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Originally Posted by BrianW  You have not posted any information of yourself in your personal profile so I cannot see anything relating to your personal or professional experience.
I have played golf for many years and know a lot of golfers, including some that have played at high levels. Two PGA Professionals I know both suffer from the Yips and have to use belly putters, is this a coincidence? I have personally known many other golfers who suffer from tennis elbow, shoulder and wrist problems, some of them have had cortisone injections and surgery, I have suffered from tennis elbow myself due to golf.
Please don't patronise me or others, if you have some input to the subject and wish to comment then please do so, otherwise it would be better that you didn't suggest others were talking BS or we may not be able to keep up!
If you think that muscular tension is not used by some in controlling the club on plane then look at Trevino's forearms in this picture and note the way his muscles are flexed.  |
Now who is being patronizing?
I already posted further back in the thread a bit of my background and experience, but I tell you what. How about I meet you half way? You spend the next 13yrs studying medicine and then I'll spend the couple of hours putting the post together to explain all the holes in his theory at the colleague to colleague level(not the teacher to student level where I also have to fill in the background so you understand the point I am making).
As for muscle tension, I never said there wasn't any. There has to be a certain amount of muscle tension to do anything but it doesn't automatically mean it is going to be an injury.
If you want to compare apples and oranges start looking a little further afield then just golf for strains that are applied to the human body. Look at builders for instance, large incidence of low back pain, then look at office workers, large incidence of low back pain?????? Very different circumstances wouldn't you say? Muscle strain is not the only reason people get pain, it can be a reason, but not always.
Now the problem I have with this guy is the facts he is painting are not true ie. He talks of the contraction of the external oblique causing a change in spinal angle...... Well the FACT is that the internal oblique is neurologically tied to the opposite external oblique for the rotational movement. So when one contracts, they both contract.
Spinal angle in this case is an unconscious choice made in the brain according to the task that it is being presented within the conscious parameters it has been given.
And lets not even get me started on them being paper thin. I have played with these in cardavers. They are thin, but not paper thin. I would also say with a golfer they would thicken up in response to the activity like any muscle. So it would be far from paper thin.
Now one of the big rules I have for my clients is if they are starting a new sporting activity go and get lessons. The reason for this is faulty mechanics, and inappropriate or no muscle conditioning leads to the majority of injuries in the non contact sports.
I don't need more work, I have enough trouble keeping up with the unlucky ones so please pass on this golden rule to your friends and family.
Christopher