Massage Ball - Peanut Lacrosse Ball - Ideally Suited for Myofascial Release, Trigger Point Therapy and Deep Tissue Massage - Mobility Ball for Crossfit and Yoga

It works wonders for recovery and perfomance enhancement. I have been using a black foam roller for a long time but this works much better and accurately, and is easier to carry. You may use it as you sit at work, class, or in the public transport too.I train MMA, and I have trained many other things before, and I feel that injuries are always trying to catch up with me; using this Lacrosse ball leaves injuries at a greater distance.If you want to learn how to use it to recover, stretch, or improve just about any part of your body by using the Lacrosse Ball, the best person is the Phd Kelly Starrett, writer of Becoming a Supple Leopard. He also has got a channel on youtube where he explains how to use it anywere for gains (shoulders, neck, back, hamstrings... anywhere). Check it out!

This works well as a trigger ball, but, as always, it would be helpful if the designer actually tested and used the product to iron out design flaws.This is for exercising pressure on hard-to-reach knots in the back. Idea is you lean against a wall and then roll over the ball. So far so good, except that the ball has a tendency to slip out of position. The ball being in between your shoulder blades, it is difficult to reach. So you have to lean forward, catch the ball and start again.The obvious fix would have been to attach strings or similar to each end so you could hold the ball in place. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.As such the material is sturdy and the bag durable.

Fantastic piece of equipment , it gets into all the small muscles that you can't get into with anything else. I was advised by my physio to use a tennis ball but that kept slipping and it is too rigid. The massage ball stays in place where you place it and rolls beautifully over these tight muscles. I now realise how tight and painful my muscles are and feel a lightness and wellbeing after I have used the Ball. I throughly recommend it. Can be used on all muscles, neck, back, legs, arms, gets into all the tiny muscles lovely, it is painful to start but it does get better as the muscles ease off and allows more oxygen to flow.

This is like two hard rubber balls joined together which you can use to massage the muscle either side of your spine. I dare say you could use it elsewhere but I haven't. I have an old (1992) rugby injury to the lower right of my back and use it to massage that as well the other areas right up either side of my spine. I use it to provide a steady pressure to the trigger point and also slowly move it back and forth, gradually working my way up the spine and then back down again whilst lying on top of it on the floor.I use this in conjunction with the single hard rubber ball and they both do help a lot in relieving muscular aches, pains and stiffness.

I’m just not sure about this. I wanted it to open up my spine more. I feel like it would need a bigger gap between the balls.. it just doesn’t seem to be doing the trick for me..but a good made quality product that I may find use for other things.

After suffering daily back pain for 20 years, I'd given up hope of finding something that helps: Tramadol and codeine don't. Stretching (yoga) doesn't, nor does a gravity bench. Acupuncture only worked on my elbow, no effect on my back.I've been to pain clinics in 3 different cities: nobody has ever mentioned trigger points, although that's what I was describing.I found Trigger Point Therapy workbook by myself, and it led me to this peanut, a bit cheaper than the recommended Nobbler or Thera Cane.I can put the peanut between my back /neck and a wall, and apply as much pressure as necessary to get the knots outBrilliant, but too heavy to carry around, so I have one at home, one at the office

I bought this based on positive reviews ... Item looks well made but didn't do anything positive for me - found hard to use - maybe not using it properly :(

I actually have about 4 massagers (chair, percussion, shiatsu, other shiatsu) mostly trying to get at parts of the neck and back. While some of them are actually pretty powerful and good on the back, it's actually very hard to get something good for the neck because of where the machine would need to sit and how you can apply pressure. This is actually pretty much exactly the right size for putting under the neck and rolling along the back.It helps me loosen the muscles here which mean I can click things (I do that a lot) more easily as its better aligned and relaxed. The ball is pretty hard but not uncomfortably so if you like a good amount of pressure when having a massage. If you don't then I've read you can use it against the wall rather than the floor but I guess if you don't want it fairly hard then you can probably make do with normal massagers.I think this is absolutely a good piece of kit if you keep looking at various massagers, already own several at don't do quite the job and know where to pinpoint bits of your neck/back (or other places) and want something that is the right size, shape, weight and hardness to help you put pressure on it.