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Custom Foot Orthotics
When it comes to improving walking patterns, alignment, and relieving pain in the knees, feet, and lower back, custom orthotics can make all the difference. Our scanning technology allows us to precisely analyze your feet, identifying imbalances that may be causing strain on other parts of your body—like your hips, shoulders, neck, and spine.
Using this detailed scan, we create custom orthotics that do more than just cushion your feet. They provide targeted arch support, redistribute body weight evenly, and help realign the bones in your feet and ankles—reducing stress from the ground up.
How It Works
Our orthotics are custom-made to match the exact contours of your feet and the way you move. They fit comfortably into most shoes and can be worn during everyday activities, work, and exercise. Whether you’re experiencing foot discomfort, knee pain, back issues, or posture imbalances, our orthotics are designed to support your unique biomechanics. Unlike generic inserts from a store, which are “one-size-fits-all,” Foot
Levelers orthotics are crafted specifically for you—maximizing comfort, function, and durability.
Spinal Decompression Therapy
Patients who suffer from the chronic pain associated with bulging, degenerating, or herniated discs may benefit from treatment using a spinal decompression table. This type of pain, which can manifest as back or neck pain itself as well as associated pain in the arms and legs, may have already been treated by traditional traction methods or even by spinal surgery to limited improvement. In these cases, a spinal decompression table that uses computerized sensors to perform stretching actions on the spine and promote healing can be uniquely effective. But what is a spinal decompression table, and how it can be used to treat patients who have not been able to find relief in other ways?
What is Spinal Decompression Therapy?
Spinal decompression therapy, also known as non-surgical spinal decompression, is a practice that utilizes spinal decompression tables to relieve pain by creating a scenario in which bulging or herniated disc tissue is able to move back into place and heal, alleviating the pain this condition causes.
Spinal decompression therapy aims to help patients who suffer from debilitating pain due to bulging, degenerating, or herniated discs. It can also be used for the pain management and treatment of many causes of sciatica, injured or diseased spinal nerve roots, and worn spinal joints.
The therapy itself works to stretch the spine, using a spinal decompression table or other device, in order to create negative pressure and space within the disc to allow disc fluid to move back into place. This creates an environment in which the disc can receive more nutrients and therefore heal itself more quickly and effectively.The ultimate goal of spinal decompression therapy is to relieve the patient’s chronic back, arm, neck, and/or leg pain, and to heal the source of said pain.
Spinal decompression therapy is also referred to as non-surgical decompression therapy, since it is often used as a safe, affordable, and extremely effective alternative to spinal surgery. The distinction between surgical and non-surgical spinal decompression is an important one, as surgical spinal procedures are often considered a last option, while spinal decompression therapy is a safe treatment at any stage of back pain. The most common spinal decompression surgeries are laminectomy and microdiscectomy, which present a greater risk of complication or failure.
Spinal Decompression Table Research
Research into spinal decompression therapy is ongoing, with a number of studies showing benefits to patients experiencing chronic or acute pain. For instance, a study from the Rio Grande Regional Hospital and Health Sciences Center and the University Texas showed:
The specific and important clinical action of decompression therapy that makes it effective. Intradiscal pressure measurement was performed by connecting a cannula inserted into the patient’s L4-L5 disc space to a pressure transducer. Spinal decompression was introduced and changes in pressure were recorded at a resting state and again while controlled tension was applied by the equipment. The results of this study indicate that it is possible to lower pressure in the nucleus pulposus of herniated lumbar discs to below -100 mm Hg when distraction tension is applied according to the protocol described for decompression therapy. The lowest intradiscal pressure measured during progressive traction was 40 mm Hg compared to 75 mm Hg resting supine.(2) Standard decompression therapy, therefore, differs from standard traction by creating a unique clinical circumstance of prolonged negative intradiscal pressure.
Lowering the pressure in a herniated disc is the objective way to measure whether decompression is working, since lower pressure means, by definition, less compression. When the pressure within a lumbar disc is lower, patients will experience less low-back pain.
In an outcome study from 1998, spinal decompression therapy was effective in 71% of cases, with patients reporting a decrease in pain to either 0 or 1 on a scale of 0 to 5.
Another low-back pain study found that patients with chronic pain experienced relief from spinal decompression therapy in as little as eight weeks. It is important to note that 80% of the patients in this
particular study had been experiencing symptoms for more than 6 months and had tried at least two other interventions to relieve their pain before turning to a spinal decompression table.
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Zerona
ZERONA is the only FDA cleared medical procedure for the circumferential reduction of the waist, hips, thighs, and upper arms. ZERONA contours an anatomical area by safely disrupting the fat cell’s outer membranes, resulting in the release of stored intracellular lipids. Once released, the stored lipids can be safely removed and processed by the body. Knowing that the fat removal process will take several hours, perhaps several days, how is it possible that ZERONA can reduce a person’s waist circumference after just one treatment? Simple – hydrophobicity! For all you chefs out there, you are already familiar with the principles of hydrophobicity. When oil is added to water, what happens? Oil droplets form.
How It Works
This occurs because the long nonpolar chains of fat and the small polar water molecules are immiscible – basically meaning they can’t combine or properly mix together. Fat is considered to be a hydrophobic molecule, which means it fears water.When ZERONA disrupts the fat’s cell membrane, releasing the stored fat, the fat leaves the controlled cell environment and enters into an aqueous environment (water environment).
Quickly,the fat will shift and combine with neighboring hydrophobic molecules based on the principles of hydrophobicity to avoid water. In turn, a single treatment with ZERONA can yield acircum ferential reduction as the fat in the treatment area can shift above or below the measurement point. Of course, the fat must still be removed from the area via the lymphatic system, but in the short term, ZERONA, along with the principles of hydrophobicity help to generate your trimmer waist!
