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- Page 1 ® Designed and made in New Zealand...
- Page 2 Introduction and how to use the Backpod® Introduction: Why you have neck or upper back pain - the iHunch Instructions: How to use the Backpod ® Care of your Backpod ® Warnings and precautions Home care programme One simple muscle stretch...
- Page 3 Backpod for straight or concave thoracic spines ® Backpod for scoliosis ® Backpod for Costochondritis, Tietze’s Syndrome, ‘slipping ribs’ and costovertebral (posterior rib) joints Backpod for chronic asthma, bronchitis; rib pain in pregnancy ® Backpod ®...
- Page 4 Then the muscles along the back of the neck have See the iHUNCH page on the Backpod’s website to work several times harder just to hold the head www.backpod.co.nz. up – and they strain, scar and tighten. This puts a And it’s getting worse.
- Page 5 It contains more pharmacist or acupuncturist; doing Pilates or yoga; detailed information on how the Backpod will ® working out at the gym; etc. The Backpod ® help their particular treatment approach. The its programme will generally help and enhance all Backpod and its programme are highly effective ®...
- Page 6 You can do it with the help of the Backpod ® though. discomfort to start off with. It’s like stretching a Your own body weight provides the force, and the muscle –...
- Page 7 If you think it’s still too sore, just elbows also relax and drop, which will stretch your add some more padding over the Backpod ® chest muscles. Breathe slowly and deeply. Any initial Relax in this position for 30-60 seconds.
- Page 8 It’s a perfect combination - and avoids ongoing repeated manipulations. When you can do a session on the Backpod ® with no pillows and no discomfort you’ve reached your...
- Page 9 BMW over one to test it for Europe and a Jeep Cracks on the inside of the green outer layer are not Cherokee to test it for the USA. The Backpod ® grounds for return of the Backpod ®...
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Page 10: Warnings And Precautions
Backpod . They can get off again ® thing.” if there are problems. Bodystance Ltd is not liable Use of the Backpod ® should be graded with for any damage or injury resulting from non-directed... - Page 11 Backpod ® for this type of spine outlined on page Scheuermann’s Osteochondritis 17 of the Health Practitioner pages: “Backpod ® The Backpod ® may irritate this condition when it straight or concave thoracic spines”. The Backpod ®...
- Page 12 When doing this stretch while sitting, tuck the hand of the dropped arm under your buttock to help keep the shoulder View our instruction video online dropped. at www.bodystance.co.nz/backpod.php...
- Page 13 Two simple strengthening exercises A full gym strengthening programme will do a more ground, and lift your straight arms up so they thorough job of building up the strength you need are just off the ground. Hold that position for five to live your busy life.
- Page 14 - don’t give up. It’s just where you’re starting from and they’ll get stronger - muscles are really View our instruction videos online good at that. Just do the exercise as described in at www.bodystance.co.nz/backpod.php the first paragraph but don’t even try to lift the head...
- Page 15 Posture This is easier than you think. The two exercises in the preceding strengthening section will give you the strength you need to hold your neck in a neutral position so that your joints won’t jam, even when you are bending forward. Posture is the practical daily application of that strength.
- Page 16 Massage - two simple techniques In an ideal world, frequent massage would be muscle scarring than just stretching – like a rolling part of our lives. Failing that, here are the two pin flattening out a chunk of dough into a pancake. massage techniques that are of most use in most Deep tissue massage like this shouldn’t be done neck problems.
- Page 17 Clasp your hands behind your neck, then slide 2 Side lying massage position. them up onto the back of your head, pulling your Patient: lie on your side, with your head dropped hair up and out of the way. Tuck your chin in so sideways (without a pillow if that’s comfortable that the muscles at the back of the neck are gently enough).
- Page 18 See spinal apophyseal (facet) or costovertebral (CV, ® pages 3–5: ‘Instructions: How to use the Backpod ’. posterior rib) joint. Obviously the usual precautions The Backpod ®...
- Page 19 A rolled-up towel or tennis into the range they’re already locked in. There is a ball usually can’t. logical and simple solution – see page 17: ‘Backpod ® In my experience the McKenzie treat-your-own-back for straight or concave thoracic spines’.
- Page 20 These patients can use the Backpod in the lying prone (Maitland PAs) will tend to make this normal way to stretch these posterior rib joints, with...
- Page 21 Schroth method or similar gym approach to muscular thoracic rotation. The patient can produce this same asymmetries, etc. The common statement that 65% of pressure at home by lying back on the Backpod ® with it scoliosis is idiopathic is highly suspect, and probably positioned under the curve of the raised ribs, i.e.
- Page 22 - see pages 3 & 4. This ability to stretch tight and joints also move with any torso movement. frozen posterior rib joints makes the Backpod ideal for treating several conditions: Now, if the posterior rib joints are tight or immobile,...
- Page 23 For a detailed explanation and treatment programme, see the COSTOCHONDRITIS For other conditions using the Backpod to free up tight page on our website www.backpod.co.nz and also our rib cage movement, see chronic asthma (page 21) two YouTube videos “How to Fix (most) Chostochondritis...
- Page 24 This in turn requires full range of As a bonus, the Backpod ® use position is also ideal movement at the costovertebral joints where the ribs for practising deep diaphragmatic (also called hinge onto the spine.
- Page 25 The problem usually responds very well and quickly even though Relaxin hormone release will be to the Backpod used slightly to the sides of the facilitating joint hypermobility throughout the body. spine to stretch free tight posterior rib joints, as...
- Page 26 However, they can help with even halt the progression into flexion. The Backpod ® the musculoskeletal consequences, namely the in particular is ideally designed to gently oppose the characteristic thoracic hunching, muscular rigidity, ongoing flexion contraction.
- Page 27 (CV) and sternocostal (SC) joint down effect on the nerve exit canals, exacerbating capsules required for most procedures is massive. any impingement. The Backpod® used in the usual Normal adhesive fibrotic repair after such surgery way reduces an excessive thoracic kyphosis, thereby...
- Page 28 (SI) joint problem such as table or chair. The Backpod ® is positioned under the can commonly occur after a fall onto the low back sacrum longitudinally and the patient relaxes onto it or coccyx.
- Page 29 Backpod ® or any other technique. These problems are best treated by support muscle strengthening and stabilisation belts. Sacroiliac pain during and after pregnancy common. Usually it is explained as arising from excessively moving (i.e. hypermobile) and strained SI...
- Page 30 ‘upper thoracic syndrome’. In practical terms, treatment is the same as for the vast majority of local thoracic and/or costovertebral problems, so the Backpod ® is ideal here. It can be used by the patient to stretch out the common excessive...
- Page 31 ® The Backpod ® and its programme are intended to problem – the fractured bone. The Backpod ® and its be the most practical and effective home treatment programme are a practical home package designed...
- Page 32 Backpod ® programme (muscle strengthening, between the neck and the shoulder. These fibres stretching, mobilising, posture and the Backpod ® overstrain and scar because they come to provide itself) will almost certainly also be needed.
- Page 33 Given that people aren’t going to stop using higher leverage is necessary to break down the patch the technology, the Backpod ® and its programme of scarring in it.
- Page 34 Backpod for gymnasiums, Pilates and personal trainers ® The Backpod® user guide contains two simple face-down and pull a barbell up to the underside of the muscle strengthening exercises. These are highly bench, is particularly accurate for this whole group of useful, but cannot be as effective as a comprehensive muscles.
- Page 35 About us Contact us The Backpod is a product from Bodystance Ltd, a New Zealand ® Manufacturer: company bringing practical innovations and solutions to Bodystance Ltd very-large-number musculoskeletal problems worldwide. The Studio 9 Backpod ® and its programme were developed and tested in...
- Page 36 See pages 3-5 inside for more detailed user instructions Do read the more detailed instructions in this user guide, or view them as videos from the HOW TO USE QR code, or on our website www.backpod.co.nz...
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