Lumbar Extender Back Stretcher

first of all im 21 years old and im a pretty athletic person. But there are still things i do that puts soem stress on my spine. so take a moment and read about soem things that happens to me and how i use Lumber Extender adn Spine-Worx.I put these two things on my bed [beside me, (not like lying on it all night) i have a bigger bed than i need]. when i wake up in the morning i start using these thing becasue thats when your bones are looser and muscles are more relaxe so theres not tension. i cant tell you some obvious change but i do feel more confortable about my spine. i went to spine doctor couple of times because my mid-bak was uncomfortable (from sitting in front of the piano and computer quite often). he said my back was too straight for leaning forward too much. soemtimes i got this really unconfortable feelings on my back knowing that the mid section is pushing and sticking out a bit. but after using this thing, i got a lot less back problmes the more i use it. i do think that this does help me.i also bought "Spine-Worx Back Realigment Devise" and i like it too. i used to turn to my sides, left and right, to stretch and crack my back and always make noises and have soething crack and snap into place wheni do that. but after using the Lumber Extender and Spine-Worx combination together, my back doenst make as much cracks anymore because it just feels more in place. The material is great! very confortable rubber against yoru back. i suggest wearing less so you can really feel the track and line up your spine The only improvement that i want to suggest to Spine-Worx is that it lacks curve. its not pronounced enough. Sometiems i have extended use of my right hand more, and vise versa. And my upper back just right under teh neck goes a littel out of place because it just feels like it does (by the way many ppls upper back goes out of place, but tehy just dont know. and it can happen simples just by using one hand more than another. For example such as piano, martial art, or extended mouse use on a computer). And i know this because at first i didnt know, but i went to a doctor and he corrected it for me. then whenever i feel that i knwo its my upper-back. Spine-Work and Lumber Extender fix the mid and lower sections of my back pretty well. Lumber Extender condition the curvature and Spine-Worx fixes the allignment. However Lumber Extender was originally designed for lower back, so it has done its job. But Spine-Works runs all along the spine, yet it does not have aggressive enough of a curve, it doenst quite do anything for my upper back (the area between the shoulder blades) simples because it cant get to it. i like both of them but i just wish they Spine-Worx could make some improvements. the only reason that i think they dont exaggerat the curvature is because they intend to make it "on size fit all."

This is a great stretching aid and I feel that it has really helped me. I use it for a couple minutes at night while watching TV, and it seems to be making a difference in terms of releasing any knots or kinks in my lower back muscles. Well made and seems to work for its intended purpose. I'm happy with this purchase.

The item i received was packed in an open box. The stretcher looks like it was already used with some dust on it. Operation and functionality wise, I'm a petite person, this item doesn't fit or contour well to the shape of my back very well. It's also very hard to adjust the stretcher's setting b/c it's so hard to bend and to place the adjuster in the correct setting. I always ended up getting my fingers pinched and squeezed. I feel bad about returning it, so I never contacted the seller and now it's just sitting there under my computer table collecting dusts. It's a great door stopper though.

I'm still cursing myself for not listening to my teachers/parents/everyone when they kept saying; "Don't sit like that, you will get back problems when you become older."Did I say I didn't listen to them? I ended up with back problems of course.Read the reviews for the lumbar extender and figured I should give it a go. Unfortunately it doesn't help me at all. I'm not sure if it's because I don't have the exact back problem that this will fix, or if it's my body that's just not made for this extender, but no matter how much I use it, my back problems won't go away (or become less annoying for that matter).I still use it though, since it is rather soothing and nice, and it might help me prevent some other future back problems for all I know, so I won't give it a bad review, but I can't give it a great review either, since it really isn't helping me.

After reading "Mr. Fix-it's" review below, I thought he must have done something wrong. However, after spending two weeks at the easiest bend (the first level), I decided to move the plastic board up one notch to the medium (second) level. BIG mistake.Somehow my back became injured from this thing as now I get a "shooting pain" down my spine any time I move wrong or stand up! It's so bad it makes me wince and yelp outloud in pain. Yesterday a little kid tried to jump on my back (I teach kids) and he had no idea how badly it hurt (I lift weights so I'm pretty solid, but I haven't been able to lift much of anything since this spine injury.I hope it heals soon. Yep, while I started off loving this thing, and it seems hard to believe just looking at it, it can definitely cause problems. Probably if I had to do over I would just have kept it on level one.-MichaelCaution!!! May cause injury., January 31, 2007By Serge Kavetsky "Mr. Fix-it"I was happily using this product on a daily basis for about three months and noticed that I started getting a pain in the middle of my back. After consulting my chiropractor, he told me that I had pushed one of my thoracic vertebra out of position. It has actualy been pushed inward. Now I have to kick my feet over my head daily to try to move it back into position. I have a smaller frame than most and for me, this piece of equipment hits right in the middle of my back. It would be nice if this product had a smaller size to just do the lower lumbar region. So although it feels great to use this product, only use it on your lower back and use it with extreme caution.