How Inversion Therapy STOPS Your SI Joint Pain

inversion therapy SI jointDo you have pain near the two ‘dimples’ in your lower back? This is the location of your sacroiliac (SI) joints — the points where your spine meets your pelvis. Pain in this area is common because your SI joints support the entire weight of your upper body when you’re standing, walking or doing any other upright activity.

That’s one heck of a burden to carry each and every day.

Plus, as you age this daily wear-and-tear often leads to damaged cartilage, bone rubbing on bone and, ultimately, osteoarthritis, which is one of the leading causes of sacroiliac joint dysfunction (also known as SI joint pain).

If you have SI joint pain, I cannot urge you enough to try inversion therapy, which is a form of non-drug pain relief that also helps to solve the underlying reasons why you have SI joint pain (including muscle imbalances, incorrect walking patterns and poor posture).

Inversion Therapy: Why This Quick Treatment is So Effective for SI Joint Pain

Did you know that the U.S. Army Physical Fitness School uses inversion therapy for soldiers, and reports that the technique leads to fewer joint-related injuries and back muscle pain? When I found this out, I can’t say that I was surprised — I’ve experienced it already firsthand, as well as heard from thousands of others who’ve had similar experiences.

Inversion therapy involves using an inversion table to invert your body at varying degrees of incline (not necessarily completely upside down, as you’ll see in the video below) to help compensate for the pull of gravity that compresses and wears down the discs in your back on an around-the-clock basis. Among the benefits of inversion therapy are helping to realign your spine and supporting better posture, both of which will help address your underlying causes of pain.

By hanging upside down, you increase the space between your vertebrae, relaxing the pressure on your discs, ligaments and nerve roots. Increasing intra-vertebral space means reducing pressure on the nerve roots, which means less back pain and less likelihood of nerve root damage. But, you don’t have to be completely inverted to get benefits!

Get Relief Without Hanging Upside Down — Just a Slight Tilt Needed

In the case of SI joint dysfunction, a variation of inversion therapy can help you to re-align and rebalance your joints, just by using a slight tilt! If you’ve ever had that feeling like your SI joint was out of place, preventing you from functioning as you should, using simple spinal-decompression movements (demonstrated below) can solve your problem in mere moments.

As you can see, in the case of SI joint pain (and many other types of pain), you can get the benefits of inversion for spinal decompression without actually inverting.

Instead of turning you upside down, the Back Ease – Spinal Decompression System featured in the video lets you comfortably decompress your spine by simply leaning into the device. It decompresses and stretches your spine, creating a separation in your vertebrae, relieving pressure on your spinal discs and nerves. The result is short-term (sometimes instantaneous) pain relief coupled with long-term maintenance and healing.

The Back Ease is a device I personally recommend everyone use (even those without back pain) due to its amazing ability help improve and maintain mobility, correct alignments from your shoulders down through your spine to your hip (including your SI joints) as well as heal and strengthen your spine over the long term.

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Jesse Cannone, CFT, CPRS, MFT

Jesse is the co-founder and visionary CEO of The Healthy Back Institute®, the world-leading source of natural back pain solutions. His mission as a former back pain sufferer is to help others live pain free without surgery and pharmaceuticals.

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7 thoughts on “How Inversion Therapy STOPS Your SI Joint Pain”

  1. elaine patience says:

    Steve: I just watched your video on using the Back-Ease apparatus; however, I have an Inversion Table and would like to see a video on how the use it to relieve sciatica and SI joint problems. I used the Inversion Table for piriformis muscle problems but did not really have any instruction other than to use the table for 15 minutes at a time, alternating between inversion level and parallel level for the 15 minutes. If you can show me how else I can use it even though I don’t go all the way down, I think I can use the table to better advantage. Thank you.

    I have been using Heal n Soothe since January 2013 and have been pain-free. I hope to continue doing the exercises that Jesse’s video showed me for the SI joint and want to continue to be pain-free for the rest of my life.

    Thank you.

  2. Steve says:

    Elaine

    On this link is and article with several videos, about how to best use an Inversion table as well as several options on how to get the best results using different techniques on the table…

    http://losethebackpain.com/treatments/inversion-therapy/

    Steve

  3. Kyle says:

    Dear Steve,

    I appreciate and thank you for your help. I will follow what you have advised me to do and will utilize the resources you have given to me. I’ll will get back to you in the future on how the results have been, and I am currently reading your guys’ book that I receieved in the mail a month or two ago. Once again, thank you.

    Sincerely,

    Kyle

    1. Admin says:

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  4. zed says:

    Hello,
    I have SI joint Dysfunction in my lower left side of the back for 3 years now. If I do inversion table each day, will it help me permanently relieve from SI joint dysfunction… Thanks

  5. Steve HBI-Staff says:

    Zed, Inversion can heal greatly but there is a missing link, please read, this article to understand the missing link
    https://losethebackpain.com/treatments/spinal-decompression

    Thanks

    Steve

  6. Dennis Chenault says:

    Hi Steve,
    My left si joint locks up on me about every one or two days. I have to go to the chiropractor to get releief. Do you really believe this device will let me release me si joint?

    Thank you,Dennis

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