How do you warm up?

Do you simply warm up at the driving range beginning with a wedge and progressing to a wood or driver?
This type of warm up sequence may well improve hand-eye coordination, however it yields little or no benefit in terms of warming up the spine.

- 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 and muscles are warmed up, if not they may be torn/over extended. Warming up using progressively from wedge to wood is ineffective in that the golfer is unable to specifically stretch/mobilize each joint and muscle in the spine.

Why is it important to stretch/mobilize each joint and muscle?

The joints of the body takes the least way of resistance, thus over mobile joints (hypermobile) become more mobile over time, while immobile joints (hypomobile) joints become more immobile. 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. This may indeed cause pain, as the hypermobile joints are being overextended. Therefore, it is crucial to mobilize the joints that are relatively immobile to relieve the stress on the hypermobile joints.

- In terms of the spine traditional warm up techniques do not stretch/mobilize joints and muscle tissue that are hypomobile. In fact, this type of warm up can directly contribute to over-extension of hypermobile joints.

- PhysioDriver is developed to apply rotational pressure on the spine to specifically stretch every single joint and muscle, to increase the total range of movement and to decrease the chances of injury.

Do you warm up your back by rotating from side to side with the club behind your back or shoulder blades?
Again, as mentioned above you will only rotate some of the rotator joint/muscles in the spine, and will not achieve additional rotational pressure on the spine which gives the muscles and joints an effective targeted stretch.

Do you warm up swinging two clubs simultaneously?
This warm up technique is effective for stretching the arm/chest muscles, however it has no effect on spinal joints and muscles. Subsequently, your spine will not warmed up appropriately restricting spinal rotation and significantly increasing potential for injury.

Benefits of using PSM 2005

Our targeted mobilizing system provides several advantages for the golfer:
- The chances for injury will be decreased.
- Increased rotation yields greater swing speed.
- The increased range of motion allows the golfer to apply forces over greater distances and longer periods of time.
- The greater range allows the golfer increased velocities, energies and momenta.
- The increased range of motion permits the golfer a greater stretch on the involved muscles. As a result, those muscles can produce even greater forces because a prestretched muscle can exert more force than a nonstretched muscle.

We encourage golfers to be cognizant that just one tight link can compromise the efficiency of the entire chain. Thus, mobilizing/stretching of the joints and muscles involved in the golfswing will help prepare the body for the proper sequencing for the swing. Mobilizing/stretching programs are compulsory not only to reduce the risk of injury but also to enhance performance.

PSM 2005

The PhysioDriver Portable Spinal Mobilizer (PSM 2005) has been designed to eliminate the disadvantages assosiated with the traditional warm up sequences described above:

- The most important factor when warming up is that you specifically warm up the spine / back. During the golfswing, half of the rotation occurs in the spine, while the other half occurs in the hips. When attempting to warm up with traditionally warm up sequences, you are actually mainly warming up the hips instead of the spine. PSM 2005 will specifically warm up the spine as it applies rotational pressure to the spine.

- It specifically warms up each rotator muscle and joint in the spine, due to the specially designed mobilizing pad which applies targeted pressure / stretch to each rotator muscle and joint (see white paper).

- The back support (mobilizing pad) consists of ductile material thus applying distributed force to the joints and muscles.

- The angel of the shaft places the shoulder muscle (pectoralis major) in middle range, which makes it possible to apply maximum mobilizing rotational force, as opposed to using a club behind the back. Using a club behind the back lacks this benefit as the shoulders will be in an extended position.

- The back support is jointed thus following the curves of the spine, causing the pressure to be optimally aligned to the spine.

- The brain will receive proprioceptive input from the spine, which will give information to the brain that the spine is about to perform an extreme rotational movement

PhyioDriver PSM 2005© - A three minute warm up sequence will improve your game!

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