Spine Health Treatment Center(Physical Therapy)

If my spine is unstable?

Regarding general chronic low back pain and postoperative low back pain could be caused by weakness of spinal muscles and lack of sensory-motor system. When the patients take rest for long time due to low back pain, they might have weakness of abdominal muscle and back muscle. These muscles' weakness acquire special back exercise. If the patients do not undergo back exercise, their abdominal and back muscle could be more weakened and it could cause muscle damage easily. In case of recurrence after the treatment, the patients should care about the weakness of abdominal and spinal segement instability.

What kind of exercise should I do?

General back exercise could not fully intensify abdominal and back muscles. The existing exercise instruments, leading too much load on patients' bodies, could not provide proper effects. Rather, these existing instruments could harm to muscles since it is impossible to intensify in balance. In addition, these instruments could not help to enhance the power of the inner side of muscles. Therefore, in order to prevent the spinal instability and improve the spinal muscle power, additional programs and specialized medical exercise instruments are required.

Spine Health Treatment Center

Manual Therapy

ESWT Therapy

Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy or ESWT is a treatment used in physical therapy, orthopedics, urology and cardiology. The shockwaves are abrupt, high amplitude pulses of mechanical energy, similar to soundwaves, generated by an electromagnetic coil or a spark in water. Similar technology using focused higher energies is used to break up kidney and gallstones, and is termed lithotripsy. “Extracorporeal” means that the shockwaves are generated externally to the body and transmitted from a pad through the skin.

Centaur

This is an exercise to correct the unstable vertebral joints as strong vertebral joints by using 3D exercise which leads to the active muscle exercise on the basis of only the gravity and the wight of the body without moving the spine. This will stabilizes the movement of the spine and sensory-motor nerve system of the muscle around the spine, abdominal muscle. That is 3D exercise that activates the sensory-motor system and restores the sense of damaged spine and prevent the recurrence of pain through accelerating the effect on the exercise.

- Spinal stabilization exercise

- Disc, joints, ligaments, muscle and the damage of bones.

- Spinal segment instability

1.    For the first time in Korea, the Wooridul Spine Hospital introduced the CENTAUR for the treatment spinal instability and sensory-motor system. CENTAUR, three dimensional exercise programs, recovers the damaged proprioceptor and helps functional training as well as provides successful spinal treatment and effective prevention.

2.    CENTAUR is not dynamic exercise but isometric exercise and the process of exercise is automatic computed system so that it is much safer than any other exercise. Also CENTAUR is the primary exercise system for the patients after the surgery. CENTAUR helps patients exercise in various angles keeping balance.

3.    CENTAUR was developed in Germany, which is the most developed country for spinal treatment in the world. It could figure out all the directions of lumbar spinal muscles through 8-angle muscle power examination. So that it is possible to find out weaken muscles in details so that the patients could undergo selective muscle strengthening.

4.    Especially, CENTAUR is very effective for the patients with chronic low back pain. As the static exercise, it is available for any patient regardless of age and gender. The working time is short and all kinds of exercise could be done with one set of CENTAUR. CENTAUR helps to develop not only muscle power but also biofeedback motor control.