Dear Kevin and Julie
May I add a very important feature about muscles that has not been
mentioned. That of inhibition.
Inhibition is the state where muscles are told not to be strong. Thus they
act weak. THEY ARE NOT WEAK.
It is like kids in a classroom, they are not mute, they are not allowed to
talk.
This work is basically that of JANDA and LEWITT. I have a few things to
add.
I have been in the game since 1966.
If I have time I will supply information about muscle behaviour and timing
techniques before Friday. I am going to Adelaide, Australia to give a 4
day talk on muscle timing/strength/contraction/effort, etc.
It will be in a form or a PDF file to be found on my website. If I cannot
get it there by friday it will be there by next Tuesday. This is part of a
350 page programme I have written.
Inhibition is a totally forgotten part of all muscle movement/lack of
etc/timing between groups (VIP).
Inhibition is the cause of muscle weakness found in strengthening
programmes. Usually the poor participant is blamed for not performing
their exercises, their stretching, their strengthening, etc.
THEY HAVE, but definitely become weaker.
There is another factor. It is a spiral of problems that starts with the
talus and then the sacro-iliac joint on the opposite side and the neck on
the same side of the talus.
These problems lead to what you have talked about in several emails from
here.
Another major player for externally rotated foot is the short psoas (NOT
the iliacus).
In Australia, very few Physiotherapists (read, physical therapists) know
about this muscle let alone treat it.
Outside the quadratus lumborum, it is the most injured muscle I see. I
have kept record for over 13 years on the muscles I treat.
1. psoas
2. quadratus lumborum
3. gluteus medius
4. gluteus minimus
5. infraspinatus
6. trapesiuz
6. splenius capitus.
This represents 69% of all muscles I treat. (the spreadsheet is over 38000
muscles treated).
Hopefully this information can be of assistance.
Paul Conneely
www.musmed.com.au
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