Stop when your feet are as close to your hands as you can comfortably bring them.This should provide a nice stretch through your hamstrings, calves, and glutes as your hips start lifting toward the ceiling. Keep your legs relatively straight and begin walking your feet forward, one at a time, toward your hands.
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When your hands are directly under your shoulders, check your form-you should be in a full plank position with your core, chest, quads, triceps, and shoulders engaged, your body forming a straight line from heels to head. Inhale and walk your hands forward, one at a time, allowing your heels to lift off the floor as your body begins to straighten. Place your hands on the floor in front of your feet.Allow your knees to bend slightly, as needed, to enable your hands to reach the ground. Take a breath in, then as you exhale, look down at the ground and start reaching your hands toward the floor in front of your feet, allowing your back to bend forward, rolling down one vertebra at a time.Check your posture-your ears should be aligned over your shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles, your abdominals engaged. Stand tall, your feet roughly hip-distance apart.Only if the curve is large or advances does a scoliosis need attention. Small scoliosis curves for many patients are just a finding on an X-ray that has no bearing on the patient’s well being. Any curve greater than ten degrees is called a scoliosis. The front to back view of the spine should be straight. Conversely, if there is an abnormal curve and the head is off the midline, the amount of muscle contraction necessary to walk makes this amount of energy expenditure very fatiguing. The energy expenditure necessary for walking with good balance is very minimal. If the head is directly over the pelvis which is the center of gravity point for the body, there will be little need for muscle contraction to keep the head and torso over this balance point. Normal spinal alignment and balance are very important to energy consumption with standing and walking. Losing disc height in the cervical spine makes the patients head feel front heavy and has difficulty “holding it up”. Losing disc height in the thoracic spine can increase the forward curve (the kyphosis) and again, the individual feels pitched forward. Losing disc height in the lumbar spine can cause a flat back syndrome where the individual feels pitched forward.
These facts are important as you can see some of the problems that can secondarily occur with alignment and degeneration of the discs. The discs however do contribute as much as 50% of the curve in the thoracic spine.
If you took the discs out and stacked up these vertebra, there would still remain a forward curve. This curve is mainly caused by the shape of the vertebral bodies. The thoracic spine has a forward or kyphotic curve. It is the angular shape of the discs that cause the lordotic or backwards curves that occur in the neck and lower back. If you could stack these vertebra on top of each other without the discs, you would have a straight column. In the cervical and lumbar spine, the vertebra are square and the discs are trapezoidal. The curves of the spine originate in the shapes of the discs and the shapes of the vertebral bodies.
These side curves are like springs and balance each other out. On the side view, there are 2 forward curves (the thoracic spine and sacrum) called a kyphosis and two backward curves (the cervical spines and lumbar spines) called a lordosis. The side view of the spine has multiple curves that when added together should also have the head sitting directly over the pelvis. From the front view, the spine should be straight with the center of the head sitting on a plumb line directly over the pelvis.
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The spine is a series of building blocks called vertebra stacked one on top of another, separated in the front by the discs and in the back by the facets. This information relates to normal spinal alignment.
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