Low back pain in golf players is very high due to improper swing mechanics
and repetitive movements. Discover how manual therapy can prevent back pain in
golfers.
We watch it all the time on sports channels. How do they execute it? That
golf swing is really a work of art. Requiring such a complex array of finely
coordinated movements, it?s no wonder a golfer?s body is considered a ticking
time bomb for acute injury or chronic pain.
Recent stats: 53 percent of male
and 45 percent of female golfers experience low back pain; 30 percent of
professional golfers play injured; 33 percent of golfers are over the age of 50;
and playing golf and another sport increases chance of injury by 40
percent.1
Researchers agree that a bulk of injuries affecting male golfers
manifest in the low back and are related to improper swing mechanics andor the
repetitive nature of the game.2,3 The amateur or weekend golfer generally
experiences injuries due to improper swing mechanics, whereas the sports
professional is more likely to fall victim to overuse injuries from obsessive
repetitive movement patterns. When a high velocity rotary force couples with
trunk sidebending (the crunch
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take a thumping. No wonder low back pain (LBP) is the most common golfer
complaint!
To hit the ball a great distance, the body must have the ability
to rotate into and maintain a wide arc throughout the swing.? Manual therapy
techniques that amplify range of hip turn allow a decrease in the amount of
shoulder turn, thus reducing the amount of trunk flexion and sidebending during
the downswing (the most damaging moment of the swing). If golfers lack full
range of hip mobility due to an adhesive capsule, powerful torsional forces will
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Motion-restricted facets and hurt ligamentous tissue can neurologically inhibit
deep spinal groove muscles such as rotatores, multifidus and intertransversarii
leading to substitution patterns and low back instability.
Reported in the
Journal of Science & Medicine in Sport (2008), University of South Australia
researchers found that golfers with LBP were overly dependent on erector spinae
muscles for spinal stabilization rather than allowing load transfer to be
distributed among more efficient lumbopelvic stabilizers such as quadratus
lumborum, transverse
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erectors and obliques) to compensate for the weakened deep spinal stabilizers.
The question is, ?What mechanism instigates the deep lumbopelvic stabilizers to
weaken??
Reconnecting the Disconnect
The body?s myofascial system is built
from a continuous arrangement of tissues designed to function in organized
patterns, not as isolated muscle groups. When operating properly, energy is
competently transmitted via force-coupling through a reaction chain rooted in
the ground. Motor unit recruitment only becomes isolated to a particular muscle
group when the brain senses a system disconnect and calls in ?the subs.? For
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were blocking energy transfer up the kinetic chain, normal force-coupling would
suffer due to lack of mobility of the femoral head in the acetabulum. (Fig 3)
The therapist must first mobilize the fixated joint in all three cardinal
planes, and then move up the kinetic chain to assess and correct any sacroiliac
or lumbar compensation that may be driving the golfer?s back pain.
Successful treatment of golf-related injuries not only necessitates golf
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lordosis. Too much or too little curve results in extreme torsional and
compressive loads through the thoracolumbar and lumbosacral junctions. The
myoskeletal approach gets underway by correcting lower crossed muscle imbalance
patterns followed by restoration of ?joint-play? to fixated low back, sacroiliac
and thoracic articulations.
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