Eileen Durfee: This is the Back Trac. It's different than other foam rollers because of the density. It's made out of foam. It's flexible, and it has a special groove in it. A lot of the other rolls are painful. They do myofascial release, but this has got a different purpose. On spine, the vertebrae have a spinous. And this groove allows that spinous to float, it doesn't crunch it or push it. But the edges, this is called the transverse process, it catches those. So, it's like a train on a train track, you will hear your back pop and crack. And you pretty much lay down and you can see for the top view of how these bones are catching the edge, and you're just gonna roll it. And you can even roll clear up in your shoulder blades, you know as far as you can go because the groove accommodates all sizes of your vertebrae in your back. And that just every one of these joints has some stretch to it. And then your nerves come out of a sheath called a meninge and those can get pinched.
So, when you run on this thing, it is flexing and stretching every joint and allowing nerve impulses to go out these meninges besides working out tightness, and alignment issues. And these come in two different densities. This is the medium, and then we have a hard. And what that does is, if you're injured and have pain in your back, you would want to start with this in rolling and then work up to the harder one. And there's people that are muscular, athletic. They're going to need the harder one because you know, some people's joints stretch and pop easily and the other ones don't. So, if you're really, really tight, you're going to need this as well until we can start giving some flex and flexibility into your spine. But this is called the Back Trac and it's something that you can clean off because it's got a smooth surface. And you can use it multiple times a day or before you exercise or afterwards.
