Inversion table?

Hello,

Has anyone tried an inversion table for lower back pain? I've also had a broken back.

Thanks,

Jodi

So very sorry with everything you've gone through.
I agree, if it sounds too go to be true it's probably something to stay away from.
Maybe ask about physical therapy with ultra sound treatments, as that might help you better. Many prayers and well wishes and with your broken back, please be very careful of devices like this and be very leery of Chiropractors.
Again, so very sorry with what you've gone through and you have my well wishes and prayers.

I completely and adamantly agree with everyone else!

NO! Absolutely not.

They *may* be therapeutic and feel good for people who have a perfectly healthy spine with great disc space, and NO spine issues. But for those of us CP folks with any type of spine issues, no way!

As Susie said, do your research. It will in all likelihood confirm what the group of us is saying in that you will end up with more and worse problems.

Again, same thing with chiro's. I went to one for years so I am not dissing them. However, when one has a fragile and compromised back,....we simply must take different roads to travel on than folks with healthy, normal spines.









M.

Jodi, I almost bought one a few months back. Sorry for your pain, sounds awful.

I started using a foam lumbar roll under my sacral area, then would have feet straight up for half our at a time. My PA said I was doing an inversion move and didn't discourage it. I've stopped doing this on my own because I realized the pressure on my sacrum was very bad.
PA did advise against seeing a chiropractor because of tears in my lumbar discs. (Apparently some of the moves done on a chiro table could cause disc to herniate) this is just me...

I'm glad I read this! I have also thought about getting one to see if it helps. I think we are all, at some point, in search of a quick fix. And honestly there aren't any. Glad this has been clarified for me too. No inversion tables. No chiropractors. I personally wouldn't see one anyway, too risky.