Agreed upon! Sometimes the lag between email conversations makes it
difficult to respond accurately and appropriately. Training those muscles
in isolation would be futile and probably produce few results, but in
conjunction with an extensive whole body approach can produce desirable
results!
Patrick Zerr
www.apluspt.com
The easiest way to prepare for the National PT Exam!
www.summitpt.com
Summit Physical Therapy; Tempe, Arizona
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Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:56 AM
Subject: Core Stability Paradoxes
> Patrick Zerr<[log in to unmask]> writes:
>
> << Mel, what would you propose we do as therapists, ignore training these
> muscles? Is there some "super" exercise we should be doing? Please let
us
> know >>
>
> ***Not at all. As the authors of several of those studies on "core
> stabilisation" seem to suggest in most cases, concurrently use a few
> 'isolated' with more global methods, because it really is virtually
> impossible to demonstrate that isolated methods are superior to integrated
> methods or vice versa at any stage of the rehabilitation process.
>
> Dr Mel C Siff
> Denver, USA
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Supertraining/
>
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