I have just been off work sick for two weeks and decided to be a good boy in
this time and read lots of lovely articles on Muscle imbalance.... This
turned out to be one of the most frustrateing experiences ever. All of the
articles told one of 2 stories:
In patients with LBP certain muscles are found to be weaker.
If you do these exercises you can re-educate this particular muscle.
However, only one very short article said exercises had a positive effect on
pain and that turned out not to be very detailed, one article showed no
difference between controls and those undergoing TA exercises as regards
pain and all the others failed to mention pain at all. I just wonder if
anyone out there has an article that closes the circle and says "if you
retrain these muscles then a decrease in pain/decreased chance of recurrence
will occur."
Otherwise despite all the theoretical knowledge in the world I have not seen
any that would suggest muscle imbalance is a useful treatment for patients
who want less pain.
Cheers,
John Boy
P.S.
>Dear all
>
>Just a thought with regard to activation of TA....
>The rationale behind core stabilisation is to help the body "relearn" a
>correct way of stabilising the trunk/back...
>
>The repetition of the activation will eventually embed the stimulus to a
>subconscious level such that one will not have to concentrate on activation
>prior to performing a task....
>
>The road to achieving this may be long and the regime relatively boring but
>the ultimate result of TA / Pelvic Floor / Buttock / Oblique muscle tone
>preventing back pain is well worth a try.....
>
>
>Tonio
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>Mr. Tonio Agius M.Sc.(Edin) M.C.S.P.
>Lecturer
>Physiotherapy Department
>Institute of Health Care
>University of Malta
>Malta
>Europe
>
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