Body Maintenance Massage

This infographic outlines the benefits of massage therapy for conditions impacting the head and neck. This includes the benefits of massage therapy to relieve headaches and concussion symptoms as well as help people with temporomandibular disorders or neck pain find relief.

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📚Muscle Monday📚
💥Abdominals💥
📸The four abdominal muscles are called Re**us Abdominis, External Oblique, Internal Oblique, and Transverse Abdominis

The abdominal muscles expand far beyond the “stomach” region. In fact, they form a muscular girdle that reaches around the sides of the thorax to the thoracolumbar aponeurosis, superiorly to the middle ribs and inferiorly to the inguinal ligament. The immense span of these muscles, with its unique overlapping arrangement in varying fibre direction, helps to stabilize the entire abdominal region

The organs of the upper thorax are protected by the rib cage while the viscera of the lower thorax rely on the four abdominal muscles for support and protection. The four abdominal muscles wrap the entire abdomen in vertical, horizontal and diagonal directions, in the same way packing tape is wrapped around the box going for a long journey

This week we are looking at the
💥Internal Oblique💥

The thin Internal Oblique fibres are deep and perpendicular to the External Oblique fibres (last weeks post) and can be difficult to distinguish

▶️Action
Unilaterally
•Laterally flex vertebral column to the same side
•Rotate vertebral column to the same side
Bilaterally
•Flex the vertebral column
•Compress abdominal contents

↔️Origin
•Lateral inguinal ligament, iliac crest and thoracolumbar fascia

↔️Insertion
•Internal surface of the lower three ribs, abdominal aponeurosis to lines alba


*Trail Guide to the Body, Andrew Biel