Back on Track

This Swedish designed and developed product, Back on Track®, has evolved from a combination of ancient Chinese experience, modern science and the development of specialised textiles. The result is a fabric of polyester with a ceramic powder melted into the threads. The ceramic fibres reflect heat as far-infrared waves, energy that has documented pain relieving effects. This reflected heat can reduce inflammation, ease muscle tension, increase blood circulation and in the process aid in the reduction of time for healing. It is beneficial for use in humans and in animals.

"I must say I believe your products have helped my horses tremendously. We noticed a huge difference in the tightness of their legs, and suppleness in their backs at Aachen Horse Show where the stress of competition is huge.

We have used the No Bow wraps and sheets on them for two months now, and can’t believe the difference!"

- Steffen Peters, Olympic rider: bronze team medal in Atlanta.

"We started using Back on Track products on our Grand Prix horses with such great results that I tried the Back on Track back brace on myself and it worked great. Now I use Back on Track all the time with our horses and for myself.

I recommend Back on Track products to everyone with horses and for themselves."

- Margie Engle, 9 time Rider of the year and Olympic rider.

Map reader Tina Thörner and Colin McRae were leading the Dakar rally of 2005 when they crashed their car. Experiencing severe back pain, Tina had to be air-lifted from the scene by helicopter. The accident brought back memories of an earlier trauma, when Tina’s rally car went over a cliff and fell forty meters to the surface of a mountain lake.

In describing the damage sustained in such accidents, Tina says: "My muscles were pulled apart and have grown back into position, but will never be the same again.

I do, however, experience a pleasant feeling after using the Back on Track products. I use the T-shirt and the neck brace periodically throughout the entire day. Mostly I use them when returning from the races, to help diminish my pain."

As a precaution, I also use the Back on Track back brace whilst racing, especially during the long distance races, and regardless of the 60 degree temperatures inside the car. In the evenings, after we have been driving, I always have some degree of pain somewhere in my body. I then use the Back on Track bedding products, confident that I will have far less pain in the morning".

- Tina Thörner, professional car race map reader. Second place in the Dakar rally of 2006.

Clinical Studies

"We have shown that heat will result in alterations in the body, that will diminish pain and chronic inflammation", says Thomas Lundeberg, associate professor in physiology at the Karolinska hospital (ref; The Swedish journal Health "Hälsa" nr 9, 2000). A doctor interested in this subject is Dr Rose-Marie Brinkeborn, who has conducted a clinical study on the efficacy of Back on Track (BoT) braces together with colleagues and physiotherapists.

The study included 120 patients who had experienced pain caused by either arthrosis of the knee or tennis elbow for a period of at least 3 months. The subjects were randomly separated into two equal sized groups, and their levels of pain were immediately evaluated on a scale ranging from little pain to considerable pain. One group of patients were required to use the braces for a three week period, then stop using them and revert to their own previous methods of pain management for the next three weeks. Simultaneously, the other half of the patients, who had been instructed to rely on their normal methods of pain management for the first three week period, were now instructed to use the braces for the ensuing three weeks.

The overall results of the study are not yet finalised, but it has been established already that more than half of them had less pain when they were using the braces. Those with tennis elbow often went back to normal, and some of the patients with knee arthrosis, who had been living with pain for a long time and were booked for prosthesis surgery, felt so relieved from pain that they could exercise again, and chose to postpone their surgery!

In the daily paper Svenska Dagbladet (January 25th, 2003), Dr Xyao Huishen who worked at the rehabilitation medical clinic at Karolinska hospital expressed: "These braces have no adverse effects if the right size is used". In a later paper, Massage and Bodycare 1/2004, Dr. Huishen, after gathering additional knowledge of the products, states: "In principle, besides drugs, there is nothing else that offers such reproducible results on patients who have inflammation generated pain."