Backstrong Non-Surgical Rehab Clinic

Almost all back and neck pain is caused by COMPRESSION of discs, nerves and joints. We have all sorts of terms for this compressive process, and you may have seen these terms used in your MRI or x-ray report.  These include herniated discs, bulging discs, sciatica, facet arthropathy, ligamentum flavum hypertrophy, foraminal stenosis, central stenosis, disc protrusion, disc extrusion, spondylosis, etc.  These all comprise a slowly, progressive, degenerative compression of your spine.  These compressive changes are due to time, gravity, injuries, nutrition and genetics. Most clinics do not treat these compressive changes of the spine, non-surgically, so your chance of improving or resolving your pain is much less. Conventional treatments such as physical therapy exercises or modalities, or chiropractic adjustments will not effectively change the compression.  As a consequence, you are much more likely to need injections or surgery for your pain.

X-rays and MRI scans reveal COMPRESSION. This is not a mystery.  We all see the same things on MRI’s and x-rays.  The doctor, or radiologist, explaining your imaging results, may use terms such as herniated, bulging or degenerated disc(s), arthritis, spondylosis, stenosis, spondylolisthesis, ligamentum flavum hypertrophy, facet arthropathy, etc. These degenerative changes all describe compressive changes of discs, joints and nerves, which causes pain and disability. These compressive changes should be treated, first, by decompressing them.  That’s what surgeons, eventually, will do, if non-surgical treatments don’t help.  Unfortunately, most non-surgical providers don’t usually treat compression. As a result, when your spinal compression progresses to a certain point, you will not improve from their approach to treatment. In fact, exercises- the usual means of treating this problem- can be painful and useless. The reason other clinics don’t focus on spinal compression is several fold:

• They may not appreciate the essential significance of this process, in the etiology (cause) of spinal pain and disability.
• They may not know that anything can be done to change it. This is a simple failure of knowledge and insight.
• They may not know of the unique efficacy of spinal decompression treatment for patients.
  Most clinicians have no clinical experience with this treatment and don’t know its relative merit.  They have never used these tables because their cost made them inaccessible to the provider.
  A cheaper alternative to the treatments they already provide, may undercut their financial interests.
• They may not want to invest $100,000.00+ on these treatment tables.  These tables are, admittedly, more expensive than they should be.
• The medical research literature indicates that spinal compression can be partially reversed, and this approach to treatment is much more effective for patients than conventional therapy. This has been confirmed by my 34 years clinical experience. For the first 19 years of my clinical career I did not have access to this treatment for patients. As a result, many more patients with neck and back pain were referred for injections and surgery.

Since 2006, Dr. Castanet has offered this newer, more effective treatment for patients with neck and back pain, herniated discs, pinched nerves and sciatica, and the results for patients are vastly superior to his previous experience in orthopedics, physical medicine and physical therapy.  Now, after more than 15 years using this superior treatment for such problems, Dr. Castanet would not practice without it.  And he thinks that the SpineMED spinal decompression treatment he has used, is the best spinal decompression table available.

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