Muscle Therapy vs Mechanical Therapy

1. Muscle Therapy vs Mechanical Therapy

2. Rounded Shoulders (Muscle Therapy vs Mechanical Therapy) Some
therapist would say that you have to much tonus across the
ventral aspect, too much stretch and tension in the dorsal aspect.

3. I need to start working on the dorsal aspect and to get those
muscles to pull the shoulders back, hence I will overcome rounded
shoulder.
It’s impossible to work

4. If your walking around with rounded shoulders like that, you certainly have
taken the attachment sides of the musculature closer together, and the muscle
will adapt to that. The muscle has to re-adjust to it, because otherwise it will
have too much slack to take up.

5. When the muscle is required to work, neurological tonus will take up the extra
slack and the muscle will adapt and accommodate for that new position

6. The same thing with the muscle what has been lengthened at the
back, they have to relax and take a new tonus position for them to
perform.
The tonus is driven by the neurological system.

7. Pure tone is a neurological issue, something you can’t train for, if
you think you have more tone, what you really have is a tight
muscle.

8. Your having too much tension 24 hours a day, if that feels good to
you, so be it, it’s a non-performing construction, it will do damage.

9. If you have been exercising and those muscles are getting tighter
because of that exercise, it’s because you have been exercising on a
bad mechanical basis in the first place.

10. You start to bulk up with that tonus, and you will be tight, the
tonus will be a natural occurrence, it tries to catch up with the
circumstances of the case, as a certain moment in time.

11. The round shoulders are not a function of muscle pulling, it’s a
function of mechanics in the first place, and the muscles have to
adapt accordingly, it’s the chicken and egg theory, what came first?

12. If you consider the muscle did all the pulling and changed the
position, then your therapy is going to be in that direction.

13. If you consider the mechanics came first and then the muscle
changed accordingly, then your therapy is going to be completely
different.

14. The type of therapy is chalk and cheese, you could be totally
wrong or all on the ball. You have to resolve a philosophy for
yourself, you have to ponder everything and come to realize a
philosophy your going to do your therapy, and it has to be evident
based.

15. Taking the muscle therapy as philosophy, the success rate is
extremely low, how can you continue that and not question your
therapeutical tactics. Because the text book tells them, they are
not capable to think for themselves and to be different from what
they are educated on.

16. The problem is that the education probably didn’t motivate them
to think for themselves, and see if there are different tendencies
and avenues

17. The position of your shoulders is perfectly related to the position
of your pelvis.
Chang your pelvis around and your re-positioning your shoulders.

18. The concept of whinging scapula and that the serratus anterior is
playing up is the same story.
As the rounded shoulders, your winging your scapula purely
because you have rounded shoulders.

19. You have a pelvis in the wrong position but also have heavily
rotations through your axial skeleton, which will pop that clavicle,
turn it, pull the shoulder girdle around and you have a winging
scapula.

20. So, it’s a mechanical problem and muscles have to adapt to that, so
don’t blame the muscles.

21. A statement often used in conservative therapy is the concept that
with shortened muscles you stretch the hell out of it and
lengthened muscles your going to exercise and build it up, that is a
ludicrous type of therapy, it doesn’t have any solid basis

22. It’s not only about pelvis position, because the whole axial
skeleton is twisted up, it’s something you have to deal with but
pelvis position is a major factor.

23. It’s exactly playing around the sagittal plane, that’s a major factor,
then you have this transverse and coronal plane on top of that
what will have to be adjusted to overcome round shoulders.

24. You can overcome round shoulders only just by playing around
with the sagittal plane, after that you have to try to make a change
in the transverse and coronal plane, that’s where the greatest
issues lay.
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25. By changing the sagittal plane, you take the load off the other two
planes, when the load on the natural S curve is put more
anteriorly, posteriorly have to compensate.
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26. If you throw your pelvis in the wrong position (anteriorly or
posteriorly tilt), you will have the load off centre.

27. If you have the load off centre, there is much more force to control,
that when you move in the transverse plane you move as well
through the coronal plane.Your loading yourself up dramatically

28. If you change through the sagittal plane, the other two planes will
not have the same effect.

29. In the sagittal plane you will find it has a major bearing on changing
your capacity to move freer, with not so much tension within your
system.

30. If you had a very bad sagittal plane and was twisted up in the
other two planes, because you got out of wack in the sagittal
plane, the other two planes have more power to do damage to the
system.

31. If you take the sagittal plane out, those other two planes have
lessened/modified capacity to do damage.

32. Knowing that our major problems lay in the coronal and
transverse plane, if you allow damage to the sagittal plane while
the other two planes are out of whack, then it’s extremely
damaging.

33. Just to adjust through the sagittal plane, you have achieved a heck
of a lot, to moving into changing the behaviour of the other two
planes, that’s a larger more difficult job to do.

34. You can accomplish change through the sagittal plane in a week if
your client removes the digits and take responsibility for
themselves and get up and do what they have been told.

35. If they don’t want to do that what you have teach them to do, you
can’t do anything for them, you can’t teach old dogs’ new tricks.