How does altered muscle function cause problems?
several ways. When muscles are unbalanced, a single muscle are part of a muscle may end up doing the work that should be done by several muscles in combination. Muscles may also end up fighting each other. If you bend your knee for instance, the muscles on the front of your leg need to relax to allow the muscles in the back of your leg to work. This imbalance may be causing pain or predisposing you to repetitive stress syndromes. You may be familiar with how your tires wire when your front-end is out of alignment. This is similar to what happens in joints when there is muscle imbalance. The altered muscle function changes joint function, causing pain and even arthritis. Even pains that we do not think of as related to muscles such as TMJ pain, headaches or carpal tunnel syndrome often have a muscular component to them.
