You can tell plenty from an old pair of 👟 ‼️
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Wherever the feet go so do the legs and pelvis.
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But sometimes the pelvis controls the legs & thus the feet have to adapt.
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Chest & ribs usually counter that with an opposite rotation/motion.
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Neck usually counters & adapts based on position of the thorax.
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There goes the wind-up and torque. That may lead to a few complaints! 😩
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1️⃣ find where the torque is
2️⃣ unwind
3️⃣ stabilize
4️⃣ integrate
🔵 Release into the wild and watch it run! #movehealchange
3 weeks of severe/persistent R neck pain for this amazing phenom … resolved in 1 session & 3 days of 📚. We utilized just 2 movement patterns 😲 using the hips/pelvis & breathing … & taught her how to reset her pelvis•hip•ribcage position + gave her tips on how to appropriately recruit abdominal tension during inhalation🎈& exhalation 💨 .
Interesting how you can resolve neck pain & restore full ROM by looking @ the pelvis/hips + position. … It’s called INTEGRATION!💥
Bonus points for changing her movement strategy w/regard to her shoulder girdle & neck even though we didn’t give her any work to do with her neck or shoulders. (1st pic)‼️
Double bonus points for her now having a normal arch (B) instead of a raised/high arch (B). (2nd pic) #movehealchange 🙌
Another sweet before & after from a lacrosse player who doesn’t remember ever being able to touch her toes.
➖ Low back pain to NO pain 💥
➖ stretching never got her anywhere, but several treatments that included NO STRETCHING 😲 worked wonders for her 👍
➖ now she just has to repeat what we did in the clinic and she should be golden! ✅ #movehealchange
This was a mind-altering weekend that was spent learning from one of the best in the business! 💥💥
Thank you so much to Mike Cantrell (@mikecantrellprc) & to the Postural Restoration Institute for continuing to advance, elevate & separate our practice from the rest of the pack! 🙌👍 … & to TJ Martino (@the.performance.therapist)for being my co-pilot for the weekend.
Looking forward to using & integrating this material ASAP with all Total-PT patients! 👊😎#movehealchange
Our bodies are amazing 🙌 at compensating for the smallest of deviations. When they do, they will not send you an email to let you know that the correction is taking place. —-😤
Those compensation patterns eventually add up to undue tension and torque . Eventually that leads to your body contacting you with a message … that message is pain. How you answer your body back matters💥 #movehealchange
Best of luck to @jakefish33 of PDA Soccer Acadamy as he heads to Rome to compete in the Roma Trials coming up this week 🇮🇹!
Here’s to playing a small part in making your childhood dream come true!
Fingers are crossed! Shout out to @the.performance.therapist for bringing in a few pearls of wisdom along the way🙏 this past weekend. Excited to have Total-PT working together with the #pdasoccer community here at @topcornerbridgewater 💥
#Patterns. #Habits. 🍅. Tomahto. We look @ patterns & try to figure out WHY our clients come in ’stuck’ in certain patterns/habits. Sometimes they come in saying that they don’t know how to not do what you see here!🆘
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patterns of stance✅
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patterns of movement✅
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Some are optimal, but some need a bit of refinement. This ⬆️ pattern is the most common❗️Anterior pelvic tilt &/or forward shift of the hips. Compensatory anterior rib flare. Forward head posture. That’s just a super short list of the sagittal plane. What’s the ripple effect on the shoulders, neck, knee, ankle, foot, etc…?😲☢️
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You can tell someone to just ‘stand up straight’ or to ‘suck in their bellybutton,’ or to ‘put some weight through your heels.’ But that would not be very optimal now would it? I think that would be very 1999!#movehealchange
This is a simple test yet so many people fail it when we assess them. SINGLE LIMB STANCE. This tells us a lot about how you stand and move. Do you see a pattern here? Hips forward & chest back😕
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I can guarantee that most of you know this ‘posture’ or ‘habit’ you see here is not ideal. But WHY?
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Because you’re not generating tension in the appropriate areas & are ‘hanging’ on your spine & hips instead of using appropriate bracing strategies. 👆
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What if …… you could LEARN HOW to do that without even thinking about it (#habit) – just think of the ripple effects that could have when you WALK (single limb stance 85% of the time😲) or RUN (single limb stance 100% of the time!😲) #movehealchange
It doesn’t get more fundamental than the hinge… here are 4 variations that are great for teaching and training the hip hinge
1️⃣ PVC pipe hip hinge cuing neutral spine position
2️⃣ Banded pull through which adds resistance but encourages reaching the hips back and angling the torso down
3️⃣ Single leg hinge or RDL with PVC in the opposite arm as the standing leg to help with balance and also a counter reach forward as the non weight bearing leg reaches back
4️⃣ Single leg RDL with a long foam roller or short PVC as pictured to increase core engagement and tension through the system
#movehealchange
When performing a lunge movement, what are the focus points? Why are you actually doing a lunge? The benefit is multinodal here. First and foremost, we need to understand that the weight-bearing hip has to be ‘centrated,’ or simply put, it needs to be well centered in the socket. This requires that you properly hinge at the hip and NOT the lumbar spine. It also requires that you generate proper tension in the hamstrings as well as the glutes and hip rotators. This should all be happening while your hip, knee and ankle are all in-line with each other. Watch the video for details!