I have been putting up with a massively fucked back for the last ten years and a very damaged lumbar vertebrate for about eight of those years. It has degenerated over those years from giving me big shit a couple of times a year to the last couple or three years living with medium grade pain every day spiking to intense pain whenever it decided I was in need of a wake up call. After a small fall about four months back it went off the scale and after weeks of grade eight to ten pain and me being cast on the lounge floor 24/7 for three weeks and shoveling back handfulls of tramadol which didn't even take 10% of the pain away it settled down to me having to put up with five to six grade pain every day for the last three months. Couldn't work, lost lots of grands and my wife had to float our boat on her own with her small business.
Being a few months off sixty and having played and worked hard since I was 14 I kind of accepted this as payback from the mortal frame. I was getting very depressed thinking that I was fucked and would be like this from here til the end. Not being able to ride or race was another very freaky and oppressive thing on my mind as well.
I risked the pain and danger of doing more damage racing at Methven at Easter this year. Even I thought I was a dumb cunt but I did anyway, 'cos that what dumb cunts do.
The story changes here.
Spyda was down to do his thing with a microphone and we were chatting about stuff when he told me of his back problem and his use of an 'inverter', and it's benefits. I was actually thinking wires and electrics when he said 'inverter', him being a sparky and Spyda etc. I was envisaging him hooking up a wire to his hip and earthing it with a wire up his date or something similar.
Anyway I checked out the inverter thing on google and was enlightened as to what the apparatus was. Some were expensive and some were Chinese. Being a complete cynic I opted for an ex shop demo model, Chinese and lots and lots cheaper than the other ones. $160 I paid for what is usually $200 new in a flat cardboard box.
I had difficulty just getting in my truck to do the 150k round trip to town to pick it up. I was that sore when I got home I had to lay on the floor for half an hour before we got the already assembled thing out of my truck and into the kitchen. The cynic adjusted the table to his height and locked his ankles into the leg hanging device and tilted himself back to a 45 degree tilt and lay there for all of five minutes. I felt some small movements in the spine but nothing significant. I righted myself got out and stood up. No fucking pain, none whatsoever. The cynic thought that this was great but how long before it raced back to fuck with him...five minutes, an hour?. Well that was last Friday evening and I have been like a rejuvenated little boy since and my problem has been alleviated to the extent that I have forgotten that I even had a bad sciatic and fucked hip problem. I have been doing things that I could not even entertain in my wildest dreams just a week ago. A week ago I could not get to my shed without the aid of crutches.
I've been on my shed roof sealing leaks that were fucking me off so bad but couldn't get up there to fix, the eighty meter monstrosity of a hedge is now looking good, I'm off to unload 200 meters of framing timber from my trailer for my next job shortly before I go down and do some repairs on the local pub roof and I'm then throwing the bike on the trailer to take out to Ruapuna to race tomorrow. I'm back with a smile and it's just like I was transported back ten years to when my back was just a working back. This has not cured anything just made it all go away.
I can't believe that my encounter with Spyda would be a life changer and I can't believe that the specialists, doctors, osteos and physios over that ten year period did not tell me about inversion tables. But the cynic in me knows why. Something to do with money, I'd say. Close to $200 for a 45 minute visit to a specialist and 50 bucks for quarter hour doc and physio sessions would have a lot to do with it.
Cheers Spyda, you have made me a smiling, happy, hippylike, cynic, once again
If you suffer from back shit I urge you to check these inversion tables out. They are amazing and work
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Originally Posted by ellipsis
R - Inverter Tables are pretty Rad
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