Teeter Hang Ups EP-560 inversion table What is Inversion Therapy? Inversion therapy is “a form of extreme traction aided by gravity,” according to the study into the treatment by Newcastle University in 1995, which showed that using an inversion table decreased the need for surgery from 78% in the test group to just 23% in the group which used the Hang Up. Worldwide, the therapy is used by athletes, soldiers and even by the workforce at Volvo in Sweden. Volvo told their employees they must choose between doing thirty minutes a day of inversion therapy, on company time, or pay for a large part of their own health insurance. In the first year of the new safety-conscious workplace, hours lost to the company through back problems in their workers fell by 55%. How long has inversion therapy been around? When asked how long inversion therapy had been around, engineer and inventor Roger Teeter explained “inversion for relief of back pain is well documented back to 400 B.C. by Hippocrates… Every successful society has back pain because they sit too much, have weak muscles and lots of stress.” With this in mind, Roger Teeter, who suffered from excruciating back pain himself, [...]
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