Your spine has four different regions: the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral. All of these regions follow a natural S-curve. Most back pain is felt in both the thoracic and lumbar region. The thoracic spine, which is your upper back, curves outward and helps with mobility while distressing other parts of the spine. It helps with holding your body upright as well as protecting vital organs and stabilizing your body. The lumbar spine, your lower back, is the most flexible part of your spine helping you with twisting and bending. It supports most of the upper body weight and helps give you power.

Most often backaches are caused by myofascial pain, which is a muscle irritation/overuse of the muscles supporting the spine. Activities that cause you to bend over; such as picking up after children, heavy lifting, slouching at a desk or intense physical activity, can increase the amount of stress in both regions of your back.

The Plexus Wheel is specifically designed to target both the thoracic and lumbar regions.

When you have poor posture, you bend your thoracic spine in the opposite direction of its natural curve. This causes pressure to increase in joints and muscles throughout your body because of the physical stresses of day-to-day life. Many who have experienced upper back pain have also reported that they have an increase of headaches. Your body is interconnected and finding the cause of the pain is essential to solving it.

The Plexus Wheel is designed to follow and fit the natural curves of your spine and correct what you have mistakenly been doing all day. The curvature of the wheel is able to follow the natural curvature of your back and resurrect the healthy S-curve shape. The width and diameter of the wheel are specifically made to fit in between your shoulder blades and allow a deep-enough stretch to create the curve as you roll-out. A stronger curve means a stronger and more mobile upper back.

Lower back pain results mostly from muscle strain and seems to feel worse in the morning and evening. Either from sleeping in positions that put an increased amount of stress on your lumbar, or doing activities throughout the day that don’t seem to give your back the break it needs. Health practitioners have repeatedly emphasized that stretching, exercise and correcting posture will not only help reduce lower back pain, but could also potentially terminate the aches. We have met with and talked to more than 30 chiropractors and physical therapists who say that stretching and exercising with the Plexus Wheel every day for only five minutes can help reduce lower back pain. The muscles around the lumbar spine start to form muscle memory with daily stretching helping pain already there and lessen the chances of further injury.

We hear this question again and again and have found that the Plexus Wheel helps reduce pain caused by either a degenerative or herniated disc. Although both are very different, strengthening the muscles around the spine support the discs which relieve stress in that area.

The Plexus Wheel helps re-create movement, increases flexibility and helps rehabilitate your back. Because of the Plexus Wheel’s compression-sensitive mat and rigid core, it is both soft and solid enough to help in the treatment process of those problem areas.

With the Plexus Wheel you can help shape your daily habits and start living without back pain. In the words of Bill Nye the science guy, “Science Rules!”