Recently, a reporter from NPR interviewed a health expert, Esther Gokhale, on why indigenous populations do not have much back pain compared to people in industrialized nations. Gokhale’s answer is that people in indigenous cultures have a J-shape spine. (1) “That S-shaped spine is actually not natural. It’s a J-shaped spine that you want,” she stated. … Continue reading Indigenous People Get Back Pain Too; They Just Don’t Talk About It Much