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In message <[log in to unmask]>, John Willenbruch <[log in to unmask]> writes >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 John Boy I won't repeat my references to the work of Jull, Hides, Richardson and Hodges that I have forwarded in a reply via the list to Mel Siff's post but I suggest you read them to 'close the circle'. Would you be good enough to cite the references and perhaps quote the articles you have read that talk about these muscles being 'weaker'. Is this the word that they use? If so maybe you have been unfortunate to come across some poor articles. I will not be able to reply to you until my return from holiday on the 14th of this month. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%