Please note that I have no relationship with the products or services I describe here. I developed this site partly to encourage me to put more effort into fixing my own back, but also to inspire others to go take control of their own back care.

Hopefully you may find some of the ideas here useful, and maybe can discuss them with your doctor.

If you find mylowerbackpain.com useful, please add a link to it from your website or blog.

Thanks, Steve.

Backfriend is great!

by Ilana
(Netherlands)

I am a 37 y.o. petite woman, who ran into the Backfriend 10 years ago. I was driving every day 1h each way to work, and using the clutch aggrivated my lowerback - the seating of the car wasn"t firm enough to support the tilt and pressure of my pelvis against my lowerback as I pushed and held in the clutch pedal with my left foot.

Anyway, I started to suffer from really horrible backpain in the range of 2 weeks (could"t stand, sit or lie down without being in pain). Then I found the Backfriend at a health-body store, and paid really good money for it (200,- guilders, which is Euro 90,-). I was desperate and was willing to spend whatever was needed.

I immediately started to feel improvement and within a few days my backpain deminished and was gone within a few weeks. I was extremely relieved!

A while later I decided to instead of buying a new chair for my desktop computer, to just buy another Backfriend and have been using one for computer work ever since. This is 10 years ago now!

About a few months after that I heard my mother complain of being uncomfortable in her comfy-chair at home for watching tv and reading. I immediately went out and grabbed the Backfriend out of my car and plumped it down in her chair, and said: try this. She loved it! And ordered her own.

She now uses one in her car and one in her comfy-chair. And she has just ordered her 4rth one I believe. She likes the different colours they come in these days. 10 years ago, there was only the grey one.

I am about to order another one to use at my boyfriend"s desktop computer, and just wanted to let people know how comfortable and no-fuss these things are. And in the long run much cheaper and infinitely more comfortable than fysiotherapy!!!!