A similar test to this (as not many people have a treatment table at home!) would be lying on a foam roller (vertically down your spine with your head on a support if needed) and lifting your bottom to see what gets sore first: are you using your bottom muscles or mainly your hamstring muscles (which are at the back of your thigh). Your bottom muscles or glutes are extremely important to help protect your back from injury. Sadly they tend to waste as we age unless we make sure we activate them often. The glutes should be working when you get in and out of any chair - it is useful to know that the weakening of the gluts is one reason why elderly people can find it really hard to get out of a chair. Even sitting reading this right now you can firm your gluts. You will find tightening them will raise you up a little and as you release them you drop down again. You can practice this at your desk - please note, slowly tensing and releasing is less conspicuous! Try to do twenty slow tightenings and releases a couple of times a day and some fast ones if you have enough privacy! Get your glutes going! Reg. Osteopath Melanie Young cityosteopaths.co.nz
Posted on: Sun, 11 May 2014 04:27:07 +0000
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