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★★★★★
This thing is AMAZING!!!
OMG Body Back Buddy, where have you been all my life?!? I've spent years rubbing my back and sore muscles against tennis or lacrosse balls against a wall, foam rollers, trying to do self-massage, bending over couches, and generally making an idiot of myself flopping around on the floor. One day I thought to myself - why don't I build a device that lets me push forward with my hands, but redirects the force into my back so that I can control the pressure and spot exactly? Then I thought to myself - what if such a device already exists?!
Well I'm here to tell you that it does, and that it kicks ass. This is the most "hurt so good" amazing contraption I've ever been associated with. My wife and I fight over it all the time. I find a new way to release a trigger point every day. The little trigger point map in the instructions is helping me find tension I never knew existed. In short, this thing rocks. If you've ever laid on the floor and tried to jam your shoulderblade into a tennis ball juuuust right, get up, dust yourself off, and buy one of these immediately.
Before you ask, yes, you need all these knobs and balls that jut out of this thing. No, the smooth ones from another company won't cut it. Yes, you need one this big. The handheld mini ones aren't going to give you any leverage, and leverage is the name of the game. No, you will not break this thing. You might give yourself bruises, but you won't break this plastic. It's solid. Yes, you should buy one.
And no, nobody paid me or offered me any discounts for this review. I wish they had, I'd use the savings to buy another one so that I didn't get accused of hogging it anymore.
October 2016 · Health and Household · verified purchase