Once, I had to stop during a match because my left hip blocked. I was unable to move.

I had many X-rays and doctors found a lot of arthrosis in my body :
"Left knee, left hip, three vertebras in the middle of my spine were I was hurt when I was thirteen.
To say nothing of my achilles tendon which was made thinner from cortison injections."

Doctors forbade me to do any sport.

I wanted to ride a bicycle or at least to take long walks but they told me my joints were degenerating prematuraly, and, if I didn't want to be in a wheel chair at the age of fifty, I shouldn't exercise.
I was really disappointed, quite desperate because I had been practising sport for ages and I needed to carry on.
I obeyed the doctor's sentence for two years.
I was feeling depressed over these two years, almost to the point of a mental break-down.
So, I disobeyed and went for a long walk with some friends of mine, shooting partridges in the Haut Var.
I discovered something : that day put me in a very good shape.
Then, I decided to practise shooting in the Corsican and Varoises mountains.
I did this, for ten years and discovered something else.
After ten days walking up and down in the mountains, my belt was loose.
I gained two holes on my belt but, after a fortnight's rest, again the holes went back to the same place.
So, ten years after this discovery, I was in such good shape that I went for new X-rays which showed no difference with those done ten years before.
It was a pleasant surprise and I felt less degenerated.
I went to see the doctors who sentenced me so wrongly : They said : " Disregard it! You are a lucky man ! There is nothing to understand !
This explanation wasn't satisfactory and I wanted to understand what had happened.

First of all, I realised two things :
- Basket-ball had hurt me !
- Walking, up and down, in the mountains , on the contrary,had cured me.

Then, I studied many things like acupuncture and osteopathy. So,I approached human anatomy differently.
At the university, I learned about muscles on dead bodies and dead body don't move generally.
So, I began to learn about muscles on a moving body.
Muscles never move alone, they are connected like chains and they work together.
I made a personal comparison between muscular chains and acupunctural meridians.
I found a lot of common points.
Chinese acupuncturers have been studying the human body for three thousand years and discovered a lot of points along the spine, which are able to cure a lot of diseases.
The whole chinese physiology is located along the spine which they called " the bone of life " just as the Egyptians called the vertebra, the "key of life", four thousand years ago.

My first discovery was : If the muscles, along the spine, are contracted , the vertebra can't move and the organ which corresponds to it, can't work.

You should know that in chinese acupuncture as in osteopathy, each vertebra corresponds to an organ like heart, liver, lungs, kidneys and so on.
So, in that kind of medecine, if you could relax the spine muscles, you could make the body free and cure a lot of functional diseases.
Functional diseases represent ninety per cent of all sicknesses.
So, you can understand why I was interested in this life-bone.
I read many articles about it and I found one by Professor Kapandji, a french anatomist who made a hypothesis about "the particular role of the third lumbar vertebra".