MedX: Back & Neck Pain SUCCESS

To gain a further understanding and appreciation of what these machines can do, let us look at the history of the machines, and at a history of body building and muscle building, in general.  Why is this important?  Because if we understand how to build and strengthen one muscle, we can strengthen other muscles.  After all, a muscle, is an muscle, is a muscle.   

The fatigue response test (FRT) indicates how much deterioration in strength there is, after a subject performs a repetitive exercise to fatigue the back.  

An isometric test is done to evaluate strength, then the subject is taken through a series of exercises to cause muscle fatigue, then the isometric test is repeated, to evaluate the strength.      

It is of great interest, and somewhat surprising, that the increases in strength which occurred with training once every two weeks, were as significant as those which occurred with training three times per week, provided that the exercises in the once per two week group, were done to complete muscular fatigue.  The implications of these results, on the training of the rest of the body, may be significant.      Another remarkable finding is that after the desired strength of the spine is achieved, doing the strengthening exercises just one per month, is all that is needed to maintain the muscular strength.       

Research has identified that after the injured patient has undergone strengthening using the MedX Lumbar Medical Machine, there is a significant improvement in lumbar strength.   In the slide to the right the study identified, low back pain was observed to decrease significantly in patients who had undergone back strengthening.  The noted study (to the right) by MacMillan showed that an exercise group (which had an increase in strength reported significant decrease in pain, compared to controls.   

Leggett et al (Spine) showed that when over 400 patients with chronic low back pain were treated with MedX, only 12% of these patients needed to re-enter the health care system due to spinal problems.  In the study by Nelson et al (Arch Phys Med Rehabil) , 92% of patients who were already recommended for surgical intervention, were able to avoid surgery on the neck or low back, after aggressive spinal strengthening on MedX.