Sudden Joint Shift Reflex Injuries Theory.
Ever wondered why:
It was today when your know that you have been picking up your kids toys off the floor hundreds of times a year that your back gives out.
Today you have been putting on your socks every day for years when your back gives out.
It was today while you were just cleaning your teeth like you always have done for years that your back gives out.
It was today when I just reached for my coffee cup and my back gives out.
And the scenarios go on.
What these injuries are known as, in the medical and rehab world is Idiopathic meaning "seemingly without cause".
As I explain in my seminar "My Back" is my theory of seemingly what has gone wrong. This theory is based on thirty years of experience rehabilitating soft tissue injuries.
My theory is that a Sudden Joint Shift Reflex has occurred.
Sudden - seemingly without warning.
Joint Shift -an unnatural movement that breaks the Vacuum Phenomenon of a bone joint at great speed.
Reflex - a response of our muscles to contract when the muscle is involuntarily stretched by the breaking of the Vacuum Phenomenon. (See Knee cap reflex test.)
I would like to invite people to test my theory to prove or disprove as I have not been able to find this theory when searching the net.
Theory Explained:
Our power (say Gluteal, Hamstring) muscles are shortened by stiffness (Definition of Stiffness: the apparent loss of range of motion of a joint.) to the point that when full range movement of the wait area is required (bending down to pick up something) it comes not from joint articulation but from breaking the Vacuum Phenomenon (say Sacroiliac Joint) to achieve the distance the brain requires to complete the task. This sends, at great speed and force, a stretch reflex through the muscles associated with the iliac crest (lumbar, Erector Spinae) which has occurred because the as mentioned power muscle stiffness have pulled the S.I. joint posteriorly apart.
Due to the immense forces that already exist naturally in the musculoskeletal while the body is bent over the muscle reflex I believe can still occur thus causing soft tissue damage. In other words with the brain sending messages to the muscles to slowly extend under load, the sudden joint shift abruptly interrupts tricking our lumber muscles to contract and the reflex literally rips through the muscles causing sprains and strains.