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<\/p>\nAs a\u00a0chiropractor, Steve Lockhart Myotherapist\u00a0& remedial massage therapist; whenever i\u00a0treat someone with back pain or injury\u00a0I never\u00a0 just look at the\u00a0muscles, joints or body parts in isolation,\u00a0I always looks for \u2018lines\u2019 of tension that run through out the entire body. After treating 1000\u2019s of people\u00a0as a SLM practitioner\u00a0and remedial massage\u00a0\u00a0therapist over the past decade and more recently as a chiropractor.
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I am yet to treat a back or neck pain sufferer; who was tight and stiff in the neck and back;\u00a0and who wasn\u2019t tight and stiff\u00a0\u00a0in the rest of the body. In fact most\u00a0of the time the problem\u00a0in the back & neck is just a reflection of tightness elsewhere in the body, even if this overall tension is not felt\u00a0by the pain sufferer, it is still there.<\/p>\n
Here is a potential \u2018line of tension\u2019 as described by Thomas Myers 2001, \u00a0Figure 1; shows a line\u00a0that begins at the bottom of the feet, then the back of the legs, the entire length of the spinal column ending in the forehead. You can get a sense of this line by bending forward at your hips and reach for your toes while keeping your knee\u2019s straight. Now repeat this procedure but this time put a slight bend at the knees, and reach forward and touch your toes.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure many of you will feel less tension or pulling into the back with your knees slightly bent. This is because the \u2018slack\u2019 is taken out of the back of the legs, which reduces the tension through the back, spine and neck. When the muscles in the feet and the back of the legs develop tension it may have a \u2018pulling\u2019 effect right through the back and neck.<\/p>\n
This is why when i treat someone with a stiff, painful neck i also assess and treat the muscles of the legs, the spine as well as the neck itself; before correcting any localised spinal dysfunction and pain<\/a>. Sydney Chiropractic & Remedial Massage s the only clinic in Australia offering the combination of chiropractic, myotherapy & remedial massage.<\/p>\n As a chiropractor \u00a0and\u00a0massage therapist with training in myotherapy (SLM), \u00a0I am an expert in spinal and By looking and treating the body as a whole, we don\u2019t just treat the symptoms; and this is why we are\u00a0considered experts in fixing pain and injury, even where others therapies fail. to find out more about our approach used by our Sydney chiropractor, myotherapist (SLM) and remedial massage therapist; read our approach<\/a> or\u00a0Contact \u00a0Sydney Chiropractic & Remedial Massage to to see how we can help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a\u00a0chiropractor, Steve Lockhart Myotherapist\u00a0& remedial massage therapist; whenever i\u00a0treat someone with back pain or injury\u00a0I never\u00a0 just look at the\u00a0muscles, joints or body parts in isolation,\u00a0I always looks for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-legs-tightness-neck-pain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\""Sydney\"](\""http:\/\/sydneychiroandmassage.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/neck-massage1-150x150.png"\")
<\/a> musculoskeletal health. This combination of therapies allows me to treat not only the muscles in a deep, thorough and comprehensive manner using myothrerapy (SLM) but also the joints of the spine and pelvis with chiropractic care. At\u00a0Sydney Chiropractic & Remedial massage we \u00a0offer a hour \u2018hands on\u2019 treatment with you.<\/p>\n