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What is targeted mobilization? The Spine is built up of 24 vertebras. Between each vertebra there are joints. During the golf swing, all these joints / vertebras should rotate (except for the neck). It is crucial that all the joints contribute to rotation. If not, some joints may be hypermobile. Traditional warm up exercises are ineffective in that the golfer is unable to specifically stretch and mobilize each individual joint. This may cause some joints to be hypermobile while other joints may be hypomobile. For instance when rotating the spine to the right, the total range of movement may be adequate, but what often occur is that only some joints in the spine may contribute to the rotation, while other joints may not. They are relatively stiff. The joints of the body takes the least way of resistance, thus hypermobile joints become more mobile over time, while hypomobile joints become more immobile. This may indeed cause pain, as the hyper mobile joints are being overextended. Therefore, it is crucial to mobilize the joints that are relatively immobile to relieve the stress on the hypermobile joints. PhysioDriver Spinal Mobilizer will specifically mobilize the hypomobile joints, as pressure will be applied on each vertebra beeing targeted. This is not possible when doing traditionally mobilization (stretching). |