If your job requires sitting or standing for a long time or lifting heavy objects, chances are you have experienced some form of back pain. Sometimes, poor posture can lead to spine pain as well. Light exercises are one of the best remedies, to help you alleviate the pressure. But have you considered trying an inversion table? You have probably seen a Teeter table so far.
Teeter has a long history; it was founded in 1981 with a mission to help people live life without back pain. For almost a century and a half, Teeter is successfully doing this with their products including foam rollers, elliptical rowers, massage roller balls and of course inverted tables. What you'll choose depends on your needs, but if you're looking to test the table here is what you need to know.
What's Teeter’s Inversion Table?
Teeter has three models of inversion tables, that are FDA approved. These tables are created to reduce pressure from your spine; their pressure-reducing foam locks at the ankles give you comfort and security. These tables come with acupressure nodes, a lumbar bridge and a folding design for easy storage. The company also offers a 60-day return guarantee and a five-year warranty.
Reasons to Use Teeter Inversion Table
Back Pain Relief
The good thing about using inversion tables is that they are a gentle and passive way to target the pain in the source and care for your weight-bearing joints. It's a progressive form of traction that decompresses every joint with the same weight it's compressed while upright. In simpler words, the inverted decompression Teeter table makes an ideal stretch that improves your spinal health and targets back pain by helping rehydrate the discs, reduce nerve pressure, realign the spine and relax the tense muscles. Using your Teeter will ease stress, improve your joint health and increase your flexibility, as well as improve your core strength.
Stretch After Exercise and Strengthen Your Core
If you're a workout enthusiast, it's important to stretch after every session. The best way to give your muscles and spine that relief is by using the table. It will help you elongate your body and decompress your spine, as well as loosen your muscles. It'll help you strengthen your core, which is essential to keep your lumbar region pain-free.
Start Your Morning
Most people aren't fans of working out in the morning, but what about proper stretching? Allow yourself a little inversion on your Teeter and let that blood flow all over your body, giving your muscles and spin the much-needed energy for the day. Your body was curled up in one or two positions during the night, so to stretch those muscles, you'll need about 1 or 2 minutes at 60-70 degrees for a great and yummy jumpstart.
Rehydrate Discs
Clinical studies show that when the body gets inverted, the separation between the vertebrae increases which allows the absorption of moisture into the discs’ soft tissue. This will increase the nutrient content and will plump the discs for better shock absorption and flexibility. Whenever you're sitting, standing, working out or doing other activities such as lifting, the fluid gets squeezed out of your discs and into the adjacent soft tissue (like when you squeeze water out of a sponge).
It results in the discs losing their height. To see this, just measure yourself in the morning and then at night; the height difference will be about 1.2 to 1.9cm. Once you lie down the compression of your spine reduces enough to let the discs slowly reabsorb the moisture and nutrition over the sleeping hours. However, discs aren't always going to maintain their entire capacity, making a total accumulation of height loss of up to 5cm in your lifetime.
Reduce Nerve Pressure
The height of your discs relates to the size of the passage for the nerve roots to exit from the spinal column. A plump hydrated disc makes the maximum clearance, helping to relieve pressure or pinching of the nerve root. The spinal cord runs through the spinal column and these nerves control the communication from the brain to the rest of the body. Nerve roots leave between the vertebrae along the spine length in the passageway created by the discs. In case of damaged discs or dehydration or degeneration of the discs will end in nerve root entrapment (pinched nerve).
Realign Your Spine
Most everyday activities can cause misalignment and permanent postural changes. For example, sitting at the computer with rounded shoulders, wearing high heels or carrying a heavy bag on one shoulder can lead to these changes. If you're practising a sport that's mostly one-sided and rotational (tennis, golf), chances are you'll put a lot of stress on your spine and will only develop muscles on one side of your body.
Misalignment refers that the body weight no longer getting support by an alignment of bones, so the soft tissue must resist gravity. It can easily cause visual changes to your posture (these changes are known as degenerative).
Relax Tense Muscles
Teeter is a great way to gently stretch your muscles and increase circulation, helping alleviate tension. When you're doing an inverted stretch, the blood flows to the sore muscle, bringing oxygen-rich blood and stimulating the lymph system that helps clear the muscle of toxin build-up.
