The Backpod how to use it correctly without pain

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Available on Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/Backpod-Treatm...) • All you have to do is grade the stretch on the Backpod so it’s mild, and give it time to work. • • The Backpod should not feel too hard to use, or too sore to lie on. Almost the only problems we’ve had have been from people not following the instructions. These are on pages 3-5 of the user guide. The user guide is also in pdf form down the bottom of the Backpod page on its website - link is https://www.bodystance.co.nz/en/backpod/ • • Just lying back on the Backpod uses your own upper body weight to give a really effective stretch of tight joints in your thoracic spine and rib cage. When these are moving fine, then all you feel is a satisfying stretch. • • But if they’re tight or frozen solid, and you try to stretch them too much in one go, then they’ll hurt. It’s like if your hamstrings are so tight you can’t touch your knees - if you try and force down to your toes in one hit then sure it’ll hurt. All you do is a mild stretch daily and you get there in a few weeks. • • Same with the Backpod. So don’t try to run before you can walk. Just start with a mild stretch on the Backpod, and expect it to take a few weeks for things to free up mostly. You completely control it - just grade the stretch so it starts out feeling a bit uncomfortable. • • The Backpod is a real treatment device, not a magic gimmick - you do have to feel something or it wouldn’t be doing anything. This initial mild discomfort usually eases off over a minute or so as things stretch - just like it would on holding a hamstring stretch. • • So start off with using pillows under your head, and even layers of fluffy towel over the Backpod, or on a bed rather than a floor - whatever it takes so the stretch isn’t hard enough to be painful. It’ll get easier! Usually it takes about three weeks for the joints to stretch mostly free, though of course this varies. Do read the instructions on pages 3-5. • TREATMENT TENDERNESS: Certainly you can sometimes feel a bit of treatment tenderness, especially over the first few days of using the Backpod. This is entirely normal, and not harmful. Of course if you’re effectively stretching stuff that’s been tight for months or years, then you can feel it a bit afterwards - just like you would after a gym session for the first time in ages. It generally eases off as things free up, usually after the first few days. • MASSAGE AS WELL: If your spine and rib joints are tight, then usually the muscles over the top of them will be tight and a bit scarred also. This can make lying on the Backpod more tender. It’ll usually pass in a few days anyway, but massage is the best way of teasing the tight muscle fibres back to full springy flexibility. Shout yourself a sports massage, or talk someone into doing the massages on pages 13 -14 of the Backpod’s user guide on you. • PAIN AROUND THE FRONT: If the nerves round your rib joints on your breastbone are bound down and tethered by old scarring, then they can get tugged on and sore as the tight rib hinges round your back start to free up on the Backpod. This scarring tethering happens after old chest impacts, old hardened swelling from costochondritis and Tietze’s Syndrome, and most chest surgery. • Don’t stop using the Backpod - just free up the tethering on your chest as well. This is like working hard putty or play dough or cold pastry dough until it becomes malleable. • Use something to let your fingers slide, like massage wax or oil, Voltaren (diclofenac) anti-inflammatory gel or CBD cream like Penetrex. Spend about 10-15 minutes every three or four days working your fingers through the hardened bits in all directions. Start gently - it’ll get easier as you continue. It will be initially tender and probably sore - it gets easier as it frees up. The first time is the worst. Just do what it feels like it can handle, and expect to feel it tender, especially to touch, afterwards. • PERSISTING PAIN: There are very few contraindications to using the Backpod, and they’re all sensible. Read the ‘Warnings and precautions’ on pages 7-8 of the user guide. All the Backpod’s doing is providing a stretch, graded so it’s mild, and entirely under your own control. Obviously don’t use the Backpod with wounds or skin lesions, or suspicion of a fracture, or with fragile bones from osteoporosis, etc. • A few people have straight or hollowed middle backs, and the Backpod used in the usual way won’t help these - see page 8 in the user guide; there is another way of using it for them. • Do of course see your doctor if any pain is severe or persists longer than a day or two, or you're unsure about anything. However, for almost all people, the Backpod used correctly is an effective way to quietly free up and keep free any tight, hunched thoracic spine and tight rib cage. Stick with it, and give it time to work. • Steve August (B.A.,Dip.Physio.).

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