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“It Feels Like It’s Muscular!”

Published On: December 2, 2024By Tags: , , , ,

If I had a £ for every new client that says this, I would… well, have a lot of £’s! And strictly speaking, they’re right. It does feel muscular because it is muscular.

But, what causes a muscle (or group of muscles) to feel tight & sore?

Well, there are some obvious answers. Maybe you’ve worked them hard at work or in sport. If the symptom is always one-sided, maybe you play a sport like cricket or golf which works one side of the body more.

But, what if you keep getting the same muscular pain or tension? Maybe always one side. Maybe the hip, lower back or shoulder, and you’re not doing any activities that you can put your finger on that cause it?

Well the likely answer is that those muscles are tight to compensate for a structural imbalance in your body.

So, what do we mean by structural imbalance?

Well, let’s consider that muscles connect two or more bones and move them via a joint through a lever mechanism. Put simply, that’s how we move. Now, if one of these bones gets stuck out of alignment, then this will affect how the muscle moves. It may compromise the efficiency of the movement, or it may overwork it. Either way, it is  going to feel uncomfortable because the muscle has to compensate. 

If you suffer from regular muscular aches and pains, take a moment to think…

Why?

It isn’t normal to be reliant on daily stretches in order to feel comfortable – although there is nothing wrong with it necessarily.

Often mobility, and what seems like a muscular restriction can be alleviated by manipulations of the joints in the spine as can be seen in the before treatment and after photos. These were taken around 20 minutes apart and no massage or soft tissue therapy was applied.

In summary, what feels like a muscular problem is likely just one component of a more multifaceted problem. Otherwise some simple stretching would resolve it.

So look to the cause not the symptom, and your mobility, health & wellbeing will thank you. 

Robert Spratley, Chiropractor. Rebalance Chiropractic. 

Certified ABC and Endo-Nasal Practitioner

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About the Author: Robert Spratley

I started my working life in the IT industry. Sitting long hours initially didn’t bother me. I was young and back pain wasn’t a thing in your 20s – right?! Then in my late 20s I injured my back carrying a piano. Although I didn’t have any pain immediately, over the coming days and weeks, my back started to hurt and I was getting pain down my right leg. I saw a physiotherapist on my GP’s referral and although it helped it didn’t resolve the pain for long. A friend of mine suggested seeing a chiropractor. This did help – and ignited an interest in how and why it helped as well as why I was in pain. Subsequently, I started my training to become a chiropractor and 5 years later qualified in 2013. As all new chiropractors do, I tested different techniques to see what seemed to work the best for me and my patients. During my first year of practice, I went to a seminar in Advanced Biostructural Correction (ABC). This turned out to be quite a radical approach to why bodies go wrong and how to fix them. The word ‘why‘ is important here because most techniques focus on looking at what is out of alignment in the skeleton and how to adjust it. But what if the misalignment is due to some other underlying problem that the body cannot fix? And how did this problem occur? This is where ABC shed light and provided a reliable and consistent template to fix structural body problems. In practical terms, I found that being treated with the ABC technique stabilised my body allowing my muscles to relax rather than constantly fighting against gravity to hold me upright. Previous techniques offered relief for a while by freeing up joints but then the tension and pain returned – because my body was still unstable. Furthermore, my body had formed layer upon layer of compensations to try and deal with the underlying issues that have taken time to unravel. These include fatigue, headaches, knee pain and shoulder pain. After receiving regular ABC treatment for almost a year, my symptoms were much improved. The goal of ABC is to have an ‘unawareness’ of your body. Most of us, if we stand still for a moment and focus on our body will realise that something hurts or doesn’t feel right. This is because it isn’t right. Pain often becomes like a background noise you get accustomed to and forget what silence sounds like. This is the aim with Advanced Biostructural Correction. Contact Details Email: info@rebalancechiropractic.co.uk Website Facebook Instagram X

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