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John Gorman
Director
| John Gorman was educated at Ampleforth and
Christ's College Cambridge where he studied Engineering. In his post degree year he
studied control engineering and then completed an Engineering Graduate Apprenticeship with
the English Electric Company. He worked on the control systems for steel rolling mills
before joining the mini computer manufacturer Digital Equipment. With Digital he was involved in hardware, software, systems, interface equipment, project management and marketing in the course of thirteen years. In 1982 his own back problems forced him to study the problem of low back pain and his initial conclusions were published as Homo Sedens in 1982. This was followed in 1983 by 'The Cause of Lumbar Back Pain', He left the computer industry in 1982 to develop and manufacture chairs based on these principles and to continue his investigation into the problem in various ways. The conclusions after six years were contained in the paper 'The Obstetric Reason for Lordosis and its Implications for Lifting and Low Back Pain'. Update 87 published in 1987 first introduced the idea of the 'shape warning pain' but further progress in understanding the whole problem required an understanding of Chiropractic or Osteopathy. In 1987 therefore he enrolled in the McTimoney Chiropractic School in Oxford and started shortly afterwards to write this book in the full version. Due to its size this was then rewritten in this short version. He qualified as a McTimoney Chiropractor in November 1990. Also in 1990 the business of manufacturing chairs, which had continued at a low level during chiropractic training was formed into the company Pelvic Posture Ltd in partnership with Grahame Walker. John Gorman married Yvonne in 1989 and they have two children so he has a personal interest in the ways in which chiropractic, osteopathy and posture or lifestyle can maintain the perfection that children are born with or, together with modern medicine, correct the problems that develop for whatever reasons. He has an interest in the sports of riding, particularly dressage and in skiing, being a British Association of Ski Instructors member, and having sailed since childhood he now enjoys windsurfing.
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