Blog
Assessing volitional contraction of the transverse abdominus is an essential part of any high quality low back pain managament strategy. While I will use upper body rolling as a proxy for reflexive contraction, here is how I do volitional transverse abdominus assessment and faciliation:
"Now we're ...
Hey, everyone! Today we're going to be discussing A March for linear speed development and acceleration development. So we're going to instruct our athlete to get in the starting position and the big emphasis for this drill is achieving maximum dorsiflexion or toe up and then driving through the toe...
Hey everyone, in this video today we're going to be discussing B Marching. So this is another way that we can develop maximum speed and acceleration. So what we'll do for this drill is instruct our athlete to get in the starting position. And for this one what we're going to be focusing on is a knee...
For diaphragmatic breathing in half kneeling, go ahead and place one foot up so that your knee is at a right angle and your hip is right above your knee on your down leg. Go ahead and place a hand on your chest and a hand on your stomach. Take a deep breath in so that your hand on your chest is n...
For banded ankle dorsiflexion,Ā make sure that your down knee is forward so you're not stretching the hip, and then takes a band that's attached to a sturdy object and pull it all the way down low on the ankle. And then what you're going to do is making sure the knee is going out. You should still be...
Now we're going to take a look at both evaluating the person's multifidus and then also starting to show them how to contract it. We ultimately want to get a volitional contraction of the multifidus. So we're going to palpate the iliac crest. And then we're going to go inward and find the spinous...
Isometric Knee Strength Testing: A Cost-Effective Solution Using a Crane Scale
As we discussed in the podcast Electrical Stimulation & Quad Strength Testing after ACL Reconstruction,Ā you know IĀ believe in the principle: what gets measured gets managed. If we aren't getting objective numbers on our ...
Ā
For lower body extension rolling start with both arms overhead. For this rolling pattern, you're going to keep your arms and your upper body completely still like you can't move them. You're going to begin the pattern by bringing the leg over and across your body, while keeping the upper body rel...
This will be very similar to the B Marching, except we're adding a skip to it now. So we're going to do is ask our athlete to get into the starting position and to review for this drill, we're going to go hands on hips, focus on a knee drive and then grab the ground underneath us. So what that will ...
I remember him vividly.
He was a cantankerous old farmer. You know the type. Rough and rugged exterior but would do anything for anyone at the drop of a hat. At 72, he was still working on the farm daily.
Heād had a total hip replacementĀ and was resistant to physical therapy from the beginning.Ā
...
