Ken Harper
11-07-2003, 12:47 PM
All:
In the Strength, Conditioning, & Performance Enhancement section there's a thread on Mobility Training and Dynamic Flexibility that's got gold in it for anyone trying to figure out how to rehab a lingering condition. Here's one of the gems from Coach Sonnon:
"when it comes to Residual Muscular Tension and patterns of Sensory Motor Amnesia, increased sophistication is required. Dr. Karel Lewit, one of the world's most significant musculoskeletal specialist often said, "He who treats the site of pain, is lost."
Another one is:
impact travels diagonally across the body, like our handedness, because of the organization of our brain and as a result, our (generally) contralateral movement - a process called Back Force Transmissions Systems. Furthermore, when you receive impact trauma, it (typically) travels to the first softest place along the skeleton: connective tissue. To protect that damage, muscles act defensively by creating patterns of 'bracing' in order to prevent further damage. This is a natural and beneficial reflex, but sustained become chronic patterns of Fear-Reactivity distorting posture and impeding movement capability.
I mention this here because I am pain free for the first time since January from a "knee" injury resulting from a fluke landing while jumping rope. From late Jan until Nov 6th, I simply couldn't sit cross-legged or do related movements. Likewise, after doing kettlebell sport training, the next morning I could only walk downstairs clutching the railing for support my gastrocs/calves were so tight.
On Oct 28th I posted a Q about this condition that Coach Sonnon responded to immediately. I applied his suggestions and, based on the thread above, realized there were other things I could try to alleviate the "kinetic chain" or "trauma chain" if you will.
Here it is 10 days later and, following a heavy KB snatch day, I am pain free and looking forward to performing movements with increasingly sophisticated ROM.
Two things: 1) obviously I benefitted from specific protcols, and 2) going forward, I now have "tools" that I can apply should other "trauma chains" produce fear-reactivity in other areas.
Obviously, what we can learn here are not panaceas, but ways to educate ourselves (the root meaning of "educate" is "to lead out of" ignorance or darkness) so that we can not only help ourselves, but others as well.
Since this is the month of Thanksgiving, I give thanks (and thinks!) for the resources available here.
Ken
In the Strength, Conditioning, & Performance Enhancement section there's a thread on Mobility Training and Dynamic Flexibility that's got gold in it for anyone trying to figure out how to rehab a lingering condition. Here's one of the gems from Coach Sonnon:
"when it comes to Residual Muscular Tension and patterns of Sensory Motor Amnesia, increased sophistication is required. Dr. Karel Lewit, one of the world's most significant musculoskeletal specialist often said, "He who treats the site of pain, is lost."
Another one is:
impact travels diagonally across the body, like our handedness, because of the organization of our brain and as a result, our (generally) contralateral movement - a process called Back Force Transmissions Systems. Furthermore, when you receive impact trauma, it (typically) travels to the first softest place along the skeleton: connective tissue. To protect that damage, muscles act defensively by creating patterns of 'bracing' in order to prevent further damage. This is a natural and beneficial reflex, but sustained become chronic patterns of Fear-Reactivity distorting posture and impeding movement capability.
I mention this here because I am pain free for the first time since January from a "knee" injury resulting from a fluke landing while jumping rope. From late Jan until Nov 6th, I simply couldn't sit cross-legged or do related movements. Likewise, after doing kettlebell sport training, the next morning I could only walk downstairs clutching the railing for support my gastrocs/calves were so tight.
On Oct 28th I posted a Q about this condition that Coach Sonnon responded to immediately. I applied his suggestions and, based on the thread above, realized there were other things I could try to alleviate the "kinetic chain" or "trauma chain" if you will.
Here it is 10 days later and, following a heavy KB snatch day, I am pain free and looking forward to performing movements with increasingly sophisticated ROM.
Two things: 1) obviously I benefitted from specific protcols, and 2) going forward, I now have "tools" that I can apply should other "trauma chains" produce fear-reactivity in other areas.
Obviously, what we can learn here are not panaceas, but ways to educate ourselves (the root meaning of "educate" is "to lead out of" ignorance or darkness) so that we can not only help ourselves, but others as well.
Since this is the month of Thanksgiving, I give thanks (and thinks!) for the resources available here.
Ken