Shane Gigout
3 min readNov 30, 2020

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My Amazon Review is Better Than Yours

“Inversion Table Review”

Receiving this table has changed my life in many ways

Let me explain…

I believe a person who orders an inversion table, needs to be inverted (stretched out) due to some back, leg, or hip issue…there is a need for some type of pain relief.

So when the crate, I mean box, arrives, you immediately know you have yourself a winner.

Because, you; who needs to be inverted, can start warming up your lower back or other aching areas by wrestling this box of parts, into the place where the inversion table will live.

At my house, we got as far as the living room. So, now when not in use, we can hang jackets and leg warming quilts on the table. It makes a handy rack. (That was an added bonus)

Once the box is opened, the family fun really begins…you have just opened a huge metal puzzle, which when put together, your very life (well at least a concussion) hangs in the balance.

There are wonderfully indiscript translated (from Chinese to a dialect of English) copied instructions with blurred images, lines, numbers, and letters that look similar to the geometry portion of the SAT.

Part of the reason this is so fun is the whole family can join in by grabbing a piece of the puzzle and a few bolts from the 500 piece cardboard-screw, nut, washer, and bolt-carrier and start assembly all at the same time.

Thankfully the designers thought well ahead and made it easy to take apart and reassemble the whole thing, if you put the wrong parts in the wrong places…dadgum high school geometry!!

Over the next 2 hours you will get to use, dust off, and hone your deductive reasoning skills, high stress communication skills, calming techniques, and possible first aid skills to finish the quest.

At this point you are probably thinking, “I would rather go back to the Chiropractor”…don’t quit yet, you are almost inverted.

Now comes the most exhilarating part of the process…you get to try out the project of love you and your kids have had to complete (not the family any longer, because your wife quit an hour earlier when you told her that a Phillips head screw driver is not “the star thingy”)

You strap in and start back, inveeerrrrttiinggg…this thing doesn’t stop, what the crap!!!!

Why doesn’t it stop!!!

Take my recommendation, you may want to learn how to get back up before getting on the table and going backwards.

Once right-side up and the blood has drained back into all the normal places, you will notice that the picture for placing the table into the stand, is where the designers and translators have saved the best for last…

The picture when held upside down, like the inversion table, shows the correct way to install the table into the stand.

Yay!!! Now you get to have that same “near death” rush a second time!

BUT….once the table works, you will have a feeling of triumph and exhilaration like no other, it must be the way the astronauts feel once they are finally in space.

Every time I use the table, and get up, I remember that triumphant feeling and go look for another crate to wrestle.

Aside from all the wrestling and instruction issues, the table is well built and works great.

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Shane Gigout

Gaining wisdom and knowledge every day. Applying and sharing what I learn.