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Solutions for the Pain Pinch: Which Zero Gravity Chairs Really Work?

by  Christina Lasich, MD
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Christina Lasich, MD
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Specialist in Pain Management and Spine Rehabilitation

Being a woman can be a pain in the back. I should know because my...

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With co-pays, deductibles, and bills to pay, it seems like everyone is in a pinch lately. And although medications are effective at reducing pain in a pinch, I would like to focus on some other products that help control the vi...

 

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  1. anti-gravity chair
    wanderer
    Tuesday, July 08, 2008 at 10:52 AM

    How would one go about finding a store that carries these chairs? I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

     

    Wanderer


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    re: anti-gravity chair
    yeti105
    Tuesday, July 08, 2008 at 11:28 AM

    I have wanted one forever, did not know about the pain relief. Anyway try going online, that is where i do ALL my shopping cuz we live in little town, i am sure i have seen these online.


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    re: re: anti-gravity chair
    wanderer
    Tuesday, July 08, 2008 at 01:05 PM

    I'll give it a try - the net is sure neat for all sorts of things, isn't it?

    Wanderer


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  2. Anti gravity chair
    Fibromyalgia Andrea
    Tuesday, July 08, 2008 at 01:25 PM

    Glad to hear that you're gaining relief from this product, I also had one of these and decided to take it a step further and purchased a Gym Inversion Table. This allows you to suspend yourself while having your upper body fully supported on a table.  You can go completely upside down if you want a really good therapeutic stretch, or like myself, I suspend at about a 45 degree angle.  This allows the spine to totally stretch out allowing oxygen and blood to circulate properly, and supposedly, help to heal the vertabrae and realign.

    I purchased mine on The Shopping Channel in Canada, it retails for around $300. It is total relief when I'm suspended, taking the pressure off the hip joints and spine and I feel has really given me many benefits!  Used on a daily or every other day basis the long term results are supposed to help improve posture and hydrate the spinal column but the immediate results are enough for me, Relief!!

    You could probably google "gym inversion tables" on the internet, I know up here in Canada specialists are using this product for severe or chronic back pain and charging a lot of $ per appointment.


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    re: Anti gravity chair
    yeti105
    Tuesday, July 08, 2008 at 02:05 PM

    This was not good for me as it really hurt where i had a burst fracture of my L1,my daughter tried it but w/chronic headache it was NO good for her.We had "borrowed" one from a friend,my son in law took it home and he LOVES it,uses it like everyday.He is a diesel mechanic lifting big tires and parts all day long.He loves it so i guess for some it works wonders.


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    re: Anti gravity chair
    Fibromyalgia Andrea
    Tuesday, July 08, 2008 at 02:14 PM

    I totally understand that and had forgotten I had to stop using the Gym Inversion Table for awhile because I had a knee problem and had to have surgery.  The delicate knee could not take the pressure, so I didn't use for about 6-8 months until completely healed.  Good point!


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  3. Saved me from quitting 12 graduate hours academy!
    nita
    Monday, July 14, 2008 at 07:23 PM

    13 days of 11 hour days sitting at a table, even with breaks every hour, I was in so much pain with my back by the 3rd day, I was going to have to quit. I drug in my chair,(I'd brought one just in case, on the advice of my mother), and with a little help figuring out how to set it up, sat/ lay down and smiled the first time in days! Lortab wasn't even touching the pain, and was making me sooo sleepy. Wow! What a difference a chair can make! I got mine at Wal-Mart for $35! Very well made, and the movable pillow is really nice. I wonder if I can have it at work? People at the academy thought it was some sort of therapy chair that required a prescription. Everyone who sat in it loved it. I later took it camping, and it was wonderful! It folds up, and is no bigger than any portable lounge chair. Maybe a little heavier. Thanks to the nice students @ the ESL Acadamy at Henderson for carrying it for me. Very thoughtful. I wish my Dr.'s office would get one. In fact, with those giant Super-Centers, they should have one at the end of each isle. I can't just sit down, I have to lay down, and this chair is letting me live a life out of my bed!!!!! Oh, yes... I love it!


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