European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 modern living cervical vertebrae thoracic vertebrae Lumbar vertebrae numbness Here is a symptom o1 spinal Cord vertebral body Back Muscles when you Bend they relax their support of the making it More susceptible to the Anatomy of Back pain by far most Back pain occurs in the Lumbar six times As much As in the cervical re most Lumbar aches Are the result of muscular sciatica results when the sciatic radiating from spinal column Down is abdominal Muscles a crucial source of support for the weak Muscles and protruding Abdomen produce extra stress on the Hen tinted disk new York times if you have you have by Mark Schwed United press International As chief of orthopaedic surgery at Francis David Lehrman used to make a Fine living cutting into other peo Ples while he is still the head Back surgeon at the Miami Beach no longer does he cure mans aching Back with a my surgery has calmed Down quite a Lehrman in against there is far too much Back surgery and most of it is simply not there Are several reasons Why Lehrman is getting out of the Scalpel there was an air plane ride to Hawaii that his wife will never an exercise video craze launched by Jane Fonda and a revolution of sorts in the Way doctors feel about Back experts claim that eight out of 10 americans have the ohm Ashingback syndrome at some Point in their a a backache much of it in the form of command go Back More than billion a year is spent on therapy and it costs employers another billion a year in lost work the leading cause of missed Days from in other if you have a you have a and a headache from paying the men get Back pain from and one of the worst places to sit is in an swivel chair that encourages the slump and women tend to injure their backs while carrying or while Back pain has Many the primary one is the american we Are the i Call us passive Homo Sapiens Lehr Man we sit All Day and get out at night and we and we it is not just work where americans love to look at our two favorite athletic pastimes football and baseball the ones kids learn to play in schoolyards and both Are Sitan Drun sports that do us Little Good As we doctors used to prescribe painkillers and surgery to counter Back but they discovered such treatment not Only did not but actually aggravated the the pendulum is swinging toward Back which Are revolutionizing the med ical approach to chronic Back instead of recommending bed doctors arc sending patients Home to work out the it was a Sitan Drun situation that changed Lehrmann professional he and his wife were flying to i Hawaii for a business but that meant a Long sit on the she started getting severe Back pain after seven hours on the Luhrman it did not go doctors tried everything bed ultrasound but nothing it was very Luhrman i started Reading and i found some people were doing it a Little the treatment was the right she still Lias Back but she jumps and she is Down to 15 percent Back pain from 90 since the plane Lehrman has trained at Back schools in California and and he is convinced that the answer to Back pain is self help on the part of the his Success in treating his wife led him to found the Francis Hospital spine Center and Back the Back school movement started in Sweden and spread rapidly to the United states and the Basic idea is to take the Back patient out of the operating room and into the Lehrman believes education is important because people seem to know so Little about their own discs dont backs dont give Lehrman detailing two Many people think the Back is a weak Crystal Glass kind of we should go into the schools and teach Back training at age 9 or Lehrman we would retrain before they learn the wrong things too if its too late for the next step is in Back patients learn Basic techniques that can help save a they include proper avoiding movements that can injure the managing stress and proper since there Are not Many Back schools in the Lehrman decided to reach the masses with a thoroughly modern approach an exercise video com plete with special new wave dance music and sexy models in Pink Why in the world would the world need another exercise video because the rest Are Lehrman they include Many twisting and bouncing motions that can injure the Jane Fonda is doing a very Good Lehrman Shes created a fitness but a lot of the things she teaches cause Back in not one of those exercise tapes is Safe for the its really an indictment of the medical Fonda and Arnold Schwarzenegger should not be the leaders of fitness in this doctors should have been in there teaching Back fitness from the the 60minute which Sells for opens with Lehrman standing next to a giving a Sermon about the there is also an exercise group that goes through the motions As the exercises Are and a sexy Model in Pink aerobic fashion garb demonstrating the Pelvic tilt the Backbone of the Back some of the exercises Are designed to strengthen the quadriceps muscle of the making it easier to lift things others strengthen abdominal Muscles to support the and achieve a better this is no i just give you the tools to make your life Lehrman above you just have to remember that youre not dead just because you have Back Erma Bombeck w up on Hen they talk about space the Good news is that sometime in this people will be Able to travel on a shuttle to the the bad news is their Luggage will end wherever travellers the subject eventually gets around to lost they Are not pretty like the olympic cyclist medal Winner whose bicycle did not make it Home with him not to mention his or the Cardinal who flew on a commuter plane from Chi Cago to and watched the Luggage hold ing his vestments being unloaded in and you dont want to know what happened to poor Roselyn Gordon of earlier this Roselyn went to Pittsburgh for the wedding of her it was a shame the wedding want held in because that where her Luggage the agent told her if she did not receive her Luggage in 24 she would receive for new the Luggage did not arrive and new underwear was the least of her All she had to Wear tothe wedding were the Slack suit and sneakers she Haft fax eled the family tried to come to the but the Mother of the Bride was too Short and too they found something to a Blue maternity they washed out the spots and dried them with a hair dryer and Roselyn marched Down the aisle Between her two grandsons wearing a maternity dress and a pair of Gold bedroom end of the Story grow As they were eating Din Ner the waitress spilled salad All Over the Gold bedroom slippers and the next time around she spilled Champagne Down the maternity it was probably nothing per Sonal just an my husband is in the process of filling out a two Page questionnaire on his Luggage that sat in Dallas for a month while he was vacationing in new they want every item in the suitcase listed along with when it was where purchased and the original the clothes could go out of style before he gets All the questions there is no place on the form for the clothes he had to buy in port moresby where they Stock clothes for men 5 feet 4 inches or under Hes 5 feet or How he had to endure smart remarks Are you on your Way to a flood i find myself empathizing More and More with the  yugoslavian woman i saw who boarded an air plane in los Angeles wearing two wigs and three fur the woman obviously spoke fluent c los Angeles times Syndicate