<span style="font-weight: 400;">On the first day in the classroom, the first thing I ask my learners is “</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">why are you here?”</span></i>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The single most common request learners come to us with is….</span>

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I want a deeper level of understanding the human body”</span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Then I ask them </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“why?”.</span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Often times its because we feel we lack some vocabulary skills when communicating with a physio or surgeon, or reading the medical report our client came with. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">We want to feel like we are on some kind of level to be able to work out how we can help even when our clients have something kind of issue, right?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">But does recalling all those muscle attachments really make you a better coach? Does it actually help?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Well yes it may do BUT it shouldnt inhibit you helping your clients to move better. Just because the other PT in your gym can recite most of the muscles to their client while they train them doesn't mean they’re a better coach….in fact this can be off putting for a client!</span>

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<h2><b>Let me tell you a secret….</b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">….having taught the subject of anatomy, muscles, joints, nerves and movement (intrinsic biomechanics) for over 16 years now 99% of our learners are also looking for a deeper understanding of the body! </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">You are not the only one! </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe during lockdown you decided to go back into the online classroom to gain a deeper level of understanding the body and movement and the reasons why clients move the way they do compared to each other!?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Did you find clarity?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Or do you feel like the things you learned about muscle attachments don't directly help you back in the gym when applying the knowledge practically?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">It often seems to be that the more you learn, the more complex it becomes.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">All you want is something more helpful ‘in application’...right!?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">What do I mean?</span>

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<h2><b>The Problem</b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">You want to be able to help those tricky clients who don't move well, have little aches or niggles, recurring injuries or a condition you have never heard of!</span>

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<h2><b>The Solution </b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Think differently - when something isn't working, change what you do!</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">So learning the attachments of pectineus doesn't give you the solution for your clients knee valgus. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">However learning movement can be so simple which is why during your level 2 training we learned this first.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Adduction/Abduction, Flexion/Extension, Rotation etc</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The analysis of movements or joint actions is one we seem to do really well but for some reason we remain fixed on the idea that knowing all of the muscle attachments will be the thing that solves our clients problems. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet SIMPLY understanding the movement they can or can't do is far more helpful. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Once we know what movement they cannot do we can consider what ‘exercises’ or techniques we can offer as a solution to the movement issue.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">It would make sense to start with the least contraindicated exercise first, then systematically re-evaluate their movement overtime to understand if that exercise was helpful. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Then repeat!</span>

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<h2><b>The Application Theory</b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Something my long term colleague, mentor and business partner have discussed for many years is the ‘Application Theory’. If you look it up you won't find it because we made it up! It's our best (and probably most used) tool in the classroom and I want to teach it to you....</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Application Theory = SIMPLE - COMPLEX - SIMPLE</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">That's it!!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Just that pretty much - the point being even that with the more you learn in the complex phase rarely does it dramatically alter what you do in application. </span>

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<h2><b>The WAY We Think, Conceptually</b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">In the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">School of Intrinsic Biomechanics</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> we teach this from day 1 when ALL of our learners arrive with some degree of anxiety about being asked an A&amp;P question they feel they will be unable to answer. For some reason this peer pressure has come about over the years that we should apparently have the ability to recall ALL of those damn muscle attachments by heart, I am not sure why its such a THING!?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">First let me ask you…..</span>

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<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are you still worried that you just don’t know enough?</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you wish you had a deeper understanding of the human body?</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Would you love to recall all of the anatomy you learned during your training?</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What do you do about it? .</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you use anatomy books? </span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow anatomy geeks hoping to pick up some nuggets?</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you feel you can ‘get away’ without remembering all those muscle attachments?</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you wonder why we forget them all? or</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe you wonder why we bother learning them all for an exam? </span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Here's the thing MOST of the industry, and I mean MOST, DOES NOT have the ability to recall muscle attachments. Even those with a lot of training or even years of experience in the industry.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So here's a question….Does this stop them / you from helping people? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">No!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Does it limit what can be done?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe, but clearly there are some GREAT PT’s who DON'T know their anatomy that are helping LOADS of clients achieve either goals!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Please understand I am not suggesting you do not need to study anatomy and gain a better understanding of the body, if it can be made fun and memorable with a reason to remember it then it is more likely to be easier to recall. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">If we teach you a biomechanics test, we give you a reason to remember the anatomy because if you don't know the anatomy you won't understand the test. What this then does is it creates a reason to remember where pec minor attaches, because we offer you a visual assessment skill that deepens your appreciation of how, when dysfunctional, it will pull the scapular forwards into that round shouldered posture we often see. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Then we offer you that chance to come up with ideas as to what can be done about this and we give suggestions for alternatives. Once you have applied the test, followed by an intervention, you can retest and actually see the change occur…..this is where understanding anatomy gets really exciting - because you can see the change AND understand how it relates to the anatomy! </span>

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<h2><b>The Biomechanics Education Classroom</b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Another important aspect to learning complex subjects, and that we endeavour to encourage in our classroom, is for our learners to never be afraid to;</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">A). ....give the wrong answer</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">B). .... say “I don’t know..?”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">As practitioners we MUST not wing it when it comes to another person's body .</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">We MUST be honest when we don’t have the answer or need to seek a second opinion</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Too often the ego encourage a fear of not knowing or being wrong &amp; yet if we are honest when we don’t know we would be providing a better duty of care</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Never be afraid to have a go &amp; be wrong in the learning environment.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Always admit when you don’t know the answer .</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">To all the educators out there...remember we must NEVER judge a learner who is honest enough to say “</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I don’t know</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">” when we ask them a question!</span>

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<h2><b>Simplicity In Application </b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">WHY do we feel this pressure, even on ourselves, to recall the A&amp;P when application of safe movement coaching is far more important!?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Theory of Application SIMPLE - COMPLEX - SIMPLE</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">SIMPLE - when you look at or speak to your client the ‘WHAT’ is obvious to you, for example...their knee caves in or their back hurts or one shoulder is higher than the other….or they have sore knees when they run.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">COMPLEX….Most PT’s I talk to then have this habit of trying to work out which muscle it is….well good luck with that! This is not helpful particularly at this point </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Why? Because even if you could recall every single muscle attachment it wont give you the answer as to what to do to help your client!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">SIMPLE….watch them, question them, write down your thinking, get a second opinion, check your remit, any reg flags….</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Then if cleared give them a safe movement technique and watch the movement again…..repeat until improvement occurs or you need a second opinion or further learning but don't ever underestimate what you CAN do! </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience our classroom and you will learn far more than simply how to assess your clients body!</span>
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