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Colm Campbell, a chartered engineer, 25 years ago was taken unconscious by ambulance to hospital with a ruptured disc. The day before the operation he refused to have one. He researched back pain its causes and prevention.and quickly discovered sitting with bad posture is the main cause. He made a car seat insert that provided perfect posture and eight weeks after leaving hospital was able to drive for up to an hour with little pain. He is now totally pain free. The book describes how he achieves Pain Free Living. He designed and patented a system, Spinal System-S, which provides the information to custom tailor a range of office, home and car seats that guarantee perfect posture. Over the last 25 years this has resulted in some ten thousand back sufferers now sitting pain free. Success rates are home 85%, office 95%, car seats 98%.
Every spine has its own unique S shape; backprints are as unique as fingerprints. In engineering terms the spine can be regarded as a vertical flexible S shaped column, when the pressure in the discs is the least possible. Under certain conditions, the main one being sitting, the spine collapses from an S shape into a forward C shape. Just as bending a cheap ball point pen creates great stress in the pen; sitting in a forward C position creates huge stress in the spine and is the main cause of back pain.
Not only is Colm Campbell sitting pain but for 24/7 he is completely pain free. The book describes in detail his three simple laws for achieving pain free living which he calls his Spinal System-Life. In conjunction with these three laws it is essential to have a good knowledge of how the spine works. Knowing how the spine works gives the information on what causes pain. You then know how to prevent pain.
A chapter in the book explains in a simple manner how the spine works. Another chapter is on elective Invasive Surgery and why this is to be avoided. (Colm Campbell has personally interviewed 2,000 people who have had back operations. The percentage of successful operations is less than 1%, so you and see why he calls his refusal to have one as the wisest decision he ever made. He goes as far as saying that before a person is accepted for a back operation it should be made mandatory that it be proved all other non invasive methods have been found wanting.) An important chapter and essential reading for all back sufferers is headed Signpost at the Crossroads. (There are three signs saying Do Nothing, Invasive, Non Invasive. The question is asked Which Do You Take?)
The book describes the causes and prevention of back pain and how the patented process, Spinal System-S, guarantees perfect sitting posture resulting in the least possible pressure in the intervertebral discs resulting in some 10,000 back sufferers now sitting pain free.
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