A man buys one hundred and eighty pounds of posture correctors. He buys a one-hundred-and-forty-pound standing desk converter and uses it for three days. He buys eighty pounds of CBD products marketed for joint pain. He continues training his pre-injury programme at the same load through months of shoulder pain on the assumption that pushing through will resolve it. Four months in, his partner tells him to see the physio. Now. He sees the physio. The physio's assessment is rotator cuff with subacromial impingement. The intervention is qualified physiotherapy plus progressive loading. Twelve weeks later, his pain is meaningfully reduced. The intervention was never the four hundred pounds of corrective gadgets in his drawer.
Volume 35 of The Sequeira Library is about posture and pain. The honest framing. What the contemporary pain-science literature actually says, what it does not say, and where the gap between marketing and evidence is widest.
Inside this one
- The biopsychosocial pain framework explained in plain language
- What posture is, what it isn't, and why variability matters more than alignment
- Brinjikji 2015 base-rate data on imaging findings in pain-free populations
- Movement variability and graded loading as the operational levers
- Pain red flags that require immediate qualified clinical evaluation
- The Lederman 2010 critique of the alignment-causes-pain model
The standard it is held to
Every factual claim in this volume names its source, and every claim carries a confidence grade — settled, strong, emerging or contested. Where the evidence is thin, the text says so. How it’s made, in full → · What we’ve got wrong →