| v> | | | | toxins are put back into the bloodstream to be |
| | | | processed by the liver and converted into energy. |
| In medicine there exists every other specialist you | | | | That's why after a massage you can feel washed |
| can think of, heart, lung, kidney, nerve, bone and | | | | out for a while then later you feel loose and |
| even brain specialists and the list goes on, but no | | | | energised. |
| true muscle specialists. Even though some medical | | | | |
| specialists label themselves as such, their hands rarely | | | | It is worth noting that caution is recommended when |
| touch the body to develop a feel for what is wrong. | | | | you are pushing through this point of fatigue |
| This is evidenced by the fact that so many people | | | | because, although it helps to build up your up fitness |
| need to take pain killers and anti inflammatory drugs | | | | level, you are more prone to injury when your |
| every day for the pain they have as a result of | | | | muscles are tired. Tired tight muscles don't provide |
| muscle problems. It is clear that whatever is being | | | | strong support for the joints making them prone to |
| done at present to fix muscle problems and treat | | | | becoming unstable if put under a heavy or |
| chronic back pain and sciatica is not working very | | | | unbalanced load. That's why if you are training in that |
| well. | | | | fatigue zone you are better to do it with controlled |
| | | | | exercise rather than sports where your joints are |
| There comes a point in time, during the day or a | | | | under an unbalanced load, like basketball, touch |
| particular activity, when overworked muscles need to | | | | football or tennis. |
| be rested and given time to recover. If they are not, | | | | |
| they will begin to fatigue and tighten causing the | | | | If you go too far past the point of fatigue during |
| other, still working muscles, to compensate for them | | | | activity or exercise it's possible to damage the |
| in some way. | | | | muscles to some degree and begin to set up long |
| | | | | term problems that can set up imbalances, weakness |
| As you move a muscle through its range of | | | | and come back later as a chronic back pain or worse |
| movement it should continuously contract and relax | | | | still sciatica. |
| or shorten and lengthen. The movement of the | | | | |
| muscle acts as a pump to bring blood and lymph | | | | In some areas of the body, such as the arm or leg, |
| containing oxygen and nutrients such as glycogen into | | | | this can cause the tight muscle to trap or press on a |
| the working muscle and flush out waste products like | | | | nerve generating a local or referred pain such as |
| carbon dioxide and lactic acid. The more weight being | | | | sciatica in the back, golfers elbow or carpel tunnel |
| carried or force being exerted by the muscle the | | | | syndrome in the hand. |
| larger the supply of oxygen and nutrients needed | | | | |
| and the more waste products there will be to take | | | | When we develop a problem in our body the level or |
| away. | | | | intensity of the pain we feel will vary from person to |
| | | | | person. This is dependent on the strength and |
| These waste products are one of the main reasons | | | | condition of the tissue, which in turn depends on |
| you are encouraged to warm down well with gentle | | | | things like lifestyle, diet, age, genetics and fitness |
| exercise after you finish your workout. The idea is to | | | | level. |
| flush out your muscles and leave them with a fresh | | | | You can start with a free video demonstration of a |
| blood supply for recovery and ready to work again | | | | great technique of how you can get instant back |
| the next day. A massage is another way of having | | | | pain or sciatica relief in the comfort of your own |
| your muscles flushed out whereby the waste and | | | | home at anytime. |