One clinic, two websites
Mecham Chiropractic already has a website that covers everything the clinic does — car-accident care, adjustments, massage and more. Decompression gets one page there.
That's not enough room for the questions people actually bring about this treatment.
Does it work? Why won't insurance pay for it? How many sessions, and what happens if it isn't helping? This site exists to answer those properly, in one place, without burying them under a dozen other services.
Same clinic, same doctor, same phone number. Nothing here is a separate business.
Dr. Cody Mecham, DC
Dr. Cody Mecham graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic with a Doctor of Chiropractic degree in February 2009. He's licensed by the State of Utah (chiropractic license #9776), and his National Provider Identifier is 1295002640 — a number you can look up yourself.
His training goes past the basic license. He's a Board Certified Chiropractic Physician, a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician and a Certified Chiropractic Extremity Practitioner, and he holds a Board Certified Physiotherapy Practitioner credential. He's also a Certified Webster Technique Practitioner and a Certified Orthotic Specialist, and he's listed on the ACBSP Concussion Registry.
Why mention any of that on a decompression site? Because the table is the easy part. Deciding who belongs on it — and who doesn't — is the part that takes a trained examiner.
How these pages were written
Every medical claim on this site traces to a source we opened and read: the FDA's own clearance record, Medicare's coverage decision, insurer policies, peer-reviewed studies and the clinic's own treatment protocol. The sources are listed at the bottom of each page, so you don't have to take our word for anything.
Numbers get the same treatment. Every figure on this site, from a session count to a study's sample size, comes from a listed source, and the pages are checked against that list before they're published.
Where the evidence is weak, the pages say so. That's deliberate. A clinic that only shows you the flattering study is asking for trust it hasn't earned.
Medical pages carry a review line once Dr. Cody Mecham has read them. A page without that line hasn't had his review yet.
What you won't find here
No testimonials. You won't see star ratings either, or "success rate" percentages, or before-and-after stories.
That isn't modesty. Reviews and stories can't tell you whether decompression will help your particular back, and a success rate with no study behind it is just a number someone liked the sound of. What can help you decide is an honest explanation plus an exam — so that's what we offer.
Questions we'd ask any decompression clinic, including this one
Shopping around is smart. Before paying anyone for a plan, here's what we'd want answered.
- What in my exam makes you think the pain is coming from a disc?
- Where's the checkpoint, and what happens if I haven't improved by then?
- Is the table FDA-cleared, and do you describe that accurately?
- What does the whole plan cost, and do I have to pay for it up front?
- Which study does your "success rate" come from?
A clinic that gets defensive about any of those is telling you something. We've tried to answer all five across this site, starting with what spinal decompression costs.
Reach the clinic
Call (801) 590-8615, email the clinic, or schedule an exam. If you'd like to read before you call, what to expect from spinal decompression and what the research actually shows are good places to start.