How And Elbow Problem Could Cause Back Pain!

Society is trained to look for a cause of a problem in the area that hurts.

For example, I have back pain therefore let's X-RAY your back, or if you have ankle pain let's MRI your ankle. 

That's how societally normal healthcare works within the UK. 

But that model of health care is based upon a none tensegrity model. Meaning a body works in the same way a 4 legged table does. 

If I put 100 KG of weight over one corner of the table, that will be the one that breaks. 

But that assumption is wrong, the human body is a tensegrity model, meaning tension, forces, compression and stretch are shared equally throughout the body no matter where the force is applied.

This is a model originally coined by R. Buckminster Fuller who amongst other things was an architect in the early 1900’s and if you googled his name im sure you would recognise some of his work. 

This model is already widely accepted in relation to the human body when it comes to weight lifting. 

When an athlete is trying to bench press the most amount of weight, the force they push into the ground with their feet can be carried through the body to help push the weight from their chest. 

That is tensegrity within the body. Why when it is then applied to injury or dysfunction as opposed to performance or optimal function it changes makes no sense to me.

If we know tensegrity improves optimal function then it must work both ways, fact. 

Therefore, if you have had a fractured elbow for example resulting in a few pins and wearing a cast for 3 months this will then affect the forces and strain on the rest of the body.

Given the human pelvis is designed specifically to be a release valve of internal pressure, hence why it's the most common complaint of pain globally (approx 90%).

It’s then safe to assume long term changes in elbow function will cause increased forces and strain through the body, most likely to be presented as pain in the lower back (the body's natural release point).

The solution however isn't to X-RAY, rub or even crack the painful back. But is instead by finding the true root cause in this example the dysfunctional elbow. And resolve it. 

For more widely accepted and known fact evidence of tensegrity I refer you to the work of Tom Myers- Anatomy Trains/ Fascia Lines.