It still sounds like a decompression
Posted By: nn on 2006-05-30
In Reply to: don't know.... - eh
Subject: It still sounds like a decompression
procedure to me. There is one called the VAX-D, vertebral axial decompression. I do ortho and most of my docs are spine surgeons. I think this is what your doc is talking about. good luck.
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