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12-27-07 03:57 PM - Post#389252
Great stuff snipped from this Mike Boyle article:
Gray Cooks’s analysis of the body was a straightforward one; in his mind, the body is a just a stack of joints. Each joint or series of joints has a specific function and is prone to specific, predictable levels of dysfunction. As a result, each joint has specific training needs.
The table below looks at the body on a joint-by-joint basis from the bottom up:
Ankle - mobility (particularly sagittal)
Knee - stability
Hip - mobility (multi-planar)
Lumbar Spine - stability
T-Spine - mobility
Gleno-humeral - stability
The first thing you should notice as you read the above table is that the joints simply alternate mobility and stability. The ankle needs increased mobility, and the knee needs increased stability.
As we move up the body, it becomes apparent that the hip needs mobility. And so the process goes up the chain: a simple, alternating series of joints.
The process is simple:
- Lose ankle mobility, get knee pain.
- Lose hip mobility, get low back pain.
- Lose thoracic mobility, get neck and shoulder pain (or low back pain).
This has helped me hugely recently as I've zeroed in on the original cause of a list of physical problems. See attached pdf for more.
Read the full Boyle article here, then follow the link at the end to read Gray Cook's expansion on the concept.
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