Not only did my mother have lumbar surgery in her forties due to an accident as a bus driver in Denver, but I too was in an automobile accident at the age of fifteen which caused damage to my cervical spine. By the age of nineteen, surgery was recommended, and since I was attending the University of Colorado, Denver majoring in biology with the intent to go to medical school, I figured surgery was not an option. The only treatments provided to me for pain relief were physical therapy, chiropractic treatments, and various massage techniques. These helped some, but nothing long lasting; couple days of relief at most. In reviewing all that was done, I thought that perhaps if I focused on posture; on stretching areas that were tight and strengthening areas that were weak, that perhaps I could get some better results. I had NEVER worked out before; I was a science geek, not a gym rat! When I started to learn anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and immunology, I figured “if the body can heal then I would do all that I can to avoid surgery at the ripe old age of nineteen.”