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After Effects Massage Therapy & Bodywork
REPETITIVE ACTIONS & PROLONGED USE
Most muscle soreness is caused by repetitive actions or prolonged use. When you lift a tray full of plates repeatedly to serve customers as a waitress during an 8 hour shift, you are enlisting a repetitive action. Sleeping on your side with your arm extended beneath your pillow for 8 hours is prolonged use.
Proprioception allows your muscles to know where you are in time and space. When you think about getting water from the kitchen, cellular memory has already employed your legs to move in that direction and your arms have removed the glass from the cabinet and are attempting to fill it with liquid before you are aware of what muscles are being engaged. Your body moves without you having to think of every muscle used in your movements.
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REPETITIVE
Pushups are a prime example of repetitive action. The movements involved are usually in sets of a determined number of repetitions. Slowly increasing the reps will encourage improved muscle strength. Muscle strain requires decreasing the number of reps until you can return to your previous set. And of course altering your method will target different muscle groups.
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REPETITIVE & PROLONGED
Standing on your feet all day is prolonged use.
Serving customers and using a cash register are repetitive. Nobody has time to count repetitive movements at our job, like we do during a workout, and we certainly aren't creating sets as goals. So when your low back hurts tomorrow morning, you seldom correlate it with locking your knees at a counter that is lower than optimal height for your body for an extended period of time.
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PROLONGED & REPETITIVE
Running a marathon is a prolonged endeavor of repetitive movements. Deviation of proper form during your run ensures problematic issues in the future. Proper form encountering unexpected terrain can create difficulties for muscles that have trained for consistent repetitive movements. A UPS driver encounters the same issues after a shift of unloading various size packages.
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PROLONGED
Curling up with a good book is prolonged activity. Large muscle groups are required for extension of her spine, lateral flexion of the torso, adduction of the thighs, flexion and rotation of the hip as well as flexion of her neck to read. Two days later when her lower back hurts on the left and she feels tightness in the groin along with neck tension, she will be hard pressed to associate the pain with finishing her book.
