompression is a gradual method that occurs over a series of visits. Our team of pain experts at Vanguard Spine & Sport will outline a spinal decompression therapy plan to help you understand the timeline and what to expect during your treatment.

Ready to take the next step for fast, effective pain relief without surgery or medications? Call the patient care team in our Houston Heights location to schedule a spinal decompression therapy session today, or request an appointment online below.