Does SDT accomplish the same thing as traction or an inversion table?
Traction and inversion tables apply traction to the entire spine and cannot be localized onto a specific disc level. Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression Therapy, on the other hand, creates a negative pressure or a vacuum inside a specific disc. This effect causes the disc to pull in the herniation and re-hydrate the disc. Traction and inversion tables, at best, can lower the intradiscal pressure from a +90 to a +30 mmHg. Spinal Decompression is clinically proven to reduce the intradiscal pressure to between -150 to -200 mmHg. Traction also triggers the body’s normal response to stretching by creating painful muscle spasms that worsen the pain in the affected area. Decompression on the other hand reduces patient guarding through slow and methodical pumping of the disc while a patient lays on the table comfortably.
