Inversion table

[LordGrover]

In another topic, reference was made to inversion tables. The context was more relief from back & neck pain/strain but looking at them I think they be quite relaxing.


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Does anyone here know anything about them?
Any downsides? Fnar, fnar.

[Slink]

I have been after one of them for ages, but not got the room atm.

would probably do wonders for my back, and i could do sit ups when upside down aswell.

[LordGrover]

I'd like to 'try before I buy'. I can see it being the kind of 'impulse' buy that'll get used twice then take up space in the garage forever-more, unless it's any good as a clothes horse.

Before I buy, anyone want a hardly used second had example just before Christmas?

[mattikake]

Apparently, and I can't remember where I read this, hence why I say apparently... if you spend enough time upside down, your brain eventually flips the view you have of the world and it doesn't take long to do. Of course it flips back too after a similar amount of time but it must be a bit of an rse if you're in that thing and the doorbell goes. heh

Great for situps otherwise.

[ApexJimi]

mattikake said:

Apparently, and I can't remember where I read this, hence why I say apparently... if you spend enough time upside down, your brain eventually flips the view you have of the world and it doesn't take long to do. Of course it flips back too after a similar amount of time but it must be a bit of an rse if you're in that thing and the doorbell goes. heh

Great for situps otherwise.

Away!

[jas xjr]

i used to suffer with backpain and trapped nerves a lot . spent fortunes on various treatments.

only thing that worked was the inversion table

[mattikake]

^ Do your trapped nerve issues recur? Do you have to keep using in inversion table? Have you stopped?

[jas xjr]

I have not used one for ten years .

Used to cost me a fortune as I was a subbie . Loss of earnings plus treatment .

Good mate of mine leant me the table , never had a problem since . Might just be luck but its worth a go

[mad4amanda]

BiL has one he swears by it used to have lots of back issues mow much better , I have used it a few times and it sure does work .

[Halb]

You could just buy some anti-gravity boots and set up a bar somewhere?

[mattikake]

Doorway mounted Pull-bar and ankle hooks? £30?

[Tiggsy]

hanging from your ankles from a chin up bar is not like an inversion table!

[Halb]

Tiggsy said:

hanging from your ankles from a chin up bar is not like an inversion table!

It isn't?

[mattikake]

Halb said:

Tiggsy said:

hanging from your ankles from a chin up bar is not like an inversion table!

It isn't?

Of course not. It doesn't have a nice flat bed, a headrest and a £200 price tag.

C'mon. It's got nothing to do with stretching out your intervertebral discs. Keep up at the back.

[Tiggsy]

Halb said:

Tiggsy said:

hanging from your ankles from a chin up bar is not like an inversion table!

It isn't?

no more than a press up is like a bench press - similar? yes. Would you replace one with the other? No. DIFFERENT!

[LordGrover]

LordGrover said:

I'd like to 'try before I buy'. I can see it being the kind of 'impulse' buy that'll get used twice then take up space in the garage forever-more, unless it's any good as a clothes horse.

Before I buy, anyone want a hardly used second had example just before Christmas?

I have would you believe two of these if anyone wants them?
One is still boxed never opened, the other no box but never assembled.

[Halb]

BOGOF?

[LordGrover]

Almost. I bought one but couldn't get it assembled - I think there was a dodgy weldnut or something.
I called them to get it sorted and they just sent another and didn't want the original returned.
Couldn't be arsed once I got it.

[mattikake]

Tiggsy said:

Halb said:

Tiggsy said:

hanging from your ankles from a chin up bar is not like an inversion table!

It isn't?

no more than a press up is like a bench press - similar? yes. Would you replace one with the other? No. DIFFERENT!

"like" is only a simile.

Hanging from something without the lower end touching the floor, in any form, has the same effect, stretching out your intervertebral discs, which is what an inversion table does.

[hidetheelephants]

LordGrover said:

Almost. I bought one but couldn't get it assembled - I think there was a dodgy weldnut or something.
I called them to get it sorted and they just sent another and didn't want the original returned.
Couldn't be arsed once I got it.

How much for the unassembleable one; I like a challenge and I know someone who might appreciate it as a chrimbo present.