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Benefits of exercise
Improves joint nutrition and structure of articular cartilage
Increases bone density
Improves strength of supporting muscles giving stability
Radicular pain vs radiculopathy
Radiculopathy is compression of nerve root with motor and sensory loss
Radicular pain is neuropathic pain, shoot, burn
Specific back pain ?
Radiculopathy Scoliosis Sherman’s disease Disc herniation Spinal Fracture
Lumbar flexors
Psoas major
Recurs abdominis
Rectus femoris
Internal and external oblique
Post pelvic tilt muscles
Rectus abdominis
Internal and external obliques
Glutes
Ant pelvic tilt muscles
Iliopsoas
Rectus femoris
Erector spinal
Why do these muscles do tilts
Phasic muscles that have a Higher concentration of fast twitch muscle fibres so fatigue more easily when over worked, leading to weakness.
International association for study of pain says
Exercise is the best and longest lasting treatment for chronic pain
What are satellite cells
They are muscle stem cells activated by damage or exercise.
What do satellite cells do
Proliferate to create new contractile proteins for repair and remodelling
Facts of satellite cells
Can increase up to 30% with resistance training, and inc in as few as 4 days
Endurance training benefits
Increase vascular supply and capillary density
Also increase mitochondrial density
