Soft Tissue Injury

Soft Tissue Injuries
Soft tissues include the muscles, tendons (ten-duns), ligaments (lig-ah-ments), and nerves. Injury to these tissues can be caused by unnecessary stress to the spine. To give you an idea of how stress affects the spine, consider the following information. Keep in mind the numbers are relatively accurate when proper posture and body mechanics are used.

Lying flat on the back, very little pressure is exerted on the spine. As a person stands upright the pressure climbs three times and while sitting four times. Forces affecting the lower back can rise five times as a medium weight box is lifted. But what happens when poor posture is combined with faulty body mechanics? Those numbers would escalate as the following example demonstrates:

Poor Body Mechanics: Bending at the waist instead of at the knees to pick something lightweight up off the floor. This movement may cause as much as 10 times the amount of unnecessary stress to the spine. Micro-trauma or mini-injuries to soft tissue may result from improper movement especially when repetitive. It is not surprising why so many people suffer from back and neck pain.

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Soft Tissue Injuries
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