Medical Breakthrough: How Hanging Upside Down Improves Flexibility

Medical research has found that hanging upside down also known as inversion therapy (prescribed by a licensed medical professional) can significantly improve your health and fitness levels. Inversion tables have been developed to help people with this new health and fitness treatment. However, to ensure that you benefit from the inversion therapy, it is important for you to use the right equipment for the right purpose and consult your doctor before starting. Most people think that hanging upside down is meant for those people with chronic back pain, but this therapy has other benefits as can be seen below:

Use of gravity

Hanging upside down or inversion therapy uses gravity to gently bring into line, adjust and provide traction to the spine. This healthy traction decompresses the vertebral column, and thus creating space for the discs while at the same time straightening and balancing the spinal column. When the muscles of the vertebrae are lengthened and strengthened, your upper, as well as lower body, become more flexible. This can aide in more easily partaking is higher energy activities..

Eases strains caused by compression

As we walk and carry out our daily chores, the spine and back muscles tend to be strained in the process. On top of that, the spinal column also experiences compression from carrying the upper body. This compression causes rigidity on the muscles and ligaments surrounding the spine. But when you hang upside down you allow the muscles to stretch, relax and also decompress the vertebrae. Safely hanging upside down offers the simplest way to ease strains and pressure caused by compression and also helps to lift the weight off the superimposed parts of the body.

Helps in preventing muscle stiffness and sports injuries

By hanging upside down, you reduce stiffness in a number of body parts, which include the arms, shoulders, back legs and torso. This creates a feeling of release as the pressure on these body parts is freed. It is because of this fact that hanging upside down may be helpful in improving certain conditions, such as herniated discs, lumbar osteoarthritis, inclinatory skeletal defects, sciatica, and paralytic scoliosis just to mention but a few.

The spine is a very important part of the body, and when it is in good health our entire body benefits. Inversion therapy enhances the health of the spine and as such, promotes better health for the whole body. Therefore, not only does hanging upside down improve flexibility, but it also improves overall strength, boosts the immunity and helps to promote emotional well-being. So, if you thought that inversion therapy is only for chronic back pain, it is a high time you thought again and considered hanging upside down on a regular basis. Hang-10.

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Dr. Kevin Crawford

4110 22nd Place Lubbock, TX 79410

(806) 792-4329

Disclaimer:  This information is provided as an educational service only, and is not intended as a substitute for medical advice.  Anyone seeking specific medical advice or assistance should consult his or her doctor or orthopedic surgeon.