For spinal decompression I can't say enough about the Teeter EP-960 table putting
the spine in inversion, as you know with gravity we're always locking down our
spine and these discs in here that cushion each vertebrae start to become,
they start to become compressed sometimes they'll turn into a bulge and
when you get fluid spilt out in that spinal nerve it starts to cause a
tethering of these nerve roots, so what we're gonna be doing is we're gonna doing some
spinal decompression where we're gonna try to take pressure off each disc. As
you know over time during the day you lose about 3/4 of an inch in height just
because there's that much gravitational forces compressing all these discs and
by the time you're in your 80s or 90s you've probably lost about 2 inches in
height and that's just shows how much this gets gets decompressed and at night
they hydrate a little bit but when you use the Teeter Inversion EP-960, what
happens is you can actually decompress the spine every day and pull
interstitial fluid back into these discs and what we know there's even that one
study that says that the herniated discs can actually move back into place when
we do spinal decompression. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna get Fran with
the easy EZ-Lock for the leg piece this is gonna scoot into the inversion
machine and what Fran's gonna do is she's gonna just - You want to watch as
she locks that in make sure you hear it clip in and she's gonna slowly just use
one arm and you'll see how she can control easy inversion on this machine
now when you first do this you're only gonna go about thirty (degrees), Fran's been doing
this for months so she started out at about thirty degrees of inversion she
started one to two minutes and then she worked up to doing it at five or six
minutes at about forty five now at sixty degrees of inversion so please work up
to this place now in order for these discs to hydrate and for fluid to get
into the discs we need to add some movement but before we do that if you
remember the video we had this L4, L5 compression we had to drop that
sacral base down if you remember the lower body nerve video when the glutes
weren't working the QL which is locking down these these spinal nerve roots was
working overtime so a good exercise to start once you've done the
inversion. Fran, I just want you to do a posterior pelvic tilt and as she's doing
that she's taking that sacral base away from that bulge herniation or rupture
and she's getting some fluid back in here but mostly she's decompressing the
L5, S1, the sacral lumbar articulations and stretching those ilio sacral
ligaments. Now the other thing Fran's gonna do is she's gonna rotate from side
to side. Again motion is going to get fluid back in those discs now we've got
spinal decompression we've got motion going on so we're getting decompressed
and we're getting fluid we're getting hydration back in those discs and then
if you remember Fran had a positive Eden's test she had a positive cost of
clavicular test and she had a positive Addison's test so if she reaches back
she's stretching out her PEC minor what happens when she stretches out her PEC
minor she's relaxing her rhomboids what's also happening because of the
inversion table, the clavicles can actually lift up off of that first rib
to decompress the subclavius artery in the brachial plexus of nerves the other
thing I like to do is I sort of like to add a small towel roll. Remember we've
restored the normal cervical curve Fran, so put this under your neck
right in the middle of the neck so it allows that remember that cervical curve
that normal lordotic curve and now you again we're decompressing all the discs,
she's stretching out the pecs and the last part friends gonna do giving her
this you know just three to five minutes she's worked up to now she's it like six
minutes I want you to put your fingers under your occiput Fran, now remember
how the occiput was coming back because of the forward neck posture now if you
do a little chin tuck and you get into the occiput what that does is that opens
up pressure off that basal artery and allows c1 to rotate more effectively
over C2 so just hang for a little bit Fran and now sometimes you just want
to do nothing you just want to hang there for a while
again if you're gonna do this, start at about thirty degrees maybe one to two
minutes build up over weeks and then the most important thing i can say there's a
lot of precautions and contraindications please check with your doctor read the
instruction manual do not use an inversion table especially if you have
things like atherosclerosis if you have things like hypertension if you have
things like high blood pressure you've got glaucoma there's a whole list of
things extra Hardware in your spine and that could be counterproductive so
please before you invest in any inversion table please consult with your
doctor to make sure it's safe based on your medical and clinical condition