Quick Results – Without Drugs or Surgery

        In my twenty-nine years of helping people with herniated discs, low back pain, and sciatica, I’ve seen how devastating these conditions can be.

        I’ve seen —  

• You wake up stiff every morning, thinking it’s a normal part of growing older
• You cut back parts of your gym workout because it hurts your low back
• You don’t enjoy going to the movies because the seats are uncomfortable
• You’re taking pain pills every day, worrying how they might affect your stomach, kidneys or liver, or
• You just don’t have the energy to enjoy life any more.

Back pain is one of the most common reasons people go to a doctor.  It causes more disability than any other condition, and it soaks up a huge portion of our health care dollars.  And, tragically, our medical system hardly knows what to do about it.

The general quality of treatment for low back problems in this country is pathetic..  Most medical doctors are barely qualified to examine your spine to find the cause of low back pain.  They look at an MRI in the hope of understanding your back pain, but it doesn’t tell them what’s really going on.  They give you drugs that can mask the problem but not really solve it (and they have side-effects of their own.)

We chiropractors typically do a better job.  (The research proves it.)  And I’d like to think my track record has been better than most. 

But until 2002, it still wasn’t good enough. 

Despite my best efforts, up to about seven years ago I always had a few patients whose problems didn’t get better.  In fact, over time, their pain got worse.   That was frustrating.   Some of my patients even went on to have surgery in the hope of finding relief.

Then a colleague introduced me to Lumbar Decompression with the state-of-the-art DRX-9000. 

Non-surgical Lumbar Decompression Therapy with the DRX-9000 is revolutionizing the way doctors (and their thousands of grateful patients) think about low back pain.  Serious, long-term disc problems can now be treated safely and effectively with this modern, proven technology.  Clinical studies have shown that lumbar decompression (using no drugs or surgery) is successful in 86% of patients with herniated discs and degenerated joints. (1)    

It Sounded Too Good to be True to Me, Too, When I First Found Out About It

I heard about the clinical studies that show an 86% success rate.  That’s pretty impressive.  Almost too good to be true.  That would mean you have an 86% chance of getting better even if you have the most serious type of low back problem…

And not only would you get rapid symptomatic relief, you’d stay better long-term.  Your low back condition would actually be corrected, not just papered over. 

You’d feel like a million bucks.  You’d get the spring back in your step, and be able to do whatever you want – including skiing, golf, weight-lifting, the Argentine tango…you name it.

That sounded like it would revolutionize the treatment of the low back. 

But frankly, I was skeptical.

I had to research this supposed “miracle.”  I had to read everything I could and talk to other doctors who were using it.   I had to re-learn everything I thought I knew about the low back and the intervertebral disc.

What I learned has completely revolutionized my approach to low back problems.

Once I began to understand the nature of low back pain more completely, I was able to revise my entire treatment approach along more logical grounds.  Finally, I was able to help more low back pain sufferers than ever before.  And help them more completely, with longer lasting results.

But let’s begin at the beginning –

How This Whole Idea Got Started...

Low back problems have been with us for a long, long time. 

About seventy years ago, doctors began to zero in on the intervertebral disc as the cause of back pain and sciatica.  The disc is a cartilage ring that provides space between the bones of the low back.  The new medical theory was simple:  the discs got squashed.  Then the gooey gel inside the cartilage ring bulged out, causing pain and pinching nerves. 

This new medical model about low back pain was quickly accepted by most doctors.

It seemed logical then, and it still seems logical now.  And it led to a logical treatment approach –

Why not invent a gadget that stretched a person’s low back?  That would re-open the space between the bones, and allow the squashed disc to go back to normal.   “Traction” was born.  It seemed logical then, and it still seems logical now.

There’s Just One Problem With Traction.... 

It never worked as promised.

In fact, in some cases, it even made back pain worse.  So “responsible” doctors dropped the idea of using traction. 

Instead, the standard medical approach became a combination of anti-inflammatory drugs and a referral for physical therapy.  If a doctor had the advanced training a chiropractor has, they’d use spinal adjustments.  Some patients got better.  (Particularly those who saw a chiropractor.)  But many did not.  Especially those patients whose problems were more severe and had been worsening for years.  Those were the patients who got sent on for the next steps – epidural injections or even surgery. 

There’s Just One Problem With Injections and Surgery

The worst aspect of surgery is that surgery is a one-way street.  Once you take something away – part of the disc, for example – it’s gone forever.  It can never truly be healed.

Did you know that in England and France, low back pain patients are much less likely to undergo surgery as compared to the United States?  French and English low backs aren’t any different from ours.  The big difference between the countries is how much a surgeon can earn by performing surgery.

Meanwhile...

There were other doctors unwilling to give up on the logic and promise of traction. 

Rather than abandon the concept of traction, these doctors – chiropractors, rehabilitation and pain doctors, and medical engineers – took a second look.  Maybe the principles were sound –but the best techniques to apply traction had not yet been perfected. 

Perhaps what was needed was improved technology to decompress the disc effectively.

Over the past decades, step by step, newer, better methods were introduced and tested.  New devices were developed, each one an improvement on older generations of equipment.  As the technology advanced, so too did our understanding of the engineering of the intervertebral disc. 

Eventually this led to the development of the… 

DRX-9000

The State-Of-The-Art Technology That Effectively Decompresses Your Discs

The DRX-9000 was developed and is manufactured by Axiom Worldwide, a medical technology company in Tampa, Florida.  It has been cleared by the FDA, the agency that oversees all pharmaceuticals and medical devices in the United States. 

Using the DRX-9000 actually creates a negative-pressure phenomenon inside the intervertebral disc.  So any part that’s bulging out will literally get sucked back in.

The DRX-9000 has documented success treating:

How the DRX-9000 is a Vast Improvement
Over Plain Old Vanilla Traction

• It’s computer-controlled so it always applies a precise amount of force
• Decompression is applied intermittently so the disc is gradually pumped open
• A split-table design minimizes frictional forces
• There’s a well-designed system of support to stabilize your upper back as the low back is pulled
• The angle of pull is varied to address the exact level and nature of your condition
• And it incorporates many other improvements that add to its safety, reliability, and effectiveness

All these features mean that the DRX-900 is so relaxing that many of my patients actually fall into a deeply restorative sleep while they’re being treated.  

Why Lumbar Decompression is Truly Revolutionary

The DRX-9000 doesn’t just erase pain.  It actually can reverse the damage that accumulates in your discs over the years. (2) 

Up to now, doctors assumed that this was impossible.  We assumed that once the disc was stressed, the damage was permanent.  All other treatments, at best, can give the body a way to cope with the damage, but not correct it. 

Preliminary research shows that lumbar decompression is different.  The treatment makes the pain go away, and then goes way beyond that.  It actually taps into the body’s ability to restore the health of the intervertebral disc, undoing years of degeneration and damage. 

It is the only treatment option that gets to the heart of the real problem.      

Back Problems Don’t Go Away By Themselves 

Some doctors say that low back pain resolves on its own even without treatment.  And I’ve had a few patients ignore their problems, thinking that the pain would go away by itself. 

It’s true that sometimes pain fades away in the short run.  But research shows that back pain doesn’t magically disappear if you ignore it.  Once you’ve had an attack of low back pain, there’s a good chance the problem will return – usually worse than ever – unless you do something about it.   

Now you can end your negative cycle.  Call now to schedule a convenient time for a consultation and introduction to this revolutionary treatment method.            

“But Doctor – Don’t I Have To Strengthen My Stomach Muscles To Get Rid Of Back Pain?” 

Yes, you do. 

But, until your disc compression is relieved, all the stomach exercises in the world only help a little.

Also, many people who try to do low back exercises do the wrong ones, which actually make their problem worse!

Or they do the right exercises, but do them the wrong way,

Or they do the right exercises, but at the wrong point in their recovery.

I’ve spent thirty years studying yoga, ballet, pilates, and other methods of strengthening, limbering, balancing, and improving movement and posture.  From this experience I have distilled the most important principles in low back rehabilitation, and I will share them with you. 

That’s why, as a bonus, as part of your comprehensive disc restoration program with the DRX-9000, we will also review all of the exercises you’re doing for your low back (or not doing, as the case may be!)  At three or four key points over the course of your treatment program we’ll schedule extra time so you can learn and practice correct exercise for the low back. 

“What About MRI’s?  Don’t They Show What’s Really Going On in My Low Back?” 

The use of MRI’s in diagnosis is part myth, part reality. 

Many of my patients have had MRI’s (or other tests) done by another doctor at some point.   If you have, please bring the films to your first visit (or bring the report that the radiologist wrote about them).  I will review them with you. 

But, since my practice is based on the most up-to-date scientific principles, I do not routinely require MRI’s as part of the diagnostic process in most cases. 

It’s not because I don’t care about you.    

Here’s why.  Most people, even those without back pain, have some sort of irregularity show up on MRI’s.  Unless your doctor conducts a specific, hands-on examination, it’s impossible to know how meaningful the MRI changes are in your case.    

I use a far more reliable method of determining which patients need lumbar decompression: a three-part test to determine  

• Low Back Joint Play
• Nerve Integrity, and
• Core Support

Along with the information you’ll provide me about your condition, these tests give me the information I need to know in most cases.  

The Rulebook on Low Back Pain is Being Rewritten

That’s why, no matter how long you’ve had pain or how bad your condition is, a quick phone call can set up an appointment to find out if this medical breakthrough will work for you.

Ronald Lavine, D.C. - Director
Disc Restoration Center

928 Broadway, Suite 804
New York, NY 10010

 212-400-9663

1. Shealy, C. Norman, New Concepts in Back Pain Management: Decompression, Reduction, and Stabilization, CRCPress, 1998.
2. Edward L. Eyerman, M.D., Abstract Paper Presented to the American Society of Neuroimaging Meeting, Orlando, Florida, 2-26, 1998.

P.S.     Each month, I offer a limited number of patients the opportunity for a FREE consultation and demonstration of the DRX-9000 in action.  That makes it easy for you to find out if lumbar decompression could be the answer you’re looking for.  Call today to be scheduled for your FREE consultation as soon as the next appointment slot is open.