I’ve been having some back troubles, so I invested in a cheap inversion table for $100. I’ve been on it about 5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes before bed. I did a search, but didn’t find too many results.
I’ve been taking it easy on deadlifts and the benefits of inversion therapy are helping my back pain. I was sore from using it the first couple of days, but the relief it provides is awesome. The benefits include elongating the spine, stress relief, decompression of the spine, and the big one is providing better circulation to the spine vy stretching out the negative effects of gravity.
I think I have a nerve that is compressed and I’m not getting the proper circulation to it. Anyways I’m pain free most of the day, just sitting at my desk too long gets uncomfortable.
i havent, but i have also been asking around about them as i have disc problems in my lumbar region. i would like to TRY one for a while to see how it does, i think i found a place that lets you so i may give that a shot
Stretch your hip flexors beforehand. A tight psoas and/or rectus femoris can severely wreck your lumbar curve during inversion. They actually make inv tables with knees bent for this reason… but better to fix the actual problem.
Also, I recommend traction style inversion where you rythmically oscillate btw as far as is comfortable and about ten deg below parallel.
Let us know how it goes! I think you’ll be hearing a lot more about this in the future.
Regarding the benefits past age 40… Why would the discs not have the ability to re-hydrate? The nucleus popolus stuff was a little over my head. Maybe could you take that back a step and explain a bit?