CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FONAR Corporation (NASDAQ:FONR), The Inventor of MRI™, reported today a news conference held on November 27 at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). The press conference scheduled by RSNA featured research conducted at The Positonal MRI Research Centre, University of Aberdeen, Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen, Scotland. Waseem Amir Bashir, M.B.Ch.B., F.R.C.R., author and clinical fellow in the Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging at the University of Alberta Hospital, Canada and Professor Francis W. Smith, M.D., of the University of Aberdeen and a pioneer in the original development of MRI technology presented. They were invited to present their findings to the National Press Corps regarding their findings about the proper sitting position to avoid back pain and the proper seating structures to avoid the “straight back” that causes back pain and the correct seating to optimize the lordotic curve of the spine that greatly reduces the back pain syndrome. The findings represent the outcome of research conducted on the FONAR Upright™ Multi-Position™ MRI, where FONAR’s Positional MRI scanner was utilized to determine the best seating position to inhibit the onset of the “back-pain syndrome.”
