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Does strength training increase stability?

If you're strong, surely you'd have good stable joints. Ā Strength training improves joint stability - right? This article explores some of the key concepts of Jacqui Clark's Lumbar Spine Workshop that show that this isn't necessarily the case.

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Does Specific Isolated Muscle Training have a Place?

Over the last 10 years there has been ongoing controversy amongst health and movement professionals as to whether training specific local muscles to control joint movement is necessary. It is true that local stabiliser muscles do not work in isolation from global muscles in normal function. But does this mean that there is no place for specifically isolating them in the initial phase of training? What do we mean by training? Is it training for fitness and conditioning, for injury prevention, or to rehabilitate an injury?

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Movement Analysis and Motor Control Training for the Lumbar Spine.

Back pain can be caused by trauma but frequently it is insidious, recurrent and related to uncontrolled movement patterns. Uncontrolled movement patterns are motor control deficits. It is important to understand the difference between strength deficits and control deficits.

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