Inversion table question for chiropractors or someone familiar with disk problem!
Question: I have recently become interested in inversion tables and was wondering...if anyone here has heard or knows if they are safe to use if you have a ruptured disk or really bad disk problems.
I am wondering if a nerve could get pinched in between your bones by using one of these tables.
Maybe I'm confused about how these things work but it seems to me that when your on one of these tables hanging upside down...that when you go to get off of it that a nerve or something could get pinched in between something when your bones shift back into an upright position.
I dont know if this would matter or not...but I have a steel pin in the upper portion of my back, due to double curved scoliosis (S shaped)
and a fusion disk repair in one disk in my neck.
I have a dr. appt. later this mnth and plan to ask the dr. about it but was just wondering what others here thought....
Answers: I have recently become interested in inversion tables and was wondering...if anyone here has heard or knows if they are safe to use if you have a ruptured disk or really bad disk problems.
I am wondering if a nerve could get pinched in between your bones by using one of these tables.
Maybe I'm confused about how these things work but it seems to me that when your on one of these tables hanging upside down...that when you go to get off of it that a nerve or something could get pinched in between something when your bones shift back into an upright position.
I dont know if this would matter or not...but I have a steel pin in the upper portion of my back, due to double curved scoliosis (S shaped)
and a fusion disk repair in one disk in my neck.
I have a dr. appt. later this mnth and plan to ask the dr. about it but was just wondering what others here thought....
They have been shown not to really do a whole lot..I mean they may feel different/good? kind of a stretch feeling to back..but w/i 30mins or so after back up standing etc..gravity has you back where you were. The thing that got people in trouble were the inversion bars,they couldnt get back up..so they started making tables...when your head goes down you have an incredible amt or pressure building up in the vessels of your eyes,brain etc... (These are small vessels the size of thread)..which has been known to cause ruptures etc...blindness and other problems..
I had 2 cervical spine fusion operations. Ask a real doctor or have him refer you to a chiropractor if he thinks it will help you.
A chiropractor is partly responsible for me having to get the operations
Most people don't know the right way to use an inversion table. The idea is not to hang upside down. For disc problems, you reach a balanced horrizontal level and slowly sway between it, for example; from 70 to 120 degress. This provides a milking action in the disc. Once you get experienced with it you can control it as to level and intensity of action.
The traction effect is pretty much limited to the lower spine, but also effects the knees and ankles, so there shouldn't be a problem with the neck.