Inversion table

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Inversion table
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Sun, 07-30-2006 - 10:59am

(I am borrowing a bit of my own previous post to bring it back to the topic of the inversion table)

My dh bought an inversion table sometime ago. I thought it was a
strange device, but he's prone to an aching back and swore it made
him feel better.

My youngest daughter gets dark circles under her eyes from phenols.
I have a neighbor across the street who is 9 year
old boy who will need a heart transplant soon. He is often quite
bluish looking because his heart isn't able to supply the blood he
needs adequately. I think this more aptly describes what is
happening to my daughter when the phenols cause dark circles under
her eyes. Her brain is struggling for blood flow. Low level oxygen
deprivation due to homocysteine issues which are known to interfere
with blood vessels ability to expand and also interfere with nitric
oxide. Also, she has a small
cut on her face since December that has had a hard time healing.
Cuts on other parts of her body heal fine. There is no longer a cut,
but it's still red and shouldn't be there by now. The face (head)
has some of the most blood flow, which is why it usually heals
fairly fast. This tells me she is highly likely not getting enough
oxygen not only to her brain, but to her head region in general.
These and other clues really helped me to understand that a bit more
of the reality of what is happening to her brain. I think a
starving brains puts out a lot of "white matter" as found in ASD and
alzheimer patients because their brains are slowly suffocated. This white matter is not the bad guys as had been thought, but this excess of white "plaque" is an indication of the brain desperate for nourishment and it's plastering it all over desperately in some persons.

"Astrocytes play a direct role in controlling blood flow in the
brain - influencing Alzheimer's"
culled from:
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=15200

Anyway, my daughter is prone to headaches. Too much laughing, too
much anything can bring on a headache for her. Thinking of the
above things, the next time she had one of her painful headaches, I
had her go on the inversion table because being upside down would
certainly increase blood flow to the brain. I didn't invert her
fully, just a deep angle. She was there for less than 5 minutes, maybe 2 or 3. I
slowly brought her back up and she claimed her headache was
completely gone. This process has elminated her headaches
completely every time I put her on the inversion table.

My oldest daughter is prone to lower back pain. I also started
putting her on there for only several minutes, not completely
inverted and it also usually elminates the pain.

They cost about $100, I think, and are big to have if you have a
small space, but it has helped relieve their headache and back
issues when they flare up so it's been priceless around here.

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Registered: 04-11-2003
Sun, 07-30-2006 - 4:58pm

How interesting. My great grandfather had an inversion table in his basement. I remember playing on it as a child. When I started reading your post I was thinking of suggesting HBOT. I'd been reading about it yesterday. But by the end of your post I see you've found a much cheaper alternative.

Samantha

Samantha