In the middle of March 2026, my teenage daughter's back started hurting. It didn't stop. A doctor said it was probably a fracture in her lower back, but didn't want to send her for a scan to confirm it or look properly. And then came the part I wasn't ready for. Rest, pain relief, time, and months later she still wasn't better.
What made it surreal was the comparison sitting right next to it. Around the same stretch of time she sprained an ankle, and that was fully recovered in about ten days. A sprain healed in a week and a half. Her back has dragged on for months. Something wasn't adding up, and I couldn't shake the feeling that it wasn't being taken as seriously as it deserved.
An ankle sprain healed in ten days. Her back is still not right months later. That gap is why this exists.
The appointments were short. Pain is genuinely hard to describe on the spot ("it's sort of the same, worse when she bends back, I think?"), and by the next visit I could barely remember how the weeks in between had actually gone. I didn't want to argue with the professionals. I wanted to understand what was really happening, and to be able to show it.
So I started tracking. Nothing clever at first. Just, each day: how bad is it, what makes it worse, what did she do, what did she take. Within a couple of weeks the fog lifted. There was a pattern. There were things that helped and things that clearly didn't. And for the first time I had something concrete to bring to a physio instead of a shrug and a guess.
The more I sat with it, the more I realised how many families must be exactly here. Worried, unsure whether they're overreacting or being brushed off, with no simple way to build a clear picture over time. Back pain is common, it's stubborn, and it's badly served by a ten-minute memory test.
BackTrack is the tool I wish I'd had on day one. 30 seconds a day, plain language, and one clean page you can hand a physio, GP, or specialist that makes them look properly.
BackTrack doesn't diagnose anything, and that's deliberate. It's not here to prove a doctor wrong or to tell you what's broken. It's here to give you and your clinician the clearest possible picture, so the right person can make the call, faster. The goal was never to win an argument. It was to get my daughter the right treatment. If it helps you do the same, that's the whole point.