Wednesday 14 October 2015

TONIC AND PHASIC MUSCLES... BRINGING BALANCE TO YOUR BODY?

Tip of the day:I see a lot of trainers trying to fix posture and yet fail to take away the pain of their clients.Its a hard task to fix due to many problems liked to myofascial lines and muscles imbalances.

To fix a problem,you must restore posture using the functional lines of the body and then find the muscles linked to the postural deviation.For today, here is a tip by Dr. Vladimir Janda:
Postural muscles respond to the dysfunction by tightening and Phasic muscles by weakening. An example of this is by looking a the classic Forward Head Posture.In this deviation the ''Postural Muscles'' are:

1-Upper trapeze
2-Pectoralis Minor
3-Cervical Erector Spinae
4-Lower Trapeze
5-Rhomboids

The Phasic are:

1-Levator Scapulae
2-Pectoralis Major
3-Latissimus Dorsi
4-Middle trapeze
5-Deep Cervical Flexors

Remember that you cannot strengthen Phasic muscles without stretching the Postural muscles first!


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