Benefits of Peanut Ball Why, When and How To Use It?

Why, When and How To Use It?

“Our favourite way to help relieve and restore normal range of motion to the spine and musculoskeletal system” – MyoActive

Really good to fix Hunchback posture, back pain and tightness throughout Spine!

Peanut Balls can really help relieve the tension in your upper back and help improve your hunchback posture and I'm going to explain how to use it, and how I use it with my friends and family and patients a peanut ball is like two lacrosse balls stuck together, a blue kind of medium hard is our favourite, black can be too stiff and painful to start off with.

How it works, is I want you to start out lying on the ground with your knees up and I want you to put the peanut ball in the middle of your back so that it's straddling your spine. You're going to lie back comfortably, so your head is neutral and lying on the ground you're going to slowly move up one or two inches and then you're going to relax and hold that spot for about 5-10 seconds. You're going to continue doing this all the way up or down until you're at the top of your shoulder blades.

To make this more intense, and as you progress, when you are holding it on that spot, for 5 to 10 seconds, you can lift your arms up over your head and then back down again. You can even start doing snow angels just with your arms, to make it even more intense and to really take into the muscle more effectively. You can also drop down your knees as well.

Finally, the most advanced way to do this and what I'd recommend you work up to, is to cross your arms over your chest, almost like you are hiding yourself, lift up your hips, and then start rolling all across your thoracic spine which is that upper back area we're trying to loosen up. And get more mobile. And there're a few more tips I want to mention as you're doing this. The first, is to breathe deeply through your belly. If you don't breathe deeply it's not going to help relieve the tension in your back so breathing, again, through the belly, into your belly is extremely important.

The second tip is to keep your ribcage down when you are flexing your arms over your head.

And this is important because you are not using your lower back, and flaring your ribs for keeping your lower back in place and trying to get the mobility and that flexibility from your upper back. Third, is to keep your head neutral, you want to try to avoid bending your head back when you're on the ground, you want to try to keep it neutral in line with your spine and also it makes it feel a bit more intense.

Tip: Ensure you place the balls off the spine ?.

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Need four more reasons to buy our Peanut Ball!? 

1.This is an effective replacement for the home-made tennis balls-inside-of-a-sock tool that so many people use for self-massage relief. 

2. It is easier to use for a lot of things than individual balls as it doesn't squirm around and has less tendency to roll away on you. 

3. This tool straddles your spine perfectly so you can roll it right down the centre of your spine and hit the muscles that you always have issues with. You are able to relieve your own tight muscles and anywhere on your body. 

4. It's been perfect for safely applying pain relieving pressure to the long muscles on both sides of your spine. This tool allows you to be in control (without the assistance of another person) of where and how much pressure and manipulation that you can tolerate.