Range-of-Motion Therapy improves the spine's physiologic funtion. It establishes healthy circulation and elasticity that enable spinal tissues, including the discs, to begin their healing.

A healthy spine is a spine that can move in multiple planes. These planes include bending forward, backward, diagonally and side to side. It also includes rotation, which we consider the most important movement of all. The spine must seamlessly perform all these movements in varying combinations without pain. Anything less is a precursor for injury or the result of injury.

People can injure their spine in many ways including sprains, strains, work, sport and/or auto injuries. The pains and symptoms that result from these injuries are often left to heal on their own. After all, "Who wants to go to the doctor?"

In every case, an amount of healing occurs on its own.

Many problems develop as a direct result of improper or misaligned healing. 

Spinal movements are accomplished by many different groups of muscles. Each group is comprised of bundled fibers that are either parallel to the spine, or to some degree, perpendicular to the spine. To maximize treatment outcomes, each bundled fiber group needs to be stretched along the length of its fibers, not its width. Parallel Fibers - Stretch muscle fibers that run parallel to the spine.   Perpendicular Fibers -Stretch muscle fibers that are angled or perpendicular to the spine.  Their primary functions is to rotate or side-bend (laterally flex) the spine.

The spine is made of vertebral bone segments stacked on cartilage discs. The entire mechanism is held together by groups of ligaments, tendons and muscles. Spinal vertebrae and discs move with each other using a system of facet (gliding) joints. When spinal positioning is disrupted by trauma, misaligned segments can heal "crooked." Although they maintain function, the misaligned healing creates spinal gliding issues. Over time, these gliding issues can cause degenerative joint disease and symptoms.

These symptoms can easily include . . .

Back or neck spasm and/or pain

Leg pain (sciatica) or arm pains (brachial neuritis)

Weakness in the lower back and legs, or neck and arms

Sharp stabbing pains in certain postures, movement "cricks"

Numbness, tingling or "creepy-crawly" feelings

"Clicking or popping" noises or grittiness (like sand) with certain movements

Sharp or dull pains with movement

Arthritis pain or the development of joint arthritis

The decompression machine by Spinetronics corrects this problem by providing spinal range-of-motion therapy capable of gently improving or restoring the spine's mechanical movement and natural range-of-motion.

 . . . Restored or improved spinal joint movement creates physiological tissue changes  (just like exercise) that enables spinal tissue including discs, to begin healing . . .