People needed something better. Period.

There were were again –– in the clinic with Scott, a firefighter, helping him through another recurrent episode of low back pain. He was obviously not benefiting much from the same back exercises provided by us or physical therapy many times before, which were the same exercises everyone was using (and still use). He just kept hurting his back.

How professionally embarrassing it was to tell him that the upcoming medical conference, led by world-leading authorities in low back pain, would hopefully open new exercise pathways to help. Sadly, although some new insights about the nature of back pain were reviewed, there no new protocol or pathway recommended to give him –– nothing new to provide –– just the same old exercises. It was obvious that what we knew about the problem of back pain and what health care was doing were completely different. It was clear that something had to change.

So we changed it.

To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.

The evolution of our revolution.

With a background of formal spine care and athletic physiology training, Our lead developers routinely managing patients with back and neck pain, drawing on advanced post-doctoral functional rehabilitation training and sports medicine expertise, and over 15 years of actively treating patients with back pain, neck pain, and spine related disorders leading up to 2005. Until then, patients with back and neck pain were typically treated with a pain focus and not much more, with little attention to the importance of meaningful functional conditioning. Back and neck exercise consisted of basically the same elementary exercises that had been used for years – but with little true effectiveness, especially over the long term. There was little to no attention to back pain recurrence, and some of the treatments for back pain were actually leading to increased disability.

Patients with recurrent pain would be given (and charged) the same sheet of simplistic exercises from their doctors and therapists over and over again. There was often no rationale for the exercises provided. The functional impact of back pain was not well understood, and there was really no solid concept of the body “core” except to say that abdominal muscle strength was encouraged. MRI was not yet being used to investigate functional spinal health. Worse yet was that many patients with back and neck pain problems did not even get any spine and core exercise instruction at all. And virtually nobody got any significant home care for spine and core fitness.

In 2005, at an invitation-only professional continuing education conference lead by a group of world-renowned leaders in low back pain and related topics, The research was reviewed showing that it was actually better spine muscle control and endurance that was needed for better spine health, and poor endurance predicted first-time back pain, as well as recurrent pain. Only, there was no training protocol offered. The recommendation was to continue using the same old floor exercises as always (exercises such as curl-ups, bird-dogs, dead-bugs, superman, and side-planks) using 3 sets of 10 reps, and with no more that a 7 second hold for each exercise. it was immediately clear that the protocol being instructed did not address better spine muscle endurance in any meaningful way. Upon returning home, our lead developer scoured every reference text and all training materials looking for spine muscle endurance training protocols – but there were none.

This mismatch between what research studies said needed to be done for better back and neck health (reduced pain and injury), and the fact that the training protocols being recommended at that time fell far short of getting there, served to launch the research and development into what would eventually become CentriForce™, and a better and easier strategy for spine and core conditioning.

Around this time, research was also starting to show MRI being able to identify deep spinal muscles atrophy associated with back pain and spinal nerve pain. Research that followed clearly uncovered that poor spine muscle control was linked to recurrent back pain, and that poor control was linked to the pain episode but did not return to normal when the pain resolved.

Striving to better understanding what was truly needed for better back, neck, and core exercise, we stopped focusing on what everyone one else was doing and following the same old protocols, and started focusing on what the volume of clinical research was saying needed to be done – and then finding ways to accomplish that. Our goal with to find a better, easier, and smarted way for by reverse engineering spine and core exercise based on what research dictated, without guessing pr pushing some revision of old and outdated approaches not in line with that research.

Our work uncovered additional confirming research showing that endurance (time-based approaches) and control (3D forces) were essential for better back exercise, but also that other factors such as body position (upright postures), upper-lower body connection (force transfer through the core), and neurological planning (feedforward control and goal-directed movement) were equally important. These insights allowed for us to create a “criteria list” of things that were important to achieve in the context of spine and core training. This approach had not been done before.

It was also during this time that research began showing that back pain triggered changes in the brain that reinforced that, when done right, spine and core training were actually brain-body train.

Our development process focused on activating as many elements on the criteria list as possible. We compared existing exercises (traditional old school approaches used for years) to the criteria list, and determined that they probably were not working well because they did a poor job compared to the criteria of known requirements for better back and core exercise. We compared other approaches, such as Pilates and yoga, which hit some of the criteria, but not enough to be really on track. This process reconfirmed for us that we really needed to completely start over.

We began testing different approaches to activate as many points not eh criteria list as possible. After a process of trial and error, some innovative thinking, and discovery of some new exercises about how spine and core muscles activated against different forces, we found that a system of applying inertial forces to create a continuous center of gravity challenge worked perfectly.

From there, we tested systems and tools with real back and neck pain patients, and with athletes, and revised and refined that according to user feedback. What er found it that patients we happier, consistency was better, and results stronger that anything we had used before. The CentriForce™ system was born.

Our initial testing with our patient test groups were so successful that none of the test patients wanted to give their CentriForce™ Stability Bars back at the end of the test trial. We feel that was a very good sign speaking to the overall excellent CentriForce™ user experience.

After initial positive testing, we spent even more time working with real patients and further refining and streamlining conditioning approaches. The goal was to achieve top effectiveness and the best user experience. We also began working with professional continuing education to share research and training concepts for better spine and core fitness with the rest of the spine care community in professional development workshop clinical lectures. We found that the professional interest and acceptance of the research and training concepts that were the foundation of CentriForce™ were extremely well received by the general spine care community.

True to our commitment to research-informed design, we continued to scour the research for new information important to spine and core fitness/conditioning. More and more emerging research continued to support CentriForce™ thinking and directions. There was a growing understanding of the importance of the deep spine/core muscles, and the role of better deep core muscle fitness in back pain and spine pathology (disc, sciatic, degenerative, and recurrent/progressive pain). This growing body of information reinforced that CentriForce™ was on the right track.

During this timeframe, our primary focus was serving the spine care professional community – doctors, therapists, and trainers working with their own back and neck pain cases, as well as functional and athletic performance training. We continued to regularly support spine and core professionals working with their own patients, and support the use and implementation of CentriForce™ approaches into better spine care facilities across the United States.

Additional investigation and patient evaluation also demonstrated that CentriForce™ concepts were also an ideal fit for other conditions, such as whiplash cervical spine recovery, shoulder pathology, balance training, and pregnancy/post-partum core conditioning. Protocols and systems were designed specific to this conditions as well.

With the success of CentriForce™ concepts, training tools and systems, and protocols, and with excellent professional feedback, CentriForce™, our efforts naturally shift to a direct-to-user connection.

The same CentriForce™ approaches used and relied upon by professionals is now available to everyone. Our focus has expanded to raise the bar for better spine and core fitness, and to help everyone move past old, outdated, and ineffective spies and core exercises sadly still being used today.

Doctor designed. Patient tested. User approved.

Initially designed for better low back exercise, CentriForce™ has also been expanded to help neck pain, posture, shoulder retraining, hip and knee issues, balance training, core performance, and injury reduction.

Welcome to new school spine and core exercise.

  • Traditional back exercise:  mindless and ineffective floor exercise, inconvenient and boring design with too many exercises taking too long, and ineffective wrong-minded focus with muscle isolation and non-functional strength.
  • Reversed engineered spine (back/neck) and core exercise:  creative application of 3D inertial force (Dynamic Force Resistance™and using innovative tools (stability bar and upright training approaches), we found an easier and more effective way to hit more critical criteria for more meaningful back and core exercise with less effort.

Nothing works like CentriForce.™  We use natural upright postures, easy to follow movements, and a convenient system to help build better back and neck fitness, core agility, and deep core stability.  

You are going to love CentriForce™

Doctors trust it. People love it.

CentriForce™ targets deep core weakness.

Back and neck pain have been shown to be related to deep spine/core weakness, causing back and neck and back pain to be recurrent and progressive over time. Deep core muscles require specialized training to help fight that. That's CentriForce™.

“How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.”

CentriForce™ Founder's Message

Self-help for your back & neck.

Feel young again

Core Speed & agility

Shed those extra pounds

Thighs & glute workout

Increase your mobility

15-10 minutes. 4-5 days per week. It's just that easy.

Better Backs

Deep back Focus

Clinical research teaches that the deep spine muscles are vital for better overall spine health. Nothing works like CentriForce™ for better spine core training. 

Better Necks

Unwind the neck

Clinical research teaches that the deep spine muscles are vital for better overall spine health. Nothing works like CentriForce™ for better spine core training. 

Better Body Core

True Core Agility

The true core is more than just the abdominal muscles or waist area, and getting core conditioning done right starts with CentriForce™.

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