The most common cause of back pain is unhealthy back muscles
- Especially the multifidus muscles are critical
- Muscle atrophy and fat deposits on multifidus muscles usually leads to back pain
- Both issues are best prevented by training those muscles
To effectively train those muscles the rotation of the pelvis must be prevented
- MedX lumbar extension devices are designed to fixate the pelvis during training (see video or video)
- Unfortunately, these devices are very expensive, large and present in only few facilities
- Therefore, I have set myself the goal to build a home training device for training the multifidus muscles
- The current project status can be found under prototype
- More background knowledge can be found under science
