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Show Dmn Wiwptol to BARRY KAWA Review Staff When you are positioned in an inverse exercise machine, you cant help but hum the Diana Ross hit song Upside Down." The popular machine is a item at sporting goods shops across the country and is unusual in the different outlook on life it gives the user. Available on the exercise market the last two years, two types of inverse devices have been developed. The less expensive clip-o- n boots attach to a bar that can be hung in a doorway. And a relatively expensive inverse machine 0 retailing for about tilts to different degrees of inclination., It relieves pressure from your spine, says Larry Tucker, assistant manager of Wolfes in Lay-to- n Hills Mall. When youre standing, all that pressure is on your spine and when you reverse that, it allows blood to circulate better and its going to relieve any back problems you have. Im not saying it will cure all back problems, but it helps. Tucker says the new inverse machine swings to four different degrees of inclination and will permit the user to be less than completely upside down. How-- . ever, the less expensive boots and bar requires the person to awkwardly place his feet up to the bar, attach them and hang with his head near the ground. You wouldnt want to lay there all day because blood rushes to your head, said Tucker. Obviously, you know when ' youve had enough. Tucker' says the equipment is an excellent seller is his exercise department and he can usually sell all the store stocks. The buyer of the equipment is mostly in 5 the age group, he says. It really works and is not just a gimmick, Tucker said. All gimmicks hit hard for a while then quit. But this thing stays topsy-t- urvy hot-selli- ng $250-$30- Lakeside Review North, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1983 to steady all the time. Dr. Dale J. Bennett, a Layton chiropractor, recommends the machine to some of his patients after a complete check-u- p and relief of any back pain. The main reason they use inversion therapy is the effect of gravity because theyre standing on their feet all day and its pulling down on the body in one direction, he says. Somebody had the bright idea if you turn the patient upside down and let him hang the other way then meybe you could .counter the effects of them standing on their feet all day. Bennett said ' persons with backache definitely should not run but and purchase one of these machines but should go to a back specialist first. I would recommend a patient ' who has back complaints to get a complete evaluation from a good competent chiropractor, he said. At that point and time, the chiropractor will recommend or not recommend a specific therapy which might be inversion therapy. For just anybody to go buy it and hang upside down could complicate the matter and they might have an un. cardiovascular derlying condition. Physical therapist Nordell Peterson of the Clearfield Convalescent Center said the pro- gram in therapy circles is referred to as gravity lumbar reduction. He compared the use of the machines in his line of work to a carpenter and his ability to get by without certain tools. The cost of one of those Peterson teaches patients spethings is about $300 which I think is quite a bit," he says. cial exercises in which the legs Theyre probably pretty good hang limply and all weight is because they allow some traction placed on the hands. He claims which is a good thing but theyre these exercises take pressure off just a bit of a gimmick. If you the back and patients derive as can do something which does many benefits as hanging upside the same thing and not spend down. The center also has a intermittent pelvic traction mathe $300 and is a bit more practical as time goes, then I think chine which is attached to the patient and takes pressure off youre better off. 30-6- the therapist will then put the patient on a program of proper lifting and body mechanics, proper resting positions and a good exercise program. Council Denies Reimbursement RUTH MALAN Reveiw Correspondent , FRUIT HEIGHTS t- -' Complaints from Dean Carlson of 1800 E., Fruit Heights, were heard by the City Council last week, but Carlsons request to be reimbursed for funds expended in locating a sewer line on his property were denied. During construction of his home on 1800. E., $405 were paid for locating a sewer stub that was not marked on the city -- . map. As residents we have problems with water, road and sewer. Im upset with the way things are set up there, complained Carlson. ; Several runs which come from East Oaks are not on the map. easement beThere is a tween the lots. A $3,000 fee for a building permit was paid by i Carlson. The cost goes on and on and gets frustrating. I buy an improved lot, a permit and then ' Brand. 20-fo- ot v Who repairs it if there is a problem? asked Brand. The property owner, answered Phillips. there are more expenses, Carlson. Did they have a stake on the sewer line? asked Mayor Dean ; We had located the sewer all the way down the street but not ton my lot. I cant afford to put out that kind of money, said Carlson. If it had been properly marked by the city we wouldnt . have had the problem. According to acting City Manager Ray Phillips, the .line had no stake. The only stake in place on the property line was north of the sewer. The street in front of the prop- erty is a dedicated street but the sewer line in not dedicated, said Phillips.- - Phillips spent time helping to locate the sewer stub. . 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