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What is Spinal decompression?

Spinal decompression treatment can help alleviate chronic low back and neck pain, herniated or bulging discs, deteriorating discs and arthritis.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Pain in lower back 5 2 Efficacy_major
Bulging disk lower L4 and L5 1 0
Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD) 1 0
straightening of the cervical spine 1 0

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 1
None
 1

Reported Schedules

  1 hr daily 20 min weekly 135 min monthly 84 min weekly 100 min weekly
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Going to Spinal decompression (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 2   Other: 67%
Expense 1   Expense: 33%
Doctor's advice 1   Doctor's advice: 33%
Change in health plan coverage 1   Change in health plan coverage: 33%

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Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Going to Spinal decompression

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0

Stopped Going to Spinal decompression

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Spinal decompression

Always
 2 100%
Usually
 0 0%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Spinal decompression

Very
 1 50%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 1 50%
Not at all
 0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Spinal decompression

$200+
 1 100%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 0 0%

Report created on May 27, 2012.