Can patients lie on their backs?
For more than 400,000 patients treated the usual treatment position was prone (face down). VAX-D hasendorsed the use of a comfortable chest harness that eliminates the need for patients to hold on to handles and the chest harness can be worn by patients lying supine (face up) or prone. Many patients actually prefer that handles. VAX-D offers more options for patient positioning than any other system. Face up or face down, with or without the chest harness, all are endorsed by the manufacturer. There are some experts in this field that believe that during the rest phase in between pull cycles that the herniated disc material can actually be pulled by gravity back down into the disc if the herniation is posterior and the patient is prone on the table. Obviously a supine patient would not have any benefit, if there is any, to gravity repositioning disc material during the rest phase because the direction back into the disc would be up with such a supine patient position. This could be one
