Have you ever had to have surgery?

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Luckily I haven’t (in fact I decided against ACL surgery).... But it shocks me more and more every day, when I’m around fit, young people who have had to have surgery because of injuries that have occurred from preventable things like nerve tension.</span>

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<h3><b>Median Nerve Tension?</b></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">This is an issue because it can be very uncomfortable, debilitating in some cases, and is most commonly simply a result of our evolving lifestyles. You see nerves don’t like being held in a stretch when they are tethered down somewhere in the body. They also hate fine repetition, like the constant handling of a computer mouse. In this case more likely the median nerve in the arm. Over time these issues can potentially result in more severe problems like Carpel Tunnel Syndrome. Once this diagnosis has been made it is definitely NOT an exercise professional’s remit. However<em> risk reduction</em> definitely is.</span>

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<h3><b>Hamstring Injuries</b></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Hamstring injuries are also commonly caused by a tight nerve, in this particular case it is more likely to be the sciatic nerve. Nerves also dislike high speed so the muscles often provide a protective spasm during movements, like running for example, in an attempt to limit adding tension to the nerve. However if stretched, or loaded sufficiently, the muscles can spasm enough to cause themselves to tear, or even simply cramp up, which can FEEL like a tear.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">If this has happened to you, or your client, you know it really sucks right?</span>

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<h3><b>Tight Calves</b></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Calves are also often one area of the body that are neglected. Whether that be training them, or understanding the role they have on the rest of the bodies movement.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">As discussed above when there is nerve tension causing ‘tightness’ in the calves, a whole cascade of problems can occur as a result, if not properly prepared or addressed.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s look at what tight calves can lead to...</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">They can cause overpronation in the feet.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Why? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">This happens because the dorsi-flexion (moving the toes/foot up towards the shin) is not available from the ankle joint, due to the tightness in the calves, so it has to come from the sub talar joint.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">This comes as part of the pronation mechanism though and so </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">increases</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the amount of pronation as well.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So overpronation can cause shin related injuries, as well as knee and Achilles problems.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The list can go on..</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">BUT there are things WE can to do </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">reduce the risk </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">of this happening!</span>

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<h3><b>So What CAN We Do About It?</b></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">As exercise professionals we can prepare the nervous system better and we are perfectly placed to educate our clients on how to improve their intrinsic biomechanics. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now if you’re nervous (s’cuse the pun) about ‘exercising’ your clients nerves, consider this...</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">What happens to your nerves when you bend down to put your socks on or perform kicks in martial arts classes for example?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Yep you guessed it, you’re stretching your nerves, and if kicking in a class, this is also at relatively high speed!</span>

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<h3><b>Nerve Mobilisations</b></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">By mobilising the nerve it can release the tension in the muscles and reduce the risk of more sinister complications as previously mentioned.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now keeping in mind the ‘visco-elastic’ nature of the nervous system (ie; tight nerves don’t like high speed, fine repetition or being </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">held</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in a stretch), nerves should be mobilised slowly, with control and taken only just to the point, or beginnings, of tension. This can be done for 2 sets of 8 reps to begin and gradually over time up to 3 sets of 15 reps. NO MORE than 2 x daily.</span>

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<h3><b>This Technique Also Increased Muscle Output By 50% In 10 Days!</b></h3>
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<h3><b>The Evidence</b></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Research performed at Liverpool Hope University College demonstrated astonishing results.  One experiment showed that a muscle can increase its force output by 14% after mobilising the sciatic nerve. Another experiment showed that by following the same concept daily for 10 days increased muscle output by over 50%!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Who would like 50% stronger quads?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now remember in most cases we are not even aware we have a problem, but even so you can still achieve these remarkable results. Just imagine what these figures could do for your clients performance in their sport or indeed, on a sedentary level, how the fatigue relief can help after a hard day at the office.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you suspect you have clients who have any of the above mentioned problems?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Would you like to learn how to assess the nerves for tension?</span>

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<h3><b><i>SIDE NOTE: The Pelvis Can Contribute too...</i></b></h3>
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A rotated pelvis can also go unnoticed for many years until the compensations start to cause problems.  Typically a leg length discrepancy (LLD) can result from a twisted pelvis and the leg must compensate for this.  It'll either flatten the foot (pronate it), bend the knee more, or drop the hip more.  Pronation will increase the load on the leg (see 'Tight Calves' paragraph), bending the knee will increase pronation (see 'Tight Calves' paragraph), and dropping the hip will increase the spasm in the glutes/piriformis.   These muscles have a close relationship with the sciatic nerve and can create nerve tethering resulting in any of the afore mentioned compensations. </span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A vicious circle if ever there was one!  </span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">So by reducing the spasm in the piriformis, in other words preventatively, then we can be helping to reduce all of the above. </span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">So great place to start is the brilliant </span></i><a href="http://bit.ly/2jrj9NK" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b><i>4 Sign Anti Spasm Technique</i></b></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">? This improves the function of the piriformis muscle in your hip that can the reduce sciatic nerve tension.</span></i>

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