Movements Afoot’s Blog

The back of core

Core support allows us to move against gravity to be upright and move.

Great core support will enhance your posture and the tone of your muscles.
It is three-dimensional.

The connection is the coordination of the abdominal muscles, pelvic floor, and the back muscles with the limbs. Core support is about this connectivity.

Core support is providing the spine, the spinal cord and the organs 
with the necessary space to function well.

Poor posture leads to compression of the vertebra, disks and our internal organs. With our culture in so much flexion with computers, driving cars and watching TV, we need to train the spine 3-dimensionally.  Equal attention needs to given to how the back muscles support the spine and the legs.  Our standing requires an upright spine with the mobility of the legs for our everyday movements of walking and our movement loves.

Many of our clients are very weak
in their deep muscles of their spine and extensors of the hips.

Because of weakness of the extensors, clients will use other compensations to accomplish spinal and hip extension.  This will usually lead to compression and/or shortening to perform extension movements.  For instance,  a client will lift the head and hyperextend their neck for upper spine weakness.  A client with poor core support and weak hip extensors (the gluteals and hamstrings) will use the muscles around the lumbar spine to lift the leg.