Vine – November 2008

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Book ClUB
back pain test
This one minute self-test can help you
last month’s book: The Time Machine by H G Wells understand where your backache comes from. it will also
help you if you’re not experiencing back pain to help
Our October book was The Time Machine by
remove distortion patterns that may lead to back pain in
h G Wells. Written in 1895 it was Wells’ first novel,
the future.
a slim classic which tells the story of an unnamed
.The Mirror Test: stand facing a mirror with your
nineteenth century inventor who propels himself eight
arms hanging loosely at your sides. Can you see more
hundred thousand years into the future. he soon
than one knuckle? look at both shoulders? is one higher
discovers that the apparently idyllic world he finds
than the other? Place your hands on both hips. is one
is dominated by masters and slaves just like his own
hand higher than the other?
Victorian era.
if you answered yes to any one of these questions you
sevenoaks teenager Nick took the story at face value
have postural distortion that usually comes from muscle
and found it “a really good piece of science fiction.
imbalance, muscles that are tight but also muscles that
although it was written a long time ago, the language
are weakened in your structural system.
wasn’t too stuffy or technical.” rebecca also enjoyed
The Straight Leg Raise: lie on your back and raise
it, finding it “both gripping and prophetic”. However,
one leg at a time up as far as you can, gently and easily:
it was a book that regular contributor Margaret found
were there different heights of lifting? did one leg feel
very hard to engage with: “i thought this was the work of a rather embittered
easier to lift than the other? was there pain on lifting or
man who was never completely satisfied with what he had achieved in his
descending? if you answered yes it means that the joints
writings, despite his world-wide acclaim....i believe that his extraordinary efforts
to warn mankind of impending disaster in this radical form led to his rather
in your lower back and the muscles that support those
fatalistic theory that things would only get worse.”
joints are not moving as well as they should be.
read next month’s Vine to discover details of our december book.
Lie Down Test: lie on your back and place your
hands under your lower back at belt height. is it easier
to slide one hand under the back compared to the other
What do you think of
Did you know copies of
side? is there more weight from your back on one hand
our book club? Do you have a
Vine are available at every
than the other? if this is the case, this means you have
suggestion for a book to feature with
library in sevenoaks? Plus, the pelvic distortion. when your pelvis twists it means that
a local connection to Sevenoaks?
reference section in Sevenoaks holds your spine’s twisted. this means that certain joints
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