There are many forms and causes of back pain and determining the right treatment modality and/or device is not always straightforward, but knowing the right questions to ask will help you make the right decision.
Back pain can be caused by an incident where you actually cause damage to your back and depending on the severity of the incident could result in a temporarily or permanently injured.
Injuries can range from pulled muscles to broken bones in any location along your spine and all potentially require different treatments, from minor non-invasive rest and stretching to major invasive surgery and a full range in between.
Back pain can also be the result of the normal aging process compounded by gravitational loading. These ailments can range from mild to extreme degeneration of discs and vertebrae, misalignment of muscles and bones etc and the pain can range from brief episodic pain to long lasting chronic.
So to answer the question “Is Trekke Lumbar Lift right for your back pain?”, simply answer the following three questions;
> Is your pain in the lower part of your back?
> Is your back pain chronic or recurring?
> Do you get relief from your back pain by lying down or by lying on your back on the floor with your legs up and resting on a sofa or chair?
If you answered “Yes” to all three of the questions then there is a high likelihood that Trekke Lumbar Lift is right for you and should be able to relieve your low back pain and allow you to regain your normal daily routines, be they working, walking, running, playing golf ……………………… virtually everything you did before.
The common pain generator of low back pain is one or more impinged nerves. The impingement can be caused by a number of things; bulging disc(s), bone etc, etc, and these typically result from degenerated discs.
Disc degeneration is a natural phenomenon of aging but can be aggravated by injury and other medical maladies. That said, the typical end result is that the height of the discs diminishes and some discs may bulge out or even hemorrhage, nerve channels are diminished and in extreme cases vertebrae may become misaligned.
With exception to injury or specific maladies, the main cause of disc degeneration is gravitational loading. From the moment we get up each morning we add the weight of our upper torso onto our spinal column, with the heaviest loading taking place in the lumbar region. Removing or reducing this loading can unimpinged the nerves and relieve the pain (“Muscles, spinal compression and low back pain”).
Trekke Lumbar Lift works by providing that pain relieving unloading and is the only device in the marketplace that was designed specifically as a full time treatment for many causes of low back pain, including the 85% that is undiagnosable.
Trekke’s two belts anchor Trekke to the body and as air is pumped into the device it pushes the belts away from each other, lengthening and unloading the lumbar spine.
Because Trekke is made from only soft and supple materials it can be comfortably worn all day, allowing the spine to be unloaded throughout the entire duration of use. This greatly decreases the degeneration cycle and increases the regeneration cycle of the lumbar discs.
“Ambulatory spinal unloading” is the “new kid on the block” when it comes to treatment of acute and chronic low back pain. It is so new that many care givers are not yet fully aware of it.
Anecdotally we know that relieving pressure on the discs via traction, non-surgical spinal decompression or inversion tables etc relieves the pain, we also know that continued activity opposed to inactivity is beneficial and everyone knows that stabilizing the spine and allowing strained muscles to relax and heal are critical to the healing process.
But, until ambulatory spinal unloading came along there was no way to offer the low back pain suffer the full treatment. This new treatment modality for low back pain allows sufferer the ability to regain mobility, flexibility and activity in a pain free or pain reduced environment, allowing discs to rehabilitate, muscles to realign and mend and damaged nerves to heal.
Ambulatory spinal unloading dramatically reduces the degenerative cycle and dramatically increases the rejuvenative cycle of the spine and is without a doubt one of the most beneficial and cost effective, non-invasive treatment modalities for acute and chronic low back pain available today.
Ambulatory spinal unloading can be used to extend the benefits offered by stationary treatments as well as chiropractic and physiotherapy treatments or be used as a pre surgery bridge or a post surgery protection/prevention tool.
Typical indications for this new treatment modality are most forms of low back pain that have been caused by; degenerative disc decease, herniated or bulging disc, nerve impingement, stenosis, facet syndrome, spondylolisthesis, lumbar vertebrae compression fracture, sciatica, lordosis etc and for many “undiagnosable” causes of low back pain.