[Body traction using centrifugal force in the treatment of spinal diseases].

In self treatment bodystretching centrifugal force was used in order to diminish backbone pains after discektomy L3/L4. After 13 minutes of treatment with up to 1.5 G centrifugal force related to the lumbal region on a centrifuge of the Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie Seewiesen the author felt free of pains in the back. The pains have not returned for 18 months yet.