How Important Are The Trunk Muscles?

How Important Are The Trunk Muscles?

 

Here's a quick thought for you. Upon removing the spinal muscles from a cadaver, the lumbar spine began to buckle under a compressive load of just 20 pounds!  This tells us that stability created by our motor control system is extremely important in spinal protection during sustained postures, movements, and reacting to sudden movements.  These muscles must ensure stability, and all of the muscles are important, not just one particular group.  Poor motor control and faulty movement patterns create micro-trauma, which leads to injury, which worsens the movement patterns.  It becomes a vicious cycle that can be corrected by reeducating the faulty movement patterns.  Your goal is to work these movement patterns while maintaining a stable spine.