Whether you’re young or old, many people throughout the world, suffer from debilitating back pain.  Many of those individuals try different methods to alleviate those aches and pains before they discover inversion therapy, and the use of inversion tables to decompress their spines.

Inversion therapy, while becoming more popular in the last few years, is actually hundreds of years old.  Dating back to the time of the Greek physician Hippocrates, patients have been using mechanisms which naturally decompress their spinal column, and relieve the pressure from pinched nerves.  Of course back then they didn’t have the inversion tables we have today.  They used pulleys and ropes to suspend a back pain sufferer, and relied on gravity to do its job.

In the 1970s Dr. Robert Martin from California developed what is known as the “Gravity Guidance System”.  The methodology of this system is that the effects of gravity on a person’s body could alleviate posture problems as well as agonizing back pain.  He developed an inversion table which led to the invention of gravity boots as well as other inversion therapy equipment.

Inversion therapy became quite a controversy in the 1980s.  Was it beneficial or not?  Eventually, the consensus was that inversion therapy was not harmful to the body, and that many people had actually found it to relieve pains that other therapies could not.

Today, the use of an inversion table has become a widely used therapy by many.  Some people swear by the use of inversion techniques, and use their tables morning and night.