Compression of Your Bodies Spring Mechanism Can Reduce Human Performance and Cause Early Fatigue

In 2014, I was approved to give a presentation at the World Congress in Sports and Exercise Medicine titled, “How Athletes, Coaches, Trainers and Physicians Can Improve Human Performance by the Earliest Detection, Intervention and Prevention of over Modulation of Spring Stiffness .”

In this lecture, I presented scientific studies that demonstrated how the body can exert an over control of the tension on the bodies spring mechanism. It happens with these super contractions controlled by your nervous system. I discussed how that can reduce human performance in sport and activities of daily living. I taught the doctors how can detect the abnormal spring stiffness and how to reverse it.

For many of you it’s worse than just a reduction in human performance is not noticed until you have an injury, a condition or widespread chronic pain caused by compression of the entire human spring.

These constant, protective, super spasms can cause a variety of problems for you.

• A slight tension can cause friction and drag on the spring, leading to early fatigue. A full compression of the spring won’t allow it to recycle energy through this natural spring mechanism, leading to chronic fatigue and even chronic fatigue syndrome.
• More tension can cause stiffness in the neck, upper back, shoulders, arms, and hands, leading to compressive conditions, such as thoracic outlet syndrome, headaches, neck pain, cubital tunnel syndrome, median nerve compression of the forearm, carpal tunnel syndrome, and compression of Guyon’s canal.
• Added contractions can compress joints, such as the knees, hips, and spine, and cause accelerated wear and tear and chronic arthritis during years or decades. This might end up necessitating joint replacements or other radical surgery that was never necessary.
• These muscular compressions can preload your spring, putting you at risk for herniated discs in the spine.

What do mainstream physicians think of trigger points?

More than 1,600 American Pain Society members were surveyed in 1997 about their opinion of myofascial pain syndrome. Approximately 89 percent of respondents reported that myofascial pain syndrome was a legitimate diagnosis, with 81 percent describing myofascial pain syndrome distinct from fibromyalgia (17).

So, why don’t doctors short-circuit these self-perpetuating reflexes that are leaving you in a chronic state of compressive suffering?

• Some doctors don’t know these superspasms exist, because they don’t touch you in the examination.
• Other doctors don’t have the skills in their hands nor the experience to know what is a normal muscle or what is an abnormally contracted muscle.
• Then on top of simple palpation one must know the exact pattern of tension from toe to head. What I found is that the abnormal gait pattern will match the exact pattern of spasm so much that these patterns are predictable!

Gait Analysis - I videotape your walking or running pattern. Then you and I will watch the video in slow motion to see exactly how parts line up in relation to the pull of gravity and how your spring mechanism reacts to the impact and the transition of the weight of your body, and the orientation of the parts relative to gravity. This is how I evaluate where there is abnormal strain on your human spring. This is called a gait analysis.

Complex patterns of muscle activation that produce coordinated movements can be generated in humans, within the spinal cord and the brain. A simple movement, such as lifting your arm to grab a computer mouse and move it across the table, involves the stimulation of thousands of receptors in your skin, ligaments, muscles, tendons, and even in your eyes and ears, which work together to develop patterns that become stored in your brain.

As explained above, these patterns that you take for granted are developed and stored for later use in the brain. These combined movement patterns are called engrams. As I have also described, you have engrams for the pattern of your walk, run, smile, laugh, cough, singing voice, and even the pattern of how you play a song on the piano.

The existence of specific engrams is not disputed. However, doctors and scientists don’t know exactly how this mechanism works, although this has been a focus of persistent research for years.

Why dont more sports doctors focus on rremoving all the tension, drag and compression from the human spring?

• Most doctors don’t want to take the time to go so deep into the examination of these muscles and specifically the patterns of muscle tension within the body and their cause.
• In some cases it could take 20 - 40 hours or more of manual therapy to totally remove all drag from an athletes integrated spring-mass system.
• All chiropractors can earn a better living giving quick back adjustments and two therapies. Physical therapists can earn a better living watching the patient do rehab exercises on a jammed spring and MD sports doctors make more than all of us giving injections and performing operations.

Who wants to park over the athlete and remove every single bit of muscle tension from the frame?

The ones that want their athlete to win!

The Examination of the Human Spring - The three most effective ways I have found to examine the bodies spring mechanism for over modulation or human spring compression are:

1. Deep tissue palpation
2. Analysis of gait or movement patterns
3. Muscle testing

When this pattern of muscle tension takes hold it compresses your spring system. That means you cannot load as much of the force of the impact into the body which means you get less free energy back from the spring.

This can cause you to over exert because you over compensate by activating muscles to push the body putting more strain on muscles to do the work normally done by elastic elements of the body.

Athletes who get a powerful treatment to reduce the drag on the bodies spring system experience noticable increase in human performance immediately. When the body is already compressed into a pain state it takes a little longer but the improvements in human performance are still measurable and noticable.

I am currently rewriting the medical books to teach doctors the concept of treating the human body as a spring mechanism and a lever mechanism rather than just a lever mechanism, as doctors do today. If the body moves via lever and spring mechanisms the athlete still cannot safely absorb impacts, cannot get maximum recycling of energy through an open spring mechanism and they will always be at risk for joint injury and compression of bloood vessels and nerves because these spaces stay open via spring engineering.

The First Book of the Human Spring Book Series is Released… Neck Pain, Back Pain, Shoulder Pain… Could It Be Thoracic Outlet Syndrome?

What Is Thoracic Outlet Syndrome?

If you don’t know what thoracic outlet syndrome is, you are not alone. In 2017, more than 74,000 people each month were searching on Google for answers to thoracic outlet syndrome. If you combine all the search engines, more than 1,000,000 people per year are searching for answers to thoracic outlet syndrome. One reason why many people are searching for information about thoracic outlet syndrome is because it is a controversial disorder in medicine.

In fact, one author described thoracic outlet compression syndrome (TOCS), as one of the most controversial subjects in medicine. It may also be the most underrated, overlooked, misdiagnosed, and probably the most important and difficult to manage peripheral nerve compression in the upper extremity.

Besides misdiagnosed, some think that it is under diagnosed. Some doctors say it’s over diagnosed. In my opinion, most doctors just can’t diagnose it. So many people suffer in pain for weeks, months, and even years, and then someone finally asks, “Could it be thoracic outlet syndrome?”

That is what happened to Dr Stoxen. He personally suffered with TOS for 7 long painful years before he discovered the human spring approach that finally ended his suffering with TOS for good.  This is the reason why Dr Stoxen chose to release, Could it be Thoracic Outlet Syndrome? as the first book of the human spring series. 

TOS is an often-overlooked, misdiagnosed and extremely difficult to treat disorder. Active people at all levels, from world-class athletes to weekend warriors, suffer from this painful and debilitating disorder and often endure needless surgeries and other medical treatments that do little to cure it and sometimes make it worse. Because TOS can be easily misdiagnosed, those afflicted are often treated without success often getting worse.  

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What is thoracic outlet syndrome?

TOS can be caused by compression of the neck, upper back or rib cage and the shoulder that squeeze the blood vessels and nerves that pass from the chest and neck through the thoracic tunnel into the arm. It’s not an easily treated misaligned neck. It is literally painful, twisting and compression of your entire upper body. 

Watch for the first book in the Human Spring Book Series entitled, Neck Pain, Back Pain, Shoulder Pain, Could it be Thoracic Outlet Syndrome? coming in the next week on Amazon.com