What Does Lumbar Traction Do For You?
- If you have limited lumbar extension and trouble leaning backward without pain, that is one of the reasons that you should be looking to do some traction.
- If you want to get back to work and are trying to get better, traction can be a help to you.
- If you have no segmental hypomobility in your spine, traction can help you. You might not be able to know that unless you go to see a chiropractor or your medical doctor who palpates and touches your spine, but if your spine moves freely, that probably means there’s no hypomobility. So that also puts you into that camp of somebody who would respond well to traction.
- Short duration of symptoms. The longer you’ve had your symptoms, the less likely you are to benefit from traction.
- Sudden onset of symptoms. So if your symptoms happen, like lifting a box, and then you have sudden pain that radiates down your legs, you’re much more likely to get benefit than somebody who had a slow role of chronic pain that built up over a series of weeks or months or years.
