Over­ stretching causing damage may occur when an outside force places an excessive strain on the low back. It follows that people with sedentary office jobs easily develop low back problems as they often sit with a rounded back for hours on end. After attending Wairarapa College, he enrolled in the New Zealand School of Physiotherapy, from which he graduated in 1952.

has been found to raise the pressure in the discs to a much higher level than that existing when the weight is held with the body upright and the lordosis present. Similarly, if your symptoms consistently increase immediately fOllowing the exercises and you remain worse over the following two days, you should discontinue the exercises and seek advice from }'Our health provider. Some people who habitually adopt poor postures and remain unaware of the underlying cause experience back pain throughout their lifetime simply because they were not in possession of the necessary information to correct the postural faults.In the beginning you must do only five or six repetitions per session; the sessions are to be repeated once or twice per day and must always be followed by Exercise 3. As a rule, pain of postural origin will decrease as your sitting posture improves, and you will have no pain once you maintain the correct posture. The lumbar lordosis is a natural feature of the lumbar spine in all humans, having been formed during the evolutionary process. Many people with low back pain feel worse when they are lying down and dread the thought of another night with more back pain and less sleep. This patient handbook provides an easy to follow self-treatment plan to quickly and effectively diagnose, treat, alleviate and manage debilitating back and related pains, even for the long-term sufferer.

Instead, they will find a seminal and insightful work that had a major influence on both science and the public.He has lectured worldwide, and to give some measure of the success of the system of treatment he has developed, his methods are now practised in North and South America, Eastern and Western Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Scandinavia, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. This is not only important for the sake of your back but is also necessary to assist in the stimulation of the circulation in the legs.