Chain Reaction – How One Muscle Can Affect Your Whole Body
(a short story…)
A1 is a muscle. It extends your big toe. Your body, for whatever reason, overuses A1.
This overuse causes A1 to become tight from the strain.
A tight muscle will inhibit its antagonist. Thus, A1 shuts down the function of B1 – a muscle which flexes the big toe.
B2 also flexes the big toe. Now that B1 isn’t helping, B2 will have to assume the full burden of function. This overuse causes B2 to become tight from the strain.
Unfortunately for your body, B2 is a long muscle which reaches into your foot. It causes its antagonist C1, a foot extensor, to become weak.
C2 also extends the foot. Now that C1 isn’t helping, C2 will have to assume the full burden of function. This overuse causes C2 to become tight from the strain.
Unfortunately for your body C2 is a long muscle which crosses the ankle into the lower leg. It causes its antagonist D1, an ankle flexor, to become weak….
And so forth.
Chain reactions cause identifiable patterns of muscle imbalance. Only two patterns exist. You are afflicted by one of the two. Identify this pattern and pain management becomes much easier. Diagnosis and treatment become a deductive step rather than a leap. Learn more through tarodo.com and tarodo seminars.