The Musculoskeletal Ecosystem
What we know about the Musculoskeletal Ecosystem is that all parts are interrelated. You’ve heard of the song ‘Dem Bones’ that goes like this, ‘the thigh bone’s connected to the hip bone, the hip bone’s connected to the backbone etc.
Theory of collateral damage
There’s a high likelihood that the pain experienced in one part of your body is due to collateral damage caused by bones in another part of the body being out of alignment.
I used to live in a house built on clay soil. In summer, when the clay dried out, one of the corners of the house dropped a little. The result is cracks in the wall and the chimney.
I got sick of patching cracks, so we hired a man to dig a hole under the foundation, fill it with concrete, and then jack the house up. The Foundation was back in alignment, and the walls and chimney stopped cracking. A poor function was restored to good.
Based on this analogy, the pelvis is the foundation, your lower back is the wall, and your neck is the chimney.
The positioning of the pelvis seems to be a significant contributor to collateral damage experienced in the lower back, shoulders and neck. Once the pelvis moves, the bones above it are likely to move. (The bones below it will probably move too, and you will end up with hip and knee pain and perhaps persistent pulling of muscles in your thighs and lower leg.)
Where does most of the tightness come from? It comes from motion starvation, particularly sitting behind a desk without a strength and flexibility training program. Muscles become tight and weak, and bones are moved out of alignment.
Based on this theory, it’s unreasonable to expect lower back pain to disappear by heating and rubbing the muscles and manipulating the vertebrae at the site of the pain without doing the flexibility exercise designed to get every bone in your skeleton back into better alignment.
In the meantime, stay tuned and highly tuned, and (if your back pain is severe) spend an hour or two each evening on the floor doing the strength and flexibility exercises that get your skeleton back into better alignment.
Regards and best wishes
John Miller
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