Dear All
With regard to global movement, I recently read an article utilising EMG. It
found associated contractions in lumbar erector spinae and abdominals when
chewing. In my dept we decided to get a sausage sandwich to work our six
pack.
I think the stronger you assert anything in this job the sillier you have
the potential to look. The mechanics of the whole body, muscle, nervous and
endocrine systems, fascia, joint, fluids etc is incredible. If a butterflies
wings in australia (small a because they have fluked their second ashes
win), can set off a hurricane in the south america (small a because of their
sucidal environmental policy), what happens when we turn our head?.
Butler in his second book appears apologetic for the first. He shouldnt be,
it was a masterful piece of work for the time. Even if some of the reasoning
was flawed the first edition helped many to grasp the global nature of their
movement treatments. Of course other tissues need to be considered eg
visceral/fascia/circulatory and Stuart Robertson is doing some great stuff
on these in the UK. OOPS mustnt forget the millenium talisman, of course the
CNS is important too.
Some thoughts, I have recovered from my hybination, ? spelling
Kevin Reese PT UK
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Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: Get the ball rolling again
> Dear Henry,
> Yes , obviously, we have to consider a joint in 3-D. How could we forget
> this? All the biomechanics is based upon this principle. A good simple
> practical approach already is PNF. Nothing can be performed in a single
> plane; According to me a passive range of motion exercise in one of the
three
> planes only is an agression . I believe in global movements because they
are
> physiological and the theories on motor control would not deny this.
Sorry,
> I do not have the time to go back to recent studies, but where is Mel
Siff?
> I hope that somebody is going to jump on the subject and add references.
> Thank you for getting the ball rolling in an interesting way...It is a lot
> better than the messages I was receiving these past days...Thank you.
Have a
> great day. AMVNewman
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