SS The Backpod - Premium Treatment for Neck, Upper Back and hunching  (Green)

The iHunch and how to get out of it Much hunching causes a consistent set of problems. So from 30 years of manual physiotherapy expertise in New Zealand we’ve built a simple home package which counters each one. It’s this collection that works - not just one single approach on its own. So the Backpod’s simple home program includes: the two muscle strengthening exercises needed to stop your shoulders hunching forward and your chin poking out two easy massage techniques to loosen up the tight scarred muscles the best single daily stretch for your neck muscles the simple posture understanding needed the international award-winning Backpod itself, to effectively stretch a tight, hunched upper back. The huge recent driver of neck and upper back pain and headache is hunching over laptops, tablets and smartphones. But the Backpod suits any hunching problem, so it’s also ideal for dentists, chefs, surgeons, hairdressers, cyclists, bank tellers, musicians, nursing mothers, tall adolescents, and anyone else getting stooped. Look around you.. Watch someone look up at the ceiling. If their hunched upper back does not move at all, then it has become too tight for just stretching, strengthening or posture exercises alone to free it. You have to use a specific, localised, sustained stretch - which is exactly what the Backpod is built for. Costochondritis and Tietze’s Syndrome explained Here’s what causes most costo. Think of your ribs like bucket handles, hinged at the front (onto the breastbone) and at the back (onto your backbone). The ribs lift up and down as you breathe and move. If the rib joints at the back are frozen solid and not moving, then the more delicate joints where the ribs hinge onto your breastbone HAVE to work excessively, every breath you take. So they strain, get irritated, then get inflamed - and there’s your costochondritis. If they’re inflamed enough to show obvious swelling then it’s called Tietze’s Syndrome. So the core of fixing costo and Tietze’s is freeing up the frozen rib joints at the back. Lying back on the Backpod, with it positioned slightly to the side of the spine over the curve of the ribs, uses your own upper body weight to quietly stretch them free. All the other treatment approaches may help the pain a bit, but this New Zealand physiotherapy understanding makes sense of how to actually fix it - which isn’t difficult. Of course costochondritis is not a mystery and of course it’s fixable. Read the reviews. Important - any acute chest pain should always be seen first (and urgently) by a doctor or Emergency Department in case it’s your heart. Cheeringly, up to half of acute chest pain isn’t the heart or anything else dire. Slipping Rib Syndrome is like costochondritis, except that the excessive straining movement and pain happens at the side of the ribs, where they change from bone into cartilage at the costochondral junctions. The same treatment approach applies - free up the tight rib joints round the back which are the reason for the excessive movement at the side. The Backpod is particularly effective at this. Rib pain in pregnancy is quite common part way through, as the baby bulge gets bigger. The rib cage needs to expand to accommodate it, and if the rib joints around the back are too tight then it can’t. The pain can be felt at the rib joints on the backbone or on the breastbone. Lying back on the Backpod is a gentle way of stretching the tight rib hinges free. Asthma and other chronic respiratory conditions aren’t just about the lungs. Regardless of the state of the lungs, you can’t fill them fully if you can’t expand the rib cage fully, and you can’t do that if the rib joints around the back are tight. The Backpod is particularly effective at stretching these rib joints. Ankylosing Spondylitis is a rheumatoid condition that, over time, pushes your upper back towards an extreme hunch. The Backpod is the perfect home package to oppose this, especially in the earlier stages before the hunch becomes too extreme. Scoliosis - The Backpod can be used slightly to the side of the spine to strongly oppose the middle back twist in mild scoliosis. Scheuermann’s Disease is a spinal inflammation associated with hunching, especially in adolescents. The Backpod and its programme are designed specifically to counter this hunching. Athletic performance - regardless of how fit or strong you are, you’ll perform better again if your lungs can take in more air. This is often limited by a tight rib cage, especially after much bending over computers and smartphones. The Backpod is particularly effective at stretching free tight rib cage joints. These also restrict thoracic rotation, so freeing them up lets your torso twist further and more easily. This means you can hit a ball further in golf, baseball, cricket, tennis and squash, and swim and run more easily.