One of the best studies on intradiscal pressure was conducted by the Department of Neurosurgery and Radiology at Rio Grande Regional Hospital and Health Sciences Center, University of Texas and published in the Journal of Neurosurgery, Volume 81, September, 1994. The lowest intradiscal pressures below -150 mm Hg were measured via cannula inserted into the L-4 nucleus pulposus during decompression therapy. This has been confirmed with fluoroscopy. Spinal manipulation by physical therapy, traction, chiropractic or osteopathic adjustments cannot bypass the body's protective proprioceptor lock-down response and therefore cannot create these kind of negative vacuum pressures for even as little as ten seconds, let alone twenty one half hour treatments.

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