Muscle Imbalances

How to Tell if Your Muscles Are Imbalanced

Muscle imbalances present in many ways and have many symptoms: neck pain, hunched shoulders, slipped discs, tendonitis, hamstring tears, knee pain, headaches, and sports injuries.

The tension on one side of the joint pulls the body into incorrect posturing, causing pain and injury; muscle imbalances often present with secondary injuries that can be helped by balancing muscles.

The outcome of muscle imbalances is poor posture, which can result in pain and injury, and limit mobility in the joints.

Dr. Josh and his team can mend your muscle imbalances and help you regain full range of motion in your joints.

By working with you to balance muscles and joint tension, we will correct the causes behind those nasty symptoms of pain and weakness, allowing you to regain mobility, flexibility, and stability.

Schedule your assessment with Dr. Josh and his team to learn how we can help you correct your muscle imbalances using the most modern techniques and equipment.

Muscle Imbalances in Paired Muscles

Skeletal muscles work in complementary pairs in coordination with the skeletal system to form the musculoskeletal system.

The musculoskeletal system is comprised of your bones and muscles; these systems interact in order to produce movement, support, and protection.

Muscles are attached to bones by tendons, covering joints to allow for articulation and movement.

Muscles work in paired groupings on either side of a bone or joint; when a muscle contracts its corresponding partner muscle must elongate to complete the movement.

Muscle imbalances present when one muscle is stronger or weaker than its counterpart, creating an imbalance in strength.

Dr. Josh and his team specialize in locating and correcting muscle imbalances, so schedule an assessment and let us correct your muscle imbalances to decrease pain and associated injury.

Dr. Josh and his team are specialists in the musculoskeletal system and will help you recover from muscle imbalance, eliminate associated pain, and ensure no future muscle imbalance issues.

Paired, Balanced Muscles Are the Key to Proper Movement

Because your body is made up of a series of articulating joints you need muscles to control and power movements while supporting the body.

All of your joints are surrounded by muscle, and when a muscle on one side of the joint fatigues from overuse, the other side may be weakening form underuse.

When the opposing muscle is overused it may become strengthened while the complementary muscle deteriorates – this creates an imbalance in muscle strength.

Muscle Imbalance – Symptoms and Consequences

This muscle imbalance can distort posture, create further muscle imbalances, and increase occurrence of injury.

When opposing muscles differ in their tension on the joint, it can alter the natural posturing of the joint and limit or alter the path of motion and articulation.

This alteration to the path of motion can cause further postural abnormalities, increase pain, and result in secondary instances of chronic pain.

Core 1 Chiropractic are the best chiropractor’s office in Downer Grove, combining physical therapy and chiropractic treatments to help diagnose treat and prevent muscle imbalances, allowing you to move freely without fear of pain or injury.

Muscles work in teams to allow movement, and when one muscle in the team is weaker or stronger than the other, it creates an imbalance of strength.

Because every joint in your body is surrounded by a set of muscles that produces movement, that leaves a lot of room for muscular imbalances to affect joints and posture.

Overuse and lack of use can create a strength and muscle imbalance.

This is important as it can cause pain and injury by repositioning or putting stress on the joint at rest, as well as changing the path of motion during articulation, both problematic as they result in pain and injury.

Muscle imbalances can also occur after an injury as the body compensates for pain, causing the over-working muscles to develop, while those underutilized muscles deteriorate.

Correcting Muscle Imbalance with the Best

Core 1 Chiropractic has the most up-to-date chiropractic, physical therapy, and fitness techniques to ensure our patients have full access to everything they need to correct their muscle imbalances at their root cause.

If you schedule an consultation, you can see for yourself why Dr. Josh and his team are the top-rated chiropractor and best physical therapy clinic in Downers Grove.

We work as a team with our patients to ensure you understand how your musculoskeletal system functions, how your injury occurred, how to correct the muscle imbalance, and how to prevent future imbalances.

This knowledge is essential to finding success at every step of your personalized care program, allowing you to implement this greater awareness into your daily life and create the necessary lifestyle changes to ensure balanced muscles.

The combination of chiropractic treatments, physical therapy, manual therapy, muscle re-education, postural corrections, massage therapy, hot/cold therapy, and prescriptive exercise is specifically designed to correct your muscle imbalance and limit its symptoms.

Our personalized care programs guarantee you the best results to correct muscle imbalance and pain.

Working as a team and combining therapies makes Core 1 the best chiropractic office in Downers Grove, Illinois.

Our goal is to get you moving without pain, develop proper alignment, and set you on the road to a life without injury.