A Better Golf Swings Equals A Lower Score

Hitting a ball with a golf club places a great amount of stress on your whole body. This stress often starts as a bit of muscle fatigue. Your arms and/or legs tend to get tired at the conclusion of a round or a session at the range. Left alone this fatigue can range from muscle aches, to tissue tears, to changes in the alignment of your spine and pelvis. To change this you need to be both strong and flexible enough for your muscles to properly align your spine which is the engine that drives the movements of the golf swing making it effortless.

The easiest misalignment to identify is the neck. Golfers don’t understand the importance, nor the difficulty involved in keeping the head centered between the shoulders. As the head inches forward of midline the weight that the upper back and neck muscles support increases. This results in forward head posture which is epidemic. It is reinforced by our daily seated activities that occur during work at a computer or desk, during driving, and through watching TV or movies. This misalignment leads to neck pain with associated headaches and oftentimes pain at the top of and in between your shoulder blades.

You can determine your head alignment on your own? Stand sideways in front of a mirror. If your ears line up with your shoulders and ankles your fine. Unfortunately, the majority of people aren’t like this. Take a look next time you’re at a restaurant, or sporting event. You seldom see a person who doesn’t exhibit forward head carriage.

Correcting this misalignment involves two steps. First you need to come in for a brief series of cervical attunements of the muscles and vertebrae involved in your neck, your upper back as well as your anterior and posterior shoulder girdle muscles. Secondly, you need to learn some simple exercise that we will supply you.

In Golf, and other situations, low back pain occurs when there is too much or too little curve in either the mid or low back. This condition occurs when the global muscles of the low back, ribs and hips become tight and shift the bones out of position. The result is reduced low back rotation in both the back swing and the follow through causing a short swing and an over all reduction in power. A golfer who attempts to improve their rotation without addressing their abnormal lumbar curve can over stretch their mid-back and/or shoulder muscles causing damage to the involved tissues and joints e.g. golfer’s elbow, rotator cuff syndrome.

Correcting your low back involves improving strength, coordination, flexibility, motor control and balance. We do this through a combination of sacral and pelvic balancing, releasing tension in the large global muscles, turning on the core stabilizer muscles and making sure there are no fixated segments in the lumbar or lower thoracic spine. We treat people in both a passive state and in an active state where they are treated while their using the “Total Gym”. There are also suggested exercises you can perform.

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