Body correction and evil practice

The essence of the so-called "evil repair" in the posture correction circle is to skip the core path of muscle function reconstruction and nerve control adjustment, and rely on external force restraint, joint compensation, and local muscle excessive force to quickly obtain a short-term shortcut of "visible straightening and symmetry." 90% of people who rely on it for a long time will suffer from backlash of joint wear, chronic pain, and even overall alignment disorder. However, it does have irreplaceable practicality in specific emergency scenarios. There is no need to kill it with a stick, and it absolutely cannot be regarded as a long-term correction solution.

Last year when I was helping in a fitness studio, I met a little girl who was studying broadcasting. There was still a week before the provincial unified examination. There was a difference of almost 3 centimeters between her height and her shoulders. When she stood with rounded shoulders and breasts, her whole body shrank into a ball. When taking pictures, her upper body looked particularly slumped. According to the orthodox rehabilitation plan, first relax the pectoralis minor and then practice the middle and lower trapezoids of the serratus anterior. It will take at least a month to have obvious results, which is too late for the exam. The coach who led her at that time directly took two rolls of hypoallergenic muscle tape, pressed down her tense upper trapezius muscles, and pasted the latissimus dorsi and rhomboids along the direction of the muscle fibers to form invisible tension bands. He also added a thin invisible clavicle strap. She screamed in the mirror that day, and her shoulder line was as straight as the sample picture on the model card. Later, she wore them during the entire unified examination interview and successfully passed the preliminary test. Now she comes to the studio three times a week to practice back training. She has thrown away those auxiliary gadgets long ago. The shoulder lines she trained are more stretched than when she used the muscle tape.

You say this evil practice is useless? For people who are interested in "photogenic rice" and "interview rice", this thing can save lives at critical moments. But you're saying it's all good? I know a rehabilitation specialist at the Sports Medicine Department of the Third Hospital of Peking University. Last year, he received more than 20 patients who had problems due to long-term wearing of the Internet-famous hunchback strap. The most serious case was a girl who wore it for 8 hours a day for three months. Her shoulders were only mildly rounded at first, but eventually the curvature of her thoracic spine straightened. When she had costochondritis, it hurt to take a deep breath. It took her less than half a year to adjust it back.

Both arguments are actually valid. The orthodox recovery circle hates evil cultivators so much that they feel that these people are just drinking poison to quench their thirst, and destroying their joints just for some short-term effect is purely a disease of the brain. But my friends who are performing arts physical coaches have a completely different logic: "How can an artist have time to train your core for three months before going on stage to make announcements? The camera will not wait for you, and the commercial performance schedule will not wait for you. First, you can maximize the effect and make money, and then adjust it slowly later?" To put it bluntly, the priorities of needs are different. It is a bit unrealistic for you to talk about long-term health with people who can barely afford to eat.

The evil cultivators uploaded on the Internet are very wild now. The most common ones are the kind of hunchback straps that make people breathless, and insoles that claim to correct XO-shaped legs when worn. What’s even more outrageous is that I even read that it teaches you to sleep with a mineral water bottle on your back for a week to cure your hunchback. I tried it one night out of curiosity, and the next day I had a stiff neck and suffered from pain for three days. It’s just pure IQ. There are also tutorials that teach you to "correct your leg shape in one second" and ask you to deliberately turn your toes in or out when walking. After walking for a week, your legs will indeed look straight. In fact, they transfer the compensation from the ankle to the knee. You will tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall. In the end, you won't even have time to cry when the fluid accumulates in your knees.

I also used Xie Xiuzhao when I was taking promotional photos for fitness courses. During that time, I was sitting at my desk writing for a long time. My waist straightened a bit, and my fake hip width was also obvious. It would take at least half a month to practice until I could be photographed on camera. Since I couldn't make it in time for the shooting, I rolled my adductor muscles until they were hot half an hour in advance. I used muscle tape to lift the fake hip width position upwards. When taking the photo, I tightened my core slightly. The resulting picture was so straight that I couldn't even recognize the legs. However, I peeled off the muscle tape on the same day after the filming, and the skin turned red when I peeled it off. In the next two weeks, I practiced clam pose and glute bridge diligently to get rid of the muscle tension caused by temporary compensation.

Why are evil cultivators so popular? Isn’t it true that everyone is anxious now, watching short videos, and wanting to change their rounded shoulders and correct their leg shape in three days and five days? Who is willing to spend three months three times a week for an hour each time to practice core and back exercises? If you tell someone, "Your rounded shoulders are caused by weakness of the serratus anterior muscle and tightness of the pectoralis minor," they will be confused. If you give them a 99 yuan hunchback strap and say, "Put it on, it will be straight," and they will place an order on the spot.

But I still have to be honest, Xie Xiu is fine for emergency use, but don’t get addicted. Posture is essentially the long-term memory of muscles and nerves. You have to rely on strapping for a lifetime, which can create a straight shape, but cannot create a relaxed state, let alone avoid the pain caused by long-term compensation. Oh, by the way, the little girl who passed the passing test last time came to class a while ago and wore a backless sling. Her shoulder lines were stretched and she looked much better than when she wore the muscle tape. You see, the righteous path is more reliable than any wild path and evil cultivators.