If it's good for my business it is bad for your health. The average golfer according to the US Golf Association has an average score on the golf course of 100. In my observations the average golfer takes 2 practice swings. Depending on whether you are right or left handed this means you are swinging the club 300 times in the same direction. That would be 300 twisting motions in the same direction.
The muscles of the spine and hip on one side of your body will get very strong but what about the other side? This causes the muscles involved in the golf swing to be stronger on one side than the other. This them causes a one sided muscle imbalance. Imagine if you were tightening guide wires on a tower and you tightened one side twice as tight as the other side. The tower would now start to lean.
Like the tower your spine is designed to be balanced with equal pull front to back and left to right. The lumbar spine especially the discs prefer not to be twisted as the outer layer of disc fibers called the annulus fibrosis are prone to tearing. As the body becomes contorted from week after week of golfing the sacro-illiac joint is usually the first area to become affected.
After several years of golf related injuries in my practice I devised the following recommendations:
1.) Don't carry your golf bag, use a pull cart or motorized cart
2.) Walk the course
3.)
Swing the club the opposite way, I recommend for every three swings in your normal direction swing one time in the opposite direction. If you are right handed that means you swing right to left, after your third swing now swing left to right, you don't even have to hit a ball. Some of my golfers due 30 opposite direction swings during warm up, others during the course of the round of golf.
4)
Take a lesson, learn proper technique
5.)
Ice your injury initially then seek
Chiropractic Care
I
don't play golf, how it is this
tip pertinent to me? This tip is the same as raking, vacuuming and any repetitious injury, change it up and use both sides with proper mechanics.
Call or e-mail me and ask for a free exercise sheet to help your golf game.
The following was taken from an article written by Brian Sutton DC in
Dynamic Chiropractic published July1, 2008.
Pot-Belly Dementia
The journal
Neurology reports that carrying excessive abdominal weight at age 40-45 appears to be a risk factor for developing dementia later in life. 9 The report says abdominal fat is more important than overall weight when it comes to dementia. More than 6,500 middle-aged subjects were measured with calipers, with 10 inches or more of a belly in the A-P aspect considered large. Approximately 36 years later, the researchers found the risk of dementia increased from 89 percent to a whopping 300 percent for those with proportionally protruding abdomens. The higher range applied to the more obese (overall) people. However, an obese person whose body fat was evenly distributed was only 81 percent more likely to become demented.
There are no solid explanations for the findings, other than a few hard-to-stomach theories, such as suggesting abdominal fat might "pump out substances that harm the brain" or maybe that "high insulin levels" are the culprit. 10 From personal experience, I would suggest a simpler explanation involving mechanical pressure from the fat impeding venous return and thus chronically depriving the brain of oxygen.
- Neurology, March 26, 2008.
- Associated Press, March 26, 2008.
I don't think the pot belly will help your golf game either.
Where do most strains of the flu begin?
A. France B. Moline C. Asia D. Jupiter E. Atlantis see below for the answer
IN PAIN CALL Dr. Krieger at 633-6044 or docbillchiro@juno.com
Website: Kriegerchiropracticofwny.topchiro
Drive safely and take extra time if you need to during the summer travel and vacation season. If you or someone you know gets involved in an accident these are some of the symptoms that can be experienced. Have a happy 4 th of July.
- Neck pain
- headache
- fatigue
- shoulder and arm pain
- Anxiety
- pain between the shoulder blades
- lower back pain
- Sleep problems
- numbness of the arm or hand
- sensitivity to noise
- Impaired concentration
- blurred vision
- irritablility
- difficulty swallowing
- dizziness
- forgetfulness
- jaw pain
- weakness of the arm or hand
- jaw pain
- herniated disks
I hope to see you out on the course.
William L. Krieger DC
5225 Sheridan Dr.
Williamsville, NY 14221
IN PAIN CALL Dr. Krieger at 633-6044
The answer is C. Asia then it spreads to Australia, then Europe, and finally North America.