All this time I was making my own study of people's backs. I experimented with various aspects of my technique and drew my own conclusions. Thus I benefited immensely from these treatments and practice certainly makes one perfect. So I discovered the various causes of pain, spasms of muscles and scoliosis and found treatments for them.
This went on for almost 10 years before I formulated my hypothesis and proved it in my own mind with practice and logic. I discovered that medical science had lost its way in understanding and teaching backache, as some initial blunders on the understanding of functions of muscles had led to confusion on the subject. I also realised that it is sometimes not merely a physical problem but a complex psychological and emotional problem leading to a physical manifestation.
Years later in London my colleague, Miss Jiwan Brar, who specialised in therapeutic yoga after completing a course in physical therapy and sports injury management, helped me with an assessment of the various back conditions. Having been a PhD scholar at King's College in London in genetics, she was very methodical and scientifically orientated. I discussed my hypothesis of posture management and backache and she helped me to evaluate those ideas, with brilliant results. Time and again she tested chronic backache cases assessing the state of the weight-bearing and other involuntary muscle fibres. We treated many of these patients together. I did the massage/manipulative therapy, while she used specific yoga exercises, designed for backaches, to treat the most complicated cases that came to me. I had used simple yogic exercises in the past but Jiwan developed a series of highly effective therapeutic yoga exercises in line with my hypothesis and concept of the muscle functions. We worked together for years perfecting the technique which became known in the clinic as THE ALI TECHNIQUE FOR BACKACHE.
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