How Much Time Does Knee Decompression Therapy Take Before You Feel Better?

When your knees don’t allow you to go a whole day without pain, movement and activity can hurt and even keep you from participating at all in life. With it being so short, you don’t have time for lengthy procedures. Although other treatments for knee pain and dysfunction exist, perhaps you have not seriously considered knee decompression therapy yet, but you should! While not exactly a quick fix, this option can provide relief relatively quickly without more serious side effects and risks that typically come with surgery or pain medication. So, about how long does it take to feel the positive impact of knee decompression therapy? Learn the answer here.

What Is Knee Decompression Therapy?

One of the most amazing aspects of knee decompression therapy is that the process doesn’t require any medication or surgery. Using your body’s built-in systems for healing, your provider can use natural methods to encourage recovery without additional challenges or setbacks from complex treatments.

How Does Knee Decompression Therapy Work?

To decompress something, you need to stretch it and give it more comfortable space. For your knee, your provider performs exercises that spread your femur and shin bones apart, creating a vacuum effect and drawing in nutrients. Even after you leave the office, nutrients can keep flowing to the area, but this brief decompression needs to occur more than once and regularly for you to feel significant progress and maintain it over time.

Who Needs Knee Decompression?

Anyone with chronic knee pain can benefit from decompression therapy, but it also comes particularly in handy for those who have:

• Osteoarthritis or contact or bone on bone.
• Kneecap pain.
• ACL and meniscus injuries.
• Other knee injuries.
• Failures post-surgery.
• Chronic or semi-acute muscle strains.
• Swelling or inflammation around the knee.

In many cases, patients have tried all sorts of other treatments that have failed or not resulted in satisfactory outcomes. Through simple therapy, your knee(s) could feel better and give you more freedom.

How Long Does Knee Decompression Take?

Every patient has a unique situation, different pain tolerance, and various extent to their injuries. As a result, healing may require a separate timeline for each one.

Like chiropractic adjustments and many other natural therapies, knee decompression therapy typically takes a couple of sessions to notice a difference in your sensation and function. However, the good news is that each treatment usually lasts about 10 minutes at most. After a total of an hour of knee decompression, your symptoms should start to feel at least a little better. With continued therapy, your knee can get better, be more functional without pain, and allow you to do what you want.

Would you rather spend your time recovering from surgery, trying to wean off pain medication that only masks the cause of the problem, or addressing the reason for your knee hurting? A few minutes here and there in your schedule are worth feeling your best and regaining function!

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