Low Back Pain and the Elliptical Machine -- take a month off from this machine and see if there is improvement in your pain. Research has confirmed that the Elliptical Machine may be contributing to your low back pain: news.ca.msn/health/article.aspx?cp-documentid=24977659 Source: Fascia Freedom Fighters "Normal biomechanical motion requires that our leg swings freely in a way that allows us to move fully through our toe, ankle, knee, and hip joints which concludes with the beautiful undulation of healthy spinal movement. It’s more complex than that description, but that will do for the purposes of this article. With our feet fixed on a platform which merely glides back and forth, thereby shutting down the dorsiflexion of our toe hinge (layman’s terms: when you walk there is a lifting of the heel which causes you to flex at your toe joints) all of that normal movement that is designed to take place in our toes, feet, ankles, knees, and hips gets jammed into our sacroiliac joints and lower lumbars. This causes what can best be described as a grinding movement, or the “twisting” that Moreside refers to in her research, in our lumbosacral area. In short, this area is forced to over-move to compensate for the fixed and under-moving joints of the lower body. This over-moving in a twisting plane creates a mortar and pestle effect, wearing away at your lumbar spine and sacroiliac joints. For those of you with an already overtaxed lumbosacral area, this is clearly bad news. I would argue that is is also bad news for those who aren’t symptomatic in their low backs at all. Why make your form of exercise something that runs counter to normal biomechanical movement?"
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:20:31 +0000
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