What Is Inversion Therapy?

Given my age, I’ve been recently having back pains – my bones are obviously degenerating! I’m not as strong as I used to be and it’s quite hard to accept the fact that I am getting weaker by the day. At least, the pain is an on-and-off kind of pain. But it is still annoying. Of course, I’m eating and drinking the right food – dairy foods for Calcium and fatty fish for stronger muscles, among others. But still, I’m looking for something new that I can add to my alternative med paraphernalia. And of course I want to share something new to you.

So, being an alternative medicine junkie, I’ve searched the internet about things that would make the pain stop. I know the pain is not as frequent or as painful as other back issues like sciatica of even scoliosis, but as they say, prevention is better than cure. I’m not going to sit around wait for the pain to fully take their toll.

What I found are these machinesthat turn you upside-down. They are called inversion tables and they are said to decompress the spine. I did a little bit more research and found out that inversion therapy is a healing technique that counters the effects of gravity to the spine.

You see, our spine slowly but surely get compressed under our upper body weight. This is of course aided with gravity. This compression squeezes out much needed fluids from our spine. There’s also the possibility of pinching some nerves which would further result to sharp back pains. These are the stuff of nightmares that inversion therapy wants to counter.

BUT, given that inversion therapy alters your body’s natural state (it turns you upside down), there must be some risk involved in it. It turns out that this healing technique is not for all – those with high blood pressure, glaucoma, and conjunctivitis cannot partake in inversion therapy. More harm will be done to them than good. I still have to do further research with this but of course you can do it on your own.

I haven’t been able to try one yet, but I’ve seen one in my previous physiotherapist’s office. I might go back there again sometime to try it out. These are sold on Amazon too so that’s an option. It IS quite tempting.

Has anyone of you tried inversion therapy? What can you say about it?