<h3><strong>All Biomechanical Studies Are Flawed</strong></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Pretty bold statement eh?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">You see I like to challenge things to enable me to truly understand the information I am processing, don’t you?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you ever discovered something that completely changes your paradigm?  </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/how-a-paradigm-shift-can-change-how-you-feel-in-a-moment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read my previous blog Paradigm Shifting</a> </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">You cannot UNLEARN something can you? Once you hear it and the thought goes in it can shift all of your thinking to another way of viewing things.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Let me give you an example I have experienced and hopefully explain why I feel that all biomechanical studies are flawed.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Biomechanical studies usually start with subjects described as...</span>

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">‘Twenty five subjects volunteered to participate in the study (age range 21-53).......All subjects met the criteria of full range of motion in the joints of the lower limb (</span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">McRae 1990</span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">). Any subject, patient or staff was excluded if they were suffering from any disease that compromised lower limb function (e.g. osteoarthritis) or who presented with pelvic or spinal problems that can often mimic LLD symptoms. </span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Subjects that demonstrated a functional LLD were also excluded’</span></i>

<b>(The reliability and validity of the `Tape' and `Block' methods for assessing anatomical leg-length discrepancy - </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tracy Middleton-Duff, Keith George and Alan Batterham 1999-2000</span><b>)</b>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">However I am quite sure, you can imagine, that when it comes to the human body, your clients bodies, it is never just a single answer to our movement limitations. </span>

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

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Well those 25 subjects may well have all been between certain ages, had a structural LLD and full ROM in the lower limb joints (McRae 1990) BUT was the rest of thier biomechanics assessed for similarities or differences?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">What would be an example?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ok literally EVERYONE is harping on about the whole body being connected, kinetic chains, myofascial trains etc BUT who is actually practicing this in terms of analysis for research into biomechanical questions?</span>

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<h3>How The Shoulder Influence's The Foot.... Or Visa Versa</h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">So here is a 7 minute video (in case you missed it) where I demonstrate the shoulder influence on the foot…</span>

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https://youtu.be/la6jOLuMSiU

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Anyway being slightly into biomechanics I have read one or two papers around this area and each time I see the subjects description of commonality, I see that they are only ever really compared by age, sex, skills level, sport, injury and maybe duration of training for example. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Nowhere have I seen biomechanical studies with a common </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">biomechanical</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> start point in terms of pelvic function, spine mobility and strength ratio comparisons, shoulder function, knee and foot stability all giving a common </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">biomechanical </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">start point. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">An example might be a study measuring forces at the knee of a group of subjects of the same/similar age, some sport and with a similar training history/duration. However there is not record of their pelvic function, if they have tight sciatic nerves or hinges in their QL - ALL of which could contribute to changing the loads being measured at the knee.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Does this make sense? It all means that the more I learn about research, the more I learn about biomechanics, the more I challenge it because of what I have learned. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">I see this as a good thing - frustrating but healthy.</span>

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<h3>How To Improve YOUR Squat - The Biomechanical Guide</h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now recently I have been getting a lot of messages from those of you who watch my Instagram videos, about comparing your squats to mine. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The most common question being how do you manage to squat A2G or bum to the floor?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">This has set me thinking about how the body works as an integrated system and how we all squat differently and probably actually should all squat differently too. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">So how would you like me to start a </span><b><i>‘How To Improve Your Squat’</i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> video tutorial series?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Over this series of short videos I will endeavour to answer all of your squatting questions and dilemmas and demonstrate some really cool techniques to both test and improve your intrinsic biomechanics function. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Would you like that?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Hit me with your squat questions and here are a few that I have on my list already…</span>

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“What if we can’t break parallel…what can we do to help that?”</span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Are there more benefits of A2G over say a parallel squat?</span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“What about knees over toes….?”</span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“How can I get my back straighter during the squat?”</span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">All really great questions and I will address each over the </span><b><i>How To Improve Your Squat’</i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> video tutorial series.</span>

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