"Fitness is a commitment."

This is what I concluded after 30 plus years as a doctor who treated patients with back pain.

Doctors, nurses and health care professionals can provide care, but ultimately the maintenance of health and wellness is your personal responsibility.

I served as president and CEO of a major medical equipment company that pioneered and researched non-surgical spinal decompression for chronic back pain. The passion I shared with our research team at Lordex, was to help people become more self-reliant and able to help themselves.

Our quest: To design a low cost and easy to use, self-help system for people with back pain.

This idea of a self-help method of back care that could be done at home, using inversion, was not new.

Unfortunately inversion was limited by design, to a younger cross section of the population. Our mission was to design a machine that was effective and could easily be used by my 60 year old sister or 85 year old father.

Bill Squires PhD, Tom Mullins and I all agreed that comfort had to be the first criteria of the design, AND it also had to be effective, simple to use, and affordable.

After years of tireless teamwork, the SomaTrac was born.

Now the benefits of inversion/decompression can be experienced by virtually anyone . . . AND in the convenience of their own home.

I've been able to control the pain associated with my own bulging discs and degenerative spine for 25 years and so can you. Ask your doctor about SomaTrac ... even doctors have back pain!