08/01/2024
Client Case Study
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Active with jogging and swimming and no experience with weight room training before. He got no pain except for stiffness on the right upper traps and lower back. He can squat ass to ground easily without any pain. But when it comes to table test, he got limited ROM especially internal rotation on the upper body and hips. His Center of mass is shifted forward and he has more weights on the forefoot(check his foot presentation) and because of this, his butt gripping and it became so tight just to prevent him from falling forward. The reason he shifted to the right is because he has more weights on his right side and his upper body by default will turn to the left side. But in this case, he is turning to the right side and his right shoulder is higher. This is an additional layer of compensation on top of the compensation that he already has.
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The reason why this happens is often because the right chest wall becomes so overly tight, that the body needs to find a way to open up the right ribs.
If we can’t expand the ribs to the extent we need, we will subconsciously feel like we are suffocating to a small extent. This can take the form of anxiety, increased stress, and/or neck pain.
What happens is the muscles of the front of the right neck that attach on the upper ribs, such as the Scalenes, try to elevate the ribs upon inhalation. Normally the neck muscles are “secondary” muscles of inhalation and assist gently in breathing, but in this case, they’re working overtime as more of the primary muscles.
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His goal is to learn on how to lift weights but we cannot ignore what’s happening with his body even though he is not complaining about any pain. He already has a lot of compression on the body, if we load him more with weights without fixing the real issue, he will be more compress from top to bottom. And at the end of the day, it will turn to from no injuries to ton of injuries.
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