I've never tried the inversion boots, much tempted for sure. But I don't think it's necessary, if you can re-hab & stretch out your hip flexors, psoas, quads, IT, build up your lower abdominals, hamstrings, glutes, work your gluteus medius and minmus in contraction, and correct any side to side imbalance or full chain deficiencies from head to toe. Did I miss anything? :)
Of course you guys knew that Teeter was a waterskiing engineer with a bad back. He had a bad back because when you slalom ski with feet in-line on your ski, you twist your spine and form up a wicked imbalance, in addition to tightening your hip flexors beyond belief. There are plenty of pro water skiers with new hips out there too. So the sport is designed to fail that way.
I figure that the hangups only perform a decompression function and while they do stretch you out, not enough to handle 70% of what I started this post off with. So??? I think the docs and users are both right actually.
My wife and I started Teeter Hang Ups® in my forties as a result of my own journey to find relief from back pain. At the time, I was designing waterskis and competing at a national level, though my back pain was so severe that I was forced to wear a steel reinforced lace-up brace every time I skied. Through other competitive skiers, I was introduced to Gravity Boots and for the first time I was pain free. The relief was not just the result of silencing symptoms; inversion was actually targeting the source of the ache. As an engineer, I knew I found my calling--to design and manufacture inversion equipment so that more people could take control of their health and find natural, sustainable relief.
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