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Backlife and Lower Back Pain
The world's first clinically tested home device to treat back pain.
Backlife is the first consumer device to use CPM (Continuous Passive Movement) an approach developed and approved by back pain specialists, to treat back pain.
Endorsed by leading orthopedic physicians and back care experts, Backlife combines the basics of the most effective physiotherapies for relieving pain in the lower back, in the comfort of your home.
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- Reduces back pain.
- Reduces stress.
- Restores back mobility.
- Reduces muscle tension.
The Backlife Idea
Backlife operates on the familiar principle of CPM (Continuous Passive Movement), which is a method of treatment performed while the patient is in a state of total relaxation.
Backlife is the first home based device to apply the CPM technique for the treatment of lower back pain.
The device performs a gentle and repeated circular motion, which moves the vertebrae of the lower back and the pelvic area.
What does CPM movement achieve?
- It reduces the natural aversion to movement of the painful pelvic area usually experienced by patients.
- It gently releases intervertebral pressure and increases the space between vertebrae.
- It levels the hip arch (straightens the curvature of the lower back).
- It increases metabolism in the area and enhances blood flow.
- It enables the passage of oxygen and nutritional material while speeding up disposal of waste products.
Why is Backlife effective?
What are the results of using Backlife?
- reduces the stress and pressure on the lower back.
- restores back mobility and improves stability.
- reduces back pain with regular use.
- improves posture.
- reduces muscle tension.
The Inventor
Backlife was founded in 1999 with the intention of providing a readily available and effective solution to back pain.
Backlife began, with the development of an invention, an invention of which we now wonder how we could ever have managed without. The story began with a father who suffered from terrible back pain that interfered with his normal daily functioning and with a son who could not remain indifferent. It ended with the development of the first professional device of its type in the entire world, for the treatment of back problems.
Its initiator, Ori Elan, identified this need in his father who required continuous daily therapy. While both observing and taking an active part in his father’s treatment, he developed the concept of replacing some of the therapy by a mechanical device. A presentation of the concept and the first proto-type of the device won an enthusiastic response from professionals and resulted in the founding of the company and the formation of a multi-disciplinary development team.
The company’s flagship product was registered as a patent in 1998, and in 2002 was registered with the FDA (The USA Federal Drugs Administration). Marketing in Israel began at the end of 2002 and during 2003 Backlife will be launched in additional markets in Europe, Japan, Korea and N. America. The company will continue to design and develop professional devices and accessories.
Its development was achieved by the combined inputs of professional teams, including some of the most senior orthopedic, physiotherapist and back treatment practitioners in Israel and the world and is considered a breakthrough in the field of back pain therapy.
Backlife has been tried and tested
Research and professional development of Backlife took three years and was closely supported by the professional direction of senior physicians and physiotherapists at health centers in both Israel and the U.S.A.
Over the past three years Backlife has conducted several research programs and observations with approximately 330 patients in Israel and elsewhere. They were conducted under the direction of; Dr Yigal Mirovsky - Director of the Spine Department at the Assaf Ha’rofe Hospital and supervised by Professor Nachum Halperin - Director of the hospital’s Orthopedic Department, Dr Reuven Gapstein - Director of the Spine Department at Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, Dr Steven Lamm, Senior Manager of the Medical Department at New York University (NYU) and Roi Ramot, the company’s chief physiotherapist and holder of an MA in Anatomy and Anthropology from Tel Aviv University.
The results of research in both Israel and the U.S.A. point to Backlife’s safety and effectiveness in reducing the sensation of stress and pressure, in restoring mobility and improving stability and, with regular use, reducing the intensity of pain.
For further information regarding research and professional endorsements from Doctors, Osteopaths, Chiropractors and other back professionals click here
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A typical testimonial...
Dear Sir
I am 44 years old. I have been suffering from severe pain in my lower back and pelvic area for several years, pain that has been continuously increasing. Various therapies (physiotherapy, acupuncture, reiki, shiatzu, tuina etc) only gave me slight respite from the pain and my quality of life continued to decline. Every afternoon I would return home from work suffering from terrible pain (especially in the area of vertebra L3) and fearing that should I make one bad move my back would seize up. I would spend the rest of the evening on the sofa attempting various stretching movements and exercises in an effort to ease the pain. Occasionally with success, but recently with almost none.
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...Several days later I returned home at 22:00hrs in severe pain. I lay down on my bed and after a few minutes discovered that I was unable to change my position or even move an inch. Every movement caused a severe stab of pain in the region of vertebra L3. Only after four and a half hours, at 02:30hrs, did my back calm down a little and I was able to change my position and sleep for a few hours.
I ordered the Backlife device which I received on 1.5.03. After several hours of use I discovered to my great pleasure that the pain had considerably reduced. After a few more sessions I discovered that my body was “celebrating” – the pain had almost completely disappeared (for the first time in several months), my range of motion had greatly increased and I was suddenly able to perform movements that I had been afraid that I would never be able to make again. The back and pelvic pain that I had become accustomed to suffering at the end of each day had become considerably more moderate and occasionally even totally disappeared for days. Life has begun to look up.
As a person who had become accustomed, unwillingly, to live with severe pain around the clock, to “think twice” about every movement involving the back or pelvic area and to fear making too many moves, the change has been dramatic and my quality of life has improved immensely.
Several days after purchasing the appliance I began to talk about your wonder machine and to recommend it heartily to my family, friends, acquaintances and the physiotherapy clinic on my kibbutz. My father also tested the appliance and returned to me the next day, smiling, for another session, claiming that his back pains had greatly reduced.
I would like to thank you personally for your marvelous invention and hope that my letter reaches you.
With thanks and warm wishes
Talia Gluska
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