Hello everyone,
We hope you are enjoying this third month, where we are focusing on our legs. Today we are going to talk about the lower body and its relationship with the rest of the body.
When we proposed the challenge system, we separated the body parts involved: arms (upper body), spine and legs (lower body). However, our body works as one system.
Our body works as one system
What do we mean by a single system?
It means that each part of our body performs actions that depend on each other and that, in turn, work together to maintain our posture and perform all our movements.
How do we explain this?
The pelvic girdle is where our spine is supported, the axis of our body. If there is an imbalance between the strength and flexibility of its muscles or joints, this affects the alignment of the spine, which will expend much more energy than necessary to keep it in balance.
Through the way we move, we express our personality. All our movements have both expressive and adaptive characteristics.
Expressive: because they stem from our personality.
Adaptive: because they adapt to the needs of our habits (more information on habits HERE).
The different muscular actions combined are only transmission belts between our mind, our desires and our physical and gestural actions.
The choreography of our movements is an expression of all that we are inside.
Your biology is your biography.
Caroline Myss
The lower body and how it works
The lower body is made up of the pelvic girdle, hip, knee and ankle joints. But let’s not forget that they are part of a complete system with the rest of our body.
Vladimir Janda (Czech physician) theorized two patterns that affect posture due to muscle imbalances. He did this by taking into account their crossed arrangement, where muscles are tensed by overuse, while others are inhibited (fall asleep). Let’s summarise one of the patterns (the lower cross syndrome) developed by Janda: muscle tension in the lower back and hip flexors (quadriceps area) is counterbalanced by muscle weakness in the abdominal and buttocks.
For example, pain in the lower spine, it is good to relieve it with stretching, but it is also necessary to look for the reason for this tension, often it is due to adaptations that our body makes to compensate for other deficiencies, for example, a weakness in the abdominal area to maintain good posture.
This is a very simplified explanation of a more complex problem, but it serves to emphasize that the whole body is connected and that frequently the symptom and the cause are not in the same area of the body.
Keep in mind this last sentence: SYMPTOM & CAUSE CAN BE PLACED IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE BODY.
Our body being a whole, all its parts communicate with each other.
Thanks for reading and see you next week
