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Question:
Its performed using a machine called DRX-9000. I did a websearch and their
is oodles of information on it, here's just 1 website I found on it.
http://www.anglermedical.com/painrelief/backpain.cfm#
I was wondering if anyone has used this treatment or heard of it. Their
was an article in my local newspaper on it that 2 Chiropractors in my area
are now using it.
Answer:
I saw almost an identical write up about it in my newspaper. Actually,
right before I had my lumbar fusion, a couple different people "turned
me on" to this treatment. I think they call it a decompression
machine, always citing the astronaut anti-gravity effect and the 86%
success rate.
Personally I am immediately skeptical when the claims are so great. If
it's such a breakthrough, how come everyone isn't talking about it?
But who knows, it could be the greatest thing that just hasn't caught
on yet. I think it is FDA approved. However, good luck getting your
insurance to pay for it.
And if I remember right, the newspaper ad I
read a while back had a full course of treatment costing a couple
thousand dollars...but maybe it's cheaper now? I would also love to
know if anyone else has used it. I have a couple more herniated disks
causing me grief. But could I ever afford it.
Someone called it a glorified traction machine. It's fancy it looks cool,
has a name that invokes future technology and Star Trek like healing
abilities, but it's all marketing magic. Would it sell better if it was
"traction table #4?
If you have disk or back issues and your docs give the okay to traction
(it's not good if there's any bone fragments floating around of you've had
fusion recently, if at all.
Traction, if not applied too aggressively, can help, at least temporarily.
You may even find yourself a couple inches taller. But once you get off the
traction machine, be it the DRX9000 or good old #7, you're back to paying
the price for walking upright and gravity begins pulling down on everything,
and you begin to shrink again.
If your doc say traction is ok, you'll get the same treatment whatever the
machine is called. However the DRX9000 session will cost quite a bit more
than from somebody that has a DRX7000, or picked up a traction table at a
chiropractor's yard sale.
An inversion table can provide the same results (I am ashamed to say mine
has been collecting dust for the last few months) provided the inverted
position won't make your stomach object, and can be had quite cheaply, maybe
even at a yard sale. A new one will run about $300, yard sale season is
about to bust loose, and though I may buy lots of crap, I get it all cheap.
Don't give more than $75 bucks if you see a inversion table, and if you luck
in to one and need destructions, give a holler, I'd be more than happy to do
a safety run through with you.
There are medical scams on top of medical scams, some just don't work, some
can be harmful. Doubt everything and be suspicious of it all. I'm not saying
don't give new stuff a shot, not at all. Just be careful is all I'm saying.
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