Indications
Cervical traction has been used in a variety of cervical pathologies:
- Cervical disc disease
- Cervical spine fracture
- Facet joint dislocation
- Atlantoaxial subluxation
- Occipitocervical synopsis
- Spondylosis
- Radiculopathy
- Foraminal Stenosis
- Myofascial tightness
Contraindications
- Acute torticollis
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Active peptic ulcer disease
- Diskitis
- Old age
- Osteomyelitis
- Osteoporosis
- Ligamentous instability
- Primary or metastatic tumor
- Spinal cord tumor
- Myelopathy
- Pregnancy
- Severe anxiety
- Untreated hypertension
- Vertebral-basilar artery insufficiency
- Midline herniated nucleus pulposus
- Restrictive lung disease
- Hernia