<span style="font-weight: 400;">It is a daily struggle for PT’s with different clients, who have different bodies, different mobility issues and different goals. The one major questions is; which assessment/s should we use to identify the best exercise programme?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">At level 3 we are taught simple tests like sit and reach, body composition or RPE but this still doesn’t really identify which exercises are good, or maybe bad, for the biomechanics of each individual client.</span>

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<b>Intrinsic Biomechanics </b>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">To understand this better imagine an example like this:</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">1) You look at your clients squatting and their knee caves inwards.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">2) You ask yourself WHY? And yet there are a multitude of reasons why it </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">might</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> happen.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">3) You might prompt them with verbal cues on how to correct their movement, but this starts to hurt them, or rotate them, or just doesn’t work.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">4) So what happens? We tend to lose confidence as to whether we should be asking them to squat at all.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">5) Rather than simply trying to coach </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better technique, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">we should ALL have the skills to identify if the cause is actually something intrinsic ‘stacked up wrong’ due to our lifestyle. The </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">intrinsic</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> part relating to the 3 sub-systems also known as the neuro-musculoskeletal system.</span>

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<b>Knowing Which, When and Who?</b>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">So wouldn’t it be more helpful, and increase our confidence, if we had access to neuro-musculoskeletal assessments that we could use with our clients from day one?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Assessments that would allow us to identify how </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">prepared for movement</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> our clients bodies actually are, how much </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">capacity</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> they have and when we actually need to do some more work on the 3 subsystem's to prepare them.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Well they exist, but unfortunately, you don’t get taught about these neuro-musculoskeletal assessments in your level 3 training.</span>

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<b>Nate Agrees With Us </b>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">This isn’t just my view, there are other knowledgeable people out there who advocate the skills we give to PT’s. Nate also agrees with us…</span>

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This allows them to get better results, far quicker” Nate.</span></i>

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Who the hell is Nate?</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> I can hear you thinking. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Well Nate works with </span><a href="http://www.otpbooks.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b><i>On Target Publications</i></b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> which is one of the awesome resources I found during my research in the Gracovetsky/McGill debate. Here he describes nicely how he views the problem we, as PT’s, face;</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Assessments are powerful tools that allow coaches and trainers to identify the big issues holding their clients back. By arming them with the right information, assessments allow coaches and trainers to develop individualised strategies to efficiently attack the problems their clients struggle with. This allows them to get better results, far quicker. The problem for many coaches and trainers, however, is knowing which assessments to use, when, and with which clients. You see, hundreds of assessments covering a range of areas, including body composition, general health, flexibility, mobility, stability, speed, balance, endurance, power, strength and agility are available for coaches and trainers to use. And for many coaches and trainers—especially less experienced ones—this can be intimidating and confusing.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">” Nate. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">To be fair to Nate, he was promoting strength coach, Dan John’s book </span><b>‘</b><b><i>Can You Go’</i></b> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(one that I highly recommend by the way, </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Can-You-Go-Assessments-Everybody-ebook/dp/B00WOQBSG8"><span style="font-weight: 400;">just click here to get it from amazon!</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), but it was comforting to know that as an education company, Biomechanics Education Ltd is tackling an obvious and common problem for us all!</span>

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<b>What I Wanted To Bring To YOU This Week</b>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">If this kind of topic interests YOU...</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">If YOU are a human movement geek...</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">If YOU enjoy studying and discussing human movement...</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">If YOU would like to learn in an inclusive classroom - where no question is a stupid one…</span>

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<b>Then THIS Might Interest YOU!</b>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Professionals who invest time in our classroom have stated:</span>

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1) How simple our screening ‘SYSTEM’ is

<span style="font-weight: 400;">2) How easily they are able to monitor their clients progress</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">3) How quickly they get results</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">4) How surprised they were at how much they learned</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">5) How it hugely helps their own confidence</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">6) How much they valued the support they received before, during and after their training</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">7) How it expands their technical language to communicate with different professionals for referral  </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">If you would like to learn ‘The System’<a href="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> CLICK HERE</a>.</span><b></b>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Let us know your thoughts on the Gracovetsky/McGill debate, <a href="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/why-doing-your-own-research-could-lead-you-to-become-a-better-coach-even-if-you-think-youre-a-non-academic-like-me/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CLICK HERE </a>to see the blog.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Move Freely,</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Rachel</span>

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