This website is
based on the work of John Gorman, engineer and chiropractor.
Born 1943. Lagos Nigeria
University; Cambridge. Christs College.
Engineering.1962-1965
Post degree year -Control Engineering
Career. 1965- 1969. English Electric, Stafford,
England
Training in various departments followed
by design of control systems for steel rolling mills.
1969-1982. Digital Equipment Company.
Maynard, Mass. USA, Munich, Germany and Reading, England. Various positions
including Design Engineer, Applications Engineer, Marketing Manager and Project
Manager.
1982-1987 Independent research into causes
and treatment of low back pain including design and manufacture of prototype
car seats and chairs and small volume manufacture and sale of office chairs and
home chairs.
1987 Submission of paper to Spine based on
this research and development. Not published.
1987 till 2015. I remained in this field
for the rest of my career. I am now 73 and retired. I qualified as a
chiropractor in 1989 and practised till 2014, twenty-five years. During this
time, I used McKenzie (a physiotherapy system) for most cases of acute low back
pain. I trained with the McKenzie Institute UK in 1989 or 1990. McKenzie is
entirely compatible with this argument.
I
also manufactured office chairs (as Pelvic Posture Ltd 1989 – 2002) and
replacement car seats (as Gorman Design Ltd.) These chairs and car seats were
based, not on lumbar support, but on pelvic support as described in my US
patent number 4911502. This patent was granted in about 1985 and expired in
2007.
I
am not now involved in chiropractic or any manufacture or sales.
I
married Yvonne Robson in 1989 and our two children are working in London.
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