Characteristics of McKenzie Therapy The goal of general rehabilitation therapy is to strengthen the muscles around the pain and to repair damaged or weakened joints. The muscles around the joint are strengthened through exercise, but the joint problem is not cured and the pain continues. McKenzie therapy is a method of restoring damaged or weakened joints by applying a force directly to the painful joint area. The method used is to flex or stretch the painful joint area, and to choose the exercises that are suitable for the improvement of the symptoms during the practice. According to McKenzie Therapy, during the acute phase of arthritis, the pain is severe and needs to be kept quiet. However, when the pain and swelling subsides, you should actively move your joints as much as possible. If you do not move your joints, you will continue to lose the movable area of the joints, and the function of the joints will deteriorate and the pain will worsen. According to McKenzie Therapy, poor posture in daily life causes pain in the joints, so it is important to maintain a proper posture in daily life. Frozen shoulder is the abbreviation for periarthritis of the shoulder joint, which is most commonly seen in middle-aged people around 50 years old, so it is commonly known as “fifty shoulder”. Frozen shoulder is caused by the degeneration of the muscles and ligaments of the shoulder joint (the fibrous tissue linking the bone to the bone), resulting in injury and inflammation, which shortens the joint capsule and causes pain and suffering. Some patients also suffer from chronic over-activity and trauma. Frozen shoulder is very painful and the movable area of the shoulder is significantly restricted. McKenzie-style frozen shoulder gymnastics are performed 10 times in the order of stretching and flexion gymnastics, and the gymnastics that improve the symptoms are selected. If the symptoms do not improve significantly, or if the effect increases, try external rotation, or internal rotation gymnastics. Choose the right gymnastics for you and stick to it. Do it 10 times as a set, every 2 hours. In order to prevent the recurrence of frozen shoulder, it is important to maintain a proper pestle posture in daily life. Stretching shoulder gymnastics flexing shoulder gymnastics stand with the frame on your back, with the foot on the side of the painful shoulder forward and the arm on the side of the painful shoulder straight back, and put the palm of your hand on the counter. Bend your knees so that your body sinks and stretch your shoulders as much as possible. Stand 20 to 30 centimeters from the wall, facing the wall, with the arm on the side of the sore shoulder stretched upward and pressing the palm of the hand against the wall, palm up along the wall, flexing the shoulder as much as possible. External Rotation Gymnastics Internal Rotation Gymnastics The elbow joint of the arm on the side of the sore shoulder is fixed with the other hand, and the arm on the side of the sore shoulder is opened outward as much as possible. The arm on the side of the painful shoulder is placed on the back at the waist, and the arm is elevated along the back as much as possible. Back pain The main cause of back pain from bad posture is that the pain is caused by the thoracic discs of the thoracic vertebrae being skewed by bad posture such as hunchback that is acquired in daily life. In many cases, the abnormalities are not detected by X-ray. Only some preservation treatment, analgesic drugs, analgesic cream, electrotherapy, acupuncture, massage, fire cupping, warmth treatment, traction treatment, etc. can be done. These treatments can only ease the pain for a while, and cannot cure the back pain without correcting the skewed discs of the thoracic spine. Anti-thoracic spine (stretching gymnastics of the thoracic spine) bend the thoracic spine (fart bending gymnastics of the thoracic spine) sit upright in a chair, place your hands behind your neck with fingers interlocked, and lean your arms inward. Take the chest as the fulcrum to fully extend the back backward, maintain this position for 1 to 2 seconds, and return to the position before the extension. Sit upright in a chair, place your hands behind your neck and interlock your fingers, leaning your arms inward. Bend the back forward to the limit with the chest as the fulcrum, maintain this position for 1 to 2 seconds, and return to the position before bending. Anti-thoracic spine and bending thoracic spine gymnastics, only move a neck effect is not good, put both hands on the cervical spine after the finger intersection, fixed cervical spine after the effect is better. Try both, which one of the gymnastics to reduce symptoms, adhere to do. Do 10 times as a set, every 2 hours to do a set.