Bodywork Dynamics

Bodywork Dynamics Pain relief and injury recovery specialist.

09/26/2024

Reciprocal inhibition has been debunked for many years now. Still many practioners claim to use it

As one group of muscles contract, others lengthen. If your lats can't fully lengthen, your shoulders will be limited. If...
07/30/2024

As one group of muscles contract, others lengthen. If your lats can't fully lengthen, your shoulders will be limited. If your quads can fully shorten, your hamstrings won't be able to fully lengthen.

This is something I'm always looking for when my clients come to me with restricted mobility.

First we assess the restriction. Secondly we treat it. Thirdly we train it in order to achieve long lasting change.

I tried to capture that relationship with this drawing of Hulk. As he contracts his his biceps and shoulders, his triceps and lats fully lengthen. As his traps and rhomboids retract his scapula , his pecs lengthen.

Some would call this reciprocal inhibition. The thought that when one muscle contracts the antagonist relaxes. But reciprocal inhibition has been proven to be false. The reality is that when one muscle contracts, the antagonist lengthens, not by relaxing, but by controlling the eccentric contraction. Without that control, injury would be inevitable.

That's why manual therapy should be followed by active training of both the antagonist and protagonist muscles groups. Strength and control of any given range of motion is the key for strong and healthy joints.


A fun way for me to study anatomy is to draw it. Thinking of creating some fun and artistic anatomy drawings and possibl...
07/12/2024

A fun way for me to study anatomy is to draw it. Thinking of creating some fun and artistic anatomy drawings and possibly make some cool prints with them.

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