[NEW YORK] cervical disease is a common disease in the elderly, due to cervical disc degeneration and cervical bone hyperplasia syndrome. It is characteristics with neck and shoulder pain, upper extremity numbness, muscle weakness, dizziness, cataplexy, sweating abnormalities, faltering, even a quadriplegic as features. 50% of those aged 45 and above have varying degrees of spine back shape changes. Mental workers take a greater majority. Depending on the clinical symptoms, it is often divided into neck type, nerve root, vertebral artery, the sympathetic nerve, spinal cord, and mixed type, and so on.

Dr. Decheng Chen, a licensed acupuncturists of NY state and MD (Acupuncture), has the Western academic background and bachelor's, master's and doctor’s degree. He has more than 11 years of formal medical education and nearly 30 years of clinical experience. As an acupuncture famous scientist Professor Qiu Maoliang doctoral students, he graduated from Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and was former deputy director of the Beijing Academy of Traditional Chinese physicians. He has published "Chinese acupuncture point therapy alone" and other 15 monographs and hundreds of articles. He has visited Egypt on behalf of the country to provide the treatment of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Balloon-type tractor is a patent product which was developed by Dr. Chen Decheng and his classmates in Beijing China. It is a new health care equipment that is specialized in treating cervical spondylosis. It is designed based on the inflatable traction theory and associated with the magnetic effect on the neck acupuncture can effectively treat cervical spondylosis, neck and improve the blood supply to the brain, in order to eliminate all types of cervical disease caused by symptoms. Cervical osteoarthritis, cervical disc herniation, cervical curvature straight, spinal stenosis, had hyperextension injury and paralysis and other types of cervical disease caused by cervical spondylosis have a therapeutic effect. Combined traction, magnetic therapy, massage, health functions as one, the tractor is mainly applied to any symptoms caused by neck injury and cervical spondylosis, such as neck pain, stiffness, limited mobility; headache, dizziness, blurred vision and arm finger numbness.

Dr. Decheng Chen said that cervical spondylosis can generally be divided into the nerve root, vertebral artery, neck type, sympathetic, spinal cord, esophagus oppression and mixed type, the first four of which can be best cured by the traction therapy. The treatment is conducted to do first ten minutes’ small traction, fully relax before continuing ten minutes’ inflatable traction, and then do a few minutes of vigorous traction based on the specific circumstances of users. The force size varies according to the user’s feeling of power. A course usually takes 30 days and frequent use has a certain health prevention. The treatment of spinal cord applied for traction with a small force.

About self-treatment, Dr. Chen Decheng said patients can conduct their own treatment at home or in the office, and the method is very simple as long as the balloon-type tractor sets in the neck, with a manual pressure against the balloon to inflate to the appropriate level, every 30 minutes, once or twice a day. At the same time of doing traction therapy, patients can still watch TV, computer and read the newspaper and so on. It is very convenient.

A man, aged 68, has suffered stiff neck pain, as well as limited flexibility for three years. His situation gradually got worse, pain radiating from neck to the left back, from left shoulder to left shoulder. There are headaches, dizziness, ringing in the ears, blurred vision surrounding with him. In recent one week, his left index finger pinched weakness and left fist felt weakness. And the left arm and fingers numb got worse. MIR examination: degenerative changes in the cervical spine, spinal stenosis, cervical disc 3, 4 slightly to the left outstanding. Doctors recommended surgery. The patient was very scared and worried because he had done lumbar disc surgery five years ago, but leg pain intensified. He conducted a second surgery, but it was not completely cured. He was introduced to Dr. Chen clinic. After several acupuncture treatments, Dr. Chen instructed the patients to use their own devices to have cervical rehabilitation treatment at home, twice a day and every 30 minutes. He insisted doing this for a month. Now basically neck pain relieved. The most important thing was that his hand restored grasp force, while the parent index finger pinch and finger strength retain to normal. At the same time, headache, dizziness, ringing in the ears, blurred vision embolism were also eliminated. He also recommend this tractor to his friend.

On the principle of traction therapy, Dr. Chen Decheng says cervical disease is due to a series of pathological changes in cervical disc degeneration, such as the local tissue swelling and bleeding of cervical hyperplasia gap narrowing, vertebrae instability, loosening, herniated nucleus, spur formation, ligament hypertrophy, spinal stenosis, or irritation of the nerve root compression, spinal cord, vertebral artery and cervical sympathetic organizations and a series of syndrome. Effective traction fixes and lifts neurovascular tissue within the vertebral compression, thereby relieves pain.  Repeated traction result in neck muscle relaxation and increased disc space. It straightens vertebral artery, relieves pressure inside the disc, promotes blood circulation, speeds up metabolism, relieves nerve root pressure, and improves blood supply of the vertebral artery and brain. It is conducive to the proliferation of local bleeding and swelling subside, so that cervical disease can be cured. Balloon-type tractor is an indispensable health product for patients with cervical disease.

In addition to the treatment of cervical disease, Dr. Chen Decheng also provide the treatment of facial paralysis, neck, shoulders, waist, knee pain and other pain, gastrointestinal disorders, cough, asthma, prostate disease, urinary incontinence, difficulty urinating, diabetes, numbness in the hand, cough, asthma, menstrual, menopause, gynecological inflammation, uterine fibroids, women infertility, dizziness, tinnitus, cancer, eczema and hay fever and other difficult diseases. He also has specialize in acupuncture treatment of acne, warts, alopecia, vitiligo, wrinkles, and facial elasticity.
Decheng Medical Center accepts United Health Care, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Aetna, Oxford, and the first health insurance card for elderly.

Dr. Decheng Chen’s Medical Center Address:
Midtown Manhattan: 161 Madison Ave suite 2N (between 32/33 Street). New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212-564-3324
Long Island: 1334 5th Ave, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Website www.acupunctureland.com