Todd: Hey everybody, today I want to talk about the Creatrix Solutions Back Trac foam rollers. So, for the past 10 years, I've had the opportunity to test out and try to use and benefit from many different types of foam rollers. If for any of the CrossFit people, you definitely remember the PVC pipes that they use, which are just really rock solid, kind of crunch your bones and don't feel good and aren't really good for you. And then you have the ones that other companies will sell that are actually like a foam roller that tends to be too soft and nothing perfect in the middle. Something like the Chirp Wheel, which I've tried, also, which can almost make you fall off and really hurt your back. So, I've been really excited that I've gotten to test these guys out. And so far, these are my favorite by far. And I'm gonna go over just a little bit of why I like these. And why I think that you would benefit to these compared to any other type of foam roller.
So first off, there's two different densities, which is great. So, you can figure out which one you think you would need to utilize and benefit from. So, I'm gonna start off first with the orange one. The orange one’s density is nice, it's a little softer. It's not too soft, which is great. So, it's soft enough, for example, if you have like an injury, a rib or something that is out, this is what you want to start with and build up. So, the maroon one has the – it is the most dense. And again, it's solid, it gets the job done. But it's not so hard like the CrossFit foam - PVC pipes, you know, where you're actually crunching things and they don't feel good.
So, this has a little gib, but it's just so that things aren't painful for you. So, this is something good for like maintenance and preventative injuries would be that. So, I'm gonna kind of go into like the things that make this a little different that I think everyone can appreciate and utilize. So, the key takeaway with these is this awesome little notch right here. So, if you see the notch, the notch, any other foam roller you get, it's going to be just flat. It's gonna go across our back. And if you think about like having a hard piece of plastic, and it being solid, and you're rolling your back on it, which is not even and the crunching and the sharp points that hit like that's not good for you, nor is it comfortable.
So, this little notch is basically set perfectly for your transverse process, which is right where your back is and you have the bones coming out. So that fits into right there, which kind of with that little canyon in the notch right there allows for everything to kind of stretch out so you get the vertebrae joint, pushes in, spreads out kind of increasing the nerve pulses into the meninges. So that's very beneficial that you're not going to find with anything else. What I'm going to do is show the example of how to use this so that you can feel the best as well.
Okay, so now I'm going to show you how to properly use this so you can get the most benefit. What you want to do is, you're going to lay down and you want to have the backtrack. You want to start it in the middle of your back and you'll be able to roll it down and adjust it accordingly. You need to have your feet flat, knees bent like this so it's going to come in. And when she does this, she's going to roll all the way to the thoracic all the way down to the bottom and she's going to move back and forth just a few times here and allow us to realign the joints and bones as well.