Your glute muscles are important for nearly every movement, posture, and pain prevention. When your glutes are strong and functioning properly, they help with things such as stabilizing your pelvis, supporting your spine, improving posture, helping with walking, stairs, running, etc.
When glutes are weak or not working properly, other muscles overcompensate, which can lead to discomfort, dysfunction and even injury.
There are three gluteal muscles, the gluteus maximus, medius and minimus. The gluteus maximus, or glute max, is large and powerful. It extends the hips, and helps with standing up, walking, and climbing stairs. The gluteus medius is on the outer side of the hip and helps with stabilizing the pelvis during activities. The gluteus minimus sits underneath the others and attaches deeper into the side of your pelvis. The two muscles work together to support pelvic alignment, lateral movement and internal rotation of the legs.
Glute Exercises from Doctor Jo mentioned in this video:
Living with fibromyalgia and other chronic pain conditions can be an overwhelming experience, characterized by widespread pain that affects various parts of the body. One of the most beneficial approaches to help manage this pain is to incorporate gentle standing stretches and exercises into your daily routine.
Tension headaches can cause a lot of pain. Stress is a common cause of tension headaches. Relaxing the muscles around the neck and shoulder area can help decrease the pain caused by tension headaches.
When it’s hard to take a deep breath, it can often be from tight chest and pec muscles from poor posture. These simple breathing exercises should help open up the chest area to help you breathe better.
PTs will often analyze your gait by watching you get up and walk across the room, but most of the time we are analyzing your gait as soon as you walk into the clinic. If you have been diagnosed with gait abnormalities, these stretches and exercises might help.
Muscles and joints can become sore and irritated for many reasons including stress, over working the muscles, or an injury. These gentle stretches should help relieve sore muscles and joints.
Bell’s Palsy is the sudden weakness of your facial muscles on one half of the face. These exercises may seem like you are just making funny faces, but this will help get the weak muscles working again.
Massage guns, or percussion guns, usually come with several heads or attachments. Here’s a general overview of what each one can be used for, and what area of the body it works on best.
Vagus nerve stimulation uses gentle electrical impulses to stimulate the vagus nerve. The vagus nerves control our parasympathetic system (resting and digesting) by sending signals to the brain to release calming neurotransmitters.
Tinnitus is a ringing in your ears. For some people, this simple technique may stop tinnitus immediately giving you instant relief. Tinnitus can also be another noise like buzzing, roaring, hissing, etc.
