Although many mainstream medical organizations such as the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic consider inversion therapy to be a largely unproven alternative medical treatment, many people still ...

Rosie O'Donnell hangs upside down to treat depression. "Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown does it for a creative burst. And runner Marc Swerdlow of Highland Park, Ill., swears it alleviates back pain.

Fitness stores sell a variety of spinal decompression/traction devices -- inversion tables and ankle boots that hang you upside down and stretch out your back -- on the promise that they help relieve ...

"I’ve just started hanging upside down in inversion boots, doing hamstring pulls and sit-ups. I’m amazed at how great it feels on my back." —Brooke Shields Although she spent earlier years of her ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Alan Wolf hangs from a horizontal bar in gravity boots as he performs new inversion ...

Rosie O'Donnell hangs upside down to treat depression. "DaVinci Code" author (and Rye Beach resident) Dan Brown does it for a creative burst. And runner Marc Swerdlow of Highland Park, Ill., swears it ...