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SCALENE SYNDROME, THE MAIN REASON

FOR FULL SWING FAILURE

풀스윙을 방해하는 주범, 사각근 증후군

Representative Director
of the Inter-American Division of
Self-developed Oriental Medicine Hospital
Oriental Medicine doctor
/ a doctor of Oriental medicine
Lee Woo-kyung

자생한방병원 대표원장
이 우경

here are times when patients suffer from the rectus becomes hardened and shortened due to
chronic arm movements. They just can't swing mental stress or false posture. It's like using a hose to
Twell when arms are asleep. In particular, if your water a plant in the garden, and when someone steps
arms fall asleep during a full swing that uses a driver on it, it's like the water doesn't come out well.
or wood, you will not have power and the accuracy will The second suspected cause of arm numbness is the
be very poor. neck disc. There are seven bones in the human neck,
It's not that your hands are asleep, but that your whole between which there is a round plate-shaped cartilage
arm is asleep, especially as you go down the back of called a disc. If excessive pressure is applied to the
your shoulder and down the back or side of the arm, I disc, such as mental stress, a straight edge, or a pro-
look at these symptoms quite often that they are very longed head-restraint, it is pushed back or sideways,
unpleasant, painful and numb. If you raise your arms sprain out and compresses the nerves in the neck in
above your shoulders, it will be more comfortable place. This causes abnormal sensation in the nerves-
and, on the contrary, if your arms are stretched down, controlled muscles and skin, a symptom of numb-
your arms will become more numb. The symptoms get ness and paralysis. Symptoms of neck disc escapes are
worse when you lower your arms and stay in the office similar to those of the scalene syndrome. Depending
for a long time or when you drive long distances. Some on the posture of the body or the specific movement
patients say that their arms seem to be electrifying, or of the arm, symptoms may improve and deteriorate,
that it is a pain that goes down through their arms. especially when you turn your head up, resulting in
Diagnosis of this can be divided into two main ways. more numbness and pain.
The first diagnosis that you can think of is "Scalene Syn- After all, arm movements are rarely caused by prob-
drome." Its other name is Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, lems with the arm itself and are usually caused by
which is caused by the pressure of the nerves that go nerves from the neck bones being pressed somewhere.
down on the arms of the body's neck bones, scalene on It is either a disc or a scalene. On the other hand, there
the side, and several muscles around the body. Much are cases where both come at the same time, so a de-
of the nerves that go down on the arm start from the tailed examination is needed.
neck bones and pass through the muscles, which even- Treatment for these two problems is almost the same
tually compresses the nerves passing through when in terms of the usual form correction and stretching

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