Can it help with a bad knee or hip or ankle?
Sometimes a joint will be vulnerable to injury or problems because of the overall pattern of body use. For example, if there is a tendency to put more weight through one leg than the other. Or we might find we are tensing the muscles around a joint excessively because we are using that joint to “hold ourselves up” whereas the muscles whose job it is to hold us up are shirking at the task. The technique encourages the operation of deep postural muscles. These are designed to hold you upright and can do this job for long periods without tiring, if they are allowed to work. This encourages a reduction and rebalancing of overall muscle tension in the body, and means that joints like the knees or hips – which might have been overloaded previously – are now under far less strain.
