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I have suffered with lower back and neck pain for over ten years and had tried all the various specialists, even spending five days of treatment at a Chinese Natural hospital in Shenzhen, China. I had basically given up and resigned myself to the fact that this was to be my life from now on and to just get used to it.
For the past five years the pain was constant, it varied from a dull ache to incapacitating pain that put me out of action, on one of these very painful occasions when I had been out of action for a couple of weeks I just felt I needed to be stretched, so I wrapped a towel around my ankles and tied a clothes line round and round until it was tight. I then got a rope and hung it from a support in the garage and slowly winched myself upside down. It helped big time and the following day I could function again.
The activities I loved were either a thing of the past or a painful pastime; I used to wear a black reinforced girdle to support my back during the day, even fishing was no longer fun for me.
We were overseas on holiday, visiting family and one of them had this apparatus in her living room that looked a bit like an exercise machine, I asked her what it was and she told me her Chiropractor had recommended her get it to fix her back which she said it did. I asked her for a go and enjoyed the experience but didn’t notice much difference, I stayed on it for a bit longer then we left.
A bit later that day we were sight seeing and I noticed that the pain in my back had disappeared, it was amazing, “no pain”! After it being a constant companion for years it was weird that my back now felt pain free! It came back an hour later so I decided to have another go on the table again. The same thing happened so I knew I had to get one.
When we got back home we contacted the head office in the States and found they were not available in NZ, so we airfreighted one in and within eight days I was pain free and within two and a half months I was back doing the things that I had given up on.
I said to my wife Nancy that there must be a whole heap of people out there just like me, we need to bring these into New Zealand.
Just before our first container arrived we had a call from the International Marketing Manager, Shane Harrison, he is a Kiwi based in London who we had been dealing with. He said he was coming over to spend a week with us to bring us up to speed on the product. While he was here he noticed that I wasn’t using the table, and asked me why, I explained that I don’t need to, my back was great and said that if it was sore after something I did I would bring it out and use it but there’s no point otherwise as it had done its job.
He said “Dave, if you want to continue to fish, ride, drive and just enjoy life to the full as you get older, you need to use the table every day, otherwise you’ll be stuck in an old folks home not having a clue who that person was who just visited you”
He then went on to explain about our brain is only around 7% of our body weight yet it requiring 25% of our total blood supply and the older we get the less it gets. Our heart gets weaker, arteries get smaller, blood pressure goes up and the blood has to overcome gravity to reach the brain. The brain becomes like a plant that is not getting the nutrients and water it needs, it slowly withers and fades away, by inverting daily, gravity becomes our friend and it assists the heart instead of resisting it, our brain gets what it needs. He gave the example of people who still practice yoga, they are on to it, they know what’s going on and they live full and wholesome lives well into their 90s.
Overseas they use Inversion Therapy to help people with brain damage and already we have a table in a school for special needs children and are getting good results. There are many more benefits of Inversion Therapy just check it out on the net.
Needless to say our whole family use the table every day and it is great to see, especially our kids
The main purpose of the shows is to educate the public how to use the table efficiently and with confidence. It is a relaxing and comfortable experience that all people no matter what age can enjoy and get some incredible benefits from.
Article by Dave Hare
To find out more or order your own Table visit www.teeter.co.nz ph 0800 NANAVE (626 283) or email info@teeter.co.nz 
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