Does use of an inversion table truly relieve back pain and decompress spinal discs? What other (if any) positive real effects can they have on the body?
IANAD and don’t want to be one when I grow up.
The only regret I have about my inversion table, is that I don’t have room to keep it set up at all times.
It has been very helpful for circulation problems, unkinking the kinks (heh), and stretching things that were too tight…
If the popping and cracking sounds are any indication, it’s doing something helpful.
Or harmful.
Either way, it feels great.
I’d melt into a puddle on the floor afterwards, if I wasn’t clamped into the danged thing.
Lots of people, including good physical therapists, promote them. It makes logical sense that, if the discs gain fluid and grow back into shape overnight due to reduced loading on the spine, they will also do it more quickly on an inversion table.
Inversion therapy wasn’t the magic bullet I needed to avoid surgery this past summer, but then neither were several other mainstream methods they tried. It didn’t hurt, and probably helped, and I want to do more of it. If the tables were free I’d have one - and at $300 or so I should probably spring for one anyway. I did find the method somewhat helpful.
Does anyone know if inversion table therapy is beneficial to relieving and healing sciatica??