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04.02.2022 Post 5: Wonder why you have that pain in your neck that has coincided with an exquisite headache? Or the pain in your back, shoulder joint or your knee, or the nagging pain in your calf? Myofascial trigger points, or trigger points are one major source of pain and dysfunction in the human body. The word myofascial relates to (Myo) - meaning 'Muscle' and (fascial) - meaning 'fascia'.... Essentially trigger points can occur anywhere in the body from the muscle tissue itself to the periosteum, which is the membrane that covers our bones. The trigger points I want to tell you about today are the muscular trigger points or 'Myo' part of Myofascial. These have potential to shorten and tension our muscle tissue and if left to its own devises can ultimately 'lock up' a major portion of the tissue. Remember we said that within a muscle fibre (cell) are myofibrils which are the component units within a muscle fibre and within the myofibrils are 'sarcomeres' which are the contractile units that actually effect a contraction. It's within the sarcomeres that dysfuntion begins to occur. Microscopically, within the sarcomeres, the filaments that actually do the pulling together begin to lock in the shortened position. As we spoke about in previous posts this is due to a number of issues such as dehydration, muscle overload or fatigue and repetitive strain to name a couple. These microscopic 'locked up' segments of our muscles form an extremely powerful bond and if left unchecked will usually extend from one sarcomere to the next and to the next and so on........ until we have a large portion of a muscle, or indeed a majority of the muscle, locked in the shortened position. In this hyper contracted state there is only a small portion of the muscle fibre tissue available to work which makes the remaining tissue and other assisting muscles over worked. From this point the situation tends to 'snowball'. Any wonder why we experience nagging tension headaches or persistent back pain! So what can we do about it? More to follow......;)

24.01.2022 Post No 2 Hi again, Soooo.... not wanting to turn this into a bunch of scientific posts I ask that you bear with me and I will try to keep it as short as possible. The following is very important in order for us to understand a little as to why our muscles get tight!... One thing we need to know about muscles and how they function (or dysfunction) can be described in what is called the the 'Sliding Filament theory or function'. Take a look at the picture in post number 1 and if you look at the muscle you see it has a bunch of muscle fibres (or cells as we call them) and inside these fibres/cells are a whole bunch of what are called 'myofibrils'. Now this is where it gets interesting and where all the chemistry (action) takes place..... Myofibrils are broken up into a bunch of segments called sarcomeres and it is within the sarcomeres where chemical reactions are converted into mechanical action via protein structures called actin and myosin. Simply put this is where chemicals in our muscles are used and waste products are produced! The first picture below is of one actin protein (Yellow DNA looking thing) and one myosin protein (the one with all the purple balloon looking things). The second picture is of a whole bunch of these actin's and myosin's within a sarcomere of a myofibril and this is where dysfunction can occur! More soon!

22.01.2022 Hi everyone, thanks for visiting my page. The purpose of developing this page is to connect and provide you with some regular ongoing information on my understandings of the human musculoskeletal system, how it works, what can go wrong and what we might be able to do to care for ourselves if we have developed dysfunction. Today's post. To understand our musculoskeletal system we firstly need to know what it is and how it works. There are in excess of 200 bones in our bodies... and we know our bones make up our skeleton. In order to move it we need muscles to pull on every single bone, using them as levers to perform the actions we need. For today why not take a look at this picture and look at the parts that make up our muscles.... Stay tuned....

20.01.2022 Post 4 I know I might sound like I’m banging on about this hydration business, but really this is a story of Robbing ‘Peter to pay Paul’. Fast Fact;... Surprisingly, the first official recommendation about water intake was made as recently as 2004. According to the American Institute of Medicine, the adequate water intake for adult men and women is 3.7 and 2.7 litres per day, respectively. Also did you know there are 5 organs in the body that are considered ‘vital’ for life? They are; The brain The heart The lungs The liver and The kidneys By the time you feel thirst, water has already been borrowed (robbing Peter) from ‘non vital’ parts of your body, such as your skeletal muscles, in order to maintain the ‘vital’ functions of life (to pay Paul). This is one reason your muscles can dysfunction. Remember in post 2 we said chemical reactions enabled a mechanical action within the muscles, well without adequate body fluids within the muscle fibres the chemical reactions and waste disposal will be slowed or possibly halted to an extent causing fibre dysfunction. This could be one reason why ‘Trigger Points’ form in our muscles. What is a trigger point I hear you say.

15.01.2022 Water - What is it good for? Did you know... - In total we are approximately 60% water.... - The muscles and kidneys are composed of 79% water - The brain and heart are composed of 73% water. - The lungs are about 83% water. - The skin contains 64% water. - Even our bones are a watery 31%. (H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158) When these percentages of water are compromised, the functions that the organs/systems are designed to perform are also compromised. ....So the first thing we all need to do every day to give ourselves the best chance of attaining and maintaining healthy function is to keep a water bottle close at hand, take regular sips all day, and stay hydrated. H-Y-D-R-A-T-E ;)

09.01.2022 Post 4 I know I might sound like Im banging on about this hydration business, but really this is a story of Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Fast Fact;... Surprisingly, the first official recommendation about water intake was made as recently as 2004. According to the American Institute of Medicine, the adequate water intake for adult men and women is 3.7 and 2.7 litres per day, respectively. Also did you know there are 5 organs in the body that are considered vital for life? They are; The brain The heart The lungs The liver and The kidneys By the time you feel thirst, water has already been borrowed (robbing Peter) from non vital parts of your body, such as your skeletal muscles, in order to maintain the vital functions of life (to pay Paul). This is one reason your muscles can dysfunction. Remember in post 2 we said chemical reactions enabled a mechanical action within the muscles, well without adequate body fluids within the muscle fibres the chemical reactions and waste disposal will be slowed or possibly halted to an extent causing fibre dysfunction. This could be one reason why Trigger Points form in our muscles. What is a trigger point I hear you say.

02.01.2022 Water - What is it good for? Did you know... - In total we are approximately 60% water.... - The muscles and kidneys are composed of 79% water - The brain and heart are composed of 73% water. - The lungs are about 83% water. - The skin contains 64% water. - Even our bones are a watery 31%. (H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158) When these percentages of water are compromised, the functions that the organs/systems are designed to perform are also compromised. ....So the first thing we all need to do every day to give ourselves the best chance of attaining and maintaining healthy function is to keep a water bottle close at hand, take regular sips all day, and stay hydrated. H-Y-D-R-A-T-E ;)

02.01.2022 Post 5: Wonder why you have that pain in your neck that has coincided with an exquisite headache? Or the pain in your back, shoulder joint or your knee, or the nagging pain in your calf? Myofascial trigger points, or trigger points are one major source of pain and dysfunction in the human body. The word myofascial relates to (Myo) - meaning 'Muscle' and (fascial) - meaning 'fascia'.... Essentially trigger points can occur anywhere in the body from the muscle tissue itself to the periosteum, which is the membrane that covers our bones. The trigger points I want to tell you about today are the muscular trigger points or 'Myo' part of Myofascial. These have potential to shorten and tension our muscle tissue and if left to its own devises can ultimately 'lock up' a major portion of the tissue. Remember we said that within a muscle fibre (cell) are myofibrils which are the component units within a muscle fibre and within the myofibrils are 'sarcomeres' which are the contractile units that actually effect a contraction. It's within the sarcomeres that dysfuntion begins to occur. Microscopically, within the sarcomeres, the filaments that actually do the pulling together begin to lock in the shortened position. As we spoke about in previous posts this is due to a number of issues such as dehydration, muscle overload or fatigue and repetitive strain to name a couple. These microscopic 'locked up' segments of our muscles form an extremely powerful bond and if left unchecked will usually extend from one sarcomere to the next and to the next and so on........ until we have a large portion of a muscle, or indeed a majority of the muscle, locked in the shortened position. In this hyper contracted state there is only a small portion of the muscle fibre tissue available to work which makes the remaining tissue and other assisting muscles over worked. From this point the situation tends to 'snowball'. Any wonder why we experience nagging tension headaches or persistent back pain! So what can we do about it? More to follow......;)

29.12.2021 Post No 2 Hi again, Soooo.... not wanting to turn this into a bunch of scientific posts I ask that you bear with me and I will try to keep it as short as possible. The following is very important in order for us to understand a little as to why our muscles get tight!... One thing we need to know about muscles and how they function (or dysfunction) can be described in what is called the the 'Sliding Filament theory or function'. Take a look at the picture in post number 1 and if you look at the muscle you see it has a bunch of muscle fibres (or cells as we call them) and inside these fibres/cells are a whole bunch of what are called 'myofibrils'. Now this is where it gets interesting and where all the chemistry (action) takes place..... Myofibrils are broken up into a bunch of segments called sarcomeres and it is within the sarcomeres where chemical reactions are converted into mechanical action via protein structures called actin and myosin. Simply put this is where chemicals in our muscles are used and waste products are produced! The first picture below is of one actin protein (Yellow DNA looking thing) and one myosin protein (the one with all the purple balloon looking things). The second picture is of a whole bunch of these actin's and myosin's within a sarcomere of a myofibril and this is where dysfunction can occur! More soon!

27.12.2021 Hi everyone, thanks for visiting my page. The purpose of developing this page is to connect and provide you with some regular ongoing information on my understandings of the human musculoskeletal system, how it works, what can go wrong and what we might be able to do to care for ourselves if we have developed dysfunction. Today's post. To understand our musculoskeletal system we firstly need to know what it is and how it works. There are in excess of 200 bones in our bodies... and we know our bones make up our skeleton. In order to move it we need muscles to pull on every single bone, using them as levers to perform the actions we need. For today why not take a look at this picture and look at the parts that make up our muscles.... Stay tuned....