The Cost Of Spinal Decompression Therapy
Spinal decompression therapy is gaining popularity in the medical establishment as one of the most cost effective ways of treating back and neck pains rooted in the displacement of vertebral disk material into space that is occupied by nerves in the body.
Saying that spinal decompression is one of the most cost-effective ways for the treatment of these conditions is, of course, not the same as saying that it is a cheap therapy. In actual fact, a single session of spinal decompression therapy costs between a hundred and two hundred dollars. And given that it takes about twenty sessions of spinal decompression therapy for the patient to experience lasting relief (and for the therapy to be declared as complete), it follows that one needs between two thousand and four thousand dollars to get through spinal decompression therapy.
Of course, this two to four thousand dollars is the amount that goes directly into the therapy sessions, but it should be noted that before one gets into the actual therapy, some money has to be spent on the basic consultation with a orthopedic specialist (to establish where spinal decompression is indicated for the patient), follows by extensive X-rays and possibly even an MRI (to establish whether the patient could be having conditions that contra-indicate spinal decompression therapy).
A great portion of the money spent in spinal decompression therapy goes into paying for the equipment used in the therapy, as well as the compensation for the staff that make the therapy happen. It is worth noting in these regards that spinal decompression depends on advanced computer technology for its efficacy, and supporting this technology costs considerable sums of money.
The two to four thousand bucks that complete spinal decompression therapy costs is money that many people with good health insurance coverage are able to pay with too much of a problem.
And the two to four thousand bucks paid for spinal decompression therapy is often much lower than the amount of money that would be required to pay for surgery (which is the alternative to spinal decompression therapy in most cases). But even where the quoted costs of spinal decompression therapy appear higher than the costs of surgery for the same problems it addresses, many people would still opt for the spinal decompression therapy, rather than surgery which is obviously more costly – and whose use means that the patient will have to be grounded for some time in recuperation.
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What Is Spinal Decompression?
Spinal decompression offers a good option for people searching for an effective – yet non-invasive and non surgical – treatment for back and neck problems.
The workings of spinal decompression, as the name suggests are mechanical. But to understand how spinal decompression works, it is important to be first familiarized with the causes of disk problems that it addresses.
As it turns out, the core cause of these problems is the breaking of the material that is supposed to contained within the disk through the (external) layer of the disk which is meant to protect it, so that the exposed disk material now ends up literally touching a ‘raw nerve’ that is, get into a nerve’s way, thereby causing the excruciating pain that characterizes disk-related back problems treated with spinal decompression.
What spinal decompression therefore does is to try to get the material that is supposed to be contained in the disk (and which has fallen out the way) back into the disk. This is achieved by creating negative pressure inside the disk, thus forcing the material which had fallen out of way (and into conflict with a ‘raw nerve) back to where it is supposed to be; thereby relieving the patient of the pain that the conflict between the nerve and the out-of-place disk material was creating.
Spinal decompression does not come cheap. While a single spinal decompression session (at between a hundred and two hundred bucks) cannot be termed really expensive, it turns out that a person normally needs about twenty of such sessions to nudge the out-of-place disk material back to its place. And in monetary terms, such twenty spinal decompression sessions could call for anything between a couple of thousand bucks and four thousand bucks; certainly not loose change, but then again a small enough price to pay for relieve from the rather uncomfortable back pain that spinal decompression is meant to treat.
The main advantages of spinal decompression include the fact that it does away with the need to go for relatively risky – and typically much more expensive – surgery, while also doing away with the down time that back surgery would require for recuperation.
And spinal decompression is not for everyone. Among the major contra-indications for spinal decompression include severe obesity, pregnancy and bad cases of nerve damage. Patients suffering from osteoporosis too are not encouraged to undertake spinal decompression. To rule out these conditions, spinal decompression is usually preceded by a physical examination session, backed by an X-ray and MRI in some cases.
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