Chapter 140: The Birth of Pilates
The focus of rehabilitation training is on the recovery of muscles and ligaments.
During this time, Qian Rui was exposed to some fitness knowledge in other places, and after adjusting her erector spinae, she sat down and discussed the content of rehabilitation with Ji Ke.
Rehabilitation training is an important means of rehabilitation medicine, what rehabilitation medicine does, Ji Ke has been roughly contacted, in short, it is to help the disabled and patients to restore those disordered functions of medical disciplines, such as fractures, paralysis, stroke, ligament tears, Achilles tendon rupture, etc.
Rehabilitation training is mainly training to help the affected limb return to normal function, well, not limited to the limbs, but also the trunk.
Rehabilitation training should be said to be the product of the combination of the sports field and the medical field, after all, medicine wants to restore the injured limb to a normal state, and it cannot do without the support of the sports field.
"The view of rehabilitation training in the sports field is actually very simple, that is, the training of muscles and ligaments has little to do with bones. Ji Ke first responded positively to the concerns of the Qian University psychological counselor about bones in this regard.
As long as there is no lack of bones, even if a fracture occurs, the rehabilitation training after bone reduction has little to do with the bones, and the rehabilitation training is mainly a problem of blood vessels and muscles.
Blood vessels transport nutrients in the form of blood to help the affected area recover quickly, and bone healing is also involved, and rehabilitation training helps to increase the speed of blood circulation and improve the delivery efficiency, which is a passive result of rehabilitation training and does not need to be repeated.
Muscles play a central role in rehabilitation.
Most of the people who need rehabilitation have suffered damage to their muscles and bones, such as muscle tears and broken bones, in this case, the deep muscles and ligaments responsible for stability and protection will definitely be affected by the pond fish.
Aside from the two muscle categories of smooth muscle and cardiac muscle, which are important but are basically not involved, let's talk about skeletal muscles that can be controlled by consciousness.
The skeletal muscles are massive, distributed throughout the body, wrapping the human body tightly from the inside to the outside, without leakage, and then covering the skin on the outside;
From the inside to the outside, the skeletal muscles located in the deep layer are small in size and weak in strength, and the distribution range of a single muscle is narrow, relying on the number to play a functional role; outside, the volume, area, and strength of skeletal muscles continue to increase, and often one muscle can play a variety of functions.
The main targets of rehabilitation are the ligaments near the deep small muscles and the superficial large muscles.
How to train the deep small muscles and ligaments, or how to exercise them? The various disciplines that supported Western medicine in the early days, such as anatomy, did not give any useful explanations and solutions.
In fact, Western medicine only began to transform from empirical medicine to experimental medicine in the mid-to-late 16th century, and it was not until the mid-20th century that rehabilitation medicine developed.
In the early days, Western medicine faced patients with motor dysfunction after the recovery of the affected limb, very headache, the meaning of the existence of medicine is to restore the patient to a healthy state, after the fracture is healed, the patient walks with a limp, it must be unscientific, inhumane, and needs to be solved.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the collective explosion of theories in various disciplines provided a good academic foundation for Western medicine to solve motor dysfunction.
Some medical talents have conducted long-term research in the field of sports, and finally concluded that the deep muscles and ligaments have a significant decline in strength and toughness after healing, which is the main reason for the huge gap in sports performance after the limbs are healed.
The root of the problem has been found, the next thing is how to solve it, physical surgery is definitely not possible, the problem is caused by surgery, how can it be solved to find the culprit?
It doesn't matter if the traditional theoretical knowledge of Western medicine can't solve this problem, you just can't find it from other places?
There is no limit to human wisdom.
In the final analysis, motor dysfunction is an after-sales problem, phew, a problem of sports performance, so find a way from exercise!
"I have to mention one person here: Joseph Huberts Pilates," Ji Ke suddenly changed his style of painting when talking about finding solutions in the field of sports in medicine, "In a sense, it was he who pioneered Western medicine and rehabilitation medicine." ”
Qian Rui sat there, looking at Ji Ke with her eyes, quietly watching her coach pretending to be forced there.
Any genius has a similar beginning, that is, what is weak is specially aimed at strengthening the weak, ten years is like a day, and it will be successful! For example, Beethoven, a genius musician with a weakened sense of hearing, and Pilates, who was frail and sickly since childhood, and then excelled in the field of physical fitness.
Pilates has been studying exercise therapy for physical reasons, and finally combined Western traditional fitness and Eastern Indian yoga in the United Kingdom to create a sports school --- Pilates that specializes in deep small muscle groups and ligament rehabilitation and exercise.
During World War I, Pilates gained fame in the United Kingdom for using his own sports therapy to help prisoners recover, and then in the United States, he provided dancers, athletes, and performers with targeted exercise training to protect them from injury.
In the United States, the movement of Pilates was popularized and eventually catalyzed the birth of rehabilitation medicine.
"Sister Qian, you didn't have time to come over some time ago, while you are free today, I will teach you a few Pilates movements that specifically train the spine and back. After saying that, Ji Ke finally answered Qian Rui's questions about rehabilitation training, and then prepared to make up for the follow-up exercises.
Pilates specializes in exercising small muscle groups, and the basic elements of its exercise are naturally born for small muscle groups: concentration, control, center of gravity, breathing, smoothness, accuracy, relaxation, and persistence.
Here I will mainly talk about the neutral position of Pilates.
The neutral position is the initial preparation of the Pilates movement, which is divided into six neutral positions: standing, sitting, kneeling on all fours, supine, sideways, and prone.
From an anatomical point of view, the neutral position refers to the optimal position for the balanced contraction of skeletal muscles to maintain the pressure balance between the spine and the pelvis, so there are two main parts of the neutral position: the spine and the pelvis.
How to judge the neutrality of the pelvis? Place the heels of both hands at the position of the anterior superior iliac spine (where the anterior superior iliac spine is has been emphasized many times), place the tips of both fingers on the pubic bone, and observe the triangular plane formed by the hands.
If the fingertips are lower than the heel of the palm, i.e., the back of the hand is cut inward, the pelvis is tilted forward, and conversely, the back of the hand is cut forward, the pelvis is tilted backward, and the pelvis is adjusted so that the fingertips are perpendicular to the ground and the pelvis is in a neutral position.
Pelvic neutrality is important in the Pilates movement, with the triangular surface perpendicular to the ground when standing, parallel to the ground when lying on the back and stomach, and the side perpendicular to the ground when lying on the side.
People with lower back injuries, such as spondylitis, intervertebral disc injuries, etc., do not need to be too strict about pelvic neutrality, and can lean back slightly or find a support point.
The spine is neutral and it is easier to judge, the body stands against the wall, naturally relaxed, the back of the head, the highest point of the upper back, and the sacrum are in the same straight line and close to the wall, and there are two natural physiological curvatures in the back of the neck and lower back, which means that the spine is neutral.