Corrective exercise kinesiology.

These base conditioning programmes are highly valuable towards corrective core and back conditioning to create a strong foundation towards greater results & a higher athletic performance.

Core conditioning..

The abdominal wall is extremely important for function in all movements.

98% of the population trains their abdominals ineffectively overworking the scalene muscles and quadratus lumborum, meaning this can lead to a wrecked back & over use of the omohyoid neck muscles which then leads to poor posture.

With corrective exercise kinesiology we work with proper activation and synchronisation of pelvic floor to the quadratus lumborum to neuromuscular training of the transverse abdominis.

The TVA is one of the most profound muscles and stabilisers for the lower back and needs to have proper activation of the supporting sling to be able to engage it effectively.

The abdominal wall has 8 nerves feeding them, the complexity and role they play in stabilisation & functionality of the body is by far the most important and what a lot of people don’t realise is that there are 5 layers of the abdominal wall, when we crunch away in the gym or go through the latest core exercises we’ve seen on insta without having a strong and activated inner unit prior we are actually doing extreme damage and this common mistake by making the prime mover muscles bigger default is usually making the internal stabilisers weaker.

When the 12th rib passes the axis of rotation in the lumbar spine the quadratus lumborum becomes the flexor of the trunk thus creating poor movement mechanics. In addition it is very important for the hip flexors and abdominals to be in synergy other wise in a hanging leg raise for example the psoas will take over the movement and will literally switch the lower abdominals off and once you have over use of the hip flexors this can cause imbalances and lead to poor posture and lower back pain. In relation, the external obliques stabilise the pelvis and are important for all dynamic movement. If you have a job or sport that you use a lot of one sided rotation your inner obliques may be out of alignment with your external obliques, meaning one is more dominant, this then creates a chain of disfunction in other limb extremities.

So often we go through the motions without recruiting the correct biomechanical relationship first, all core muscles need to work in concert with each other & for optimum performance we need to have a correlation of these through integration in functional plane movements as all recruitment patterns originate from the core. So it makes sense that we MUST strengthen and correct these first.

When you have a functional abdominal wall it dissipates all the loads throughout your body evenly instead of loading the spine, kinetic energy must be stored somewhere… If the abdominal wall is weak other muscles have to take that kinetic load, which then leads to an injury.

This is why I stress the importance of training for higher performance and to use a strength and conditioning programme for the core that works all 5 layers in the correct order to enhance movement & function and still gain a 6 pack !!

With proper abdominal strengthening work, it WILL help correct posture, function, movement and take unnecessary pain away.

Back strengthening & reintegration.

In the deep back muscles we have the proprioceptor muscles, the transversponalis group, the interspinalis that create tension & extension, the rotators that create a transverse rotation as well as slight flexion & extension, the intertransversarii which are in charge of lateral movement, the multifidius that make up the bulk of the spine and stabilise the spines rotation, the semispinalis, the erector spinae group, the quadratus lumborum which is also acts a deep abdominal muscle and the thoracolumbarfascia system which works as a stabiliser and buffering system that transfers energy throughout the connectic chain. The back is a complexe integrated system & these muscles create a huge amount of electrical influence on how your body reacts to where it is in space..

As the back muscles are neurally fed information via each rotary segment from a nerve root supply, they all share this electrical neurological innovation with the rest of the body and these tiny rotator muscles in the back contain spindle cells that feed electrical information to the brain telling your body how to move in space, so you see anything that has given trauma to the spine or anything that disrupts the segmental activity, fluidity or functionality of the spine, produces a connection of electromagnetic disfunction in the information control system of the body creating faulty recruitment patterns therefore it has to compensate by making changes at other different levels of the spine.

With incorrect conditioning, loading or ignoring a poor movement pattern and utilising the larger muscles it will effect other extremities, and anything that disrupts the RC factor disrupts the flow of electricity through the spine leading to multi disfunctions in postural, gait, muscle tone, joint integrity as well as the organs of digestion. Correct conditioning & movement is SO important, which is why we must STABILISE the body through the core & back before we can load & move it.

The core is the central control mechanism of the body and if you don’t have a functional abdominal wall you will overload the back extensors causing injury.

The back is not a back but a complexe integrated system that controls the entire body through stabilisation & mobility. Any form of conditioning that increases the strength of prime movers in the absence of a correlating increase of strength in the inner unit stabilisers means that you WILL be spending some time in rehab in the future. Kinesiology addresses these imbalances and treats the body as a whole. It is through this type of corrective training that we are able to work for a higher athletic performance without injury or limitation.