I’m saying now, over 40 years later, that refusing a back operation Is the greatest, wisest, decision I ever made. The extraordinary thing Is that despite the horrific pain, I had to be assisted walking to the car and taking over five minutes to be seated in the passenger seat increasing the pain to an even higher level, I didn’t regret my decision. Had I done so the effect would have been intolerable, adding mental strife to the physical.
I quickly realised that since nobody could help me I would have to help myself and started to research back pain its causes and prevention and have written a book on the subject. My research showed;
[1] Every spine has its own unique elongated “S” shape resulting in the least possible pressure in the soft intervertebral discs [ 80% moisture content] located between every two vertebrae.
[2] Sitting in bad posture, the main cause of back pain means the spine collapses into a forward C shape, and just as bending a wooden ruler puts huge stress on the ruler, this results in the soft discs between the vertebrae being squeezed at the front, causing them to expand the ligaments backwards, making contact with a nearby nerve exiting the spinal column, and pain.
[3] I quickly discovered that in most cases the solution cannot be handed over to a third party. You can seek help from one of the many experts working with back pain, but they are merely relieving the symptoms. Only you can relieve the cause.
[4] It’s difficult to understand that while the universal solution to every problem is to remove the cause, [no cause/no pain] the only medical solution is to always keep the spine in perfect posture which is an impossibility.
[5] I have tackled the obvious solution [the cause] head-on, and am amazed this has never been done before. Some 30,000 ex-back sufferers are now sitting pain-free as a result of using my custom-made chairs guaranteeing perfect posture.
[6] My latest invention, the Spinal Scaffold, is the ultimate solution. It is custom-made to the precise perfect posture shapes of the 560 million back sufferer’s spines worldwide and, it may sound unbelievable, they never even have to leave home.
