- Hello everyone, I'm Brad Heineck,
and I'm not just hanging around upside down.
We are going to tell you and explain clearly
how inversion tables work for back pain
as well as Sciatica.
And we're gonna help you decide
if you should actually buy one
and get it to your house as well.
- Yes we are.
- What do you say Bob?
- Yes, we are.
- Let's go to work.
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- All right, Bob.
This is how I explain this to patients and other people.
The inversion table acts like traction.
In other words, the weight of your torso
from here up is hanging upside down
and pulls on your lumbar spine.
And let's show this model.
- It's like decompression.
- Exactly what it is.
- So if I'm applying a force here.
- So you're like gravity.
And this is tipped up like I was at the beginning
of the video, and-
- And I'm holding. - Yup.
So what's happening is things are getting pulled apart here.
And here's the injured disc with the herniation,
right, there is the model and our pulling.
Now let's look closely zoom into there
and we've got a model for this.
Hold on. - Let's see what happens.
- Now, here it is.
This is, let's show that Bob wants.
This we're gonna pretend is L5.
So we're looking at this vertebra and here is L4.
Okay. These are vertebra cups.
And now this red ball represents the disc.
- It's the same color.
- Yeah, it is.
And that's, it's a wonderful thing.
Now what happens just, here is the disc and the vertebra.
Now here, the spinal cord actually goes right through here.
Imagine that.
And then there's this-
- [All] Peripheral.
- The nerve roots come out here, okay?
Now what happens when you have a herniated
or bulging disc, you can see it's bulging there.
Now with attraction that we demonstrated that occurs
with the inversion table, the two vertebra pull apart
and as a result, look what happens to that ball.
- [Bob] It's like it vacuums up.
- [Brad] Yep, it brings it in that pulling apart,
decompression brings that back in.
So- - Good demonstration!
- Yeah, it was kind of fun, huh?
- Yeah.
(laughs)
- Yeah, to our neighbors
in the UP, up there, Upper Peninsula.
So what we wanna do is when you're on the inversion table
and you're back, like I was at the beginning
that traction occurs and you want to continue that not more
than one minute or two minutes, the first time on there.
Okay, we're gonna have another video coming out
with some specific details, how to set this up.
- How to do it. - Exactly.
10 steps, specifically.
- The details. - Exactly.
I also wanna cover some precautions.
In other words, some reasons that you may not
be appropriate to use one of these.
If you are a normal, a healthy person, chances are good.
But a couple examples.
If you have blood pressure problems.
You may be able to use one, but you need to talk
to your physician. - Your doctor.
And get that cleared.
- Heart disease.
- Heart disease, yup anything with that.
If you've got eye problems, it like glaucoma.
- It decreases the pressure on your eye.
- Exactly. - So you don't wanna do that.
- Yep, so get that cleared through your doctor.
Like if you have a hernia,
that can change things and we wanna make
sure we're safe there.
There's actually have a whole list of other precautions.
If you go to we use, we represent-
- The Teeter. - Teeter,
Because we like them they're well built.
And you can go on there or on any other-
- Teeter.com.
- Teeter.com, I can't remember.
I think so, but if you in- - Google it.
- Yeah, if you're in a visual,
inversion table of precautions,
you'll get a list of them. - Sure.
- The best thing to do is ask your doctor.
But if you're a healthy person, you've had no surgeries,
no hardware in your back.
You're probably able to work with these.
- It'd be nice.
If you could try one before you bought one.
- And that's a good point.
Again, we do because of these Teeters are so well built.
This is why we cover these.
I used one that wasn't a Teeter and it worked fine.
These are just built well it's...
For example, FDA registered.
They're UL certified.
If you don't know UL mean that's Underwriters Laboratory.
And they put if they stamp, you know the quality is good.
- Right. - It's safe.
Now the interesting thing, when you're looking at these
this has a smooth plastic support or a back rest,
which you might think is better if it's cushioned
but you don't want it cushioned.
You want it smooth so that when you-
- You can slide. - Exactly.
You want your body to slide without resistance.
So that's another thing to look for.
This does have a lumbar support that you can remove,
and put in and adjust it.
I don't have it here.
- You don't like it either.
- I don't like it for myself, but you may like it.
And some may or may not have that.
It's not a big deal.
It's just a little benefit.
If you will. - Right.
- Traction handles. - Where are they?
- Well, on this one, this model of Teeter
doesn't actually have them, but you could use these.
And that's when you're inverted all the way back
or to 60 degrees, like we are here.
You put your hands on them
and you push a little bit. - Oh sure.
- Just to get a little manual traction with your arms.
- Otherwise just use your body weight.
- Right, typically it's body weight,
but that just gives you a little tweak,
it's not a big deal.
And then make sure they're easily adjustable,
which the Teeter is. - That fits well.
- Again, if you don't have to buy a Teeter.
We just, if you wanna know
you're gonna get a good one, you will.
And other ones that are out there.
- You get what you pay for.
- Pretty much, yeah, exactly.
So- - Less than life.
- And Bob, you just mentioned, I did wanna mention
should you buy one?
Some people say I got back pain,
I'm gonna spend a few hundred dollars on one of these.
Is it gonna work or is it just gonna be something
you could throw your clothes on?
- Right. (laughing)
I'm not a catcher.
- Exactly.
So the best way to know,
if these are gonna work is to try one.
Which presents a little bit of a problem,
particularly if you don't have one available,
but if you have a friend or whatever,
that has one go over to their house,
make sure you know how to set it up for yourself.
Again, we've got a video on that and try it.
And if you get good results,
yeah, you should buy one. - Yup.
- If you don't have that option,
I know Teeter for a fact gives you 60 days-
- To assess it. - Yeah. To assess it.
If they don't like it, you can mail it back to them.
They'll give you your money back in full.
You have to do it within the time period.
The other thing about it is I believe,
make sure you keep the box. - Right.
- If you threw the box away, you can contact them
they'll give you a box that it fits in.
I do believe the shipping is not covered
to get it back to them.
- Gotcha.
- I'm not a hundred percent sure on that,
but I believe that's the case.
- By the way Brad, but I wanna mention that
they have videos too, on this, right-
- Teeter does a great job.
As a matter of fact, you know, Roger Teeter to the inventor.
- He passed away.
- He just passed away this in January of this year.
I believe it's his daughter, Riley,
I don't know for sure.
I believe it's his daughter.
She does a lot of videos.
- Maybe daughter-in-law.
- Or could be, I don't know, but she does a really good job
of instruction on their products.
So good company, you can't go wrong.
Okay, and that wraps it up for this.
Again, we do have one video out.
We're gonna put another one out with 10 steps
how to properly and safely use one of these.
That's gonna be to the point video and work out well.
So Bob, what do you say?
- I believe you're getting to our Brad.
- Well, yeah, that is a thing with this.
We should do a study on how much you actually grow.
- If only it would make you smart too.
- Well that's beyond, that's- - Pleasant.
- That's a concept that- - I've been looking.
- Well, all those things just not gonna happen.
- All right, Thanks.
- Take care.
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