"Floatation therapy eased my backaches!" Glancing at her calendar, Karen Pichkhadze groaned. Not another day of open-house appointments, she thought. All that driving is going to kill my back. For as long as she could remember, Karen had grappled with upper-back pain. "I always brushed it off, but when I started working as a  realtor,

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1980 marked the film debut of Altered States, a science fiction movie that took liberal creative license with the man who invented the floatation tank (aka sensory deprivation tank), John Lilly. Altered States wasn’t a cinematic masterpiece, but it excelled at sparking interest in the strange water box that the main character Eddie Jessup (played

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I’ve written this article for the benefit of the millions of people who suffer back pain, muscle pain, fibromyalgia, arthritis and other types of joint or muscle pain. Back in 2001, I had a dramatic recovery from debilitating sciatic pain thanks to floatation therapy. This pain caused by a pinched nerve in my lower back

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How would you like to visit a spa where you’re greeted by an attractive woman who leads you down to a glowing cavern-like room where a pyramid-shaped zero gravity bath big enough for two awaits you? Yeah, me too!