TESTIMONIALS & EMAIL COMMENTS

"I suffer from Ankylosing Spondylitis which causes intense stiffness and pain the back as a result of inflammation of the vertebrae. Apart from the pain it has the potential to lead to excessive forward curative of the spine. For the last 15 to 20 years I have been inverting, which, along with a controlled diet and exercise plan, has been a major contributor to my having retained a relatively normal/upright posture. I have no hesitation in attributing the majority of my success to my almost daily inverting." - Christopher Hymns, 31 January 2012

Backswing has arrived ... could feel some relief from my backache after the first use. My husband swore my neck looked longer right afterwards as well!!!!
Thank you so much.

RP, Botswana, 26 January 2012 (email)

I took up golf late in life and love the game. But there was a time when I thought I would have to give it up because of the trouble it caused my lower back. After each round I had to be very careful not to make any sudden movements, because my back would go into spasm. If I sat or lay down after a round, I had great difficulty standing up because the pain was so severe. Even walking was difficult on some days. Anti-inflammatory pills worked to some extent but I realised I could not continue playing golf if I wanted to prevent permanent damage to my spine. The solution was the backswing. I tried it out a couple of times, took the plunge and bought one. I have hardly felt any back pain since. If you have crushed discs, five minutes a day on this machine will keep you pain-free. It also strengthens your stomach muscles. I have also found that since I've been using it I hit the golf ball further.

John Hinton, Cape Town, 29 September 2011

A few days ago my back was hurting after a game of squash, and after inverting for just 2 minutes the pain was instantly gone.  

Gary Platte, Stellenbosch, 6 September 2011

Email: "He is having great fun with it and reports feeling so energised after each use."

Physio, CK, regarding patient

Since I started inverting my grey hair has been reverting to black again.

I used to visit my chiropractor every month because of the intense neck pain from degenerated discs. Now I only go once every 6 months, and am pain-free.

I love my Backswing, it's a great piece of equipment, and I recommend it to everyone I know. I've just bought another one to take to Greece for the few months in the year I spend there.

Dave D, Cape Town, 22 June 2011

Email: "Thanks very much. It was a pleasure dealing with you, I will be telling my friends. In fact we discussed it at golf today. I played with a happy backswinger!"

M.S, Cape Town, 12 Feb 2011

The Backswing is a fantastic revolutionary piece of home and gym equipment that can be used daily to help alleviate and prevent backache by simply hanging upside down to decompress the spine. I also find it improves your posture, helps stretch your lats and there are some great mobility movements to loosen up your neck muscles.

I use the backswing with all my clients at the end of each session, after stretching, for a minimum of 4 minutes and find it to be a vital part of a well-balanced training regime.

In my twelve years of personal training it is without a doubt one of the best and most important pieces of exercise equipment ever.

Johnny Eagleton, Personal Trainer & Owner of Eagleton Fitness, Cape Town, 1 Feb 2011

I purchased the "backswing" during a particularly bad attack of Sciatica. It is now 4 weeks since I started using it every day for 10/15 minutes. I am pleased to report that the sciatica has almost gone and my posture has greatly improved. I also use it after exercise and find it helps to remove the stiffness and strain on the muscles.

I would not hesitate to recommend the "backswing" to my friends and colleagues; it is a very good product that I willingly endorse.

M.S, Cape Town, 30 Nov 2010

I have been using my Backswing for 3 weeks for a back problem that is so serious that several doctors want to perform a fourth operation. I have had tremendous pain in my back and down my right leg. 
 
Before telling you the effects of the Backswing, I want to give you the history:
 
I had my first back operation in 1991.  I was 35 years old, and spending 4 hours a day at the gym, 2 in the morning and 2 in the evening.  In the mornings, before that, I would run 15 kilometers to work, and I played rugby and squash, and swam almost every day.  I was a fitness fanatic, and even had a six-pack.
 
I had developed back pain, but as I had a high pain tolerance I was not concerned.  However my gym instructor and my wife convinced me to see a doctor.  My GP referred me to a Neurosurgeon. When I went to see him with the x-rays, without talking to me, he looked at them, turned to his phone and ordered a wheelchair for me.  He then told me that one of the discs in my back was fractured and that a splinter of the fractured disk was pressing into my spinal cord, and that I could be paralysed if he did not operate immediately.
 
This was a lie.  I only had a stress fracture, and my GP told me afterwards that we all get stress fractures in the discs, and that no operation was necessary.
 
5 years later I had back trouble again, and saw another surgeon. He told me I was allergic to the surgical steel that had been inserted during the first operation, and that he had to remove it.  So I had my second operation.  This was the second lie.  Humans do not develop allergies to the steel, which I found out later.
 
In May 2005 I had my third operation.  This time I was told that the bone that was packed around my spine during the last fusion had “kept on growing and was cutting off my spinal cord and nerve cord". 

I don’t believe this was true either.  I believe the disc just above the fusion had “slipped out” and therefore on the scan and x-rays it looked like there was a narrowing of the spinal cord.  
 
The same thing is happening now, which is causing the pain, but as I am not willing to have another operation, I bought a Backswing.
 
I have been using the Backswing for the last 3 weeks.  I experience very little pain.  I walk easier and have not taken any pain medication for a week.  It used to be a major problem for me to turn over in bed, but now I am not even aware of turning because there is no pain.  I strongly believe the Backswing has helped me to avoid another back operation. 
 
Steve Rossouw, Pretoria, 19 August 2010

I have finally started to invert at 60 degrees where I have wanted to be. I am still very pleased with the product and can feel the difference it is making - especially with regard to lack of any pain whatsoever in my lower back even though I am once again spending long hours at my computer.

Joe Coetsee, Cape Town

... I am a New Zealander. Wondering if you have any dealerships in New Zealand. Currently I am in a lot of pain with a prolapsed disc. My friend in Oz who has had a bulging disc problem through an accident uses a backswing and referred me to your site. He has had amazing success...

C Spencer, New Zealand

I purchased a “Backswing” from “Backswing for Health” in order to help rectify lower back and neck problems I have been experiencing over the last 20 years. In fact 2 years ago I landed in hospital and was put in traction for 4 days to relieve a major neck problem I had back then. The reason for the traction was to separate the cervical disks in my neck. After the traction treatment I experienced a bit of discomfort and an MRI revealed that I had severe narrowing of C7/T1 at the base of my neck and this was the cause of my discomfort. I might add that I also had difficulty in rotating my neck and found it very difficult to park my car, especially when reversing.

I have been using my “Backswing” for just over a month and most of the pain in my lower back has gone and now have painless full rotation in my neck [like I had as a youngster]. I use “Backswing” for a couple of minutes 3 times a day: when I wake up it gives me a wonderful way to stretch my entire body; when I come home from work before supper and last thing at night before I go to sleep at night.

I believe that “Backswing” is the best investment I have made for my spine in my life. I highly recommend it to anyone who is suffering from spinal and/or neck pain or any person wanting to ensure good posture well into their old age.

Kenny Silke, Cape Town

Finally I started using the backswing, and it's magic.

K.M, Harare

I assembled the backswing ... Could immediately afterwards feel that my back was more flexible and less pressure.

T.O, Windhoek

I injured my lower back doing martial arts, and consulted a chiropractor, but the effects of his treatment did not last long after any particular adjustment . Then I tried going to a physiotherapist, and although the treatment released muscle spasms it would return after a few days. I then went to a biokineticist who gave me exercises to strengthen my core and other back-supporting muscles, but it seemed better for prevention of injuries and not necessarily the treatment thereof. I use these exercises now to prevent the same injury recurring. Inversion is the only thing that helps long-term because it stretches my back out properly. I think the best part is that I can do it at home, whenever I feel the need. I ended up spending three times more on the therapists than on the gravity boots.

Leon Vercueil, Johannesburg

Since I have the backswing, I have NO pain in shouders or lower back any more.

Dr H Lotze, Cape Town

I am a regular golfer, who plays up to 5 times a week. Multiple spinal injuries (lumbar and cervical), which occurred many years ago, have been catching up with me in recent years and my body makes me well aware of these old injuries after a game of golf.

I started using the backswing 2 weeks ago and I feel virtually no pain after golf. The product works extremely well and the product quality is superb.

D.F, Cape Town

I tried the Teeter Hang Ups because my back was hurting after I accidently walked off a big step I hadn’t noticed.

After two 10-minute sessions my back was fine. There was also a bonus. A few days later I noticed I could readily bend down to pick up things off the floor in a much more youthful way than I had been able to before.

A Howarth, Cheshire, UK

During 1999 I was persuaded to try out the Hang Ups, as my back pain was such that I was unable to work at all. Within 2 days, after using it 3 times, I started to feel pain relief and some freedom of movement, and in about a week-and-a-half, total pain relief. I now use it with the onset of pain, and get immediate relief.

Desmond Mouton, Cape Town

I was involved in a car accident that left me hospitalized for 2 years and with one leg shorter than the other.  I was told I would always have hip problems and limited mobility.  I am now 61 years old and have been inverting for a year.  It has literally turned my life around.  I now walk straighter, I have gained an inch in height and I do ballroom dancing.  My golf swing used to cause a burning sensation in my back, which I protected by doing a three-quarter swing and stopping half-way through.  Now I do a full swing and am back to hitting balls like I did 4 years ago.  Prior to inverting I was exhausted after 18 holes of golf.  Now I easily do 36 holes, and after 5 minutes on the backswing I am ready to go.  I fold it away when not using it, so it takes no space and is easily accessible. The backswing is relaxing and energizing, and I love using it.

PS Now can some one tell me how to keep the rest of the family off it ????
Joking, it is now used by wife and son, both horse riders and also love it.

Len Jowett, Gauteng

As a teenager I had Sherman’s Disease which resulted in a collapsed vertebra, and was told by an orthopaedic specialist when I was 18 years old and had my first "slipped disc" symptoms, that my back was that of an 80-year-old.  He said if I did not exercise every day, I would finish up in a wheelchair.  Since then have exercised daily to build my back muscles to support my spine.  Then 15 years ago I developed sciatica, and for months I tried many types of therapy to alleviate the intense pain.  After two 5-minute sessions on the backswing, I was pain-free. 

I am 75 and a retired dentist, and thanks to the exercise and backswing I am healthy and active. You have the best product ever.

Dr Max Rom, Johannesburg, November 2007

Email 5 weeks after back surgery for slipped disc: "Just to let you know that I have my doctor’s go-ahead to start using the backswing. So, I have set it up (all of 5 minutes to set up!), and I have starting using it. At this stage, I am only inverting to about 15-20 degrees, but I will slowly extend that.

In just the five minutes that I spent on it, I already feel a relaxing of the muscles and improvement in agility."

C.S, Cape Town

Email: "Thank you for your prompt shipping of the Backswing … it is not only providing relief after a hard day's work, but I seem to be healing as well."  

T.L,  Johannesburg

I have been the fortunate owner of a backswing for over 10 years, and think it is the "saviour" for my neck and back dysfunctions.

W.R.C, Canada

If someone has never experienced debilitating back pain, they cannot understand what a blessing it is to find real, sustainable relief. Thank you!

Alise W., Brooklyn , NY

...one day I made the slightest movement and something went wrong. I went down to my knees with a pain I had never felt before. If it wasn't for my Teeter inversion table, I couldn't function. This table is my best friend when I need it... I have told everyone I know about it.

Thank you for providing a robust, well-constructed product that really works!

Raymond S., Henderson , NV

After 35 years flying helicopters, sitting with a 6 pound helmet and vibrations, I was constantly feeling pain in my spine. After two days of inversion, 10 minutes in the morning and again at night, the pain is gone. The difference is amazing. Best purchase of my life.

Doug M., Salisbury , NC

I use the inversion table about three to four times per week now and I would say I am 90% pain free most of the time and 99% pain free for the remainder of the time. I play golf again which is something I thought I would never do again, but more importantly, I can play with my three-year-old son which is a blessing to me. The Teeter Inversion Table is the best thing I own. It saved my life. I recommend the Teeter Inversion Table to anyone suffering with back pain. Do yourself, your back and your family a favor and get one. Make your life normal again.

M. Rabiner, Vancouver , BC

I want to thank you for the [Teeter Hang Ups]... I noticed the results the third day I used the inversion table. My wife called me upstairs the other night to come to bed and I went upstairs so fast, I didn't realize it. I said, "Oh my, Pam. I just ran upstairs without using the railing with one hand and the other on the stair!" She said, "You're kidding!" I was so excited I went downstairs and came up a couple of more times with the same results - pain free.

Tom G., Bradford, PA

I could not believe the way I felt just inverting one time. I did not want to get off. I felt amazing. I never dreamed that something so fun could be so beneficial!

Holly M., Cartersville , GA

I first inverted at my Chiropractor and received such a dramatic result that day, that I got on the internet and came to the conclusion that the Teeter Hang Ups was the best out there. After receiving it, I was TOTALLY impressed with the QUALITY of the product, packaging, and materials.

Kurt A., Scott Mills, OR

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