Been sleeping in the recliner for 18 months because lying flat set my lower back on fire. My doctor basically shrugged and said learn to live with it. Three weeks with this and I'm back in my own bed. My wife reached over the other morning to check I was really asleep in there: first full flat night in years.

My husband used to map every room by where he could sit down. Family dinners, church, the hardware store: the chair hunt always came first. Six weeks with this and last Sunday he stood through the whole barbecue talking to the neighbors. I got my husband back.

Was waiting on a spine surgery consult for 8 months. Got the letter pushing it back again and thought, right, I'll try this. Proper skeptical. Four weeks in and my step count went from 2,000 a day to 8,500. My wife says I walk like I'm late for something now.

I'd tried every cream, brace and patch on the pharmacy shelf, all of it in a drawer now. My daughter found this and bought it for my birthday. Best present I've had in years. That concrete feeling in my back every morning, the forty-minute shuffle before my body would work? Gone.

I'd honestly forgotten what it felt like to grocery shop without leaning on the cart. Ten years of planning every aisle: I just thought it was part of getting old. Within a month I walked the whole store upright carrying my own basket. My sister asked if I'd had work done.

The TENS unit the clinic gave me lasted three weeks before I chucked it in the closet. Buzzed the skin and never touched the muscle. This is completely different: you feel it working deep inside, then you get on with your day. Fifteen minutes and it shuts itself off.

Watching my husband wince every time he got up from the couch scared me. I was convinced one day he just wouldn't get up at all. Since he started using this he's back doing projects in the garage. He feels like a different person. I feel like I have my partner back.

My grandkids used to ask why Grandma always sits. Not so cute when they stopped asking me to play at all. Five weeks in and my granddaughter grabbed my hand and said, "Grandma, come ON, you can run now!" First game of tag in three years last weekend. Real tears, right there on the lawn.

Been sleeping in the recliner for 18 months because lying flat set my lower back on fire. My doctor basically shrugged and said learn to live with it. Three weeks with this and I'm back in my own bed. My wife reached over the other morning to check I was really asleep in there: first full flat night in years.

My husband used to map every room by where he could sit down. Family dinners, church, the hardware store: the chair hunt always came first. Six weeks with this and last Sunday he stood through the whole barbecue talking to the neighbors. I got my husband back.

Was waiting on a spine surgery consult for 8 months. Got the letter pushing it back again and thought, right, I'll try this. Proper skeptical. Four weeks in and my step count went from 2,000 a day to 8,500. My wife says I walk like I'm late for something now.

I'd tried every cream, brace and patch on the pharmacy shelf, all of it in a drawer now. My daughter found this and bought it for my birthday. Best present I've had in years. That concrete feeling in my back every morning, the forty-minute shuffle before my body would work? Gone.

I'd honestly forgotten what it felt like to grocery shop without leaning on the cart. Ten years of planning every aisle: I just thought it was part of getting old. Within a month I walked the whole store upright carrying my own basket. My sister asked if I'd had work done.

The TENS unit the clinic gave me lasted three weeks before I chucked it in the closet. Buzzed the skin and never touched the muscle. This is completely different: you feel it working deep inside, then you get on with your day. Fifteen minutes and it shuts itself off.

Watching my husband wince every time he got up from the couch scared me. I was convinced one day he just wouldn't get up at all. Since he started using this he's back doing projects in the garage. He feels like a different person. I feel like I have my partner back.

My grandkids used to ask why Grandma always sits. Not so cute when they stopped asking me to play at all. Five weeks in and my granddaughter grabbed my hand and said, "Grandma, come ON, you can run now!" First game of tag in three years last weekend. Real tears, right there on the lawn.