A chiropractor with nearly 4 million social media followers is accusing the high-end wellness technology company Therabody of ripping off his designs for specialized tips that attach to its pricey massage guns.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Therabody took credit for the thumb- and wedge-shaped tips invented by Dr. Michael Wasilisin \u2014 known to followers of his MoveU brand as \u201cDr. Mike\u201d \u2014 and began selling them as attachments for its popular, $650 Theraguns, Wasilisin alleges in a suit filed in Los Angeles federal court Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s founder, Jason Wersland, had promised to credit and compensate Wasilisin for the roughly $25 attachments during a meeting in August 2017 \u2013 then reneged, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
Wasilisin, known to followers of his MoveU brand as \u201cDr. Mike,\u201d is seeking unspecified damages against Therabody. Moveu<\/p>\n
Dr. Michael Wasilisin claims he invented the thumb- and wedge-shaped massager tips now sold by Therabody. Obtained by the New York Post<\/p>\n
Therabody\u2019s popular Theraguns run up to $650. <\/p>\n
\u201cI expected the compensation would be significant, because my attachments are in most homes, gyms, retail stores, and sports clinics in America. The deal with Jason was tied to their success \u2013 more value, more pay,\u201d Wasilisin, who is seeking unspecified damages, told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Therabody spokesperson said the company intends to \u201cvigorously defend\u201d itself against the lawsuit\u2019s allegations, which they believe are \u201cwithout merit.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A chiropractor with nearly 4 million social media followers is accusing the high-end wellness technology company Therabody of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[14206,210,13161,336,1165,224,1060,345,1190,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-21952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-doctors","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-and-wellness-products","11":"tag-lawsuits","12":"tag-lifestyle","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-medication","15":"tag-social-media","16":"tag-therapy","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}