Your Benefits of Inversion/Decompression SomaTrac™ At Home

You can't see, touch, taste or smell it. Yet you DO feel its effects every day and experience its cumulative damage to your body over a lifetime. No other force affects us so dramatically.

We are referring to GRAVITY!

People who practice Yoga know the benefits of Inversion Therapy — for centuries, and long before inversion tables appeared on the market, practitioners have performed head stands and other downward-facing moves to reverse the effect of gravity, improve circulation and alleviate tension.

Over hundreds of years, inversion has evolved from simply hanging upside down to today’s devises, which enable people to achieve even more effective results, while controlling the degree of their inversion. The concept of inversion devices was first brought to light in the United States in the late 1960s by Dr. Robert Martin, a California osteopath, chiropractor and medical doctor when he created gravity boots, his Gravity Guidance System.

Today, the science has even further evolved with versatile and comfortable devises, such as SomaTrac, that enable easy home use and effective Decompression/Inversion Therapy. Today in part, thanks to devises such as this, the science behind Inversion and Decompression Therapy is credited as an effective treatment for many conditions and symptoms, such as:

-Back pain: by improving spinal alignment and disc nourishment and reducing tension, facet irritation and pressure on nerves. 

-Circulatory issues: reduces varicose veins, improves circulation throughout the body and to the brain, feeds your brain and improves lymphatic function, which could reduce cellulite.

-Aging: Maintain your height — and your midsection, keep your brain healthy and active and look and feel younger.

-Relieve stress and fatigue: Improve muscle and ligament strength and see overall physical fitness gains.

There are numerous causes of back pain — from a bad chair to a traumatic injury — and while Decompression/Inversion may not be the answer to all problems, it significantly counters the compressive force of gravity on your spine by improving:

-Spinal Alignment

You don’t have to have suffered trauma on your spine to fall victim to spinal misalignment issues. In fact, the ligaments, muscles, tendons, discs and vertebrae in your back are so sensitive, they can be negatively impacted by even the slightest pressure. Something as simple as spending too much of your day at your desk can create enough added pressure to cause spine problems for years to come. And if you’ve suffered an injury or trauma that’s weakened your spine already, you’re even more at risk of misalignment issues on a daily basis. Even stress can trigger a problem.

-Disc Nourishment

Your Intervertebral Discs offer shock-absorbing qualities using fluid, their jelly-like centers absorb to fill and act as spacers, separating your vertebrae from each other. As you age and gravity takes its toll on your body, these discs begin to lose blood supply and fluid content. Offering, as a result, less separation between your vertebrae and decreasing their ability to absorb shock — making them more susceptible to injury.

Inversion helps improve circulation to these discs, keeping them nourished and reducing the risk of injury. It also offers an outstanding solution to the healing and regeneration of already injured discs.

-Tension Relief

Lay flat on a hard floor, for just a minute or two. You’ll feel the tension slip away, your should ers relax. You’ll feel your body start to realign itself. Now, imagine being in an inverted position — this only increases the relaxation and pain relief you felt when you tried laying on the floor.

Inverting and decompressing reduces muscle pain in two phases — by relaxing and stretching the muscles and by increasing circulation throughout your body.

-Nerve Pressure

Simple actions like sitting, exercising and walking can put pressure on the nerves near your spine, resulting in pain or aches. Sciatic pain — pain down the leg — is also associated with nerve pressure.

You can relieve this pressure with Inversion, which stretches your spine, increasing the space between your vertebrae and opening up passages for your spinal nerves.

-Facet Jamming and Irritation

Facets join your vertebrae together and can be credited with allowing all of the normal movements of your spine. If you’ve recently suffered an injury or strain to your spine, your facet functionality may be compromised — or, as you age, your facets may wear down. This typically results in pain in your lower back and neck, particularly when you twist your body or arc your back.

Inversion Therapy can help you relieve this pain by restoring facet joints to their proper positions and relieve the pain and inflammation associated with this condition.

-Improvement of Whole-Body Circulation

Try Inversion Therapy and you’ll notice that you feel better, think clearer — and, in some cases, look better. There’s a reason for that: It improves circulation of your blood and lymphatic fluids, which impacts your body in ways you may never have imagined.

Full Body Circulation

 

Your body uses its circulatory system as a highway to provide all if its 75 trillion cells with the materials they need to thrive. As your heart pumps, it’s working to move your blood through this system, pulling upward against the flow of gravity to bring blood from your lower body to your heart, and pumping upward against the flow of gravity to send it to your brain, head and upper torso.

 

Regular use of Inversion Therapy helps ease this strain. In your lower body, this improves circulation, reduces swelling of feet and legs and can prevent or reduce varicose veins. In your upper body, it improves circulation, reducing swelling in arms or hands and provides your brain the “food” — oxygen and nutrients — it needs to operate at the top of its game for years to come.

-Varicose Veins

Varicose veins are the result of blood pooling in a certain area, typically occurring when gravity is too strong for a weakened valve to pull blood to the heart. The blood will flow backwards and pool in the area of the weakened valve. It collects and puts pressure against the vein wall — eventually bulging to form a varicose vein. These can be painful, and resulting pressure can cause this unsightly occurrence to spread.

When you use Inversion Therapy, you’ll help your heart clear the blood from your feet, legs and lower torso, reducing the appearance of existing varicose veins and preventing new ones.

-Lymphatic Function

Your lymphatic system eliminates waste products from cells and secretes antibodies that are crucial from your immune system. To move throughout your body, lymphatic fluid relies on the pulsation that is created by the constriction and relaxing of muscles to move from the tissues up to the major lymphatic vessels in your chest.

The movement of this fluid is a slow process — it empties the cardiovascular system at a rate of two liters every 24 hours — and, like your veins, relies on a series of one-way valves that lead to the chest to keep the fluids from back-flowing. If it is slowed on its journey, it can stagnate, typically meaning it will accumulate in tissues in areas such as the hip, thigh and buttocks — often resulting in cellulite.

Inversion therapy improves the movement of lymphatic fluids throughout your body, helping them rid your body of waste and arming your immune system with antibodies it needs to fight disease.

 

Reducing the Effects of Aging Caused by Gravity    

Face it: You often blame the new lines on your face or the sagging around trouble spots on gravity. But did you know that, in many cases, these changes — and other ones, such as brain and organ health — actually CAN be blamed on gravity? And Inversion Therapy can help you counteract gravity’s effects in many ways.

-Height Recovery and Maintenance 

Studies have shown that, in space, astronauts are up to 2 inches taller — and as soon as they return to Earth, their bodies adjust to normal height.

That’s just one example — and an extreme one at that — of the effect gravity can have on your height.

Essentially, the vertebrae in your back are like springs — when you push on them, they compress; when the force is released, they stretch out. You experience this stretching of your spine to a lesser extent every night — when you lie down, gravity is no longer pushing on your vertebrae, enabling them to stretch.

See for yourself: Check your height at night right before bed, and in the morning as soon as you wake up. If you’re able to measure accurately, you’ll notice that you’re a centimeter or two taller in the mornings. That’s gravity at work.

Over the years, the nights spent in bed are not enough to counter gravity’s constant pull during the day, and you’ll notice yourself getting shorter. In fact, starting at age 20, most individuals will lose about half an inch every 20 years throughout their lifetimes.

Inversion Therapy can help counter gravity’s impact on your height by stretching your body and alleviating gravity’s effect more than you are able to overnight.

-Midsection Maintenance

Those extra inches to your midsection aren’t just the result of a slower metabolism (although a healthy diet is important!). In some cases, they can form as a result of your internal abdominal organs sagging or dropping within your body, a situation known as “prolapsed” organs.

Indeed, this can increase your waistline and cause your favorite pair of jeans to feel tight as you age — or, in some cases, even by the end of the day!

Prolapsed organs, however, can present a variety of issues beyond mere appearance and clothing fit. As they’ve moved out of place, the functionality of your large and small intestines, kidneys and stomach may be impacted and your ability to move as freely — stretch, bend over, etc. — as you once did may also suffer.

Just like it helps you stay taller, Inversion Therapy will help relieve your organs of gravity’s pull to a greater extent than the relief you get from a simple night’s sleep.

-Brain Health

Did you know that one of the reasons a fetus turns upside down in the womb during the last trimester is to aid with brain development? Even that early in your life, your body is working with gravity to make the most of what you have.

But as an adult, it becomes your responsibility to maintain and enhance your mental capacity. And Inversion Therapy may help you do that. In fact, some researchers believe that mental deterioration as we age is a result of the gradual decrease in oxygen supply to the brain.

By deliberately increasing the flow of blood to your brain, you’ll increase its ability to function at many levels, including your mental capabilities. Inversion Therapy will help you keep your brain well supplied with oxygen and may help maintain your brain function later in life.

-General Health

You’ll never know what other benefits you’ll gain from Inversion and Decompression Therapy. Once you begin a program, you may be surprised to discover that you feel younger in many ways: In fact, some users credit Inversion Therapy to improved vision and hearing. Others believe it improves their overall appearance, going beyond varicose veins and height/weight maintenance to give them a youthful glow and shiny hair.

When you begin an Inversion Therapy program, perhaps you’ll notice some of these changes, too.

-Relief of Stress and Fatigue

Inversion Therapy doesn’t just relieve the impact of gravity on your body. It can help you cope with stress and fatigue by offering a program that eases tension in your muscles, improves the flow of blood and lymphatic fluid and helps your body more effectively clear waste material from its system.

You’ll reduce the likelihood of muscle spasms through your neck, back and shoulders and feel tension lift and your muscles loosen.

Relaxation in yoga isn’t just breathing — yogis have been practicing inversion for years in a series of positions that stretch your body and position your head below key organs. With a SomaTracTM Inversion System, you’re able to enjoy the benefits, without having to rely on extraordinary balance or flexibility.

-Structural and Physical Fitness

Nearly every moment you’re awake in the course of your day-to-day life, you’re engaging in an activity that is causing gravity to compress your spine.

If you’re an athlete, you’re likely increasing the compression by engaging in activities that push your body further — one-sided sports like tennis or golf even further strain your body. Even low-impact physical pursuits put added strain on it.

Not an athlete? You’re still feeling the effects of gravity. Even the most simple activity — like walking around your neighborhood or sitting at your computer — can create a misalignment that could cause years of aches if not properly countered. SomaTracTM helps you reset your skeletal system by realigning and stretching your body.

-Muscle and Ligament Strength

Ligaments and muscles are strengthened by weight lifting or physical activity, but unless you regularly practice yoga or religiously stretch on a daily basis, you’re not training them to be as elastic as they should be, and over time they’ll become stiff and inelastic — which could result in straining and tearing.

Use Inversion Therapy to gently, quickly and easily stretch your muscles and ligaments, throughout your body, all at once.

*This is only a tool to help inform you about the benefits of inversion and decompression therapy, and should not be considered as medical advice. Always consult your health care professional before trying inversion or decompression or beginning any type of new exercise regimen.