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 ...

Hanging upside down from your feet may look like a special form of torture — but for some people, it’s an important form of back pain relief. Based on the concept of distraction traction, inversion ...

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

Inversion therapy may provide short-term benefits like relief from back pain and flexibility, but there’s little evidence that it provides long-term relief. Inversion therapy is a technique where you ...