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Show HN: Relief – Physical Therapy Programs to Fix Back Pain and Posture

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22 pointsacjin8 comments

Hi HN!

I’ve struggled with back / neck / wrist pain (like many programmers do) for the past few years, spending countless dollars on physical therapy, chiropractors, and gimmicky products.

This inspired me to collaborate with a few physical therapists and fitness trainers. We built Relief to provide evidence-based treatment programs delivered through high-quality guided videos. Examples include the 7-day low back pain program, McKenzie Method, 7-day posture program, forward head + anterior pelvic tilt corrective routines, yoga for back pain, and more. Think Calm / Headspace for musculoskeletal problems.

I’d love to get some feedback and hear about your experiences with musculoskeletal pain! We’ve made a bunch of the content free, and the rest can be accessed through a no-risk free trial.

I have really have any back pain, but I have horrible slouching posture, standing and sitting. Will this help standing up straight become more natural?

Been using this for 1.5 weeks and I can say the content is high-quality and I'm already experiencing reduced pain in my sciatic nerve (started a few months ago, didn't have time nor money to see PT). Would recommend you give this a shot.

Great to hear that it's been helping! :)

> On average, Relief’s physical therapy, yoga, and mindfulness sessions help users reduce pain by 60% in the first month. It's more effective than surgery or injections.

Do you publish the data that led to these conclusions? Have the statements on this page been evaluated by the FDA?

I have not subscribed, but awesome site, looks high quality and useful.

If you don't mind, I was wondering what payment system to you use for the subscription stuff? Is it something like Zuora? Or did you have to build it from scratch?

I looked into Zuora (really expensive) as well as some other systems like Chargebee, Recurly, etc. I ended up building it with Stripe Billing, since it was actually quite straightforward and offered a lot of flexibility with features. I think a benefit of using something like Chargebee though is that you can also take Paypal

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