The Vital Glutes: Connecting the Gait Cycle to Pain and Dysfunction
When the pelvis is not balanced and good skeletal positioning is ignored, a seated or standing hamstring stretch, for example, does not activate the hamstrings but engages the iliacus and gluteus maximus muscles, which in turn pull on the SI joint ligaments.
Liz Koch • Core Awareness, Revised Edition: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance
As later research shows, that passive stretching of a myofascial tissue does not stimulate the Golgi tendon organs. Stimulation happens when the muscle fibers are actively contracted. For example, when a client takes seated forward fold and their toes and legs are relaxed they are in a passive mode, thus the Golgi tendon organs are not stimulated.
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in the presence of back pain, the rectus abdominis and erectors increase co-contraction to create more stiffness. This braces the back and protects the painful area, but it comes with a price. Compression is increased, variation in movement is reduced, and there is less ability to make precise intersegmental movements. Thus, co-contraction of the g
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If you choose a more rigid, locked down pelvic floor, the result is less breath capacity and hypertonicity of the pelvic floor muscles! Nicole Crawford, MS in Biomechanics states that “a Kegel attempts to strengthen the pelvic floor, but it really only continues to pull the sacrum inward promoting even more weakness, and more pelvic floor gripping.
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