Alleviate the strain on the relevant ligaments
Another in an effort to alleviate the strain on the relevant ligaments, which, without muscular control, are painfully attempting to support your whole body weight against gravity. Think back to that image of the performing seal on stilts. We have to balance on our two legs, with the spine, and the whole of the upper body, supported by the sacrum between the two sides of the pelvis at the sacroiliac joints. It's no wonder that the spine rising vertically from the sacrum, through the bones and discs, suffers from degenerative change. Problems of standing vertically, one of the imagines I use when teaching, to understand the stress that's involved, is the Lion and the Hyena story. It illustrates the problems of standing vertically and carrying things. If I ask a group of students, 'How many times have you seen a lion capture a hyena, kill it, stand up on its back legs, carry the hyena across it shoulders and walk off into the jungle?' They inevitably reply, 'Never.' But that is exactly what we do. Of course the image of the lion with the hyena over its shoulders is ridiculous, yet that's what we do virtually every day of our lives. We get, metaphorically, cans of hyena from the supermarket and walk back to our lair, laden down each side with them. The spine, through the discs, is being daily compressed by.
It's just as ridiculous, for us to do it as it is for the lion. The lion hauls its prey along the ground; it wouldn't last long using our method of carrying .If we weren't 'designed' to be upright, we certainly are not well adapted to standing and sitting, but at least we cope better on the move. Balancing upright requires a well-integrated feedback loop. Let me explain. Feedback loops, are at the heart of how we control our bodies and are one of the major reasons for dysfunction and pain. The loop is ligament to stretch receptor to nerve impulse to brain to nerve impulse to muscle. This loop is wonderful when we are on the move but not so hot when we are static. Its just as ridiculous Ligaments, if you remember, have two functions. They are the leather retaining straps on a 'Mini' front door but with stretch receptors thrown in. One function is to stop you moving too far, the other is to provide proprioceptive signals to the brain to organize the muscles that control you. Imagine that those leather retaining straps had stretch receptors that emitted a high-pitched whine the more you stretched them. If you were forcing open the door of the Mini, the more you pushed, the louder the whine would be. Well, that's what ligaments are and do. They emit a high-pitched whine in your brain, called pain, the more they are stretched. When we stand or sit, we tend to slump without muscular support, making the ligaments responsible for all the weight-bearing. Ligaments are not designed to act in this way, and let you know by signalling pain. If you're standing, you start fidgeting from side to side, first leaning on one leg then the other desperately trying to take the load off the ligaments and stop the pain. The ligaments are not designed to be permanently stretched.
We must immediate medication or consult the doctor if not the effects will appear all over the body
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