We've Got Your Back

Back2Active is a private company with both an online presence and a retail educational center dedicated to helping active adults identify and evaluate alternatives to best reach their goals of eliminating back pain forever. Back2Active’s community centers around its downtown Los Gatos California facility, We’ve Got Your Back, and extends that community worldwide via www.Back2Active.com and here with the Back2Active Blog.

Designed as both a retail store and an educational center, We’ve Got Your Back maintains three focus areas to serve its mission: Relax, Strengthen and Repair. Action in each of these areas can make a significant difference in eliminating the root cause of back pain. The synergy of retail store and educational center brings together the information, products and knowledge of experts in fitness, yoga, Pilates, chiropractic, health and wellness, acupuncture, meditation, ergonomics … and the list goes on.

Visit us in downtown Los Gatos at 114 Royce Street, behind Forbes Mill Steakhouse.

The Story Behind We've got Your Back

A veteran of the fast paced, high stress Silicon Valley executive lifestyle, Rita Marcojohn doesn’t think of herself as an entrepreneur, necessarily. “More like a builder,” she says. Indeed. Her career has included building the Fujitsu Imaging Division from zero to $100 million - complete with 12 hour days in an ergonomically unsound chair and more than a million miles logged in uncomfortable airline seats.

For Rita – and for millions like her – this successful career journey resulted in chronic back and neck pain that sent her seeking traditional Western medical advice. The diagnosis was degenerative disc disease with treatment options ranging from drugs to surgery.  “The path to surgery may be paved with good intentions,” says Marcojohn, “but 30 years in business has taught me that there’s rarely a single right answer.”

An active person who has always enjoyed cycling and hiking, Rita’s own path to understanding her pain and her resulting search for alternatives to surgery planted the seed for what’s become Back2Active.