degenerative arthritis- innovative ways your core protects your joints.

In general degenerative arthritis when I tell people that if they want to relieve their joint pain, even totally end that pain, they must strengthen their core. Yes, I am serious and when I tell people about it they look at me like I have two heads.

At the end of the day, after all it’s their knees or their hips that hurts, right? What I am telling you totally makes sense, but it’s not true for you. I learned that the very hard way. But you don’t have to. No tell me something what is your core?

Your core is slang for those muscles that are the center of your body, your hips and your back, your abdomen, your shoulders and chest, your diaphragm, pelvic floor and yes, your gluts. Thus your core also encloses and includes your entire spinal column.

In reality all major movements begin in the core. A weak core sets up up for all kinds of instability, forcing your joints to carry loads that they were not designed to do. A strong core is the key to mobile, balanced body, allowing all your joints to glide freely and easily.

So in short, your core is a system of 29 pairs of muscles, and your rectus abdominal or six pack abs is just one of them. Unfortunately, most people overwork their abs and neglect all their other core muscles. That’s a recipe for imbalance, instability and pain.

So let’s take a deeper look at how these important muscles protect you from pain. For the starter your shoulders are an extremely complex joint and you use them in almost all upper body movements. This makes them vulnerable to a variety of injuries.

So when you need to load your shoulders, whether its carrying groceries or lifting barbells, s strong core protects your shoulders by activating the abdominal muscles and bracing your entire spinal column. This stiffness at the end of the day allows your shoulder blades or your scapula to stiffen in turn.

Now your rotatory cuff muscles are supported, so they can engage to stabilize your homers, the bone of your upper arm through its range of motion. Let me inform you that strong core muscles safely generate the power you need without damaging your shoulder joints.

Now generally speaking, if you have low back pain, you need to strengthen your core, you might ask me, why? Your core muscles stabilize your spine and pelvis. When you injure your back those muscles turn off or shut down.

This in turn stresses the ligaments, which connects bone or cartilage to other bone or cartilage, forcing your stressing your sacroiliac joint to bear loads and forces your muscles which should be carrying. As a joint, not a weight bearing structure.

Ending your low back pain, far from relying on pain killers of muscle relaxants, requires you to reengage and strengthen your core muscles to support your sacroiliac join and allow it to function the way it was designed to.

Your core is how you carry your body, and there is a vicious feedback loop between a weak core and poor posture. Weak core muscles make it hard for you to carry yourself in a tall, neutral position. A slumped posture further weakens your muscles.

To compensate, your head tilts forward and down, causing your shoulders to roll and your chest to sink. In turn, your pelvis tilts in, forcing your stomach and your butt out. Your knees turn in to compensate, destabilizing your feet and wearing heels makes this worse.

The chain reaction of the weak core muscles turns every joint into your body into a weight bearing structure. Your gluts, the big muscles in your butt, abductors and abductors and your hip flex or muscles are all part of your core.

When those muscles are weak, the strain of walking, running and other movements is transferred to the ligaments in your hips, which in turn transfer that load to the hip joint distorting its normal function. Under such circumstances, your hip grinds into your pelvis.

In case of knee pain the chain of weakness extends down to your knees. Since because your knees are two relatively isolated joints that must bear almost the entire weight of your body, they are extremely vulnerable to weakness in your gluts.

One of the most frequent mistakes I see people make is to focusing on stretching the IT band and engaging the quads, the big muscle in the back of your thighs.

 In fact you can do those things all day, every day and unless you engage your gluts, those weak muscles will still force your knees to carry the weight your muscles should by forcing your knees to grind away at the cartilage, then the bone.

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