Using inversion tables gives you many different benefits and advantages that you don’t get with other fitness equipment.  Specifically, inversion tables are great for the following:

• Stretching out your whole body
• Relieving back pain
• Increase the flow of blood to the upper part of your body – i.e. your brain

Stretching out your body

Inversion tables work great to stretch out your back, your legs, tendons, and ligaments.  In addition, many people claim that using inversion therapy can also help you become taller by about one inch.  Over time, you body is subjected to many different stresses, with the most stress coming from gravity.  Gravity pulls your body and organs down over time, thus causing your to shrink as much as one inch and causing your inner organs to move to areas they should not be in.  Inversion therapy helps with both of these problems.

Relieving Back Pain

Inversion tables have been called the upside down back stretcherfor a very good reason.   The act of inverting even 60 percent can help you stretch muscles that are very difficult to stretch.  Two areas that many people forget to stretch – the upper and lower back – are greatly benefited by inverting 60 degress or more, and you can do this very easily with an inversion table.

This stretching helps to reduce back pain by increasing the space in between your back discs, realining your spine, and rehydrating those discs.

Increasing Blood Flow

Your brain is possibly the most important part of your body, and needs blood flow to work properly.  By inverting you increase the blood flow to your brain, which some studies have shown to help increase brain activity.  While hanging upside down on an inversion table may take some time to get used to, especially when it comes to the increased blood flow to your brain, you will notice a difference very quickly in how you feel. Some people (including myself) have felt the benefits of inversion therapy in as little as three inversion sessions.