This book is an answer to hundreds of people who have asked for information about inversion and what it might do for them - for their backs and for their bodies.

In 1980, I was not aware that back problems were the number one health issue in North America. And although I had seen Richard Gere hanging from the ceiling by his ankles in the movie American Gigolo, I had never heard of inversion therapy.

Then one April two of us were in a small community on the California desert watching a woman hang by her ankles from an inversion bed and we were listening to her story.

She had suffered multiple whiplash injuries, followed by months of drug, medical, chiropractic and physical therapy, with no relief from the excruciating pain. It sounded to us like a familiar story. Then she was introduced to inversion therapy by way of a device called a Backswing. Her routine was to use it daily at least twice for 5-10 minutes. She told us that now the pain from her neck was gone and her back and body felt better than they ever had - even before her injury.

It was an impressive testimonial.

Since then we have talked to hundreds of people who somehow knew that to hang was to get relief from back pain.

We have seen boots nailed to rafters, and planks rigged to pulleys, all tributes to the instinct and ingenuity of people suffering from back pain...

Since then we have talked to dozens of professionals and we have come to appreciate the wide range of knowledge and opinion there. Some are quoted in this book.

Since then we have read as much as we could find in an effort to discover how and why inversion works. We have listed some of the books and articles that we found useful. So if you are still searching for some way to live with your back, or if you are interested in actively maintaining your health or if you are just curious about what inversion therapy is all about, this is a book for you.

This book will bring you:

a simple description of how your back works some understandable explanations about why backs hurt, and some solid suggestions about how to live with your back. So far, just another back book - but there's more. This book will also bring together for you: everything that we have been able to find out about inversion. what inversion can do for your back what inversion can do for the rest of your body...