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GOLFER’S ELBOW
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[ANATOMY IN VIVO]
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The first picture is an amazing follow-up to my Golfer's elbow series I posted a few days ago! It‘s an easy way to visualize this topic‘s anatomy details.
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The bellies of all involved muscles blend into each other long before their tendons blend, so I like to refer to it as the common flexor “belly/tendon”.
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5 muscles comprise the common flexor belly/tendon:
Pronator teres
Flexor carpi radialis
Palmaris longus
Flexor carpi ulnaris
Flexor digitorum superficialis
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Golfer's elbow is a condition that causes pain where the tendons of your forearm muscles attach to the bony bump on the inside of your elbow.
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Golfer's elbow is similar to tennis elbow, which occurs on the outside of the elbow. It's not limited to golfers. Tennis players and others who repeatedly use their wrists or clench their fingers also can develop golfer's elbow.
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Tendons can be injured suddenly or they may be slowly damaged over time. You can have tiny or partial tears in your tendon. If you have a complete tear of your tendon, it is called a rupture. Golfer’s elbow is also called medial epicondylitis, tendinosis, wrist flexor tendinopathy or elbow tendinopathy.
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Golfer's elbow is usually caused by overuse of the tendons and muscles that you use to bend your fingers and wrist. This commonly happens if you play golf, throwing sports, and racquet sports. It may also happen with some work activities like carpentry or typing. Golfer's elbow can also be caused by a sudden injury that twists or tears your tendon.
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Do you stand on one leg more than the other? Can you feel one side of your back bothering you? Do you feel discomfort on one side of your neck and shoulders?

Our bodies create a many patterns in order to resist gravity and stay upright. This post talks about the cross-cross pattern.

Let’s give it a try.

Stand with both feet about hip width distance apart. Now shift your weight onto one foot and notice where your hips adjust to, if one side of your waist is compressed or open from your ribs, which shoulder is higher or lower, all the way up to your head.

Let me help you discover your patterns and get you feeling more balanced and discomfort free.

🔈 TIGHT MUSCLES THAT MAY BE THE CAUSE OF LATERAL PELVIC TILT

🔒 There are several kinds of pelvis tilts that are unhealthy for our body:

1. There is the anterior pelvic tilt, where the front of the pelvis is tilted downwards.
2. There is also the posterior pelvic tilt, which is the opposite of the anterior pelvic tilt, where the front of the pelvis is tilted upwards.
However, the lateral pelvic tilt is unique, in that the pelvis is tilted to the side where one side will be higher than the other.

🔒 Symptoms of a Lateral Pelvic Tilt

Other than one hip being higher than the other, the presence of a lateral pelvic tilt can have a drastic chain effect which reverberates not only from the pelvis downwards, but also up to the shoulders.

Uneven Hips – This is the obvious symptom. Now that we have briefly discussed what a lateral pelvic tilt, we now know that this is a tell-tale sign of its presence.

Uneven Shoulders – From the image above, you will see how the hip which is higher will usually result in the shoulder on the same side, being lower than the other side. This can cause someone to notice or think that they have uneven shoulders, when in fact it is a problem that stems from having a lateral pelvic tilt.

Leg Length Differences – Someone with a lateral pelvic tilt may think they have one leg longer than the other, or one leg shorter than the other. However, this is a myth as it is the tilt in the pelvis which makes it feel like the hip that is lower down is longer because the other leg doesn’t reach the ground when you stand.

There are such things as true differences in leg length but most of the cases are misdiagnosed. The truth is that uneven hips creates this illusion. The best way to rule out a true leg length difference is to measure both legs. If you do have a true leg length discrepancy, then it is unlikely that these exercises I am about to discuss will be of use to you.

Leg Rotation – You can see from the diagram that the bones of the leg usually rotate internally as a result of a lateral pelvic tilt. What’s not to be ruled out, is that the internal rotation of all these bones could also be the cause of the lateral pelvic tilt. If it is the cause, then it starts all the way down at the foot. Typically, one foot will be pronated where the ankle is rolled inward, this could be a flat foot or a collapsed arch. When one foot becomes pronated, the shin bones and the femur rotate inward and the hip will drop.

🔒 Causes of a Lateral pelvic tilt

a) Muscular imbalances: (Sagittal plane)
A Lateral pelvic tilt can result from an imbalance between the Quadratus Lumborum, Adductors and Glute medius muscle.
Other muscles involved: Obliques, Tensor fascia latae
b) Sub-optimal habits:
Do you lean on one leg?
Do you sit more on one butt cheek than other other?
Do you always sleep on the same side?
If you do, then you have postural habits that may encourage the tilting of the pelvis!
c) Neurological conditions
Any condition that impacts the nerves that supply the control of the pelvic musculature may result in a laterally tilted pelvis.
(The superior gluteal nerve supplies the glute medius)

🚩 How to Fix a Lateral Pelvic Tilt
There are a couple of angles that can be taken to fix a lateral pelvic tilt. The first is to fix the flat feet (if you have them) and the other is to correct any muscle imbalances that may have developed that causes your body to hold onto the lateral pelvic tilt position - massage and proper exercise. The final step is to address the bad posture that causes the problem in the first place.

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week and I have a special offer for ALL TEACHERS!
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During the month of May when you show your Teacher ID, you get an extra 30 minute add-on to your massage. You deserve it for all your hard work, especially this past year.
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If you’d like to purchase a gift card, e-gift cards are available. Teachers just need to bring their Teacher ID for the bonus 30 minutes!
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We did it! Dose number two is in the books and it feels fantastical. Knowing my dear family, friends, and clients are safer than before is breaking me out of the anxiety, worry, and depression of the past year.
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Deciding to close my doors last year started off as a no-brainer, “2weeks is long, but if we can help the hospitals.” As time dragged on for weeks and months with daily information and updates of Covid-19, it felt abysmal. I was completely overwhelmed by the virus and was sure that there would be no possible way of returning to practice responsibly and safely, in that time of uncertainty.
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Thankfully I was part of an ethics and evidenced-based massage group that dug into the research and gathered information from different experts (nurses to doctors, epidemiologists to aerosol physicists) to help us understand the complexities of this virus and make decisions on how to return to work. I thank all those who worked diligently, I am forever grateful!
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Now that many of us are vaccinated and are getting vaccinated, we need to remember that we still have a long way to go in this pandemic. Until we can get this virus (and its variants) under control, masks will still be required at my practice and during sessions.
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Posture starts in the feet. Just like roots in a tree. Our feet are supporting us and keeping us upright while gravity pulls us down.

Take a minute and stand with feet hip width apart. Notice where you feel the weight on your feet. Is there more weight on your heels or your toes? Can feel more weight on the outside of your foot or on your arch? Do you feel weight on the outside of one foot and the arch on another?
Just take notice. Awareness is key and the first steps in making changes.

🔈 WHAT DO YOUR FEET TELL YOU?

👣 The feet tell you a lot about what’s happening above them, at rest and during movement.

↪️ The posture (position) your feet are in is the result of what’s happening upstream. Your foot position is intimately related to how well you control the position of your pelvis and how well your hips are able to function as a result of this.

➡️ The stability, strength, and control of your hips and pelvic musculature determines whether you can maintain control of every joint beneath them, and therefore maintain the desired position of your joints at rest and during movement.

🔑 It comes down to having control over your joints, and attaining/maintaining the desired joint positions as you move.

👣 The feet can grant your body a huge amount of stability IF they are in a good position. If you can use your hips and pelvic control to get your feet where you want them, then they have a huge amount of intrinsic muscles that can work to your advantage. But the feet need to be in a desirable position (posture) in order to work optimally.

🔑 All of this can be worked on and changed. The body changes and adapts to what you expose it to. Learning to control your body requires attention and focus at the start, but is essential for overall musculoskeletal/joint health.

Very interesting article about the difference between our thinking brain and our survival brain. The thinking brain doesn’t realize our survival brain is active, when anxiety grips us we often don’t understand why until later. Gives a few tips on how ground yourself when you feel your survival brain/limbic system is activated while you’re still. This looks/feels like increased heart rate, fast shallow breathing in the chest, muscles tensed, etc. this is our “fight or flight” response to an outside stimulus perceived as dangerous.

Take a few minutes to read this article, it’s an eye opener.

Thank you, Erik Dalton, for sharing this article.

https://elemental.medium.com/anxiety-is-in-your-body-not-your-mind-93031abd14eb

Anxiety Is in Your Body, Not Your Mind Why you might want to stop talking about your anxiety and try this instead

🚨NERD ALERT🚨

If you didn’t know already, I LOVE anatomy! As massage therapists, it’s important to know the anatomy, physiology & kinesiology of the human body. We are taught extensively on the musculoskeletal system. Everything from bones & their bony landmarks, the names of muscles, their locations & attachment points to bones (tendons), along with ligaments (bone to bone, aka joints).

Today, I want to focus on my recent nerdy obsession, the Serratus Anterior muscle. This highly underrated muscle is important to the stabilization of the shoulder, it keeps the scapula (shoulder blade) attached the ribs. This is very important because our arms and shoulders only have two tiny bone articulations (joint) to the rest of the body!!! That’s right, our arms and shoulders are mainly held up by muscles.

Serratus Anterior’s origin start at the ribs and inserts under and onto the medial margin of the scapula. Do you know what else attaches to the medial margin of the scapula? You guessed it! The Rhomboideus “Rhomboid” muscles (the muscles between the shoulder blades, aka the spot that gets tired and causes a lot of discomfort from sitting at a desk all day).

💆🏻‍♀️💆🏽‍♂️In practice, I have found that working with this muscle really helps loosen the neck & shoulder area. Can help improve posture (slumped shoulders), increase range of motion in the shoulders, improve rib expansion, & help improve the discomfort felt between the shoulder blades.

Well, what are the functions of Serratus Anterior?
•Scapular abduction/protraction (pulls the shoulder blades apart)
•Upwardly rotate the scapula (like raising the arms overhead)
•Aids in forced breathing

💃🏽Some ways to activate and move this muscle🕺🏾:
•Push the shoulders forward (protraction) then pull them back (retraction).
•Shoulder circles forward and then backward (arms down + arms in front).
•Spinal rotation: Keep your hips stationary and rotate the chest, twist to the left and then to the right.

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I must say a giant THANK YOU to all who have been supportive during this crazy year, SY Bodyworks wouldn’t be where it is today without you.
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If you’re wanting to know more, keep reading... 🙃
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This past year was rough to say the least! I closed my doors when quarantine was mandated. Remember when we thought two weeks was an eternity? Ha! Well, I decided to stay closed after the reopening in May. I wanted to be sure I had as much information on the virus as possible to implement proper safety measures before reopening. Replaced items that couldn’t be easily cleaned or sanitized, added air purifiers, better filters for ventilation, and adopted better intensive cleaning protocols. It was all so overwhelming, but necessary!
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By September I felt ready to reopen. I began taking clients whom I had worked with before, calling those who weren’t in the high risk demographic (not wanting to be a vector for the vulnerable population). It took a few weeks to get comfortable with the new routines and begin to build my strength back. 😅 Here we are almost 6 months later and I feel ready to take on more clients, pre-Covid and new! 🙌🏽
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