| Abstrakt: |
Global Active Stretching (SGA) is a myofascial stretching technique that comes from the Global Postural Reeducation (RPG). SGA has a very important role in RPG by preventing the appearance of pathological processes, improving and maintaining the results obtained by using this therapeutic approach. The retraction of the tonic postural muscles represents the prior pathophysiological condition of the skeletal muscles. Its morphological effects are quite evident and the result is often the functional impotence. This concept is most fundamental, leading us in taking in consideration the new concept of muscle weakness caused by the rigidity redundancy which, in case it becomes chronicle, will be the baseline of all pathology encountered in every sportsman's life. SGA is a progressive and active beneficiary method which can be applied to patients in every state of age, taking in consideration each person's potential. While the other classic physical therapy methods concentrate only on certain part of the body with SGA, we can treat the body as a whole, in a global way and in the same time working with the patient actively, making him a protagonist in their own recovery process. The vertebral joints and discs don't only carry all our body's weight, but also work as a pintle, so that each muscle can apply its own action with the purpose of helping throughout movement or keeping us in a straight position (against gravity). The reinforcements in excess of a muscle contribute to a muscle's disequilibrium, to a deformed alignment and compression of the joints which creates the origins of pain and degenerative syndrome. While treating a painful joint in using SGA method it is important to release the axial pressure and to give back the elasticity of the muscles round the joint that kept the joint in an incorrect position with excessive tension, by using decompression techniques. In brief, the purpose of SGA method is to restore the normal intraarticular space by using mild and progressive decompression techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
