What is GravoTonics and why will it help you?

SWING APPLICATIONS

BACK PAIN AND INVERSION THERAPY

Today back pain is one of the most common of all physical complaints in the world. About 70 to 90% of men and women in the U.S. have had or will have at least one bout of incapacitating low back pain. Back pain contributes to lost work time and may cost as much as $100 billion annually (if lost productivity is included). Your vertebra is supported and moved by many different muscles. Muscles are used for three basic functions: support, movement, and posture control. If muscles are tight or weak they create or worsen back pain. Joints are controlled by at least two sets of muscles: flexors that bend the joint and extensors that straighten it. In addition, most joints have rotator muscles that twist and rotate your bones. Good posture is only possible if the flexors, extensors, and rotators are in proper balance.

Doctors agree that most back problems are caused by stress or by weak muscles. We need a strong back, abdominal and hip muscles to resist gravity and to hold us up. Besides holding us up, they act to keep the spine and pelvis in alignment. As societies around the world become more mechanized and computerized, they have also become less exercised. We lock ourselves behind desks and in front of computers. When we sit, our back muscles hold us erect, but our stomach and hip muscles are inactive. When they are not exercised, stomach and hip muscles become weaker, putting a painful strain on the back muscles. Sitting places higher loads inside the lumbar disc than standing (between 150 to 250% depending on posture).

Invertebrate joints are supported by ligaments, which are tough and inelastic fibers that support the spine and hold it together by allowing only a limited range of movement in any one direction. Ligaments require regular movement and loading, otherwise, they will eventually become still and weak. Using inversion can give an excellent controlled workout to the muscles and ligaments necessary for a healthy spine. There is also an enormous body of evidence that a compressed disc, whether or not it is actually ruptured, can be aided by Inversion Therapy. Inversion increases the intervertebral space and allows the disc to return to its shock absorber and spacer function.

Many of our back and other problems are due to gravity’s chronic downward pull on our bodies, often causing compressed or pinched nerves leading to Sciatica. The sciatic nerves are the largest nerves in the body – about as big around as your finger. They start in the lower spine, pass behind the hip joint and go down the buttock and back of the leg to the foot. Pain from this nerve, called Sciatica, may be felt from the hip to the big toe.

Inversion can assist in reversing this compression. Sciatica is different from other back pain, although low back pain often comes with it. Usually, sciatica only affects one side. Pain often radiates down the buttock or leg. It can range from tingling, burning, pins, and needles feeling to excruciating, shooting pain that makes standing up nearly impossible.

Also keep in mind that before surgery became so popular for back problems, traction was the therapy of choice. Gravity traction gives the user total control and the results we have seen are impressive.

Now with the aid of the Swing, you can begin reversing the flow of gravity easily and without special strength, balance, or agility. Any level of flexibility or age, even children, will have sheer fun and pleasure hanging out and flowing through various positions. The numerous practical benefits on health and therapeutic levels are that you can stretch and strengthen virtually every muscle in the body.

Healing Benefits: The Swing can be used for gentle passive lumbar or sacral traction, which can do astonishing healings to the lower back in minutes. You can then carry out the lower back strengthening series to heal low back pain/injuries and correct the fibers and tissues from re-injury. Well-being and the ability to perform any task may be increased by 100% after performing continued inversion combined with flexing, moving, and breathing as a form of flowing rehabilitation. Core Yoga: Core Yoga is working from the core. By strengthening the lower abdominal muscles the entire bodily structure becomes incredibly strong and unified. The Core System was developed to achieve a deeper state of body integrity.

When undertaking Inversion Therapy we would like you to practice bilateral symmetry when doing exercises. This act of smooth control and focusing on muscle balance will correct imbalances in predominant muscle groups. Again enhancing alignment and gaining superior strength.

The Swing is portable, just find a low tree branch and you are ready to hang out in a peaceful setting. It is a complete exercise gym, yoga, stretching, and osteopathic therapy alignment device.