Chiropractic Care

When it comes to the spine, the goal of chiropractic medicine is to obtain and maintain the proper S shaped posture. By this I mean geting the proper secondary cervical and lumbar lordotic curves. In addition to the global curve, the objective of treatment and exercises by an athletic trainer is to get the proper segmental posture. I look at the spine as a muscular skeletal lever machine. To be really strong for sports or to come back from injury as in reaching resolution, be be "good as new" training and treatment must obtain and maintain the proper segmental spinal posture.I view proper spinal posture as a designed machine that was created with intent. Thinking the S shape design we are to obtain was the perfect one, my job is to understand how this perfected posture produces proper leverage for humans existing in a gravity dominated environment. This is opposed to evolution thinking of accident and no importance to understanding design.I view the function and training of the spine in terms of mechanical advantage. Mechanical advantage is what a lever system is designed to produce. Mechanical advantage has a set of engineering physics rules that reveal how the lever machine works in the production and stabilization of forces. THis is opposed to the chemical medicine world that is more progressive muscle overload training oriented. This PMOT training thinks of the muscles, bones, and joints of the body being a lever system and the muscles providing the force for overcoming the force of resistance. Logically then PMOT is all about training or rehabilitation to get better muscles because with them you are naturally going to have better strength. But this thinking only presents a portion of the overall picture of the bodies lever system.Force loading from the chemically PMOT oriented person is how much weight at how many intervals at how many reps etc. From an athletic training/physical medicine point of view the science of force loading is more involved. As an athletic trainer, my sports strength training is oriented towards producing proper neutral spinal posture, which dictates the effectiveness of human movement, and treatment of injuries. To me the "science of loads" relative to exercise, how it effects the human body and production of force in sports needs to possess a true or more scientific definition. THe "science of loads" needs to move beyond its current definition of resistance, to a load applied in a certain manner that will produce hypertrophy of muscle. This in the end defines muscular strength.The "science of loads" relative to the human body should be described as a function of mechanical advantage. Mechanical advantage should be used in place of terms like strength because right now a term like strength is used subjectively. I suggest the term mechanical advantage be used to possess objectiveness not subjectiveness.From treating injuries to understanding why proper posture produces the optimal performance, mechanical advantage possesses the technology to understand what is happening.How can a greater mechanical advantage be created to impart greater force on a volleyball or a baseball without lifting weights to enhance the force with which I impart on that object?Can I change which muscle or muscle groups are imparting the force to enhance the velocity curve of an object?Can I change which joints or how many joints are being used to impart force and at what speed does force become power (strength x speed)?Understanding how to evaluate the exercise for mechanical advantage other than placing some kind of load cell on tissue is the only way to actually measure and determine which tissue is actually involved in an exercise. Trying to determine if the exercise is open chain or closed chain for instance, is one method of examining the impact of the force being produced.If you are going to work with the muscular skeletal lever systems of the human body it is natural that one should learn about and how to apply the technology of mechanical advantage.

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