Page 72 - Golf Champion - January 2020

[ GOLF COMMUNITY ]

Scalene Syndrome,

The Main Reason for Full Swing Failure

풀스윙을 방해하는 주범, 사각근 증후군

here are times when patients suffer from chronic arm move- ened and shortened due to Lee Woo-kyung(이우경)
Tments. They just can’t swing well when arms are asleep. In mental stress or false pos- • Representative Director of the
Inter-American Division of
particular, if your arms fall asleep during a full swing that uses ture. It’s like using a hose to Self-developed Oriental Medicine
a driver or wood, you will not have power and the accuracy will water a plant in the garden, Hospital
be very poor. and when someone steps on • Oriental Medicine doctor / a
It’s not that your hands are asleep, but that your whole arm is it, it’s like the water doesn’t doctor of Oriental medicine
asleep, especially as you go down the back of your shoulder and come out well. • 자생한방병원 미주분원 대표 원장
down the back or side of the arm, I look at these symptoms quite The second suspected cause • 한의사 / 한의학 박사
often that they are very unpleasant, painful and numb. If you raise of arm numbness is the
your arms above your shoulders, it will be more comfortable and, neck disc. There are seven bones in the human neck, between
on the contrary, if your arms are stretched down, your arms will which there is a round plate-shaped cartilage called a disc. If ex-
cessive pressure is applied to the disc, such as mental stress, a
straight edge, or a prolonged head-restraint, it is pushed back or
sideways, sprain out and compresses the nerves in the neck in
place. This causes abnormal sensation in the nerves-controlled
muscles and skin, a symptom of numbness and paralysis. Symp-
toms of neck disc escapes are similar to those of the scalene syn-
drome. Depending on the posture of the body or the specific
movement of the arm, symptoms may improve and deteriorate,
especially when you turn your head up, resulting in more numb-
ness and pain.
After all, arm movements are rarely caused by problems with the
arm itself and are usually caused by nerves from the neck bones
being pressed somewhere. It is either a disc or a scalene. On the
other hand, there are cases where both come at the same time, so
a detailed examination is needed.
Treatment for these two problems is almost the same in terms of
the usual form correction and stretching methods. The posture
of the neck of a turtle is the worst, as it usually puts its head for-
become more numb. The symptoms get worse when you lower ward and raises its chin. Conversely, the jaw should be inserted
your arms and stay in the office for a long time or when you drive toward the neck, the eyes should be horizontal, and the entire
long distances. Some patients say that their arms seem to be elec- head should remain up. Simply put, all posture of looking at a
trifying, or that it is a pain that goes down through their arms. smartphone or a book with a low head is not good. When sleep-
Diagnosis of this can be divided into two main ways. The first ing at night, do not lie down and sleep on the side because the
diagnosis that you can think of is “Scalene Syndrome.” Its other neck bone bends on the side. It is best for your neck to lie down
name is Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, which is caused by the pres- and sleep facing the sky.
sure of the nerves that go down on the arms of the body’s neck If you were diagnosed with scalene syndrome through profes-
bones, scalene on the side, and several muscles around the body. sional medical staff, you can easily get acupuncture once or twice.
Much of the nerves that go down on the arm start from the neck The scalene is located at the bottom of the lower part of the vo-
bones and pass through the muscles, which eventually compress- cal cords of the neck, and the patient immediately relieved from
es the nerves passing through when the rectus becomes hard- symptoms with a thrilling sensation. However, since this is the

70 | GOLF champion