Why We Need to Understand How the Body Responds to Pain vs Just Testing Muscles

Understanding postural issues, over-use issues, the actions and antagonists and synergists of muscles is essential to treating tough cases and in many cases we simply can't do muscle testing on patients due to age, size, level of pain or other reasons. When we understand how to body responds to pain and over-use we can often put together a solid treatment plan without muscle tests.

 

The thought experiment today was all the ways I can think of that the TFL can cause low back pain. How many can you think of?