What Breaks The Ideal? (3of5)
The Chain Of Events That Occur In The Slow Onset Of Chronic Pain. This Is The Quiet Beginning Of Your Back Pain That Only Becomes Loud Years Later When Your Symptoms Begin To Show.
Dysfunctional Movement
Now we have a visual of a balanced Skeletal System, floating inside healthy Fascia, allowing your muscles to work in a balanced way. In our search for deeper answers, we had to cross into different fields of research. The field of "Functional Movement" helps us to agree on what ideal function looks like, and the main lesson from it is this:
Before any movement, the body must first create stability. A good visual for this is to imagine standing up from your seat right now. Your first movement of force is actually downwards, as you push your feet into the ground.
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Then, using your breathing muscles (Diaphragm & core), you stabilise yourself in the space you occupy by squeezing into your pelvis, and as you increase the force into the ground, you find yourself rising into a standing position.
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You'll have heard of the term Diaphragmatic breathing, but maybe not realised that it is actually responsible for functional movement, i.e. the stability phase of any movement you make.
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So let's add this to our healthy ideal. When your stability comes from your Diaphragm and core, that constant use provides a strength that keeps your pelvis well-set in a balanced position within your web.
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The first thing that goes wrong?
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You stop breathing with the Diaphragm. This means you stop stabilising from the Diaphragm too. This lack of use over time allows the tissues around the Diaphragm and Pelvic Floor to weaken, and the position of the pelvis within your web can then begin to shift.
This creates the first major imbalance as you attempt to hold yourself against the forces of gravity: an imbalanced pelvis due to weakened diaphragmatic breathing.
But What Causes The Breathing To Change?
From the age of 5 to 16, at least, we sit in an L shape for 6 hours a day. This position blocks the space for Diaphragmatic breathing downwards towards the pelvis, so we have to breathe up into the chest and rib cage instead.
If we're lucky, we don't have a desk job to extend this for another 50 years, 6 hours a day.
But for most of us, by the age of 16, our pelvic stability is weakened, and it shifts position, in most cases into a forward tilt, mimicking the chair position when we are standing up.
The Result: A Skeletal System Hanging Imbalanced Inside Your Web Of Fascia
The Result: A skeletal system that floats imbalanced inside your web of Fascia, with a muscular system forced to dysfunction in order to achieve balance against the force of gravity..
