Medi Body Rehab

07/06/2024

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12/01/2023

As an Osteopath I see:
-The body as a unit with each part affecting each and every other part of the body.
-The whole body is greater than the sum of its parts.
-The person represents a combination of body, mind and spirit.

12/01/2023

Core muscles... There are not only our abdominals..

The core is the group of trunk and hip muscles that surround the spine, abdominal viscera and hip. Core muscles are essential for proper load and balance within the spine, pelvis, and kinetic chain.

Abdominal, gluteal, hip girdle, paraspinal, and other muscles work together to provide the spinal stability.
Having a strong, stable core helps us to prevent injuries and allows us to perform at our best.

11/01/2023

Sciatica is common in those who perform repetitive movements, have poor posture, or lift something heavy. Sciatica is a pain coming from the low back and radiating or shooting down the leg. However, this can become a blanket term for many different conditions which all need to be treated differently because they are coming from different sources.

10/01/2023

10/01/2023

The piriformis muscle is a flat, band-like muscle located in the buttocks near the top of the hip joint. It extends across the sciatic nerve. A piriformis muscle spasm can put pressure on the sciatic nerve and cause pain, tingling or numbness. This is called a piriformis syndrome.

The piriformis gets a workout every day. We use it when we walk or turn our lower body. We even use it just from shifting our weight from one side to the other. The muscle can become injured or irritated from long periods of inactivity or too much exercise.
Anyone who sits for long periods of time, such as people who sit at a desk all day or in front of a television for extended periods of time, are at a higher risk for piriformis syndrome. We’re also at increased risk if we participate in frequent, rigorous lower-body workouts

10/01/2023

Food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.

Hippocrates

10/01/2023

Transversus Abdominis is the core of our core muscles.

It is essential for proper body mechanics during movement and even for sitting and standing.

The Transversus Abdominis (or TA) literally looks and acts like a corset. It wraps horizontally all around the torso and spams across the space between the ribs and the hips.
It's function is to compress the abdominal wall, to support internal organs and lumbar spine as we bend, twist, lift and move through life.

So, why do you tell me to tighten my stomach when it’s my back that hurts? - I hear it often from my patients.

TA is a deepest abdominal muscle which attaches to the Erector Spinae muscles through connective tissue. The Erector Spinae is not just one muscle in our back, but it is made up of a bundle of muscles and tendons which separate into three strands on both sides of the vertebral column originating and inserting at various points of the sacrum, ribs, lumbar, thoracic, and cervical spine. When contracting the Transverse Abdominis, this contraction translates to the Erector Spinae through the connective tissue. Together these muscles create a natural girdle which results in increased stability and affect our overall posture.

09/01/2023

What is a posture?
Describing our posture we mean the position in which we hold our body while standing, sitting or lying down. Correcting and keeping a good posture involves training our body to stand, walk, sit and lie so as to place the least strain on muscles and ligaments while we are moving or performing weight-bearing activities.

The idea of a good posture is to keep our body in a correct alignment, maintaining the spine's natural curvatures, with our neck straight and shoulders parallel with the hips, our shoulders back and relaxed. Our abdomen pulled in and
our feet about hip distance apart. We should be able balance our weight evenly on both feet.

Correcting our posture may feel awkward at first because our body has become so used to sitting and standing in a particular way.