When looking for a provider to help you rehabilitate your core, look for someone who recognizes the value of rehabilitating the deep core system in order to restore integrity: your pelvic floor, your transversus abdominis, your diaphragm,
the multifidus muscles of your back.
Our core is made up of 3 groups of muscles, the abdominal, the pelvic floor and
the multifidi muscles of the back.
Not exact matches
Well,
multifidus is often spoken about as though it were only one
muscle, but it's actually many, many individual
muscles (collectively called
multifidi) running the length
of the spine from the low
back to the neck.
While all the
muscles of the low
back have a part to play in supporting the spine,
multifidus's role is pivotal.
Anne, your transversus abdominus will be turned «on» with activation
of your
multifidi muscles that hold your lordotic curve in your low
back IF you keep your chest up.
This is because
of the attachment
of the TA to the fascia
of your low
back and the co-contraction
of the
multifidi muscles of your lower
back that also work to hold neutral spine.
While the arm
muscles of all probands responded after approximately the same period
of time, there was a delay in the deepest
back muscles (musculi
multifidi) in the group
of probands with chronic deep
back pain (here caused by the sacroiliac joint).
We also have a transversus abdominus
muscle that is over-stretched across the front
of our pelvis, and our
multifidi muscles of our lower
back that are shortened so much that they no longer fire.
This means we find that happy medium between the two extremes
of our pelvic motion where we have a gentle lumbar curve that gives a slight lift to our tailbone allowing our
multifidi muscles to engage, allowing our transversus abdominus
muscle to pull against solid interlocked vertebrae, and allowing our pelvic floor
muscles to pull against a solid tail bone to contract when needed and come
back to a neutral resting position when not being called upon.