Natural Joint Mobility
(Introductory Page)
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This is the new web site for the work of John Gorman, engineer and
chiropractor. At present I work mainly
as a chiropractor in Eversley in Hampshire and Crowthorne in Berkshire. (South of Reading and Wokingham in
Berkshire, west of Sandhurst and Camberley in Surrey and north of Fleet,
Hartley Wintney and Hook in Hampshire and very near to Yateley. Phone number for local chiropractic
inquiries only please 118 973 5224)
From October 2006 my main clinic has become The Island Sports Injury
Clinic in Hook. 01256 769344 It is behind the Crooked Billet pub on the A30
London Road. www.islandclinic.co.uk
This is near Basingstoke, Odiham and Hartley Wintney.
Natural Joint Mobility is the name that I have used for a course that I
have done over the past three years for patients. It is a combination of sitting habits, posture and stretching
aimed at preventing and correcting musculoskeletal problems including
particularly low back pain. It almost
amounts to a lifestyle but a very simple and effective one and has implications
for the use of the body in various sports.
To explain what I mean by Natural Joint Mobility it is probably best to
look at the evolution of my ideas chronologically. I am an engineer by education and first career. It was my own low back problems, which
forced me to look for the cause with a fresh engineering mind. My conclusions were original, different,
very important and so far unrecognised. ( In a nutshell the cause is the
distortion in the shape of the spine resulting from civilised sitting
habits. Click here for a one-page explanation.)
As part of my research I qualified as a chiropractor in 1989 and have
practised continuously since. This
experience has shown me how lacking in joint mobility most of us are, and that
this is responsible for many of our musculoskeletal problems.
I have put these two ideas together to form what I have called Natural
Joint Mobility. I will be expanding
this web site considerably in the next few months to include details of the
course "Natural Joint Mobility", daily stretching exercises,
therapeutic stretches for particular problems, implications for various sports
particularly skiing, details of office seating, car seats and many other
subjects. (Jan 2007-Quite a lot of
this has been done but there is lots more to come. For now more detail is available on my old web site http://www.backseat.co.uk/)
John Gorman
September 2004
e-mail: mailto:gormans@waitrose.com
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