How my world turned upside down - Inversion Tables in the world of HBO
Donna Williams
November 29, 2008
I lived 35 years with two primary immune deficiencies and their impact on blood health and circulation before overcoming them (which I wrote of in the book Everyday Heaven). I´m now in my 40s and although my immune deficiencies are in remission, I still nurse a genetic tendency to systemic inflammation which I tend to manage with L-Glutamine. Translated, I´m more susceptible to arthritic issues and joint trouble than many people and I still regularly get things like edema (which I also manage with Dandelion coffee).
Anyway, I had been on an inversion table, which literally straps you in and turns you upside down, in my 20s and this stretches out the spine which feels really good but it also sends blood flow to the brain and gets stagnant blood pooling flowing healthily.
So now in my 40s, I bought one on the cheap.
Tipping myself back up, my body tingles as the blood flows back the other way then back I go, upside down just by raising my arms over my head like a one person see-saw, and the blood flows the other way back to my brain again. It´s like being a human milk shake ;-)
With the megabucks families are paying for time in hyperbaric oxygen chambers (around $100-$200 per TREATMENT!) and with their makers and hirers reaping in that money which families need for the rest of their daily living, I got my blood oxygen happy with a cheapo inversion table from good ol´ Ebay for $73 bucks (they often go for over $200 but I got lucky). The inversion table involves no claustrophobia as you´re not zipped into a coffin-like balloon capsule. In fact I feel rather like a bat or an astronaut hanging upside down and I´m able to completely control it myself just by raising and lowering my arms to shift the see-saw like balance.
You can check out inversion tables at some chiropractic clinics before you decide to buy one. They´re not for everyone, but they´re surely cheaper than HBO treatment.
Donna Williams
http://www.donnawilliams.net
Anyway, I had been on an inversion table, which literally straps you in and turns you upside down, in my 20s and this stretches out the spine which feels really good but it also sends blood flow to the brain and gets stagnant blood pooling flowing healthily.
So now in my 40s, I bought one on the cheap.
Tipping myself back up, my body tingles as the blood flows back the other way then back I go, upside down just by raising my arms over my head like a one person see-saw, and the blood flows the other way back to my brain again. It´s like being a human milk shake ;-)
With the megabucks families are paying for time in hyperbaric oxygen chambers (around $100-$200 per TREATMENT!) and with their makers and hirers reaping in that money which families need for the rest of their daily living, I got my blood oxygen happy with a cheapo inversion table from good ol´ Ebay for $73 bucks (they often go for over $200 but I got lucky). The inversion table involves no claustrophobia as you´re not zipped into a coffin-like balloon capsule. In fact I feel rather like a bat or an astronaut hanging upside down and I´m able to completely control it myself just by raising and lowering my arms to shift the see-saw like balance.
You can check out inversion tables at some chiropractic clinics before you decide to buy one. They´re not for everyone, but they´re surely cheaper than HBO treatment.
Donna Williams
http://www.donnawilliams.net
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