There are two types of concomitant and intertwined origins at the origin of classical arthrosic phenomena:

– Mechanical origins

– Metabolic origins

Mechanical origins

-Linked to muscular lesions which by their spasticity will increase the pressure on the joints.

-They may also cause postural disorders (unbalanced supports) which will increase the phenomena of lever arms overloading the joints a little more (support on one leg, etc…).

Metabolic origins

We have learned in recent years that hyper-marathon runners (70+ marathons per year) see their cartilage thicken… Sport therefore promotes the production of cartilage and does not necessarily destroy it as has been claimed in the past.

Lack of activity is therefore harmful to cartilage production…

We know that thanks to Permanent Muscle Motility, the joints undergo the effects of permanent twisting and loosening. The joint will undergo effects of compression and permanent decompression allowing the cartilage to be better “nourished” thanks to the movements it induces.

The synovial liquid of a joint nourishes the cartilage, it is not insane to think that these permanent movements that compress and decompress our joints allow the synovium to better penetrate and nourish the cartilage.

A deficiency in the drainage and nutritional function of the joints will have a negative impact on the quality of the cartilage.

If the joints are drained during physical activity, they are also drained at rest by the action of MMP. The amount of time the muscles are used during a day is much less than the time they rest. Thus it is the periods of rest, particularly at night, which are conducive to the degradation of cartilage. It is therefore necessary to use one’s joints to maintain them.

It is at night while sleeping that osteoarthritis makes its bed.

The good maintenance of cartilage depends, at the mechanical level, on two essential factors, the good amplitude of the joints and physical activity. Move and stretch…

To compensate for the loss of cartilage thickness Your joints and muscles must be free and flexible (Yoga), they must be maintained (sport), they must not be restricted by mechanical or muscular injuries (Osteopathy), and they must be muscular for the rest of your life. Idleness is man’s worst enemy.

The other arthritic phenomena (“pinches”, osteophyte, geodes, etc.) are generally a consequence of the above-mentioned lesions .

Concerning osteoporosis

Demineralization depends of course on the general state of health and the various pathologies that can cause it.

But note that in athletes bones are less mineralized in swimmers than in sprinters… This is the same phenomenon as for cartilage… This once again highlights the value of physical activity.

While pool maintenance may be a good idea, skipping rope is also a good idea for senior citizens +.

It is up to you to adjust the exercises according to your possibilities, of course…

Algies of neurological origin

It is in this area that the greatest epistemological break occurs: Spasms and pain emanating from the muscles almost never originate from neurological disorders.

Of course, without neurons there is no sensitive information, but the origin of muscle spasms seems to have an origin independent of the nervous system. The origin of muscle spasms seems to be well related to the cyclic autonomous system of muscle tone.  The MMP being present, even in the event of partial or total rupture of nerves…

The nervous system acting only as a superior control centre.

The pains we find clinically only rarely correspond to a systematization linked to the anatomy of the nerves. There is no parallelism between the clinic (pain felt by the patient) and the distribution of nerves in the body.

An example concerning herniated discs:

Many patients with sciatica do not show herniated discs on medical imaging… And other patients with large disc herniations show atypical pain in the nerve path (e.g. truncated sciatica), or not.

In the case where there is no neurological lesion, an origin of PMM lesion can be evoked.

Clinically, sciatica pain corresponds to muscle chains whose lesional origins have nothing to do with innervation.

Lateral sciatica is caused by the vertebral joints of L2 and L3, whereas posterior sciatica (spasms of the semitendinous chain) can be treated by freeing the 8th rib…

Hence the interest of a quality differential diagnosis…

Joint pain is mostly related to muscle contractions (hypertonia).

Muscle injuries lead to :

• Loss of rhythm
• Disorganizations of the moment of muscle contractions that decrease the efficiency of these (the muscles).
• Increases or decreases in the muscle fibres concerned (the muscle fibres of the same muscle may be of different muscle chains). For example, the four tendons of the deep common flexor of the fingers have four different vertebral origins.

Tendinitis

There is always a loss of rhythmicity of the muscle fibres and therefore of the tendon concerned during tendonitis.

If there is a loss of muscular rhythm, the tendon will be less well “nourished” by the synovium, the acid-base balance will no longer be assured. This leads to an inflammatory state…

It is classically accepted that tendons are “nourished” by muscular activity…

Theoretically and clinically, releasing a lesion of the 2nd homolateral rib will immediately resolve a symptom of epicondylitis.