I found a interesting blog about IDD therapy (IDD therapy blog)

Doctors are not God.
We would all like to think so, but it just isn't true.
God is God. Doctors are people just like you.
Don't think that your doctor has all the answers in this day and age. (They really never did, but it was easier to make folks think along those lines in "the good 'ol days!")
It is extremely important, when it comes to taking care of your physical body, that you minimize screwups.
Surgery can be a major screwup.
You will live with the results for the rest of your natural life and, unfortunately, your body will have to try to adapt to the unnatural and imposed changes.
Many post operative cases begin to have other problems (due to scar tissue or adaptive changes to adjacent joints) about five years after the surgery.
Always do non-invasive stuff when possible, especially if the non-invasive procedure has a high success rate.
IDD Therapy is 86 to 94% successful for the treatment of disc herniation and severe neck and low back problems.
You can always get cut on later; after really trying everything else!

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My patient always ask me" What do you think about IDD therapy"

Well,My personal opinion is that IDD really work for some patient who havn't real disc injuries. It is very little possible for sliped or injuried back to normal position. Some "successful cases" are possibly temperary thing....Just persional idea,sorry!

Any question? ....your opinion?

Another infomation about this

Local doctor has new answer for back, neck pain sufferers

If you are suffering from chronic or severe back or neck pain, a spinal specialist from Raceland has a new procedure that can cure your holiday blues.

Dr. Bryan J. Dufrene, of Spinal Aid Centers of America, is now one of fewer than 40 doctors in the U.S. certified to use the Antalgic-Trak, the first range of motion-decompression therapy in the world.

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So,many doctor doing this,,,,

Well another new story:

Stopping the Sciatica Ninety-Year-Old Gets Back Pain Fix with No Surgery, No Shots

Suffering from three degenerated bulging discs, ninety-one year old Juanita Ridenhour finds a non surgical and drug free alternative to back surgery. Dr. Thomas of Fayetteville, GA administered the IDD Therapy to help elevate the pain and get Ridenhour back to her independent living.

So,seems ok......

again:Stretching patients' spines gently with a noninvasive, computer-controlled traction device relieved back pain of different etiologies in a small study

At week six, patients scored the treatment at a mean of 8.1 on a 10-point scale of satisfaction with treatment. Some 89% of patients said they would recommend it to others.


Daniel Wik, M.D., a neurologist at Midwest Pain Clinics in Omaha, said he was skeptical in the absence of physiological data.
"We're seeing clinical outcome studies, but we're not actually seeing the pathophysiology of what changes are actually made. That's the scientific rigor," he said.
Improvement based solely on patients' self-reports "is not good enough," said Dr. Wik, who was not involved in the study.
Source:http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AAPM/12657

Although many people can attest to the fact that traction on the spine feels good, a 2005 review of medical literature by the Cochrane Back Group found that, by itself, traction really isn't effective for lower back pain. After looking at 25 high-quality studies, which investigated a total of more than 1,000 traction patients, researchers concluded that if you are using traction as the only treatment, there's really no difference in results between it and placebo. For certain types of neck problems, though, the use of traction is alive and well in clinical settings, as a complement to other treatment measures.