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- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
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- So, sciatic pain relief with an inversion table.
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So, if you get sciatic pain relief,
a lot of people ask in our comments, you know,
what can we use this for?
And a lot of time, it's sciatic pain relief.
And yes, this is very commonly used for pain down the leg,
but there is some things that I've worked with
three different manufacturers,
and looked at their instructions,
and I believe all three of them, or two for sure,
they..they show you in their video,
on how to use this in the complete full inversion,
completely upside down and I, personally, have used one,
for sciatic on myself,
I don't think you need to do a full inversion.
If you want to you can,
but there's a couple of things,
I really want to put a caution mark on,
and we're going to go through that with you
in just a little bit.
Mike, you want come on in?
- First overall too, I mean, you want to make sure
this is checked with your physician.
- Right.
- 'Cause if you, it's, it is definitely gonna
increase the pressure in your eyes.
- Yep, if you got glaucoma, it's a red flag.
- Glaucoma and also if you got blood pressure issues.
- Right.
- It could affect that, so, but this is..
these are precautions in addition to that right?
- Right, exactly, exactly.
So, if you got the okay from your doctor
to use this, go ahead.
Now these are the exercises that are,
I don't think recommended,
but they are shown for you how to do.
So, Mike has volunteered.
Say hi, Mike.
(laughing)
He.. he doesn't have a mic on,
so we going to talk for him.
- The non-mic Mike.
- So, we've got him in the right, he's adjusted
so he can control himself
and we're going to go into it now.
This is about 60 degrees and they have a strap,
I think all these tables have a strap
to control the amount of inversion.
I have it disconnected now, so we can get full inversion.
And I'm going to say, if you gonna do this,
the first few times you do it,
you not even going to go to 60 degrees.
Go to 20 to 30, make sure it feels good
before and afterwards and then 60,
which is just about right to here, that's..
- Brad, tell us about how you got a headache that time,
the first time you tried...
- Yeah, I went at 60 degrees, I went for about five minutes,
and I got up and I couldn't sleep that night
'cause my headache was still going on hours afterwards
because I went too much, too soon.
You have to approach this cautiously and slowly
until you been on it a number of times,
so you're very comfortable with it.
You don't want to have bad experiences
on something that can really help you,
if you do it properly.
So, the whole thing is I'm going to,
we're gonna get to what the reco-,
not only should they recommend,
but they offer for optional exercises.
Do you want to go in the full inversion Mike?
So, Mike's gonna go to full inversion.
So right now, his back isn't touching.
You there Mike?
Yep, there we go.
- Yeah.
- So, he's put a maximum amount of..
- Distraction.
- distraction and decompression through the spine,
which maybe good, I mean some people
might tolerate this really well.
But one of the exercises they show in this position,
which I am not happy with, for most people,
and I would never advise my patients to do it,
is do the rotational stretch.
You know, there's stretching, a lot of twisting
in the spine, there's definitely
some stretching on the muscles and the spine.
I just don't feel safe doing this for people.
It might help, but it might cause a problem.
- Yeah, you can actually delaminate the disc,
I mean, you know the layers of it.
- Sure.
- I mean there's rotational stresses to that,
can actually cause problems.
- Right.
- So, you just don't want to cause problems,
you want no harm first.
- Right, and I know they say people doing it,
they show people doing it, they say how good it feels,
I'm saying if you wanna to do it,
approach it very cautiously.
I don't recommend it.
I will never have my patients do that.
- I agree Brad, I concur.
- Right, and then the next one is for core strengthening,
I agree this is really gonna work your abdominal muscles,
but I think it's going to put some stresses
on the low back and the low discs.
- No, I saw a research on this, Brad.
- Okay.
- And it absolutely, it did not recommend it
(crosstalk).. the researchers, because,
although, you're been distracted,
you know, once you get up to this point,
again, there is no more distraction
and now you're compressing the spine, greatly.
- Sure, right.
- Greatly increasing the stress on the spine.
So, I would not recommend..so we are now recommending
full inversion, for most people,
we're not recommending the twisting.
- Right.
- We're not recommending the curl-ups.
- The sit-ups.
Again that's just our opinion,
- That's our opinion.
- do what makes you feel good and I mean that literally,
makes you feel good but approach everything slowly,
inversion tables could be a wonderful tool.
They helped my sciatica and I know a number other people,
but these what we recommended.
This is, by the way, is the Teeter.
I do want to mention, they did us ship this.
I just love this Teeter.
- Yeah, very good table, we have a link below
and the color's coming out of your face now again (mumbles).
(laughing)
You're a red-headed, red-headed.
- Yes.
- So, all right.
Remember Brad and I can fix just about anything.
- Except for a broken heart.
Put it right on Mike's face there.
- I don't think the inversion table's
gonna help the broken heart.
- No, I don't think so either.
- I don't know, blood flow might,
change some upside-downward with it?.
- Might make it worse.
So, thanks.