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Fitness enthusiasts, experts shed light on how to avoid straining your muscles
Updated On: 28 May, 2023 10:50 AM IST | Mumbai | Mitali Parekh
We’re a city of gym-rats, marathoners, crossfitters, trekkers and yogis… until the physiotherapist points out not all our muscles are getting with the programme
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Dr Megha Bhatnagar teaches a patient some stablising exercises to get all muscle groups to work in tandem; she explains that muscles work in chains
It’s a crippling pain in the knee that is caused by an overworked back. Or a tingling and weak thumb that comes by way of a sore elbow courtesy an unstabilised shoulder. Mumbaikars at varying levels of fitness are finding out that their small muscles—evolved to help us stand upright, lift objects and work that opposable thumb—are not doing their job. So much so, that the larger ones are overworking themselves by doing all the heavy lifting, tightening into cables that compress nerves. So you might think it is sciatica in your hip, but it’s just a manifestation of the hunching over the desk.
Which, of course, is where all the ills for the working class hero stem from. This “forward head posture” as physiotherapists call it, makes the muscles in the front of our neck lazy. A good 80 per cent of Dr Megha Bhatnagar’s clients at her Bounce Back clinic in Seawoods, Navi Mumbai, who work out regularly or have a steady fitness regime, complain of a nagging ache caused by one small muscle going off track, triggering all the other muscles to over work.
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