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When you’re suffering from a bad back, the thing you might want to do most is put your feet up until you feel better. Actually, the first thing NHS advises is to keep active and to try to go about your day as normal.
This can be the last thing you want to do. Don’t they know how much pain you’re in especially when getting to the toilet makes you break out in a sweat or the thought of getting in and out of a car has you grinding your teeth?
Back pain is very common and there are so many things that can trigger it, leaving you in agony and feeling miserable.
Normally back pain improves within a few weeks, but sometimes it might stay with you a bit longer or even keep coming back.
There are a few things that you can do to help ease the pain so it doesn’t stop you from living your life but it does depend on the cause. For example, if it’s a strain, a slipped disc, or sciatica etc.
PERCKO has developed a range to help improve posture and relieve back pain that even physiotherapists are using.
Physiotherapist Jeff Ross, who runs his own practice Harris and Ross in Manchester, tried using the Lyne Up vest and says: ‘It was doing the job that I would want my strapping to do. People are going to get better quicker, they are going to feel less pain.’
While Matt White, also a physiotherapist, said: ‘It feels like I get really nice support around my lower thoracic and my lumber region. I would be inclined to recommend my patients giving it a try.’
The range is designed to give you excellent support in a similar way to Kinesio taping but it goes further as it has a system of elasticated tensors strategically positioned on the upper body providing a dual-action: on the shoulders to open the chest and on the lower back to realign the spine and the pelvis.
But the Lyne Up vest is not constricting as physiotherapist Ana Ungureanu tried it while she worked, and said: ‘It doesn’t restrict me, it allows me full range of movement when I treat my patients.’
It’s also so subtle that you can wear the vest or t-shirt beneath your clothes and no one would know.
All the Lyne tops are included in a 40% OFF the second top offer.
This means you can mix and match. Here’s what you can choose from:
– Lyne UP: The original vest for everyday use. Designed to be discreet and invisible under your clothes.
– Lyne FIT: The sports T-shirt, designed to protect your back and improve performance
– Lyne HOME: The jacket for at home. Designed to easily slip on over your clothing, this jacket protects your back as you go about your daily tasks at home (WFH, DIY, gardening, cleaning, etc.).
All of the PERCKO Lyne products are certified as medical devices and to do that, it means it’s undergone rigorous testing and research to ensure that it works.
One study found that 86% of users were satisfied with their results after using it, while 72.5% reported reduced back pain and it scores 4.4/5 stars on Trustpilot.
Metro tries it out: ‘My usual desk-job-produced aching back pain is all but gone after three days’
I’ve always struggled with my posture since being a teenager, and having a D-cup chest hasn’t really helped things as I went through my 20s. Without my mum in my ear telling me to ‘stand up straight’, I’ve resorted to a whole range of experts to try and correct things (with age and a desk job also adding fun back pain to the mix), from weekly visits to a chiropractor to expensive trips to a massage therapist to try and reverse years – nay decades – of horrendous posture.
Now at the ‘I’ll try anything’ stage, I gave the Lyne Up vest a go.
It claims to relieve back pain, engage core muscles and improve posture. Three things I could really go into my mid-thirties with a handle on.
Wearing the thing seemed simple enough: you measure yourself to find the best fit (the PK4 being the best bet for the brand’s Lyne Up range for me, according to the handy measurement guide online), pop on the tank and off you go.
The garment itself appears like a cross between a chesty singlet and massage tape, with two straps of elastic running over the shoulders and criss-crossing over the back to then come back around to the front to be fastened with clips that sit on your underwear line.
And I don’t know if it was placebo, but as soon as I put the Lyne Up top on my shoulders were drawn back. So far so good, right?
It felt secure-enough that I could sense my shoulders were pulling backwards and my body was being encouraged to sit up straight, but not so restrictive that it was distracting or painful. In fact, the brand warns you that you may feel some slight sore muscles as your posture retrains itself, but – and I hope this isn’t because it’s not working – I’ve not experienced this yet.
Granted it’s only been three days, but I have been wearing the top for around nine hours a day. I sit at my desk in it (it acts as an undershirt for me, and, in this weather, another layer is pretty welcome) and I’ve also gone for one of my Hot Girl Walks around the local common in it – I draw the line at breaking a sweat in it, mainly because in this cost of living crisis we’re not about to start washing the top after every wear if I can at all help it.
While I think it will take a little longer than three days to notice long-term posture benefits (I’ll also not hold my breath for a six pack), I’ve noticed my usual desk-job-produced aching back pain is all but gone, so it’s already proved to be helpful there. From only a few wears in I’m also more mindful of my posture, from the slight pulling of the built-in-bands doing their job, so I can only hope through further wear I can finally retrain those pesky muscles to play ball.
Mel, 32, London.
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