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M.B. B.S., FRCS Eng & Ed., F.F.A.E.M., Dip in Law, LL.M, A.C.I. Arb. Consultant Surgeon (A & E) Oxford Regional H. B., Aylesbury Vale NHS Trust, Stoke Mandeville Hosp., Sessional Consultant in the management of post traumatic neck and back pain. David Graham qualified from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1970. His post graduate experience in Orthopaedics and Trauma was gained at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. He subsequently worked in Scotland as a General Surgeon where it was common practice to treat all trauma and acute fracture victims. In 1986 he was appointed Senior Lecturer and Consultant surgeon to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School with responsibilities for Accident and Trauma victims and since that time has worked in Acute Trauma Services.

In 1993 he studied the Law of Torts and in 1996 was awarded the LLM from the University of Wales.

His interests remain in the management of trauma victims and the treatment of soft tissue spinal injuries.

Acknowledgements: I am indebted to all my family and those colleagues who have offered constructive advice and to Mr Roeland Raymakers and Professor Charles Galasko for providing additional information. To the staff of the library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England I owe special thanks for their literature searches and retrieval of articles and special thanks to Carlos Sharpin and Mrs Michelle Gunning.

Professor Robert Mulholland

M.B. B.S., FRCS Eng., M.R.C.S. Eng., Professor of Surgery at the Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery, Nottingham. Professor R.C. Mulholland holds a special chair at Nottingham University. His particular interest is spinal disorders. He trained at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital and then spent two years in Seattle where he was exposed to spinal problems, especially their management by behavioural modification pioneered by Forsyth.