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Walking the Tightrope: The Mysterious World of Proprioception.
By
Dr. Thomas Patavino of Thoracic Park Alternative Health
Proprioceptors. They sound like something that might be aboard the mother ship in some science fiction movie. Actually, proprioceptors are tiny little nerve endings in our bodies that help with balance, performance and setting muscle tension. Chances are you never heard of proprioceptors. Very few people have unless they were injured and it was discovered that there was room for improvement in this neuromuscular system. If you made it this far in the article, please continue because it will all make sense in the end.
When we walk, we take for granted all the little things that must take place to get from point A to point B without falling. The eyes play a major role along with our vestibular system (fluid system in our inner ear that regulates balance) in helping us maintain balance. What most people don't realize is that we have little nerve endings in our hands and feet that tell our muscles and the rest of the body exactly where we are in position, space and time. In English, that means you can close your eyes and touch your nose with your finger because of proprioceptors. Those little nerve endings know where your arm is in space allowing you to perform the desired action. Now, the real test; Try standing on one foot and get your balance. Not too hard for many, but impossible for some. Now close your eyes while standing on one foot. (Please don't fall, this is supposed to be educational and not harmful). Once the eyes are closed, you are relying only on proprioceptors for balance. You might feel your foot shaking from side to side. That shaking is coming from the little nerve endings firing away to maintain balance.
Whenever we step, the nerve endings are performing just like when your eyes were closed, but we fail to notice this because of our visual and vestibular input. We don't fall over because those nerve endings recognize that we are on solid ground and our muscles adjust appropriately. Why is this relevant? The elderly. When we get older or have an injury, our proprioceptors become less reactive. More often than not, when we hear of someone older falling it wasn't because they got light headed, but rather due to the proprioceptors failing to communicate properly. If they fail to fire when they are supposed to, the body can't tell the difference from flat ground versus uneven ground. More injuries occur this way because the body reacted like it stepped in a pothole or the floor suddenly moved beneath unstable feet.
Proprioceptors act like the balance poles used with walking a tightrope. It helps maintain a stable center of gravity. If we are falling to the right, the pole balances the left and vise versa. Poor proprioceptive activity leaves the body walking a tightrope without a pole. Unfortunately, for many people there aren't safety nets to catch us when we fall. This leads to fractured bones and other various injuries.
The young aren't exempt either. An injured area loses the acuity of proprioceptors. A common display of this is a sprained ankle. Did you ever experience or know someone who had his or her ankle just turn in or give out long after the original sprain was healed? That was because proprioceptors failed to provide stability and even ground appeared to be a dangerous unstable environment. With each step, certain muscle fibers have to relax and contract due to the surface beneath it. This happens automatically, unless we have flaws in our neuromuscular system. All it takes is slight misfiring and we can lose balance or have a joint suddenly give way making us prone to injury.
Now that good news, Proprioceptors can be retrained at any age and improved upon. Specific balance training and exercise can improve proprioceptors in a very short time. Athletes have noticed a distinctive edge in performance by adding proprioceptive training to their routines. Reoccurring incidents of old injuries can be dramatically reduced by treating the proprioceptors in the injured area.
Two injuries to my left shoulder in the past 15 years.After the last one about 30 months ago,I have difficulty bench pressing and keeping the bar perfectly balanced.I end up having to look at it,sounds retarded I know.Just not smooth anymore.Injured side always lags.I do better with ring presses wearing a neck harness for added weight.Quote:
Originally Posted by blp
nerve impingement causing the lagging?? my last "trainee" had this issue....he was a pitcher(baseball) in his early teen years and quite successful but he started having shoulder issues....when I started training with him his left arm would lag huge (2+ inches)....massage helped him a great deal....
There were nerve problems yes.Chiro made it much worse.
warren william
As you have read in the previous chapters, you body does not lie, it will talk to you, you just need to listen, and while it talks to you it talks to ever other part of the body.
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The body is a system of systems, each system is a part of the whole, the same way that a car can?t operate with 3 wheels or without an engine, your body needs each system linked to function correctly.
The body has its own hierarchy of survival reflexes, or what it deems more important to lest important in the body for survival.
1.** *Breathing
2.** *Mastication-eating
3.** *Visual-seeing
4.** *Auditory- balance
5.** *Upper cervical spine
6.** *Digestion
7.** *Emotional
8.** *Pelvis and sacrum
9.** *Slave joint ? arms and legs, everything else
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The above are known as the survival reflexes because each system is necessary for survival of the body, but the order they are in, is how the body has prioritised what systems are more important and least important in this chain.
In order for you to correct any fault, you must know what has caused that fault
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Systems lower in the chain will be sacrificed by systems higher in the chain whenever they are faulty, so if you are a therapist or doctor, treating a lower system problem, you will need to look at a higher system to see what?s causing the symptom expressed lower in the chain.
Let?s go through the chain one by one to get a better understanding of them and their role in the body.
The respiratory system is responsible correct breathing, allowing the diaphragm to expand and contract, to draw air into the lungs and to maintain correct posture.
If you can?t breathe in enough air you damage the organs and performance.
The correct breathing moves the spine into extension on inhalation and thus lengthens the spine by a mechanism known as the cerebrospinal pump, which helps to pump fluid up and down the spine causing a stretch on the spine allowing fluid to move through the spaces of the spine.
If there is a fault in the ability to breath the body may sacrifice and system below (which means any system) to try to correct this fault, typical adaptations of the body could be tight shoulders, overused neck muscles, headaches and much more.
Mastication or chewing is the 2nd most important system in the chain and is dependent upon a correct movement of the lower jaw or correct bite position.
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Chewing food is dependent on correct jaw alignment; in order to survive the body needs to eat hence why this system is so high in the chain.
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If the jaw is misaligned such as shifting to the left, it will cause the right shoulder to either lift or the right levator scapular (muscle from the neck attaching to shoulder) to become very tight, the results of which will cause the left hip to raise, the right knee to twist inward and left ankle to buckle.
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The importance of seeing is also very important as the 3rd system in the chain, if your right eye for example is stronger than the left, the head will twist toward the left so that the right eye is used to focus more than the left.
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Think about when you take a picture with a camera or look through your keyhole, I?m sure when you think about it; you will note that you look through the same eye all the time, This is you dominant eye.
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Most people have one eye stronger, and in tests going as far back as the 1920?s othomalagists found 1-5 people having one eye significantly stronger.
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With a head rotated to the left, the shoulders rotate counter or to the right, then every system below with turn counter to each one above them causing all types of pain and dysfunction in your body from knee pain to back pain.
I?m sure by now you understand the point, and the intricate nature of the systems working as a chain, and why it is important to understand this totem pole.
The 4th system being the auditory system enables balance and equilibrium, and is best developed through activities such as Swiss ball training and outdoor sports like surfing.
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The 5th system is the upper neck or cervical spine, which has more nerve endings than most other systems, if you damaged your neck (upper spine) it will affect balance and the lower points of the spine.
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The digestive system or gut is the 6th system in the chain, with most people in the west chewing their food a limited amount of time, which will create a poor ability to digest food, because ?digestion starts in the mouth?
The emotion system although the 7th in the chain acts as a floating column in the chain because it can override every system depending on the emotion.
The sacrum and pelvis act as the 8th system in the chain, they aid walking and general locomotion.
The final system in the chain is known as the slave joints or everything else, which are the arms, elbows, knees, low back and ankles.
The body will sacrifice any of these systems first because they are deemed least important for survival.
Now, when you look at the body correctly you start to realise that if you dont assess the chain above you will not see the true cause for the symptoms expressed below ( and since foot proprioreception from below to up )
there no permanent healing on bodybuilder since extreme sport lifestyle, anyhow you go from somatic source , belly / nose breathing , diaphragm , then postural proprioreception optimal stance , then anti inflammatory type diet , then cns - guts health since endocrine entwine correlation* ( inulin fiber probiotics pancreatic enzyme ) ( cns - zma vit d gabba taurine esther vit c ) , then mobility fascia dynamic pnf type , tri plane rotational with range of motion n ondulation ( turmeric , curcumin anti inflammatory ) , soft tissues work option , graston , rofling , ashiastu .. then peptides , if major case then th sequence go like this , prolotherapy , prp , stem cells , i personally bought a* portable PST pulse signal theraphy 1 hour a day session for 9 session per part per side , it th only signal that heal cartilage bone tendon muscles at same time , it approve here on humans ,, on animal in Global for now , here tho in quebec stem cell is still illegal which is stupid, there is no miracle , all of them have a ratio of % , be multi optional is th best bet
Going to check if the Chinese are selling these yet.
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Originally Posted by cog
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shoulders , neck , hips , lower back , forearms , been priority , just that wil be 3 months myself ,,
it can even do tinnitus n tmj
the body is one unified structure. The various regional anatomical and cellular components of the neuromusculoskeletal system derived embryological from somites and associated neural precursors are bound together and unified into a functional whole by arteries, veins, lymphatics, nerves, circulating factors, and fascia.
It has not been customary in modern medicine to point out that the human is a complex, unified organism made up of many overlapping, interconnected systems. Recently, conventional medicine has attempted to reassemble its various specialties and subspecialties, each focused on a body region or functional system, into a holistic understanding of health and disease. Nevertheless, the structure of medicine retains much of its compartmentalization; it is difficult for even the most thoughtful physician, particularly those in a demanding specialty practice, to step back routinely and figure out th mass complexity.
The connectors are easily listed; they are connective tissue, the nervous system, the endocrine system, and the vascular and lymphatic systems. The circulatory system serves distant body parts and, among other things, provides a means of communication. The nervous system, although it is traditionally divided into component parts central, peripheral, autonomic, and enteric is one continuous, functional entity. The nervous system constantly receives external and internal stimuli filters, sorts and integrates those stimuli, and then produces the coordinated contraction of muscles and/or secretion of glands in response to those stimuli. The nervous system can even impel muscular contraction and/or glandular secretion independent of external stimulation. The endocrine and immune systems, interconnected to each other and to the nervous systems, also bring tissues distant from each other under unified, coordinated control. Indeed, contemporary analyses suggest that, as the endocrine, immune and nervous systems all use a common set of messengers (e.g., norepinephrine, neuropeptide , cholecystokinin, and many others), that they be considered one overlapping system by which body unity is established and maintained.
Connective Tissue
As described above, connective tissue is one important component of the musculoskeletal system.
Connective tissue binds organ to organ, muscle to bone, and bone to bone and literally is the fundamental connector that allows structural and functional systems to be physically grouped into a unified package. Without connective tissue, the body is a dissociated mass of dying cells. It is the connective tissue, most of it a proteinaceous extracellular matrix, that enforces form and thereby permits function. Connective tissue plays a critical role in body health and disease, but ironically it is so pervasive it is easily overlooked in the study of anatomy, in the maintenance of health, and in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
Individual skeletal muscle fibers are surrounded by a delicate network of fine connective tissue. At each end of the muscle, this connective tissue forms a tendon composed of dense regular fibrous connective tissue. The tendon is attached to bone through a microscopic interlacing of its connective tissue with the periosteal connective tissue covering of the bone. Each muscle has two parts: a predominant connective tissue at its ends, which attach to bones and a predominance of muscle tissue in its functional contractile belly. The change to connective tissue at its ends provides the muscle a firm attachment to bone.
Fascia is as rather generalized term for sheets or layers of connective tissue that envelop specific structures and segregate one structure, organ, or area from another. For example, throughout the body, there is a subcutaneous layer of loose connective tissue called the superficial fascia. It contains collagen fibers that connect the skin to underlying structures as well as variable amounts of fat. Superficial fascia serves to increase skin mobility, acts as a thermal insulator, and stores energy for metabolic use.
( propriorecpeptive awareness / pro fascia weight execution / breathing interoception / mind muscle firing from ground to stability center in no over compensation / guts cns axis for endocrine, glut4, endothelial , immuno modulators , neuro protective agents n peripheral nerves health by holistic supplementation = best androgens user response )
The fasciae are found at every level of the body and constitute a basic element of human physiology. They serve as the body's first line of defense, acting independently of the central nervous system, which is why they are referred to as a “peripheral brain.”
From a mechanical point of view, the fasciae are organized in chains to defend the body against restrictions. When a restriction goes beyond a specific threshold, the fasciae respond by modifying their viscoelasticity.
70% of muscle tension transmission is directed through tendons,
which thus definitely play a mechanical role, but 30% of muscle force is transmitted to the connective tissue surrounding muscles, highlighting the role of the deep fasciae in the peripheral coordination of agonist, antagonist and synergic muscles. The many functions of the fasciae include the roles of the ectoskeleton for muscle attachments and protective sheets for underlying structures
Lastly, recent studies have emphasized the continuity of the fascial system between regions, leading to presume its role as a body-wide proprioceptive/communicating organ
primitive reflexes , are a gracious bound to prioprioreception , since cns regulate everything it clearly th winner , problem is re learn as functional adult , th walking gait , kinetic awareness , belly breathing , replenish occlusion , hips sacroiliac axis stance , strengthen visual perception , since utero reflex could lack or th pre crawling phase went on a weaker faulty pattern , sleeping a key holder of all neuro muscular mechanism , so sam p. right on th grandiose challenge it represent , th proprioreceptive insole send constant signal for baro receptosr which help th cause , but a 250 bodybuilder mass will fight with th raw podal imprint , so it need discipline , and see th physiology of exercices to another angle , so a big toes , ankle , popliteal , sacro-tiberous ligament motor ingram n this for many , many, many reps , only a major injury or a elite type goal will bring motivation to this road of enlightenment , but once nail you grow like magic , i been battling th right postural stance after 38yo of "all-wrongs" and now im 254 on 200mg test a week , this post ac joint grade 2 injury , with eldoa-fascia i refund my youth spinal flexibility , it wasn't even working out for 2 years it was a job, right sleeping n posture not a law of reproduction but on monster that thrive for mass you have no choice or something will either snap or you will look the same , n th look th same it what globalize th gym today and even th personal trainer industry
Effect of Plyometrics on Fascia
A recent study out of France (Fouré 2011, Eur J Appl Phyiol 111:539-548) has challenged traditional assumptions about the effect of plyometric exercise. It has been commonly accepted that plyos improve muscle contraction by stimulating the muscle spindles. By utilizing the stretch shortening cycle the athlete is able to produce more power, jump higher, etc. Though, plyos have been employed for decades, the physiological mechanism through which it works, may not be related to changes in muscle activation, but rather changes in the myofascia.
The study from the European Journal of Applied Physiology, examined tissue properties and muscle activation patterns in subjects that utilized plyometrics regularly for 14 weeks. In comparison to the less trained control group, the experimental group showed signs of less muscle activation, but higher elasticity in the myofascia!
The implications of this study bring into question training optimization and how to target the passive tissue in a way that improves elasticity and improves performance. Conversely, do plyometrics already improve elasticity of the myofascia and the target tissue of new training techniques should be muscle?
The role of stretching and myofascial release techniques (i.e. foam rolling) in warming-up and cool down may also change. A growing body of research already exists suggesting that static stretching prior to maximal effort lifting reduces power and speed (Barroso et al. 2012). Fouré's research article, would support the growing notion that dynamic warm-ups are more appropriate for athletes before practice/competition than static stretching.
still need a lil estradiol for health.. lower it by masteron prop, can induce skin tone elasticity, too much n th cns on a rampage
drank water to almost hurt bloat effect like a 1,5 liters wil help th cause in morning
yes i mean chew oral , even tho binder mostly make on a prosolve90 intent , meaning vegan cellulose , chew it, more ph friendly, since simplify dissolve in stomach process
think all medication xyz , wil alter stomach flora , so digestive enzymes, pancreatic enzymes , probiotics , fibre , glutamine , prebiotics a must ,
prebiotics help upper stomach good bacteria production , most bbers have upper stomach issue ,
specially th one that compress diaphragm with a forward postural stance ,
over acidic state will compromise food assimilation , th real challenge of long oral cycle ,
since lack of food assimilation will induce iron deficiencies
most of those issue are due to american to poo sit n not squat , will leave inner guts residue
aspirin make stomach bleed , so a coated version more appropriate
keto have no simple sugar , most synthetic sugar , polymers have skin , endocrine reaction
that why th vit b5 that nourish adrenal n endocrine system help skin acne
androgen a wild war it can be done wisely , where i fail , i have several answer in this now , breathing ,
corrective , postural , proprioreceptive law , hollistic approach in endocrine smash hazard by xyz. functional ,
stability , range of motion , axial loading logic fascia periodization , self pnf release , rebuilt perfect motor ingram in weight execution,
then blast hardcore all th shit in no muscle compensation , in structural equilibrium longevity of growth never stall !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
will like go back 15 years ago , n restart th shit , with my modern view , half way broken down might be too late , anyhow , no regrets , th average joe genetic upcoming generation now can aim be th elite