7 Days to a Better Back
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AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR · ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

7 Days to a Better Back

What if you had a physical therapist with 30 years of experience treating chronic back, sciatica, and SI joint pain — right in your home, looking at your specific body, asking the right questions?

Recent advances in software design have finally made that possible.

For people with back pain, sciatica, or SI joint pain who have tried everything and are still suffering.
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Rick Olderman MSPT, physical therapist, holding an anatomical skeleton model
30
Years in practice
9
Books published
NIEA
2025 Winner
1000s
Patients treated
7-day
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The scale of the problem

619M
People with back pain
in the world today
843M
Projected by 2050

This signals that we in medicine
are missing something important.

There is no technology, no scan, no imaging in existence that shows the whys. They all show the whats. The disc. The nerve. The joint. The damage.

And if you have ever asked your doctor or PT why all this is happening, they might give you a vague answer or just shrug their shoulders.

You deserved a better answer than that.

That is what this program is all about — answering that very question.

Why nothing has worked

The reason nothing has worked is not what you think

Every treatment you have tried was aimed at what is hurting. But nobody has been asking why.

Why is that disc under so much pressure?

Why does that nerve keep getting compressed?

Why does that SI joint keep flaring up?

Why does the pain keep coming back — no matter what you do?

The answer has everything to do with how you are using your body. This program finds that answer — then shows you exactly what to do about it.

If you have already tried PT or chiropractic

Read this first

You know the pattern. You go in. You do the exercises or get the adjustment. You feel better. But then it comes back. So you go again. And again. For the same problem.

That is not a failure on your part. And it is not a failure of those treatments. They treated what they found — the damaged structure, the misaligned joint, the tight muscles. And then they stopped there.

But nobody asked the most important question

Why does it keep coming back?

Why does that joint keep going out of alignment?

Why does that muscle keep tightening up?

Why isn't your core strong enough yet?

Almost every back pain patient has been told their core is weak. Most of them have done planks, crunches, and Pilates for years. And they are still in pain — because that is not the right question either.

If you are reading this, it is likely nobody has been asking the right questions about you.

Instead they treated your joints and muscles and stopped there — over and over. That is exactly why you are here.

Ready to find out why your pain keeps coming back?

14-point personalized assessment · complete at home in about 30 minutes

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I have spent my entire career chasing those whys

Rick Olderman MSPT
Rick Olderman
MSPT · Licensed Physical Therapist · Author
30 years in practice
9 books published
1000s of patients treated

Early in my career I noticed something that bothered me. My patients weren't getting better. Not all of them. But enough that I could not ignore it.

So I started asking why. Not whether your disc hurts — but why did it herniate in the first place? Not if your SI joint is inflamed — but why does it keep inflaming no matter what we do?

I found the answers in places traditional physical therapy and chiropractic never thought to look — in old injuries that quietly rewired movement patterns, in daily habits nobody thinks to question, in structural patterns that show up in plain sight but go unnoticed because nobody is looking for them.

This program encapsulates that 30-year search — now available for the first time outside the clinic, personalized to you.

NIEA Award
Author of Pain Patterns: Why You Are in Pain and How to Stop It — and 8 other books on chronic musculoskeletal pain
2025 National Indie Excellence Award Winner · Alternative Medicine

The crease pattern

Have any of your health practitioners ever pointed this out to you?

A patient's lower back showing a one-sided crease at the waistline
Crease visible — left waistline
Another patient showing the same one-sided crease pattern at the waistline
Same pattern — different patient

This crease at the waistline shows up in almost every patient Rick has treated for one-sided back pain, sciatica, or SI joint pain. It means the body is unbalanced — one side working very differently than the other. Everything you do loads your spine unevenly. Day after day. Year after year.

  • Likely why yourdisc herniated
  • Likely why yournerve is compressed
  • Likely why yourSI joint keeps flaring

Nobody pointed it out to you — not because they did not care, but because they were focused on what showed up on the scan. Not on why it showed up there.

No injection addresses that. No adjustment corrects that. No core strengthening program fixes that.

Understanding your body and retraining it can. Almost immediately.

If you just took a picture of your own back and discovered a similar crease — it's probably on the same side as your pain. That is not a coincidence. That is a key finding.

See what your body has been telling you all along.

Most people say it is the first time their pain has ever made sense.

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Does this sound familiar?

If any of these sound familiar — you are in the right place.

01
You have been told you have a herniated disc, compressed nerve, arthritis, or stenosis — but treating it has not given you lasting relief.
02
You have done the exercises, had the adjustments, maybe the injections — and the pain keeps coming back.
03
You have a feeling it has something to do with how you are using your body — but nobody has ever said that to you directly.
04
Your pain started after an injury, a pregnancy, a fall — and you have wondered ever since if that event is still connected to what you feel today.
05
You have seen multiple providers and gotten essentially the same treatment every time.
06
You have researched online and found the same explanations everywhere you look — with no real answer for why it keeps happening to you.

The pattern

Nobody has been asking the right questions about you.

This program does.

See it before you decide

See it for yourself before you decide

Take a few minutes to watch this walkthrough. Once you see how different this is from anything you have tried before, I think you will understand why it works.

Inside the program

How the program works

Everything is built around your test results — unique to you. Your plan will be different than everyone else's.

  1. 1
    Step 1 · ~30 min

    The 14-Point Assessment

    Complete at home in about 30 minutes. The results drive everything that follows — your habit plan, your exercise plan, and your personal Pain Story.

  2. 2
    Step 2 · Read

    Read Your Personal Pain Story

    A plain-language explanation of what is happening in your body and why. For most people, this is the first time it has ever made sense.

  3. 3
    Step 3 · Daily

    Follow Your Habit Plan

    Small adjustments in how you move that reduce the load on your spine every hour of every day — based on your testing in Step 1.

  4. 4
    Step 4 · Daily

    Follow Your Exercise Plan

    Correct the problems found in your testing. Not a generic list. Your list.

  5. 5
    Step 5 · Weekly

    Track Your Progress

    See whether you are improving — and by how much.

Anatomical illustration showing how one-sided compensation patterns asymmetrically activate the muscles of the back, hips, and legs
One-sided compensation — the pattern the assessment is designed to find.

What you get

Everything in the program

Here's everything that comes with your $67 purchase.

Core program

In your $67 purchase

Everything you need to find your pattern and start fixing it.

14-point personalized assessment
Your personal Pain Story — plain-language explanation of what is driving your pain
Custom habit and taping recommendations
Personalized exercise plan based on your testing
Video demonstrations for every exercise
Weekly pain tracking to see your progress objectively
Works on any device — phone, tablet, or computer. No downloads, no app.

Optional add-ons

If you have questions along the way — Rick is here

Group Coaching Calls

$25
per month · Introductory pricing

Live every Thursday at 6PM MST. Up to four one-hour calls per month. Right now the groups are small — which means you are likely to get personal attention on every call.

Most PT visits cost $150–$300. For $25/month you get up to four live hours with Rick. No contracts. Cancel any time.

Private Sessions

One-on-One with Rick

Rick will review your results, answer your questions, and help you figure out exactly what to focus on for your specific situation.

Book directly through the program.

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What people are saying

Real results from real people

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Common questions

Questions people ask before they start

Introductory price

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$67

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  • 14-point personalized assessment
  • Your personal Pain Story
  • Custom habit and exercise plan based on your testing
  • Video demonstrations for every exercise
  • Weekly progress tracking
  • Access to group coaching calls
  • Option to book private sessions with Rick
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