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To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>;
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Date: Tuesday, 1 September 1998 21:58
Subject: SPINAL PARADOX (PP119)
>In a message dated 9/1/98, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>>I don't think it is as simple as that. Granted, movement and changes in
>>posture is important and advocated by all sensible therapists. However,
>>depending on the amount of deviation, biomechanical abnormalities may
occur
>>which will/may contribute to back pain. for example, elite athletes do
>>not keep still for long but many have back problems and when analysed ,
>>generally point to a biomechanical problem caused by poor musculature
>>or movement.
>
>***Kindly note that the P&P referred to the average person not under heavy
>sports loading. The greater the load, the less deviation from one's
optimally
>most efficient posture must occur. Moreover, it is well known that greater
>volumes of heavy loading can lead to overuse injuries. The repetitive
stress
>syndrome is also familiar to most. The posture variation hypothesis refers
to
>what the 'average' unloaded or sedentary person should be doing over a
typical
>day, not what needs to be done when added loads have to be managed.
>
> <snip>
>
>>Remember, practice makes permanent only perfect practice makes perfect
>
>***I also used to quote this popular saying until I realised that this is
>perfect nonsense. If one has already achieved perfection in practice, why
>would it be necessary to practice any more - to make perfection even more
>perfect? No, perfection develops by allowing the body to practise its
error-
>correcting mechanisms on imperfect or approximate solutions to motor
problems.
****no, to maintain it
>
>In information theory, we know that a perfectly rhythmic or perfectly
>predetermined signal carries no useful information - it is only when this
>signal is modulated or disturbed that it carries useful information. In
other
>words, perfection as an end in itself implies the end of anything further -
>attainment of perfection is doom for you, at least in this universe!
>
>Dr Mel C Siff
>Littleton, Colorado, USA
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