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| On: February 26, 2020 20:18 PM |
Hi Erin! I am just watching your workshop, I love your energy and your clear instructions :) I just have a quick question. How do you treat a client which has fusion many many years back and doesn’️t know where it starts and when is finishing? He is very imbalanced and gets lots of hip pain? Any advice's will be great! X |
| On: February 26, 2020 10:56 AM |
Hi Mavra, Amazingly, I've found that most people who've had spinal fusion surgery have no idea where their fusion starts and ends. Because it happened in the past they don't think that they need to know anything about it, which we both know is totally not true since it influences everything they do all day long. Like what my teachers and I do at Spiral Spine Pilates, have them life up their shirt so you can see where their scar starts and stops on their back. They for sure won't have hardware that goes beyond the scar, but the hardware may not be quite as long as the scar. So, use the length of the scar as a good baseline for the length of the fusion if they don't have an X-ray (even if it's really old) or know where it starts and stops. As for the hip pain, it could be neuro stuff stemming from the unfused vertebra of the lumbar spine. Or, his femoral heads are really locked in a particular muscle group. Doing different muscle testing and rolling out on all the hip muscles should help here. If you need guidance on this I'd suggest you get my book Analyzing Scoliosis where I talk about specific muscle testing you can do to figure out the issue (it's on amazon.com). You could also book a virtual lesson with either me or one of my teachers at my studio. Feel free to email me through the contact page of spiralspine.com and I can help you get a virtual lesson set up if you and your client need some help. Hope this helps! Blessings, Erin Myers |
| On: September 11, 2020 18:32 PM |
Hi Erin, I enjoy your techniques shared in the workshop very much. You mentioned about using short spine and the engagement of mutifidi on both sides to distinguish idiopathic or non-idiopathic scoliosis. Is that because of the distance from spinal process affect the muscle engagement? I myself have scoliosis. I can feel my pelvis is rotation every morning when I wake up. What would you suggest me to improve it? My concave side is Right lumbar and right thorax. Thanks! |
| On: September 12, 2020 12:22 PM |
Hi Ivy, I'm glad you are enjoying my workshop. I could be wrong, but I think you're melding a few concepts I taught about. I use short spine as a way to check if there's nerve or dural tension about the spinal cord, as that is a piece to many scoli people's puzzle. If someone is fused, of course you wouldn't do short spine though. As for the multifidus discrepancy, research shows that the muscles in the concave portion of the spine don't fire as well as the convex muscles, so specifically firing your lumbar concave multifidus is beneficial. It could be the rotation of the vertebra, or the axial vertebral rotation, it could also be a bit of reciprocal inhibition too. Lots of theories behind why the discrepancy exists, but nonetheless it does. As for your pelvic rotation, there's are probably a few things going on--too many for a discussion board post, but I'd love to keep chatting about this with you. I'd suggest you read my book Analyzing Scoliosis, The Pilates Instructor's Guide To Scoliosis (you can get it on amazon) as it goes over a few different muscular causes of pelvic rotation and how to untwist it. I'd also be more than happy to do a virtual lesson with you. My staff and I virtually work with scoli peeps all over the world. For more info on that you can go to spiralspine.com. Great job wanting to understand your body, and I hope to meet you sometime to help you untwist your body. Blessings, Erin |
| On: September 13, 2020 15:59 PM |
Hi Erin, Thanks for the prompt reply. I will get your book. It's very interesting to find what the bone causes the muscles reaction. After the fire in my town is over, I will contact you for virtual private. |