Muscles and joints co-ordinate their activity via firing patterns to produce a direction of movement within the body. It is this co-ordination that produces efficiency of movement preventing the body from working against itself. Re finding a movement that has been lost is best sort after with repetition and each time be gentle in a kind to yourself way, whilst in a near hypnotic state. If you try, to force or prove to yourself you will regain nothing.

You may have heard about the core being important, but perhaps not stopped to think about what that means. The core is not just your front, it is your sides and back too. When you hear core don’t just think abdominals. There is overlap with breathing and posture for muscles of the spine, for example your diaphragm has postural duties and spine postural muscles have breathing duties.

Eminent doctors (1) contend that no other movement can be gotten back if the breathing pattern is not ideal. Breathing…? I hear you say… Yes, Breathing pattern. The pattern or sequence of muscles is the co-ordination of your body – on the inside. Making sure it doesn’t work against itself. Whilst the outer parts of your body can be seen in the mirror, the insides are a magic black box that just seem to work… until they don’t.

Poor breathing can be divided up into front side and back dysfunction (2). How the body has a posterior cinch or an anterior cinch for example. The interplay between the lumber spine erector spinae muscles and the thoracic erector spinae muscles are involved in breathing and the creation of an upright spine. Thus, breathing asymmetrically can cause the thoracic spine to turn forwards, backwards (flattening the curve) and even sideways, developing into a scoliosis (3), even adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (4)! Meaning breathing dysfunction is not an age thing.

Recognising motion at the sub costal margin is one method to see how the abdomen is balanced with the lumbo-dorsal fascia and erector spinae muscles. Sometimes it is the way we reach into the back seat or reach down to do up skis that pains us. Alerting me that I have a movement pattern fault. Or in other words my body on the inside is working against itself.

If you feel discomfort when you rotate and reach down the back of your leg, you may have facet inflammation and or a breathing fault.

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