Muscles ~ Anatomical vs Functional Units: Learn Integral Anatomy with Gil Hedley
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- čas přidán 19. 07. 2024
- www.gilhedley.com In this video, we clarify an important (but not always understood) difference between anatomical units and functional units. Anatomical units are the conventional names of muscles, which are based on how anatomists have historically cut and divvied up the muscles of the body. Functional units, however, reflect how the nervous system innervates specific muscle groups.
By understanding the difference between anatomical and functional units, you will both clarify your understanding of integral anatomy as well as the relationship between the nervous system and your muscles ~
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Dr Hedley, your work and teaching is wonderful and enlightening, thank you!!!
Thank you for watching! One of my all-time favorite quotes is from Moshe Feldenkrais! "One option is tyranny; two options, a dilemma; three options, a choice~"
Dr. Hedley, once again your brilliance has opened another door to my existence. I thank you for all the work you have been putting into these videos. It’s a wonderful way to start the week. Many thank from Los Angeles, CA. Also, your teaching is beyond engaging. Muchas Gracias ! Merci!
Please call me Gil! Thank you Somayeh for your kind words of appreciation, I am having fun with these too, and hope you enjoy the ones that will follow as well! De nada! Danke!
Hi Gil, loved the video. The example at the end of what is required throughout the whole body to hold the arm out to the side was excellent. Thanks
Awesome, thank you watching David, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve been looking for a clear explanation of why my upper body tension is not satisfactorily relieved by upper body stretches alone, but instead really responds to an array of stretches involving my back, sides and legs. This is a great way to re-envision what might be going on. ❤️
Wonderful, thank you for sharing that Devi, I believe others will be helped by your insight! :)
Part of the problem may well be that you have been inculcated to think that if you stretch this specific area that will resolve the issue. That assumption is NOT how the body operates. Sorry but we are sophisticated beyond our knowledge. That, is our body is smarter and more interconnected networked
than we are ever capable of knowing.
Once in a manual therapy class we had a woman who as a result of knee surgery had a fixated uterus. We released the right knee and the uterus moved freely. Also had a person whose cranium was in total lock up and because of that all cranial and posterior neck tissue around the decussation was being tethered by five screws in her right ankle. Manual therapy of the neck regardless of the modality is no match for five titanium screws in the right ankle unless you treat the tether resulting from the five screws. Happy Safari as you investigate the lay of the soma land.
Thank you Gil for all your knowledge and helping everyone understand how the body works as a functional whole unit. Great video!!
Thank you FL, I appreciate your interest :)
Sensible well described, easy to understand and always interesting! Thank you! ❤every morning you are my company with breakfast
Sounds delicious Sharon, thanks for having me to breakfast!
Thank you Gil!!!!
Thank a lot for everything you made for the humanity across the human body knowledge you share Dr. Hedley, blessings for you an the team, infinity grateful from Guadalajara México with all my respect
Thank you so much for your appreciation and your respect Isidro, and please you are welcome to call me Gil :) I am so grateful for your interest all the way from beautiful and historic Guadalajara, México!
Love this and wonder how the staunch evidence based therapists would manage this very accurate unpacking of treating the whole rather than what the patient feels??
They ignore the new evidence in favor of the old myth of at least 400 years. This goes for the vast vast majorities of modalities regardless of the academic letters behind their name. When you are trained to view anything in a certain way you ignore everything if it doesn't fit your training. All this in the name of "doing no harm." Which I call "doing no thing."
Barry may be on track there, but we should see if some chime in! I've got TONS of evidence :)
Brilliant as always! yes, wording matters ;) Interactive moving parts of a whole ~
Thank you SBTB!
@@gilhedley449 no, thank YOU! I learn so much from you, in our 'live' cadaver class, zoom somanaut explorations and lately these videos which I am thrilled to see you posting more often! (refreshing that even you who looks deeply 'beyond the box' can still discover 'new' material such as the reflected head of rec fem ;)). As someone who frees up & teaches movement (AIS mostly), I'm always alert to fresh effective wording to help people understand their bodies' functioning beyond whatever injury brought them in. Studying with you & Aaron Mattes have been invaluable!! Congrats on growing ..everything! I look forward to your next vid!
Thanks Gil such a wonderful way to learn from you
You're most welcome Ben, thanks for watching!
Wonderful explanation! Thank you.
Thank you for watching Nichole, I appreciate your interest!
thank you
Thank you! What causes the muscle cramp. I have heard one explanation is that it is the body squeezing to bring more blood and oxygen to the area? Could this be true?
Hi Valerie! There are likely multiple causes for muscle cramping, including low potassium levels that can mess with the physiology of the muscle tissue. As for the body "squeezing to bring more blood to the area," I'm not sure about that explanation, as there are way less dysfunctional ways for the body to do so, but you never know, I will have to look further into that to give better alternative explanations! Thank you for asking, and for watching :)
Fantastic.
Thank you Uyen!
Can I get a hallelujah?! Beautifully physical demonstration, as always from the original Somanaut, of full body involvement in every movement we humans make. Reminds me a lot of James Earls' conviction that the way we learn anatomy is the wrong way round: from traditional anatomy lessons we are expected to understand complex body mechanics. If we learned movement first, how much easier could it be to understand the anatomy and, importably, it's relevance to its expression in movement?
Hallelujah! And that's a wonderful insight you share from James, a lovely guy who was my very first customer to purchase multiple copies of my DVD series for resale many years ago, I was so flattered!! Thanks for watching and commenting Nicki :)
@@gilhedley449 He really is a lovely guy. I'm learning with him at the moment and he's gently blowing my mind :D
@@nickimansfield929 Wonderful! Say hey from me!
The Russians have the first Cosmonaut in outer space but we have the distinction of being represented by the first Somanaut in inner space OK so that is sooo corny. "Presume not God to scan, the proper study of mankind is Man."
Loved it!
Yay!
Thank you, Gil! I'd love to learn more detail behind functional motor units. Is there a unit you can direct me to on your site? I have an Explorer Membership and love it!
Wow
I understand. Ur way better
Brilliant
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Thank you my dear!!
Education should/needs to start NOT ANATOMICALLY but functionally. Most people as they learn this (if not all) have no first hand anatomical knowledge from dissection so why would education begin there? BUT everyone does have some degree of a real life experience that is functional (that is how we move or what moves what in concert) since we have been doing that our whole lives.
To do otherwise is a pedagogical disaster and a total non-starter. Why would you start from a perseptive of anatomy that is totally unknown and not experiential when you could start with the experience that all have. A basic pedagogical principle is that you start with what the person knows so that appropriate transference can be made and expanded to something new.
Robots move anatomically.
Humans move functionally.
I have some of the most hilarious examples of this that took place during an actual dissection.
I also have some of the most tragic examples of people who resigned their positions who personally wrote the curriculum of the schools they taught at when the administration refused to let them teach functionally and not anatomically. They had integrity. Can't say as much for the schools.
We are mired in a fixated quagmire of anatomy.
Suggesting you know function from anatomy alone is akin to thinking you can read just because you know the individual names of the letters of the alphabet.
Cheers Barry! Here here to functional starting points! And thanks for watching and commenting :)