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Do Muscle Imbalances Cause Compensatory Movement Patterns Or Visa versa?

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Do Muscle Imbalances Cause Compensatory Movement Patterns Or Visa versa?

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In no specific order, their answers are as follows: Dr. Kwame Brown: “Well, John this seems like a good question to ask, but I am not sure that it is an answerable one. This phenomenon could very easily be opposite for different cases. I can easily imagine someone starting out with a bad habit, like slouching, which can cause muscle imbalances over a long period of time, and this resulting in an alteration of motor patterns. However, I can also imagine very easily someone starting out with a muscle imbalance stemming from an injury or some sort of congenital problem, which would result in an alteration of motor patterns. What we are really talking about here, most likely, is something that becomes a cycle. Each can be arrived at as an effect of the other, or serve as a cause. This is one of the phenomena that make the job of the physician, therapist, or trainer very difficult. Unfortunately, it is often impossible to discern a cause and effect relationship here. Anyone who does is just

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