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This week a number of ergonomic solutions have come up - some suggested by me, others discovered by clients. There was the woman who hurt her back trying to dig out manure from a tight, awkward corner with a spade - the potential solution will be to use a couple of scoopy things so she can keep the weight close as opposed to at arms length. There was the client who has figured out how to adapt the 'semi-flexed' exercise for emptying the wheelbarrow and avoid hurting her back

So I was reminded today of just how much we end up 'approximating' movements when we have even the tiniest bit of obstruction to our peripheral vision. It seems to me as an AT teacher that often the muscular, or postural changes we need to make have to be approached sorta with 'peripheral vision' in a sensory way - if we directly concentrate on them they can tense up more. When you consider that ALL of our muscles support one-another, the slightest changes effecting the whole

The relative state of the head & neck is of primary importance in all vertebrates, including horses and humans - it effects the functioning of the whole rest of the musculo-skeletal system. When the muscles at the back of the neck are over-contracted, the head is pulled into the spine which compresses, causing a chain of adaptive contractions throughout the body. When the muscles at the back of the neck lengthen, the head tends away from the spine, which in turn lengthens, al