By: Julia Aidan
Submitted: 2010-02-26 11:14:02 | Word Count: 532
Gravity pulls the body down as you grow older. Considered to be a baffling force that is the adhesive of the world creating mass and weight, gravity is responsible for the slow collapse of our spine, compressing and mashing each vertebra together and the property reflecting on our body.
There are numerous ligaments and muscles surrounding the spine. These are compressed slowly and the effect on the discs between each spinal vertebra from gravity compression squeezes nerve roots, resulting in pain and swelling. Discs are similar to sponges and when they are pressed, suffer damages since they contain no fluid to assist in shock absorption and insulation. To reduce pressure on these discs and nerve roots to almost zero, you have to reverse your body to at least 60 degrees, so that the "sponge" can re-expand absorbing water and nutrients. This will allow the body to return to optimum functional level.
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Back pain is a general ailment-affecting adults. People therefore seek pain relievers. Inversion therapy is an age-old technique used as a treatment to relieve back pain. It is believed that inversion therapy reduces back pain due to spine decompression. In this therapy, the spine is undisturbed by inverting the position of the body and as stress on the spine is reduced the back pain reduces. There are various ways to carry out inversion therapy of which headfirst suspension, inversion frames and inversion tables are prominent.
To implement inversion therapy customized inversion tables are used. The main function of the table is that you can keep your body positioned upside down by lying on an inversion table. The body hangs down through the inversion table with your feet supported by an assembly at one end of the table. It can be adjusted as desired. By moderately tilting the table, patients have got relief from pain and the time a patient has to spend on the table is directly relative to the angle of the table. If the angle is less then it may require more time for relief. An inversion table reverses the effects of gravity.
It has plenty of advantage. It lowers pressure on the bones and tension of the muscles by making them flexible. It helps in relieving stress and relaxing.
An inversion posture helps improve blood circulation, energizing the body and rejuvenating the mind. Inversion table helps in achieving this posture easily.
To lessen hip and neck pain physiotherapists recommend inversion table. The Chinese treatment also recommends this inversion table.
For spinal decompression inversion table is essential. The table helps in elongating the spinal cord, which is compressed due to gravitational force.
To improve equilibrium and stability, fitness inversion table is used. This table also helps in exercising the core muscles, cleaning the lymphatic system and detoxification. Ligaments are also flexed.
Considered a health machine, inversion table is a tool used to invert the body in various angles to relieve stress on the backbone and back muscles, thus assisting in improving the health of the human body and relaxing the mind.
