Article: Author challenges modern beliefs about posture.

Byline: Carolyn Olson

"Ageless Spine, Lasting Health" by Kathleen Porter (Synergy Books, $24.95)

In "Ageless Spine, Lasting Health," Kathleen Porter promises to change the way we sit, stand, bend, walk and sleep.

Porter says she would not have believed those claims before learning in 1997 about a body education and movement technique called Balance. It wasn't as if she were a sedentary person then; she was teaching yoga. But she was plagued with recurring tension in her neck and shoulders, as well as back problems.

She was not alone in having back woes; 80 percent of Americans are reported to suffer back pain with a medical cost of ...

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