JAMA Therapeutic!! And We'd Used It Only as Shim, Fan, Fire Starter, Seat, and Swatter

Abstract

To the Editor.— In my practice, patients with low back pain have responded dramatically to the JAMA -Gibbons back device, which is constructed by rolling two issues of JAMA into a roll 7.6 cm (3 inches) in diameter and wrapping them securely with tape. To use the device (it works particularly well in an automobile seat), the buttocks are pressed back as far as possible against the seat or chair. The device is then placed crosswise between the lumbar spine and the seat and adjusted downward into the lower lumbosacral area. Leaning back against the device restores the lordotic curvature to the lumbar spine and exquisite relief results. Trials using newspapers proved quite unsatisfactory. The black from the print comes off on the clothing and the newspapers rapidly lose their resiliency. The JAMA -Gibbons device is basically hard, and firm resiliency is important. Other publications may also work, but then