Welcome to Your
Personal Treatment Guide
YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Wear you Lumbar belt after lumbar decompression for 3 hours after treatment.
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Don’t exercise or do any heavy lifting for at least 3 hours after treatment.
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Its normal and temporary to have light stiffness or for your original symptoms to go up and down at first.
YOUR DO'S & DON'TS
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Stay diligent with your visits and exercises. Each visit builds on the prior one.
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Stay patient with your body and the speed of the healing process.
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Track progress week-to-week instead of visit-to-visit.
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Don’t be tempted to make up for lost time as your body improves. Intense yard work, heavy workouts, or 400 holes of golf will need to wait a bit.
COMMUNICATE WITH CASE SUPERVISOR
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If new symptoms appear that are more than a 1-2+ on a pain scale.
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If you are having additional soreness that doesn’t settle down within 24 hours
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If you can’t feel the pull on the decompression or if the pull feels too painful
Your Road to Recovery
ICE AND HEAT THERAPY
Ice reduces inflammation, numbs pain, and slows nerve irritation. Heat increases circulation, relaxes tight muscles, and improves mobility. Alternating them creates a powerful pump effect that moves nutrients into injured tissue while flushing out inflammation
Always Start and End With Ice
5 minutes — Ice
5 minutes — Heat
5 minutes — Ice
5 minutes — Heat
5 minutes — Ice
Use a heating pad, warm towel, or standard ice pack. This routine can be done 1–3 times per day
You can still benefit from contrast therapy — just modify it: Heat (hot tub):
10 minutes max Ice therapy: 10 minutes immediately afterward