How Much Is A Cure For Back Injuries
Worth To You, Your Company,
Your Country?

People all over the globe, as many as 80% of some populations such as in the United States, will suffer a painful back injury in their lifetime. These injuries result in lifestyles being altered, production being lost, and high healthcare costs impacting individuals, corporations, insurance companies, and governments.

The significant costs of these injuries spawned research into how to effectively train workers to prevent back injuries and other sprain/strains while conducting work duties as well as at home activities.

This research uncovered a society-wide dearth of a practical understanding of how to safely perform routine activities of daily living. It was found that man, woman, and child alike, unknowingly used their bodies incorrectly every day of their lives.

We thought surely common back injuries had to have a more profound and complex etiology (cause of origin) than merely conducting one's daily activities incorrectly. [Note: Acute back injuries from sudden trauma are not the topic of this newsletter.] The ubiquitous back injury wasn't just a consequence of wear and tear from misuse, was it? There had to be something quite complex or a hidden structural defect that somehow had gone undetected for centuries, right?

Was the cause of most back injuries so fundamental, so "obvious", that it was never validated as a possible cause? Could years of insidious misuse cause enough degradation in the integrity of the spine to be responsible for all of these painful and expensive injuries?

 
We all know someone who has had a back injury or even had one yourself. We know they are extremely painful and can restrict even the simplest activities. We are certainly motivated to not experience a back injury, as pain is a strong deterrent.

Yet would you even notice your child lifting a backpack with a twist or your spouse lifting the groceries incorrectly? Most of you are probably aware of how many cylinders your car engine has and which side your gas cap is on, but do you know how many bones make up our spine? How many curves are there in the spine? Why are there curves? What is the most harmful movement to the spine? Factually, we know more about our vehicles than we do our spines.

"Doc, I was just getting something out of my trunk and it was like I got hit by lighting!" That injury probably had very little to do with that present action. It was most likely the result of a lifetime of not knowing the ABC's of practical body mechanics and how one can be more in charge of their own musculoskeletal health.

  
You see that is the key - training must produce a personal and willing decision to apply what was learned in order for the training to be considered effective. Nothing existed that produced a change in physical behavior that in turn reduced the daily accumulation of physical stress on the employee's body.

In summary our research discovered the simple underlying cause of most back strains AND that no effective way existed that taught people how to prevent these injuries.

Our research was then confronted with the conundrum of how do you teach people to learn, embrace, and apply physical techniques into their day-to-day lives? After observing typical back injury prevention training via video presentations and by onsite "experts," we observed that although people could get an A on a test of how to lift and bend in life, we saw zero percent of the trainees incorporate these principles into their lives' activities.

 
It would have to result in a self-determined decision by the trainees to incorporate simple and natural techniques into their daily activities because it was a benefit to self not because someone told them to do so.

Many methods were tried and tested including the nuances of how to train a kinetic activity versus strictly the theory of a subject. This was such a new field a name for this didn't exist for it. There existed biomechanics, ergonomics, and stretching. However, a discipline that combined the practical components of each with a training methodology aimed at attaining the trainees "buy-in" to use this information in life did not exist. This new injury prevention field was coined Bionomics(tm), loosely translated to mean "managing one's body" properly.

Bionomics encompasses what every man, woman, or child needs to know to prevent back injuries and other sprain/strains to themselves and family members.

Years of research and training close to 1 million people of all job descriptions and walks of life in three different countries have proven that painful back injuries and their attendant costs are now mostly preventable. A major US airline client recently told us that an employee cancelled his back surgery due to Bionomic training.

What is this Bionomic solution worth to society? Ask the trucking company no longer in business because workers' comp costs were too high in California. Ask the government of Canada that spends billions of taxpayer's money treating these injuries. Ask the child who sees their parent suffering with debilitating pain. Ask the cash strapped governments of the world now reacting to the high healthcare costs.

 
Sincerely,

Dennis Downing, CEO
Future Industrial Technologies, Inc.

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