Inversion Therapy, Fully Loaded
The EP-550 Sport by Teeter Hang Ups builds upon the revolutionary EP-500 with added Gravity Boots and EZ Stretch Traction Handles. Already boasting a modern aesthetic and an incredibly long lifetime of excellent performance, these exclusive additions promote more versatile therapy by allowing you to control your inversion.
Gravity Boots
The Gravity Boots wrap comfortably around your ankles, and feature adjustable, self-locking ratchet buckles for a secure hold no matter what. Super-soft 5/8" foam liners are crafted specially to offer maximum comfort with minimum compression while light, highly durable DuPont Hytrel material promotes a breathable, quality feel. The best part is that the boots are removable, and can be reattached to any bar for sit-ups and other exercises.
EZ Stretch Traction Handles
The EZ Stretch Traction Handles allow you to gauge your own preferred pressure during your inversion therapy. Working opposite of a cane, which relieves pressure while walking upright, these handles allow you to increase traction while upside-down to enhance stretching and stimulate vital muscles for a better recovery.
The EP-550 Sport is the perfect inversion table for those who are able and want more from their inversion table. Help speed your recovery and experience all the rewarding benefits of inversion therapy with this revolutionary table.
Physical Benefits:
Almost all of the causes of back pain - including poor posture, spine misalignment and weak back muscles - can be attributed to the natural force that gravity puts on your body. Inversion therapy will reverse gravity's effects to work for you by allowing you to hang upside down. Instead of crunching your spine, inversion allows your body to work with the downward force of gravity, which will increase the space between your vertebrae and relieve pressure on the areas in your back that are in pain, such as the discs, ligaments and nerve roots.
Your spine is vital to your health as all communication between your brain and your body occur through nerve endings that pass through its vertebrae. Insufficient distance between these vertebrae can cause pressure on these nerve endings which causes back pain. Inversion therapy has been proven to lengthen the space between these vertebrae each session to eliminate the pain that this pressure may cause.
Sitting for a prolonged period of time and slouching while seated takes the spine out of its natural alignment and causes discomfort and pain in all areas of the back. During inversion therapy, the downwards gravitational force allows your body to comfortably reconfigure into its natural s-curve shape. This realignment also reduces the pain that comes from siting in an office chair all day.
Visual Benefits:
Inversion therapy has been shown to improve circulation throughout the body. The human heart generally has to work against the forces of gravity to retrieve blood from the legs and lower torso. The inversion process eases the stress on your heart during this process, leading to many long term aesthetic benefits such as healthier looking features.
The average human body shrinks as it reaches an advanced age due to shrinking discs within the body. This shrinking can range from marginal shortening to a couple of inches. Fortunately, inversion therapy helps maintain the health of these discs which allows individuals to maintain more of their original height.
The ease of circulation during inversion therapy also helps rid the body of varicose veins. These veins can cause pain and look unattractive due to the pressure of pooling blood on the veins. Hanging upside down on an inversion table gives the heart gravity's assistance to pull the pooling blood out of the veins and circulate in throughout the body. The elimination of this pooling blood will help ease the pain and get rid of these unsightly veins.
Mental Benefits:
Inversion therapy is not a high stress exercise, however it is known to have similar and even greater mental benefits then exercises such as weight lifting and running. Just as with those other exercises, endorphins that help reduce pain and cause a feeling of elation are released during inversion therapy. The release of these endorphins, along with the relaxing feeling of inversion therapy combine to help you feel happier and relieve stress.
The relaxation and recharging benefits from using an inversion table can help nullify the feelings of depression as well. In March of 2007, Rosie O'Donnell helped familiarize many people with this means of dealing with depression as she said helped get over her depression by using inversion therapy along with antidepressants.
Features:
- Ergonomic Flex-Technology mimics the movement of your body for perpetual support.
- Adjustable head pillow
- Optimum Decompression Surface allows your body to slide and achieve the optimum stretch.
- The highly durable, easy-to-clean surface ensures pristine appearance over years of use.
- Gravity Boots keep your feet in place comfortably throughout the inversion process.
- EZ Stretch Traction Handles facilitate adding more traction to receive quicker benefits and tone muscles.
- Precision Balance engineering allows for controlled lockout in full inversion.
- The adjustable or removable tether strap allows you to easily pre-determine your maximum angle of inversion.
- Auto-lock hinges, and heat-treated steel parts create a product that is more secure while in inversion.
- A de-rattler knob and specialized pivot bearings ensure a lifetime of squeak and rattle-free rotation.
- Quick folding mechanism makes this inversion table easy to store when not used or on the go.
| Height Capacity |
4' 8" - 6'6"
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| Weight Capacity |
300 lbs
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| Assembled Dimensions |
Height: 48"
Width: 27"
Length: 61" |
| Packaged Dimensions |
Height: 50"
Width: 30"
Length: 7" |
| Packaged Weight |
68 lbs |
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Can't live without it!
Written by rob-ART from OR
Mar 18, 2010
We had the older model. Loved it but sold it to a lady with back issues when we moved into a new, smaller apartment. But I missed stretching my back. And my wife's pinched nerve is back. When our chiropractor asked us if we had one, we said "No, but we are going to order a new one and make room for it."
