Third law: any localised action, either of lengthening or shortening, results in the immediate shortening of the entire posterior musculature. The second and third law ensue from the first one. Because the muscles belonging to a MC are closely knitted together they are especially strong since the tone of each muscle adds up to the tone of all the others. Moreover their action is predominant in all our movements; contrariwise they never get the chance to be fully lengthened in our daily activities. MCs shorten and stiffen immutably during our life, shortening our stature, twisting and distorting us in a thousand ways – the cause of a multitude of pains, from frozen shoulder to sciatica. If you stretch or shorten a part of a MC the entire chain will shorten. This is because the change in length of an element of a MC will pull on the insertion of the following element, and so on until the end of the chain. Any partial lengthening is negated by a shortening of the entire MC. For this reason all forms of localised work must be completely ruled out.
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:00:01 +0000
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