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Inversion Table Therapy

This website looks at the reasons for inversion tables and some of the "best buys" to be found.


Why Use an Inversion Table?

You probably came to this Inversion Table Search website having heard that they can help with the relief of back pain related problems. The benefits of inversion have ben known for thousands of years with the yogis of India balancing upside down or doing head/shoulder stands. They believe the therapeutic benefits, apart from inducing a feeling of well being, also contributed to increased energy and relief from headaches and migraines amongst other benefits from being inverted!

The use of Inversion Therapy offers these benefits to those who can not or would not consider doing a headstand. For those seeking relief from back pain the following theory is promoted for traction and stretching using the body weight and inversion tables. Instead of trying to support the body weight on the head or hands, the body’s weight is suspended from the lower body (feet and legs) by using a controllable table which can be adjusted to angles of elevation upto the point of full, upside down inversion.

This causes each joint in the body to be loaded in an equal and opposite manner to that applied by standing upright. Users and designers of inversion tables and boots claim that inversion therapy is particularly beneficial for the spine and pelvis area. It is the natural traction of bodyweight that creates pulling forces on the ligaments crossing over the joints and the muscles surrounding the areas. This relieves pressure on the discs and nerve roots; this in turn allows discs to reabsorb moisture and to return to their original shape in a slightly wider arena, and this should decrease the pressure being exerted on nerves – and therefore give pain relief.

Strengthening of the ligaments and longer terms of relief is achieved by people carrying out repeated and gradual use of of an Inversion Table with increases of the intensity (angle) and duration of the traction.

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