| Body Back Buddy | 
| Brand: Body Back Company
Category: Health and Beauty
List Price: $39.95
Buy New: $23.50
as of 7/30/2010 19:35 CDT details
You Save: $16.45 (41%)
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Rating:  136 reviews
Sales Rank: 281
Color: Blue
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 27 x 2 x 17
MPN: bbb1
Model: 10100000003
UPC: 827912060447
EAN: 0827912060447
ASIN: B0006VJ6TO
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Can be used effectively over the entire body to treat aches, pains, and sore muscles | | • | Alleviates pain and stress due to fibromyalgia and other chronic muscle conditions | | • | Apply pressure to trigger points, and along the spine | | • | Deep, powerful and strong pressure, that you control | | • | Comes with a free 12 page instruction booklet |
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Product Description
Body Back Buddy This popular design reflects years of feedback from massage therapists, chiropractors, and physical therapists. With 11 therapy knobs, the Body Back Buddy stimulates in between muscles and pinpoints trigger points for a more finely-tuned treatment. Engineered to be lightweight, strong and easy to use. Combines the best of the Body Back Buddy features for those who want the ultimate self massage tool. Overall length is 25 . Comes with a free 12 page instruction booklet. Directions: Hook the Body Back Buddy massage tool over your shoulder or around your side to treat hard to reach areas of the back, neck and shoulders. Hold it comfortably by the handles or the frame so that the therapy knob touches the affected muscle. Push away from your body with your lower or outside hand while guiding the therapy knob with the upper or inside hand. This leveraging technique creates self-directed pressure to the targeted muscle. You can also use the Body Back Buddy to apply healing pressure to many other parts of the body such as your legs, arms, feet, chest and hips. Its versatility allows you to approach each muscle from many angles in creative ways. Since there are hundreds of ways to use the Body Back Buddy, take a moment to experiment and find out what works best for you. Use it standing, sitting, lying down or with a partner. Place the therapy knob on the sore muscle (trigger point) and apply what you consider to be a comfortable amount of pressure. When this muscle compression is released it stimulates a therapeutic response. Pressure preferences vary from one person to another deep and intense or gentle and relaxing. However, only apply as much pressure as you feel comfortable with. More pressure is not necessarily better! Ten to thirty seconds is normally enough time to elicit a therapeutic response in the muscle. Applying too much pressure for too long causes the body to treat the pressure as an intrusion. For maximum results return to the treated area
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 136
 Great for self-massage but... July 23, 2010
book worm 834 (my home)
Eventually you get tired of it. I used it like mad for about 2 weeks and then it became one more item cluttering my home. Get it only if you are disciplined enough.
 Really works to get rid of pain from tight muscles! July 16, 2010
Claudette Barjoud (Los Angeles, CA)
Back buddy is definitely my new buddy!
It can reach all the places that are hard to get on your own
without a massage therapist. Whomever invented this is a genius!
The different shaped nobs (one more round, one more pointed)
are really great and can totally relieve painful trigger points.
So glad I found this!
 I learned about this from a physician and it is very helpful. July 9, 2010
Trillum (Portland OR)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have fibromyalgia and some times the muscles get so tight and this Body Back Buddy can come in real handy. I actually was told about another more simple version of this made by another manufacturer but the more I researched this on Amazon.com I discovered this more versatile Body Back Buddy.
I went to a specialist and she told me about this type of thing and I had never even heard of such a thing before.
It really does help you reach areas that are hard to get at by yourself and allows you to use different ways to apply pressure to muscles. With this you can more easily leverage more pressure by hooking the unit over your shoulder and then pushing the other end away from your body. I think it is pretty ingenious really.
Well worth investing in to help your DIY message or deep tissue massage in hard to reach areas without wearing yourself out. It was designed with the help of chiropractors who wanted more ways to utilize these plastic S bars.
They give you some ideas how to use this effectively. But really the more you experiment with it the more ways you will figure out how to use it for your specific problem muscle areas.
Great for Trigger Point Pain July 6, 2010
flowerfaire (California USA)
I have knots in my neck, upper back and scapula area that I just can't get rid off and bought this after reading an article about trigger points...muscles that have been in spasm so long they form knots. I've been diagnosed with myofascial pain syndrome and use this every evening or morning after taking a hot bath and it helps to relive the pain temporarily. I have just begun medical treatment and I need other care to deal with the knots, but the Back Buddy has been a great adjunct.
EXCELLENT PRODUCT July 4, 2010
Magda Dream (Upstate NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This looks like an instrument of torture BUT it's an instrument of well being. Last year, I purchased a book on Acupressure Points. It suggests laying on tennis balls to reach important points in the back. HA HA HA!! RIGHT!
The Back Buddy is designed to reach vital acupressure points on the back. You determine the intensity of the pressure.
I have a large bone structure so I was very happy to read another review on the less expensive Back Buddy. A PETITE lady said it was perfect for her. If you're not petite - this one is perfect.
No more uncomfortable knots in my back, shoulders or hamstrings.
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