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Summary: Interferential and cervical traction from a chiropractor elongates and stretches the spine. Learn more about chiropractic interferential and cervical traction with tips from a chiropractor in this free back health video.
Dr. Jeffrey S. Reynolds was born in Dallas, Texas, but considers himself a San Antonio native, since he has spent most of his life here. After graduation from Health Careers High...read more
"Okay, so this is the interferential traction table. What it's doing is the patient is lying on their back, there's little rollers underneath the table which stretch the joints out and improve joint motion within the spine. Also this table has addition of providing vibratory massage to help relax the muscles. And as you see, the patient's lying here and she rolls gently and slowly back and forth. And the rollers underneath are tractioning out her spine. This is a cervical traction device. What this device does is it again, stretches out the small spinal joints in your neck and helps to increase motion and reduce pain. A person would lay on their back here and this would be placed under their neck. And you can see the rollers are gently rolling up and down to create that traction motion. These rollers are rolling gently up and down to increase spinal motion. Again the patient here is lying on the cervical traction device. This device gently stretches the joints of the spine, increasing the motion in the spine."
eHow Article: Chiropractic Interferential & Cervical Traction