Original Backpod – Developed by professional physiotherapists and manufactured in New Zealand; it was designed to offer precise relief and promote better posture, providing a reliable solution for those seeking comfort and mobility.
Effective Treatment – Recommended by healthcare professionals; it has been clinically proven to alleviate conditions such as Costochondritis and Tietze’s Syndrome, and various thoracic upper spine issues, offering tangible relief and improved mobility for users
Alleviate i-hunch – With its ergonomic design, it targets the strains caused by prolonged device usage, gently realigning the spine and shoulders to reduce discomfort and restore flexibility, promoting a healthier lifestyle.
Posture Improvement – Through regular use, it facilitates gradual spine realignment, aiding in the restoration of a natural, pain-free posture. It increases breathing capacity and reduces tension, enhancing overall well-being of users.
Lasting Investment – Designed for daily use, it guarantees long-lasting durability and cost-effectiveness, offering a practical alternative to professional treatments. Easy to use at home or in the office, it provides instant relief whenever you need it.
User Guide and Support – Each purchase includes a detailed user guide, offering step-by-step instructions for maximum utilisation. Take it slow, follow the instructions, and get the best results.
Brand
Bodystance
Size
1 Count (Pack of 1)
Specific Uses For Product
Costochondritis, Tietze Syndrome, Thoracic Stretching, Hunching, Slouching, Laminectomy, Foraminotomy, Thoracotomy, Pain Relief, Posture Corrector, See more
Use for
Shoulders, Back, Neck
Age Range Description
Adult
3941 reviews for Bodystance Backpod – Premium Device for Costochondritis & Tietze Syndrome | Physio Designed | NZ Made | Posture Corrector & Back Pain Relief
Rated 5 out of 5
Nikki S. –
Firstly I NEVER write reviews like this. But this little thing needs one.
I’m a 28 year old female that has had ongoing costochondritis for at LEAST 7 years, reaching peak pain levels just this past year. It’s been so long I genuinely don’t remember living without costo. It started in university likely due to my terrible posture and being hunched over for hours on end.. and over the years got worse. This last year, after I had a brutal chest cough that lasted months, it’s gotten to the worst it’s ever been. I had not found a way to properly stretch or recover my shoulder blades or ribs, even after multiple back massagers, rollers or exercises. I basically just accepted and tuned out the achy pain years ago.
However, a couple weeks ago I woke up with extreme tightness in my sternum probably due to my sleeping position. (I’m a tragic arms curled in side sleeper.) Coughing or sneezing would be extremely painful and causing cracking in my sternum. It is by far the worst my costo has ever been. My entire upper body felt locked. I have had no upper body mobility in weeks. A sit-up or push up would’ve been torture. I was terrified to exercise, it ruined my sleep, and I wanted to just lie down and do absolutely nothing to prevent it from triggering.
Until I tried this little thing. I nearly cried after using this ONE TIME. I felt noticeable improvement within 5 minutes of using this. After searching for remedies for years and my doctor telling me to just use heat and rest it off, I nearly gave up. This was my last attempt after reading a couple stories about the backpod on Reddit.
It was a bit odd at first, especially if you’re used to rollers. Definitely read the instructions a couple times. It feels goofy with all the pillows, and it’s kinda like you’re laying on a football or something LOL. It’s not uncomfortable to lay on, but it’s definitely awkward.
But holy crap it works. It released the stiffness in my sternum immediately. I couldn’t believe it. The moment I sat up it was gone. GONE. It’s still a bit tender, but it didn’t hurt to cough anymore, didn’t crack, and I didn’t feel locked up. I regained enough mobility where I felt confident enough to twist without feeling achy. You can feel a massive stretching sensation after using this in the middle of your shoulders. It feels like someone took two hands on the back of your spine and gave each side a big outwards pull across the back of your rib cage. I’ve used this 2 or 3 times now and I cannot believe the difference.
I’ve had ongoing costo for at least seven years. That is SEVEN YEARS of pain and locked sore muscles just DELETED in 10-15 minutes. I cannot imagine how I’m going to feel after even just a couple weeks.
I was not expecting results this quick, I read it worked, but figured it’d take a mix of time and diligence to finally notice an improvement in pain and mobility– no. It’s instant. Years of pain has nearly evaporated, and I’ve regained more upper body mobility using the backpod for 5 minutes than I have with massage guns or rollers in 5 years.
If you’re like me and have tried everything under the sun for your costo with no results, try this. I cannot express enough how shook I was when I sceptically sat up and realized it actually worked. Worth every penny.
Rated 5 out of 5
S001 –
I purchased this out of desperation. I was diagnosed with costocondritis in May of this year after about two weeks of feeling pain in the middle of my chest. I heard about this on YouTube and purchased immediately despite the price.
It is amazing. It worked just as promised and it’s very simple to just use during the day. My costo cleared up within a couple of weeks after daily use of approx 10-20mins sometimes spread between two or three sessions a day. I’m still using the pod even now just not on a regular basis.
It’s a great product to use to open up your chest area if you’re feeling any pain or restriction here.
I’ve heard that you could also use a couple of socks rolled into a ball or even a tennis ball and get the same results. I doubt this because with the pods shape it easily aligns with your back bone and the shape allows you to stretch your back allowing your chest to open up.
Rated 5 out of 5
Melissa Bishop –
I love this product. I love the way Steve August (the inventor) figured out and explains costochondritis – it makes sense. It’s about the ribs, not inflammation or nerve pain. I developed costo in 2006 after being prescribed lisinopril, which caused severe coughing, for months. This, in turn, froze up my back ribs and ligaments. At the beginning, my severe chest pain and trouble breathing led to several ER trips in an ambulance, siren on, taking corners on rails. But after all the doctors had done all their cardiac and lung tests, and found nothing, they simply sent me home, unable to explain my pain, and worse, unwilling to help me manage it. I suffered untreated for 2 years when we moved to a new state and I found a pain doctor there who explained I had costochondritis and did prescribe for me. The pain meds were the only thing that gave me any kind of relief. Tylenol didn’t work, nor Advil. Over the next 13 years (15 years total), I’ve developed kidney failure, lung failure, diabetes I, epilepsy and a host of other complex and rare medical conditions. I’ve attributed so much of my immobility and pain moving to simply being on dialysis. I’ve attributed my shortness of breath to my lung problems.
Enter the Backpod. I ordered this because I’m having a terrible time right now getting pain meds sorted out and I’ve come to the conclusion that the doctors are not going to help me. I have to help myself. So I reopened my research into this condition. As it turns out, the Backpod now exists – which was not true when I first got costo. This device works to open up spaces between your ribs and move the ligaments between them. I used it for 2 minutes on each side the first night I got it. The next morning I woke up pain-free. It was UNREAL! I haven’t had a pain-free morning in over 15 years. I wake up every morning reaching out for my oxys, because I know I need them. My AM pain is always that bad. It’s now Day 6 of using the Backpod, plus I’ve started physical therapy in hopes that the PTs can help me maximize my results and optimize my therapy, which they have so far been very good at. In just 6 days – still NO PAIN!! That first morning I woke up, I took a shower and realized I had so much more REACH in both shoulders, and the same when I was toweling off. So I did some shoulder rolls and I could just hear my upper rib bones crackling right down from the top to the bottom, so I could tell they were loosening up. It felt great!
Costo is a horrible condition to try to live with. It limits you in so many ways – mobility, ability to do chores, cook, shop, spend time with loved ones, go out, sit up for any lengths of time – and for me, I’m realizing all of this disability was due to the costo, not my kidneys or lungs. I thought all this time I was just stuck with it.
The Backpod is super easy to use. You just lay down on it. You can put it behind you while you lean back on a stack of pillows and watch TV in bed. Then you can move it around – up, down, more to the middle, wherever it feels the best is probably where you need it most. It doesn’t require any batteries or charging, and only very little maintenance. My puppy did try to chew on it, but I caught him in time. The big dog just licks it. I don’t mind, as long as they don’t destroy the thing.
Being on disability, a $68.00 cost is high for me, but I decided to go for it and see if I can get myself into a position to start tapering off my pain meds under medical supervision. I had my first narcotic free day yesterday, and I was shocked. I didn’t even think about taking any meds. I would so much rather invest this money here and stop having to go to a pain doctor monthly, and stop having my energy and ability to focus be affected by my oxys than stay on pain meds and not have a solution. I never thought I’d ever get better from anything again – all of my medical issues are chronic, and some degenerative. But this one, I cured. I did it by myself, with the help of Steve August, and I did it in a matter of days, after 15 years of hell. If you’re in hell from costo, the Backpod is your way out!!! I only wish Steve August’s information would infiltrate the medical community here in the US. Doctors here are so stubborn about insisting on what they heard once upon a. time, and they don’t do much research as they continue to treat you to see if they can find you a cure. We have to heal ourselves. Thank you to Steve August for paving the way for those of us with costochondritis to do that!!
Rated 5 out of 5
Sanrod –
Works well
Rated 3 out of 5
Mevrouw –
Te hard voor mijn lijf. En Ribbenkast Ga hem Retourneren
Rated 5 out of 5
Labbhannsh V Sharmaa –
I’m truly disappointed that I didn’t discover this incredible product sooner. For six long years, I struggled with costochondritis, attempting every medication available without any success. However, after just one day of using the backpod, all my pain vanished!. Highly recommend it to anyone battling with similar issues.
Rated 5 out of 5
MJO –
I hardly ever feel compelled to write a review (although, selfishly, I wouldn’t be able to buy anything or eat anywhere without them!) but I do feel the need to share my support for this product. This was my second bout of costochondritis — my first happened sometime two years ago, when my doctor diagnosed costochondritis after I had this nagging, lingering chest pain after a bad respiratory infection. I don’t remember being told to do anything for it except take ibuprofen and wait it out for 6-8 weeks. I wasn’t terribly active back then, the pain wasn’t necessarily holding me back from any activity, and so I did as I was told, which was basically nothing. And eventually, it did go away. (Lucky, I know.)
Since then I’ve become an avid surfer, surfing just about every day. I really consider it instrumental for my mental and emotional health. And so when this episode of costochondritis descended upon me, it hurt like hell to paddle or pop up, no matter how many Motrins I took before and after. That’s when I began to do my research, and came to the conclusion that if I didn’t give myself a chance to heal (by taking a break from surfing) then this costo could linger on for months or years. I forced myself to take a break, and let me tell you, between the chest pain and not surfing, was a painfully depressing period. I swear I needed to go back to therapy, take antidepressants again, something — and it had only been a week!!
One night, I watched a whole bunch of costo videos on youtube, trying to figure out how the heck I can exercise without aggravating my chest, and I came across a few helpful ones. One video detailed a good door jamb stretch for costo sufferers (with arms raised above head level); a few others led me to purchase this Backpod and a jar of Penetrex. So starting the very next day, I did that door jamb stretch several times a day, basically every time I could remember. And when the Backpod arrived, I would use it once in the morning and once in the evening. It was uncomfortable — NOT painful, nor should it be — but at the same time, relaxing? Somehow it just felt very therapeutic to lie on this oblong plastic contraption. I rubbed on the Penetrex 3-4x a day, as per directions, on my chest and along the spine of the affected side.
Within as little three days, I felt a very significant improvement in my costo pain, so much that by the fifth day I dared to get back in the water (taking it easy of course). It’s been a little over a week since I’ve owned this and I would say I’m 95% back to normal. I think the combination of rest (ugh), the stretches and the Backpod — and maybe the Penetrex? — truly worked for me, and I was able to avoid a much lengthier period of suffering. This will be my go-to prescription should I be so unfortunate to have it reoccur.
I really sympathize with those that have been suffering with costochondritis for any significant amount of time. For something that isn’t life-threatening, it can really be downright life-depleting. If you’re on this sinking ship, and deliberating if you should purchase the Backpod, please just do it! With that and a little extra TLC you might just find the relief you’re looking for.
Rated 5 out of 5
Sarah –
I was skeptical at first on this product and its price but everything changed on the first day I got it.
I’m a massage therapist and teacher of massage. I have tried for 4 year to correct my costochondritis. Massage, PT, sports therapy, supplements, advil, stretching, heat/ice, acupuncture, chiropractic and cupping. Some would relieve it for a little while but none of it would last.
I was tempted to head back to PT when I came across this.
The first day of use was intense. It took my breath away but as soon as I got off of it, instant relief. Second day, it was easier and I could go deeper. Pain was reduced. By the third day I was doing mobility work while using this contraption.
I went from a pain level of 8 consistently… especially while sleeping to a 2 and it’s only been 4 days.
This is exactly the tool anyone needs to correct this issue.
Nikki S. –
Firstly I NEVER write reviews like this. But this little thing needs one.
I’m a 28 year old female that has had ongoing costochondritis for at LEAST 7 years, reaching peak pain levels just this past year. It’s been so long I genuinely don’t remember living without costo. It started in university likely due to my terrible posture and being hunched over for hours on end.. and over the years got worse. This last year, after I had a brutal chest cough that lasted months, it’s gotten to the worst it’s ever been. I had not found a way to properly stretch or recover my shoulder blades or ribs, even after multiple back massagers, rollers or exercises. I basically just accepted and tuned out the achy pain years ago.
However, a couple weeks ago I woke up with extreme tightness in my sternum probably due to my sleeping position. (I’m a tragic arms curled in side sleeper.) Coughing or sneezing would be extremely painful and causing cracking in my sternum. It is by far the worst my costo has ever been. My entire upper body felt locked. I have had no upper body mobility in weeks. A sit-up or push up would’ve been torture. I was terrified to exercise, it ruined my sleep, and I wanted to just lie down and do absolutely nothing to prevent it from triggering.
Until I tried this little thing. I nearly cried after using this ONE TIME. I felt noticeable improvement within 5 minutes of using this. After searching for remedies for years and my doctor telling me to just use heat and rest it off, I nearly gave up. This was my last attempt after reading a couple stories about the backpod on Reddit.
It was a bit odd at first, especially if you’re used to rollers. Definitely read the instructions a couple times. It feels goofy with all the pillows, and it’s kinda like you’re laying on a football or something LOL. It’s not uncomfortable to lay on, but it’s definitely awkward.
But holy crap it works. It released the stiffness in my sternum immediately. I couldn’t believe it. The moment I sat up it was gone. GONE. It’s still a bit tender, but it didn’t hurt to cough anymore, didn’t crack, and I didn’t feel locked up. I regained enough mobility where I felt confident enough to twist without feeling achy. You can feel a massive stretching sensation after using this in the middle of your shoulders. It feels like someone took two hands on the back of your spine and gave each side a big outwards pull across the back of your rib cage. I’ve used this 2 or 3 times now and I cannot believe the difference.
I’ve had ongoing costo for at least seven years. That is SEVEN YEARS of pain and locked sore muscles just DELETED in 10-15 minutes. I cannot imagine how I’m going to feel after even just a couple weeks.
I was not expecting results this quick, I read it worked, but figured it’d take a mix of time and diligence to finally notice an improvement in pain and mobility– no. It’s instant. Years of pain has nearly evaporated, and I’ve regained more upper body mobility using the backpod for 5 minutes than I have with massage guns or rollers in 5 years.
If you’re like me and have tried everything under the sun for your costo with no results, try this. I cannot express enough how shook I was when I sceptically sat up and realized it actually worked. Worth every penny.
S001 –
I purchased this out of desperation. I was diagnosed with costocondritis in May of this year after about two weeks of feeling pain in the middle of my chest. I heard about this on YouTube and purchased immediately despite the price.
It is amazing. It worked just as promised and it’s very simple to just use during the day. My costo cleared up within a couple of weeks after daily use of approx 10-20mins sometimes spread between two or three sessions a day. I’m still using the pod even now just not on a regular basis.
It’s a great product to use to open up your chest area if you’re feeling any pain or restriction here.
I’ve heard that you could also use a couple of socks rolled into a ball or even a tennis ball and get the same results. I doubt this because with the pods shape it easily aligns with your back bone and the shape allows you to stretch your back allowing your chest to open up.
Melissa Bishop –
I love this product. I love the way Steve August (the inventor) figured out and explains costochondritis – it makes sense. It’s about the ribs, not inflammation or nerve pain. I developed costo in 2006 after being prescribed lisinopril, which caused severe coughing, for months. This, in turn, froze up my back ribs and ligaments. At the beginning, my severe chest pain and trouble breathing led to several ER trips in an ambulance, siren on, taking corners on rails. But after all the doctors had done all their cardiac and lung tests, and found nothing, they simply sent me home, unable to explain my pain, and worse, unwilling to help me manage it. I suffered untreated for 2 years when we moved to a new state and I found a pain doctor there who explained I had costochondritis and did prescribe for me. The pain meds were the only thing that gave me any kind of relief. Tylenol didn’t work, nor Advil. Over the next 13 years (15 years total), I’ve developed kidney failure, lung failure, diabetes I, epilepsy and a host of other complex and rare medical conditions. I’ve attributed so much of my immobility and pain moving to simply being on dialysis. I’ve attributed my shortness of breath to my lung problems.
Enter the Backpod. I ordered this because I’m having a terrible time right now getting pain meds sorted out and I’ve come to the conclusion that the doctors are not going to help me. I have to help myself. So I reopened my research into this condition. As it turns out, the Backpod now exists – which was not true when I first got costo. This device works to open up spaces between your ribs and move the ligaments between them. I used it for 2 minutes on each side the first night I got it. The next morning I woke up pain-free. It was UNREAL! I haven’t had a pain-free morning in over 15 years. I wake up every morning reaching out for my oxys, because I know I need them. My AM pain is always that bad. It’s now Day 6 of using the Backpod, plus I’ve started physical therapy in hopes that the PTs can help me maximize my results and optimize my therapy, which they have so far been very good at. In just 6 days – still NO PAIN!! That first morning I woke up, I took a shower and realized I had so much more REACH in both shoulders, and the same when I was toweling off. So I did some shoulder rolls and I could just hear my upper rib bones crackling right down from the top to the bottom, so I could tell they were loosening up. It felt great!
Costo is a horrible condition to try to live with. It limits you in so many ways – mobility, ability to do chores, cook, shop, spend time with loved ones, go out, sit up for any lengths of time – and for me, I’m realizing all of this disability was due to the costo, not my kidneys or lungs. I thought all this time I was just stuck with it.
The Backpod is super easy to use. You just lay down on it. You can put it behind you while you lean back on a stack of pillows and watch TV in bed. Then you can move it around – up, down, more to the middle, wherever it feels the best is probably where you need it most. It doesn’t require any batteries or charging, and only very little maintenance. My puppy did try to chew on it, but I caught him in time. The big dog just licks it. I don’t mind, as long as they don’t destroy the thing.
Being on disability, a $68.00 cost is high for me, but I decided to go for it and see if I can get myself into a position to start tapering off my pain meds under medical supervision. I had my first narcotic free day yesterday, and I was shocked. I didn’t even think about taking any meds. I would so much rather invest this money here and stop having to go to a pain doctor monthly, and stop having my energy and ability to focus be affected by my oxys than stay on pain meds and not have a solution. I never thought I’d ever get better from anything again – all of my medical issues are chronic, and some degenerative. But this one, I cured. I did it by myself, with the help of Steve August, and I did it in a matter of days, after 15 years of hell. If you’re in hell from costo, the Backpod is your way out!!! I only wish Steve August’s information would infiltrate the medical community here in the US. Doctors here are so stubborn about insisting on what they heard once upon a. time, and they don’t do much research as they continue to treat you to see if they can find you a cure. We have to heal ourselves. Thank you to Steve August for paving the way for those of us with costochondritis to do that!!
Sanrod –
Works well
Mevrouw –
Te hard voor mijn lijf. En Ribbenkast
Ga hem Retourneren
Labbhannsh V Sharmaa –
I’m truly disappointed that I didn’t discover this incredible product sooner. For six long years, I struggled with costochondritis, attempting every medication available without any success. However, after just one day of using the backpod, all my pain vanished!. Highly recommend it to anyone battling with similar issues.
MJO –
I hardly ever feel compelled to write a review (although, selfishly, I wouldn’t be able to buy anything or eat anywhere without them!) but I do feel the need to share my support for this product. This was my second bout of costochondritis — my first happened sometime two years ago, when my doctor diagnosed costochondritis after I had this nagging, lingering chest pain after a bad respiratory infection. I don’t remember being told to do anything for it except take ibuprofen and wait it out for 6-8 weeks. I wasn’t terribly active back then, the pain wasn’t necessarily holding me back from any activity, and so I did as I was told, which was basically nothing. And eventually, it did go away. (Lucky, I know.)
Since then I’ve become an avid surfer, surfing just about every day. I really consider it instrumental for my mental and emotional health. And so when this episode of costochondritis descended upon me, it hurt like hell to paddle or pop up, no matter how many Motrins I took before and after. That’s when I began to do my research, and came to the conclusion that if I didn’t give myself a chance to heal (by taking a break from surfing) then this costo could linger on for months or years. I forced myself to take a break, and let me tell you, between the chest pain and not surfing, was a painfully depressing period. I swear I needed to go back to therapy, take antidepressants again, something — and it had only been a week!!
One night, I watched a whole bunch of costo videos on youtube, trying to figure out how the heck I can exercise without aggravating my chest, and I came across a few helpful ones. One video detailed a good door jamb stretch for costo sufferers (with arms raised above head level); a few others led me to purchase this Backpod and a jar of Penetrex. So starting the very next day, I did that door jamb stretch several times a day, basically every time I could remember. And when the Backpod arrived, I would use it once in the morning and once in the evening. It was uncomfortable — NOT painful, nor should it be — but at the same time, relaxing? Somehow it just felt very therapeutic to lie on this oblong plastic contraption. I rubbed on the Penetrex 3-4x a day, as per directions, on my chest and along the spine of the affected side.
Within as little three days, I felt a very significant improvement in my costo pain, so much that by the fifth day I dared to get back in the water (taking it easy of course). It’s been a little over a week since I’ve owned this and I would say I’m 95% back to normal. I think the combination of rest (ugh), the stretches and the Backpod — and maybe the Penetrex? — truly worked for me, and I was able to avoid a much lengthier period of suffering. This will be my go-to prescription should I be so unfortunate to have it reoccur.
I really sympathize with those that have been suffering with costochondritis for any significant amount of time. For something that isn’t life-threatening, it can really be downright life-depleting. If you’re on this sinking ship, and deliberating if you should purchase the Backpod, please just do it! With that and a little extra TLC you might just find the relief you’re looking for.
Sarah –
I was skeptical at first on this product and its price but everything changed on the first day I got it.
I’m a massage therapist and teacher of massage. I have tried for 4 year to correct my costochondritis.
Massage, PT, sports therapy, supplements, advil, stretching, heat/ice, acupuncture, chiropractic and cupping.
Some would relieve it for a little while but none of it would last.
I was tempted to head back to PT when I came across this.
The first day of use was intense. It took my breath away but as soon as I got off of it, instant relief.
Second day, it was easier and I could go deeper. Pain was reduced.
By the third day I was doing mobility work while using this contraption.
I went from a pain level of 8 consistently… especially while sleeping to a 2 and it’s only been 4 days.
This is exactly the tool anyone needs to correct this issue.