Back pain is placed on a hospital bed, regardless of age and lifestyle. Everyone faces this problem at least once. Treatment may take years or require surgical intervention. This is followed by rehabilitation, which also takes time, effort and finances. Even adherents of a healthy lifestyle and fitness cannot be sure that they will avoid prolapse of the disc, intervertebral hernia, or pinched nerve endings in the spinal column. Recently, a method has been found that promises to change the situation and promises a painless solution to many problems with the spine.
Problems of Existing Methods
Today, there are many methods, devices for aligning the spinal column, reducing the effects of injuries, relieving pain, but they all work for a limited period of time and do not help everyone. There is also another problem: all procedures are not carried out independently, require the participation of medical personnel, medical supervision.
The human factor often becomes a bigger problem than a disease, and the consequences of an unprofessional or inattentive approach can cause additional injuries. One way or another, there is no ideal way by which you can painlessly solve problems with back pain.
Inventor
There are methods by which the condition can be significantly improved, or even get rid of excruciating pains. One of them is gaining popularity and is showing positive results in the struggle for health with safe use. Detensor therapy is the name of a new method for the treatment of spinal diseases.
It was developed by Professor K. Kinlein (Germany), the scientist's own problem became the desire for the result. In the 70s, the scientist received numerous fractures of the spine, all the options he tried to mitigate the effects of injuries did not bring significant results. The situation required a decision, and it was found by him. Kinlein's spouse took part in research and development, as a result a constructive mattress (mat) was invented, which helps relieve pain, improve the general condition and avoid the accumulation of further complications.
Description
Detensor therapy is the extraction of the spine, which occurs with the help of a special device that can be in every home. Mat Detensor is a structure consisting of soft ribs made of foamed polyurethane. The location of the ribs is inclined, the multidirectional inclination begins with a segment on the mat, where the lumbar region is located.
Lying on the mat, the patient does not feel discomfort, the ribs gently, under the influence of weight, begin to move apart, thereby stretching the spinal column. This alignment method is more gentle, since it does not cause overstrain of the ligaments, muscles, pain from the use is excluded, which often happens with other methods of traction (underwater, mechanical using a loop system, etc.).
Detensor therapy is a technique that reduces pain after surgical interventions, is useful for curving the spinal column, causes relaxation of the muscles running along the back, decompression of the intervertebral discs, which leads to a reduction in hernias and the removal of pinched nerve endings.
Operating principle
Detensor therapy involves stretching the intervertebral space in a gentle manner, the main active factor of which is the patient’s body weight. When developing the samples, clinical trials were conducted on patients with different weights. As a result, devices with three degrees of stiffness of ribs for adults and two for children were developed.
To understand the principle of the method, it is worth deciphering the name itself - detensor therapy. What it is? Translated from the Latin language de - "removal", "removal", and tensor means "stressful". That is, the essence of the method is to relieve tension, in the relaxation of muscles and ligaments, which entails a therapeutic effect.
The patient is laid on the mat, the fit of the body occurs along the horizontal movable ribs with such a degree of rigidity that does not allow them to fold in the horizontal plane. The intervertebral space is in the gaps of the ribs of the mat, under the influence of the body weight, the ribs come into motion, thereby stretching the spine. The process is physiological in nature, does not carry tram hazardous situations, while the sensations are very pleasant, the body quickly relaxes.
Indications for use
Detensor therapy also has indications and contraindications , like any method of exposure. This type of exposure will be useful in the following diseases:
- Dystrophic changes in the structure of the spinal column (osteochondrosis of any department).
- Constant muscle tension in the back, fatigue, diseases of a chronic nature, generating back pain.
- Intervertebral hernia (both in exacerbation and in remission).
- Loss of intervertebral discs, structural disorders.
- Congenital and acquired curvature of the spine (scoliosis).
- Fractures of the spinal column in any department.
- General muscle tension, tightness resulting from stress, depression.
- Pathology in the development of the cervical spine in children.
- Migraines and bronchial asthma.
- Pressure ulcers and prevention of their occurrence.
- Diseases of the spine of various etiologies (except those indicated in contraindications).
Contraindications
Detensor therapy is a method that has a small number of contraindications. It is completely unacceptable in the following diseases:
- Any tumors (benign, malignant) of the spinal column, spinal cord in the stage of dying of the membranes.
- Freshly received acute back injuries in any department.
Relative contraindications in which detensor therapy is prescribed on the recommendation of a specialist:
- Rheumatic diseases in the acute stage.
- Some types of scoliosis (alternating, etc.).
- Some congenital pathologies of the development of the spinal column.
- Certain diseases of the cervical spine (spondylolisthesis , etc.).
- In ankylosing spondylitis, the degree of rigidity of the detensor mat is selected.
Due to the almost complete safety of the method, it has been widely used in specialized institutions - sanatoriums, clinics, hospitals. The cosmonaut training center also uses the relaxing and healing qualities that detensor therapy provides (the indications were given above). Positive dynamics are observed after 3-4 sessions, each of which lasts an average of 30 minutes.
Method Result
Detensor therapy comprehensively affects the entire body. This happens due to an improvement in the condition of the spine, it often happens that pinched nerve endings simulate pain in any organ, corrected posture eliminates such phenomena. The human body in a horizontal position is stretched by increasing the interdisc distance to physiological limits. Cartilage tissue is restored, receives a sufficient amount of moisture, nutrients.
With regular use, the displaced disks occupy the desired position, are not clamped by the muscles. The intervertebral hernia disappears , freeing the roots of the nerves, the pain syndrome goes away. Soft stretching under its own weight relaxes the muscles, the spine unloads and takes on a structure and position caused by nature, the blood supply to the tissues improves, and as a result, regeneration occurs. Prolonged use of the detensor mat stabilizes the condition and causes a persistent healing effect.
With osteochondrosis
One of the most common diseases of bone tissue is dystrophy, i.e., osteochondrosis. Detensor therapy for osteochondrosis is often included in the physiotherapeutic complex of treatment of the disease, as well as in the postoperative rehabilitation period. The use of the method is due to a mild corrective effect on the spinal column, relief of pain and improvement of the work of most internal organs.
During the session, patients with osteochondrosis improve lymphatic drainage, microcirculation of fluids in soft tissues, elasticity of ligaments increases, nerve endings relax - all this is a positive effect that detensor therapy has. What is it from the point of view of a specialist? A safe method that can strengthen the main treatment and help the patient regain health.
Reviews
In many specialized institutions where they deal with the problems of the musculoskeletal system, detensor therapy is used in practice. Reviews of patients with a positive assessment tell about the result after several sessions. They argue that the pain that resulted from osteochondrosis, some significantly decreased, and some completely stopped. Patients who suffered from back problems, but did not turn to specialists on this issue, having experienced a detensor mat, were satisfied with their well-being.
Negative reviews were left by people who did not feel any action after the procedure and doubt the appropriateness of this method.