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When you get one you just need to check into how it hooks to your feet/ankles.Some are more comfortable than others.
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fractured T11 & T12. Doctor said i was 2 in a million that dont get paralyzed from the incident. it might have had something to do with the fact that prior to the wreck i was doing about 400 various ab crunches a day. lucky for me the doc didnt recommend surgery.
i bought a inversion table as soon i was released from the hospital.
two days later i ditched the back brace.
within a week i got used to it where i could hang for an entire episode of sportscenter. i did 45 minutes, twice a day, every day, for about 3 months.
at the four week mark i started shooting hoops again.
when i went back to the doc's to get mid-term xrays done at the 6 week mark, he thought i was at the 12 week mark and cleared me to get back on the dirtbike/jetski. i corrected him, he examined the xrays again, was shocked at how fast i healed and then gave me the clearance to at least start playing full contact basketball. i was in the gym later that day playing at UCLA's wooden center.
it turned out that i had a hairline fracture in one of my vertabrae prior to the glamis incident from a bmx injury some 5 years earlier. it was so slight that the body never recognized it and it never healed. but it was annoying pain everytime i walked. after the whole glamis incident, it turned that hairline into a full on fracture and thanks to the hanging upside down, it finally got healed.
i have less back issues after the whole ordeal than prior thanks to the inversion table. the release of pressure from being upside down allows a LOT more blood circulation to occur and really helps to reduce inflamation. flushing out all the toxin buildup from all the inflamed areas is key to healing any injury.
ive since used the table to heal pulled groin muscles literally overnight and various other minor lower body injuries.
i highly recommend an inversion table to anyone. waaay cheaper than surgery and much better results.
really helped my L5-S1
the fucking Dr.s never mentioned inversion, they get paid to cut.
I'm convinced that I could have avoided my surgery if I'd have found out about hanging a few years ago.
Inversion is good.
Did not help me and actually made my back hurt more later in the day or next day.
I used for a few weeks and stopped.
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Inversion tables are cool and they have many benefits but if you are getting it solely on the merit of curing your back pain you might be disappointed just as I was when I thought I found my cure all. They do give you a good stretch and not going totally inverted and only about 45 degrees really does take pressure off you entire body. I can see where they can be a very good tool to a healthy non sore body and provide a good stretch and benefits to core strength if incorporated into a workout routine. What they won't do or wouldn't do for me was replace the work of a chiropractor. In fact it would screw up a good chiropractor visit.
When I am REALLY jacked up I go to my chiro and use the miracle device the VaxD You can visit this site, plug in your zip code to see where a table is at in your area.
like mx295 said (and i forgot to mention in my post), its real important for some to ease there way into it. even at the slightest angle of inversion a lot of pressure is released.
i like to think of it as stretching. you cant just expect to put ur palms to the floor the first day or it will hurt more than it helps.
I can't believe this many people in this thread are happy with these things. From reading on muscle and fitness sites....people try to pass judgment on them , like they are snake oil. And about 95% of the guys in here really love them. I'm getting one now for sure!
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