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IDD Therapy - A New Direction For The Initial Treatment of Low Back Pain
A Report by: Dennis McClure, MD and Bethany Farris

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IDD Therapy Vs. Exercise Based Physical Therapy
by: Michael Schaufele, MD and Michael Newsome, PT




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Long Term Effect Analysis of IDD Therapy in Low Back Pain by: C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD, Nirman Koladia MD and Merrill M. Wesemann, MD




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Southern Medical Association Annual Meeting

IDD Therapy in Back Pain Treatment: A Clinical Trial Comparing Key Diseases

of Low Back Pain - Nov. 10-13, 2005

By: Norman Shealy, MD, PhD, Surb Guram, MD, Josh Gabriel, MD
and Nirman Koladia, MD

 

Practical Pain Management 

April 2005

Intervertebral Differential Dynamics Therapy
By: C. Norman Shealy MD, PhD

Practical Pain Management

Mar/April 2003

Distraction Techniques for Lumbar Pain
By: Alan E. Ottenstein, MD

Results of IDD Therapy at Monmouth Advanced Medicine Clinic

October 01, 2001 thru March 06, 2002

American Journal of Pain Management

Vol 7 No 2 - April 1997

Decompression, Reduction, and Stabilization of the Lumbar Spine:

A Cost-Effective Treatment for Lumbosacral Pain
By: C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD and Vera Borgmeyer, RN, MA

MTG Newsletter

Peer Review Network

Vol 5 No. 3 - October 1999

Special Report – DRS System
By: C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD

Paper Presented to the American Society of NeuroImaging

Simple pelvic traction gives inconsistent relief to herniated lumbar disc sufferers

Feb 26, 1998
By: Edward L. Eyerman, MD

Journal of NeuroImaging

Vol 8 No 2 - April 1998

MRI Evidence of NonSurgical, Mechanical Reduction, Rehydration and Repair
of the Herniated Disc
By: Edward L. Eyerman, MD

DRS System Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial of Non-invasive Decompression System in the Treatment

of Lumbosacral  Radiculopathies  

Pain Management

A Clinical Guide for Clinicians Decompression, Reduction and Stabilization

by:  C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD, F.A.C.S  and Pierre L. Leroy, MD, F.A.C.S