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Lak



Aug 21, 08 - 11:20 AM 		Muscle Imbalances

Hi All,
I think most will agree that muscle imbalances play a major part in most pains back,legs etc and we are all striving to correct the dysfunctions.

However I am sure there isn't a person alive who has the perfect muscle balance and must have some kind of imbalances, but why do these people never get any back pain ?

I know people who definitely don't have perfect muscle balance but have never suffered back pain and hopefully they never will.

It's very puzzling.

Thanks,
Lak
Tom



Aug 21st, 2008 - 6:19 PM 		Re: Muscle Imbalances

I'm with ya mate... I've always wondered that too. Especially the ones with big beer guts & horrible posture - never had a back pain much less twinge in their life! And if they've had an MRI it may look horrible but again no pain. Go figure!
Robert



Sep 4th, 2008 - 4:10 PM 		Re: Muscle Imbalances

The ones with the beer bellies have weight imbalances. I think muscle imbalances occur due to repetative muscle strain (always doing the same thing more to one side or the other). I have tried the stretches to correct tight muscles and have had very positive results. People that look like they should be in pain usually get there given enough time. Some of them live on drugs and say they have no pain.
Dave Hutchieson



Sep 4th, 2008 - 9:54 PM 		Re: Muscle Imbalances

Lak

It would take me about three pages to go through all the reasons, but here are a few:

1. The sacro-iliac joint is highly susceptible to any form of imbalance in the iliacus muscles. SI joint pain can mimic back pain almost exactly. One of the main reasons why some people look "great" on MRI's and X-rays yet have horrible "back pain". It is the great overlooked factor in many cases. SI joint problems are very difficult to detect on an x-ray.

2. Some people have herniations showing on x-rays yet have no pain. Why ? The nerves in your spinal cord only contain a small fraction of pain nerves, and their distribution within the cord varies from person to person. This means that some people will have massive pain from a tiny herniation, yet others [ like myself ] can have a massive herniation that was digging further and further into the spinal cord, without hitting any major pain nerves, but then one day ........

3. Remember that the spine is susceptible not only to compressive forces [ straight up and down ]but to ROTATIONAL or TWISTING forces. Only five degrees of twisting is enough for bones to hit nerves as they come out of their "holes" in the spine [ intervertebral foramen ]. Some lucky individuals can have a lot of weight, look awful and have no back pain, due to good disk height in their spines, but let me see how they're doing when they're seventy.

4. Different people have different amounts of collagen in their systems. This is good and bad. I'll be 51 in October and people have always said "oh, you look 10 years younger". The bad part is that my body laid down massive amounts of scar tissue when I was injured. I'd rather look ten years older.

5. The simple fact that muscle reconditioning systems such as LTBP and others have a higher rate of success than any other out there.

Dave
Dave Hutchieson



Sep 4th, 2008 - 9:55 PM 		Re: Muscle Imbalances

Robert

You have hit the nail on the head.

Given enough time ......

Dave


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