Journal of Women's Health Care
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Ahimsa Porter Sumchai

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• Research Article
  The Human Spine is like a Precious Strand of Pearls
  Author(s): Ahimsa Porter SumchaiAhimsa Porter Sumchai
  
  “The human spine is like a precious strand of pearls linked together by ligaments, muscles and connective tissues.” The 21st Century Upright Woman was originally published by the San Francisco Bay view Newspaper on April 10, 2010, as an essay exploring the relationship between the anatomy and evolutionary anthropology of the spine, low back pain, lumbar degenerative disc disease and the spine health of the modern woman. It was inspired by a presentation and workshop on Women’s Health I led that month at the University of San Francisco’s Mission Bay Campus. This review details the conclusive body of anthropological evidence linking human evolution and the bipedal spine to the Global Pandemic of low back pain and lumbar degenerative disc disease. Occupational injury, strain and sports overuse, morbid obesity, poor posture and spinal malalignments, extended sittin.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-0420.1000258

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