IDD Therapy Cirencester, Gloucestershire

04/01/2025

IDD Therapy Spinal Decompression: Relieve Arm and Leg Pain (Sciatica) Without Surgery



If you're suffering from arm or leg pain (sciatica) caused by a herniated disc, you know how debilitating it can be. You may have tried everything to get relief, from physical therapy to injections, but nothing seems to work.



But there is a non-surgical option. IDD Therapy is the advanced spinal decompression treatment that can help you relieve your pain and get back to your life.



IDD Therapy works by gently decompressing targeted spinal segments, easing pressure on nerves and working soft tissues to improve mobility. As part of a programme of care, IDD Therapy frees the spine so that the body's natural healing mechanisms operate more efficiently. As you are able to move more, we aim to get you off the vicious downward circle of pain, reduced mobility and poor sleep and onto a virtuous circle of reduced pain, better movement and improved sleep.



If you need help for nerve pain, call the clinic and arrange an IDD Therapy consultation to learn more about IDD Therapy and see if it's right for you.

07/10/2024

Shooting pain down your leg or dull ache? Sciatica is one of the worst types of pain! Some positions may ease it or it can be constant.

Sciatica usually stems from the lower back and can be associated with a bulging or herniated disc issue. It can resolve itself but when it doesn't go away, then we're here to help.

Manual treatments and exercise will sort out most problems, but for unresolved sciatica we use IDD Therapy spinal decompression.

This non-invasive treatment targets and decompresses the affected spinal level, easing pressure on nerves and helping to improve function in your lower back.

If it is time to say 'So Long' to sciatica, visit the IDD Therapy page on our website for more details.

08/07/2023

The Stages of Pain Medication for Back Pain and When to Consider Non-Surgical IDD Therapy Spinal Decompression

The opioid crisis highlighted the dangers from over-prescribing pain medications for back pain and has raised consciousness amongst health care professionals of the need and desirability to consider alternatives.

GPs are at the front line of spinal pain with 7% of GP consultations in the UK being for lower back pain. Most back pain can be managed holistically with medication, including NSAIDs like Ibuprofen, and physical therapy.

Yet when pain persists, what next?

Return visits to GPs when physical therapy and NSAIDs are not working can see patients prescribed stronger pain medication.

This starts with more powerful medicines like naproxen and can progress upwards to opioid analgesics including codeine, tramadol and in rare cases morphine.

Additionally, a range of neuropathic agents (gabapentin, amitriptyline or pregabalin) may be prescribed for nerve pain such as sciatica.

Pain medication is intended to provide short term relief whilst the body heals or to enable a patient to manage their pain. But ‘managing pain’ can mean living life with pain and that isn’t a desirable outcome goal for anyone.

Stronger pain medication is an indicator of an underlying cause not being addressed. Pain resulting from conditions including bulging or herniated discs can be addressed conservatively with a rehab programme of research-backed IDD Therapy Spinal Decompression.

IDD Therapy addresses the failings of traditional traction by decompressing and mobilising targeted spinal segments.

Taking pressure off nerves and restoring function as part of a programme of care, IDD Therapy relieves GPs of the need to manage some spinal pain.

This allows patients to avoid the side effects of stronger pain medications and the risks of opioids, it addresses the underlying causes of the patients’ problem and it provides alternate solutions for primary care providers.

If you are struggling with back pain, neck pain or nerve pain such as sciatica, the clinic provides a range of manual therapies as well as IDD Therapy Spinal Decompression.

Feel free to get in touch to have a chat.

03/12/2022

How to treat sciatic pain? The pain travelling down the buttocks or legs typically comes from pressure or irritation of the sciatic nerve and the pain can take over someone’s life. What we need to do is to take pressure off the nerve! A common cause of sciatica is a bulging or herniated disc in the lower back where the wall of the disc in our spine pushes outwards and presses on to the nerve. It is quite a complex process but compression of the disc and stiffness in the spinal segment can create the environment for a disc to bulge or herniate.

To address the problem we need to decompress the affected disc and ease the stiffness in the spinal segment, to improve mobility and ultimately function.

Here at the clinic, we use manual therapy and exercise to achieve this, but where a problem is not responding to hand on treatment we use IDD Therapy spinal decompression.

IDD is a mechanical treatment which applies computer-controlled pulling forces at precisely-measured angles to decompress and mobilise TARGETED spinal segments. As part of a programme of care, we can help people with the most stubborn sciatica, easing their pain and enabling them to get their life back.

If you or someone you know is struggling with sciatica, contact the clinic to arrange a consultation. We’re here to help you.

13/06/2020

TWO-THIRDS OF HERNIATED DISCS RESOLVE ON THEIR OWN! - RESULTS FROM A RECENT META-ANALYSIS⠀
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Too many people think that once you have a disc herniation (or disc bulge), that you’ve got it for life. Well, a recent meta-analysis has shown that 2/3 of disc bulges spontaneously «heal» on their own! Many of them within a few months too, not years.⠀
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Conclusion from the paper: “Because the overall incidence of disc de-herniation is now 66.66% according to our results, conservative treatment may become the first choice of treatment for LDH.”⠀
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⁣Reference: Zhong et al 2017 ✅

17/05/2020

A little video on the McGill big 3. Stabilising the lower back is a must.

26/04/2020

With the lockdown it’s difficult for us to see patients 😞

I’m not sure I’d recommend goats walking on your back when out for your one hour allowed exercise! However, the bull looks happy

08/03/2020

Wow Selena Carnell truly inspirational.

We live your IDD story 💓

Check out my run on Strava.

16/01/2020

Wow huge thanks to Dilly’s Outdoor Beautiful Handmade Cushions for our waiting room chairs. They really brighten up the clinic.

Check out these fab cushions at www.dillyscushions.co.uk

#❤️cushions

04/01/2020

What The Doctor Doesn’t Tell You article about IDD.

Our colleague Sally Lansdale tells her success story with IDD and the reason she ended up getting one for her clinic.

As an osteopath, Sally Lansdale knew the limits of back surgery full well, so when she developed a herniated disc, she found a safer alternative

31/12/2019

Happy New Year to you all.

Here’s wishing you a healthy 2020.

17/11/2019

Check out our Osteopath’s Steve’s article on the website of Passion for the Planet Radio.

Herniated disc is not a phrase we tend to learn about in biology classes at school. Patients usually come across