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LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF POSTURE: PROTECTION OF THE SPINE – THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR FOR BACK HEALTH
Posted under Pain Relief-Muscle Relaxers by admin
The anti-gravitational force created by posture-controlling muscles and general muscle tone is the most important factor for back health. Trauma, nutritional deficiencies, birth defects (like spina bifida), osteoarthritis, polymyalgia rheumatica etc appear in a relatively rare number of cases. Scientific medicine claims that the majority of backache cases originate from the discs and joints of the spine. Muscular and ligament sprains or inflammation form the second largest group of backache. If the anti-gravitational force in the living body is what determines the state of delicate spinal structures like joints, discs etc, the lack of it leading to backache and other related problems, then why haven’t we looked at this over the centuries? Why did medicine go in the direction of treating symptoms only (pain, inflammation, nerve damage, scoliosis etc)? A branch called ‘orthopaedics’ (which someone once suggested to me translated as ‘bone setting’) was created, aimed at treating bones, joints and related hard tissues, which actually have hardly any primary role to play in the genesis of back-related problems. The bones and nerves are the final sufferers or victims of the weakening of another system, namely the muscular system, part of which, in a conscious state, produces an upward thrust that maintains the erect posture. This part of the muscular system is less voluntary and more involuntary, like the diaphragm muscles. Therefore, exercising it requires special skills as these muscles are under dual control, unlike skeletal muscles which are controlled entirely by the conscious brain.
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