Benefits of Good Core Stability

Core stability offers benefits to everyone, including children, older people and athletes. Exercises to improve core stability should be included as part of every conditioning or rehabilitation program, along with flexibility, strength, and aerobic training.

There are many benefits of good core stability. These benefits include:

· Good posture

· Efficient movement.

· Good walking (gait) biomechanics

· Reduced risk for injury

· Better athletic performance

· Improved spinal health

Habit Induced Core Instability

Research has revealed that habitual posture and activities cause certain muscles to become tight and others to become deconditioned (weak). The sedentary lifestyle and limited variety of execise in most peoples lives leads to disuse and chronic weakness. Bad posture is reinforced by this mechanism. Bad posture leads to worse posture. Chronic low back pain can result in a pattern of excessive muscle guarding and tension long after the causative back problem resolves.

As we get older, the variation in our movement continues to decrease. The growing use of technologies such as multimedia centers and fast computers have led to a more sedentarily lifestyle with less demand being place upon our core muscles. The relationship of core muscle function is not limited to deconditioning and atrophy but is also influenced by activity. Prolonged posture and repetitive work-related activity can also have an adverse effect on core muscle function. An imbalance between the various core muscles can result in delayed trunk reaction to bodily movement or environmental stimuli. Studies have revealed that many individuals with chronic low back pain have a delayed abdominal muscle reaction time. Even a slight delay of core responses whether involving muscle relaxation and/or contraction can lead to tissue injury involving the low back.

Properly conditioned deep muscles of the spine and abdominal muscles react quickly to changes in movement and subsequently provide protection to the spine. Strong core muscles helps maintain appropriate posture and the spinal curves of the spine. The more conditioned the muscles are the quicker they will react. They will react instinctively (involuntarily) and thus reduce the risk for spine injury. This is what it means to "move from the core." When the core muscles are all working together in harmony, the recruitment of deep spinal muscle fibers for stabilization occurs without a conscious effort.

The body will compensate for pain by developing movement patterns to protect the injured area, restore equilibrium and allow function. These learned patterns eventually lead to a cycle of harmful muscular activity. The cycle needs to be broken through postural retraining and core muscle rehabilitation. A new demand must be placed on the muscles, which will reinforce proper posture and spine stability.

Core stability offers benefits to everyone, including children, older people and athletes. Exercises to improve core stability should be included as part of every conditioning or rehabilitation program, along with flexibility, strength, and aerobic training.

There are many benefits of good core stability. These benefits include:

· Good posture

· Efficient movement.

· Good walking (gait) biomechanics

· Reduced risk for injury

· Better athletic performance

· Improved spinal health

Habit Induced Core Instability

Research has revealed that habitual posture and activities cause certain muscles to become tight and others to become deconditioned (weak). The sedentary lifestyle and limited variety of execise in most peoples lives leads to disuse and chronic weakness. Bad posture is reinforced by this mechanism. Bad posture leads to worse posture. Chronic low back pain can result in a pattern of excessive muscle guarding and tension long after the causative back problem resolves.

As we get older, the variation in our movement continues to decrease. The growing use of technologies such as multimedia centers and fast computers have led to a more sedentarily lifestyle with less demand being place upon our core muscles. The relationship of core muscle function is not limited to deconditioning and atrophy but is also influenced by activity. Prolonged posture and repetitive work-related activity can also have an adverse effect on core muscle function. An imbalance between the various core muscles can result in delayed trunk reaction to bodily movement or environmental stimuli. Studies have revealed that many individuals with chronic low back pain have a delayed abdominal muscle reaction time. Even a slight delay of core responses whether involving muscle relaxation and/or contraction can lead to tissue injury involving the low back.

Properly conditioned deep muscles of the spine and abdominal muscles react quickly to changes in movement and subsequently provide protection to the spine. Strong core muscles helps maintain appropriate posture and the spinal curves of the spine. The more conditioned the muscles are the quicker they will react. They will react instinctively (involuntarily) and thus reduce the risk for spine injury. This is what it means to "move from the core." When the core muscles are all working together in harmony, the recruitment of deep spinal muscle fibers for stabilization occurs without a conscious effort.

The body will compensate for pain by developing movement patterns to protect the injured area, restore equilibrium and allow function. These learned patterns eventually lead to a cycle of harmful muscular activity. The cycle needs to be broken through postural retraining and core muscle rehabilitation. A new demand must be placed on the muscles, which will reinforce proper posture and spine stability.

Core stability offers benefits to everyone, including children, older people and athletes. Exercises to improve core stability should be included as part of every conditioning or rehabilitation program, along with flexibility, strength, and aerobic training.

There are many benefits of good core stability. These benefits include:

· Good posture

· Efficient movement.

· Good walking (gait) biomechanics

· Reduced risk for injury

· Better athletic performance

· Improved spinal health

Habit Induced Core Instability

Research has revealed that habitual posture and activities cause certain muscles to become tight and others to become deconditioned (weak). The sedentary lifestyle and limited variety of execise in most peoples lives leads to disuse and chronic weakness. Bad posture is reinforced by this mechanism. Bad posture leads to worse posture. Chronic low back pain can result in a pattern of excessive muscle guarding and tension long after the causative back problem resolves.

As we get older, the variation in our movement continues to decrease. The growing use of technologies such as multimedia centers and fast computers have led to a more sedentarily lifestyle with less demand being place upon our core muscles. The relationship of core muscle function is not limited to deconditioning and atrophy but is also influenced by activity. Prolonged posture and repetitive work-related activity can also have an adverse effect on core muscle function. An imbalance between the various core muscles can result in delayed trunk reaction to bodily movement or environmental stimuli. Studies have revealed that many individuals with chronic low back pain have a delayed abdominal muscle reaction time. Even a slight delay of core responses whether involving muscle relaxation and/or contraction can lead to tissue injury involving the low back.

Properly conditioned deep muscles of the spine and abdominal muscles react quickly to changes in movement and subsequently provide protection to the spine. Strong core muscles helps maintain appropriate posture and the spinal curves of the spine. The more conditioned the muscles are the quicker they will react. They will react instinctively (involuntarily) and thus reduce the risk for spine injury. This is what it means to "move from the core." When the core muscles are all working together in harmony, the recruitment of deep spinal muscle fibers for stabilization occurs without a conscious effort.

The body will compensate for pain by developing movement patterns to protect the injured area, restore equilibrium and allow function. These learned patterns eventually lead to a cycle of harmful muscular activity. The cycle needs to be broken through postural retraining and core muscle rehabilitation. A new demand must be placed on the muscles, which will reinforce proper posture and spine stability.