What is Spinal Compression Syndrome?
Everyone at some period in their life may experience spinal compression syndrome. It is the most common type of low back pain. The human body by design is susceptible to mechanical stresses on our spine as a result of gravity, walking and sitting in an upright posture. Our goal at Natural Family Health Connecticut is to assist your body to return itself to the highest level of health possible by correcting VSC.
Research work that Dr. Chris performed while employed as a biomechanical engineer at the National College of Chiropractic Spinal Joint Research and Ergonomics Laboratory, confirms the presence of a condition we at Natural Family Health Connecticut call the Spinal Compression Syndrome, SCS.
By nature, our body is designed for movement, and by changing positions from sitting to standing to walking we release compressive stresses on our spine. Over time if the compression is not released, then spinal compression syndrome or SCS develops and hence a subsequent chronic daily dull neck ache or low back pain. If not released it is one common cause of spinal arthritis as a person ages.
This is not considered a specific trauma with associated inflammation, swelling and tissue damage, but an accumulation of mechanical stresses on the vertebral segments of the spine. The areas of the lumbar lower back and lower cervical neck regions are particularly susceptible to compressive stresses as a result of seated postures, bending positions and lifting activities.
The intervertebral disc or IVD acts as a cushion or sponge filled with fluid that absorbs the compression but will creep and compress with time if the compressive forces are not removed. This is what happens when we sit for prolonged periods while driving a car, working at a computer all day or sitting at a desk.
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Symptoms of SCS
 Dull neck ache or low back pain with prolonged sitting driving or after activities of lifting or bending?
Dull neck or low back pain with prolonged standing?
Does your neck or low back ache first thing in the morning and then diminish with walking and activity?
Have you been told that you have a degenerative spinal disc?
Have you been told you have a spinal disc protrusion, bulge or herniation?
If you answered YES, contact Natural Family Health Connecticut for a spinal examination at our office.
Treatment for SCS
Specific treatment for SCS that will resolve this condition is SIVD.
SIVD or Spinal Inter-Vertebral Decompression procedure is a doctor controlled manual manipulation method which specifically releases compression between the inter-vertebral segments of the spine. At Natural Family Health Connecticut Dr. Chris performs on a special table designed for this purpose with the patient lying on their stomach.
The procedure is the gentlest form of spinal manipulation available and is used with patients into their 80’s with success in alleviating their low back pain. Many of our patients feel immediate relief of their neck and low back pain within two to three treatments because SCS is a mechanical compression of stress on the spine and is not due to inflammation or trauma. So as soon as the compression is released, you feel an immediate decrease in pain.
Spinal Inter-Vertebral Decompression Therapy is the 21st century treatment for spine pain
Low Back Pain
Flexion-Distraction manipulation (also called Cox Decompression Technic) is an effective and gentle technique on a specific table used to treat certain spinal conditions, especially those associated with postural low back pain, lumbar disc pathology, facet syndrome and sciatica.
Neck Pain
If you have been diagnosed with any of the following cervical spine neck pain conditions, manual cervical decompression traction treatment can help. This is a very safe gently manual procedure without the use of any head harness.
Postural neck pain
Cervical degenerative disc disease
Cervical herniated discs
Cervical radiculitis
Cervical disc protrusion
Cervical lateral stenosis
Cervical pinched nerve
Cervical facet syndrome
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