http://www.drmelsiff.com/1141/dr-mel-siff-on-transversus-abdominus-part-1/ The Dr Mel Siff Blog - Dedicated to the Author of Supertraining & Facts and Fallacies of Fitness Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:20:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.drmelsiff.com/1141/dr-mel-siff-on-transversus-abdominus-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Ed Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:35:07 +0000 http://www.drmelsiff.com/?p=1141#comment-76 Regarding TA and isolation exercises: Some people claim that research demonstrates a change in how TA is recruited after back injury and similarly for multifidus and that these changes persist after recovery. I understand this conclusion is controversial, but it raises a question in the context of your discussion about automatic neural programming resulting from exercise: I am wondering if there are conditions in which it becomes difficult or unlikely for correct motor patterns to develop because recruitment of individual elements is impaired. In that case, can isolation exercises be useful just to re-establish recruitment of an element (like TA) and then more sophisticated exercises can then develop integration? So, perhaps one would start with isolated TA exercises and then progress to an exercise requiring integration across the pelvis. Or, would you argue that you can or should just start with the integration exercise and the poorly recruited elements will "find their way" into balance. One needn't worry about establishing a motor pattern with compensations? Regarding TA and isolation exercises: Some people claim that research demonstrates a change in how TA is recruited after back injury and similarly for multifidus and that these changes persist after recovery. I understand this conclusion is controversial, but it raises a question in the context of your discussion about automatic neural programming resulting from exercise: I am wondering if there are conditions in which it becomes difficult or unlikely for correct motor patterns to develop because recruitment of individual elements is impaired. In that case, can isolation exercises be useful just to re-establish recruitment of an element (like TA) and then more sophisticated exercises can then develop integration? So, perhaps one would start with isolated TA exercises and then progress to an exercise requiring integration across the pelvis. Or, would you argue that you can or should just start with the integration exercise and the poorly recruited elements will “find their way” into balance. One needn’t worry about establishing a motor pattern with compensations?

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