When Exercise Makes A Muscle Problem Worse
Do you have a muscle problem that gets worse the more you use that part of the body, such as a repetitive strain injury or frozen shoulder? Well, Kinesiology has a possible answer, because there are conditions that occur in muscles which can explain such a situation.
Muscles are designed to strengthen as they are alternately contracted and relaxed, such as in walking or running. They are not designed to stay contracted for long periods of time - such as to carry shopping, or to hold the arm in one place, for instance to keep a telephone against an ear, or to drive a car or to use a keyboard.
In order to do such sustained activity, a muscle has to "strain", and this stress can make a muscle extraordinarily tight. For a muscle to contract, its opposite numbers have to relax. If the contracting ones are so tight that they cannot fully relax, they will prevent their counterparts from contracting as they should. This causes imbalances in the muscular action in the body, because other muscles try to compensate and one compensation leads to another. With Kinesiology, these imbalances can be unravelled to enable the muscles to act as they should, reducing discomforts.
There are also receptors we call "spindle cells" in the belly of the muscle and these send messages to the brain saying how taut the muscle is at any one time. Such messages can get scrambled under extreme tension. Kinesiology has a way of resetting these messages and this can enable the body to work again without pain.
Kinesiology can also address a muscle that is not contracting properly and is thus allowing its surrounding muscles to be tight. When the "off" muscle, as we call it, is contracting well again, it will then stretch the tight muscles out and cause them to relax.