Restoration of disk height through non-surgical spinal decompression is associated with decreased discogenic low back pain: a retrospective cohort study |
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| Authors: | Christian C Apfel Ozlem S Cakmakkaya William Martin Charlotte Richmond Alex Macario Elizabeth George Maximilian Schaefer Joseph V Pergolizzi |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Perioperative Clinical Research Core, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA;(2) Upper Valley Interventional Radiology, McAllen, Texas, USA;(3) NEMA Research, Inc, Biomedical Research & Education Foundation, LLC, Miami Beach, FL, USA;(4) Departments of Anesthesia and Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA;(5) Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland;(6) Department of Anesthesia, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA |
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| Abstract: | Background Because previous studies have suggested that motorized non-surgical spinal decompression can reduce chronic low back pain
(LBP) due to disc degeneration (discogenic low back pain) and disc herniation, it has accordingly been hypothesized that the
reduction of pressure on affected discs will facilitate their regeneration. The goal of this study was to determine if changes
in LBP, as measured on a verbal rating scale, before and after a 6-week treatment period with non-surgical spinal decompression,
correlate with changes in lumbar disc height, as measured on computed tomography (CT) scans. |
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