Fisher Traction® Back Pain Prevention & Pain Relief Traction Device | for Pinched Nerves & Disc Bulges | Back Problem Relief | Mobile Spine Decompression & Lumbar Traction Device - Under 230 lbs

As a performing musician my back often hurts badly after a weekend of performing-while-standing or transporting heavy sound equipment. I also suffered a round of sciatic pain at one point. While I addressed the initial problems with official physical therapy sessions and a therapist’s professional traction table which worked wonders, this at-home device has kept me from needing to revisit the physical therapist again. I use it after every performance and whenever I feel the onset of back pain. It works well. While its effects are not as profound as the therapist’s rack, this device works about as well as I could imagine a home device would. Five stars.

Not enough control for a person with chronic back pain, nerve pain and leg weakness

It is the night of the 21st day and I have to say that 21 days ago my back was in so much pain. I couldn't sleep, walk around, work, and many other things without experiencing a small grindy type feeling and a pain sensation in my lower back. I used to hang on a pull-up bar everyday and keep most of the pain at Bay. I own an inversion table, a spine / back thing you lay on, and I used to own this thing that you would push against your legs while lying down that was made of steel and looked like a bicycle handle. Nothing ever worked to where I could say that there wasn't this small sensation in my back. Now I am happy to say that my back pain is gone and I finally have the freedom to sleep throughout the entire night and wake up without any pain whatsoever. A lot of people have only back pain when they're awake and I had it when I was asleep and awake. This pain would cause me to never go into deep sleep and all I would do is just dream and wake up and so I was exhausted all the time. When I was young I landed directly on my coccyx bone and I'm not sure if that is the reason my back hurts so much or why I have had these issues but it sure seems that that was probably it. I never used the wedge that is offered. I would just stretch it about as far as it would go until it was trying to pull me across the floor, in this case a mat, and then I would lay back and point my toes directly towards the ceiling. Sometimes I cross my legs a little bit where my toes are and I would switch in between and then to release the tension to allow fluid to go into the spine I would use both hands to pull on the harness rather than using the cord that is provided. Sometimes I even would help the tension by pushing on the harness towards the door so I would get a stronger pull. When I first bought this thing I did it once or twice a week and it seemed to provide somewhat of a difference but eventually I kind of gave up. When the pain got worse though I decided to look on YouTube to see if I was doing something wrong or if there was a better way to use it and I found out that you can't just do it once or twice a week it's got to be consecutive daily and you have to do the 21 Day challenge to really get the full benefit. This is part of my regimen now so even though the 21 days is up I'm going to continue this because I have never felt this much relief A lot of strength training and weightlifting require a spinal decompression by means of hanging on a pull-up bar and I used to do it all the time but now that I've realized that there's only so far you can get from the pull-up bar, because the hang tenses up specific muscles and prevents you from getting a full stretch, I am going to use this everyday until I have to buy a new one because the bands will give eventually. Thank you for this wonderful product because now I'm able to do the work that I need to do and I can sleep through the night.

Easy to set up! Instant relief. I have 2 herniated disks along with a pinched nerve, this helps SO much. Although the relief is temporary for me, I would still buy it 10x over. The hour or so of not having nerve jolts down my leg is worth every penny. The strap and tension springs are made well, the blow up wedges arent but I suppose the ease of storing is worth it. Overall, I appreciate this home product over having to go to PT several times a week for decompression.

Great concept, good implementation, but TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE.I snapped one of the elastic bands/tubes TWICE. The first time they pointed me to a way to fix it myself, which wasn't too hard, but then THE SAME BAND BROKE AGAIN. When i contacted customer service again they ignored me. I had to seek out surgical tubing to replace their defective parts. They least they could've done was offer me replacement parts, but they IGNORED MY EMAILS. Because of their poor customer service I CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS PRODUCT.

Pulls the pelvis in excessive anterior pelvic tilt, no matter the height or other adjustments.

I had a herniated a disk a couple years ago that eventually (kinda) healed on its own after 6 months but was then left with sciatica pain down my right leg and eventually went to a chiropractor for a few months. During those sessions, they put me on a decompression table followed by a decompression roller table. I eventually got better but was out almost 3k in cost. That was with insurance but with an out of network chiropractor. I then did some research and came across this item and the concept seemed similar to that compression table so I bought it, but stored it away for a rainy day.Fast forward a year and I herniated my disk again (this past January) while doing some squats incorrectly. And if you've ever had that happen, you know how debilitating it is. Well, I remembered buying this item and started using it for 20 minutes a day, and after a month, I was in the gym again. I started doing deadlifts again yesterday.This item doesn't get the praise it deserves. I will be using it for the rest of my life as a preventative exercise. I highly recommend it for everyone.