(1268,3,'2016-09-16 06:36:59','2016-09-16 06:36:59','If someone told me, 6 or 7yrs ago, they were going to teach me how to breath I would have laughed. I had been breathing successfully for 47yrs, so how could someone teach me <em>HOW TO BREATH</em>!?\n\nYet I went on to experience 1:1 yoga and meditation with the A.M.A.Z.I.N.G Becs McBride who literally did teach me how to breath. What I discovered was that it wasn’t simply about learning how to breathe but it was a truly wonderful <em>experience</em> that is hugley helping those willing to try it.\n\nBecs became more than my yoga and meditation teacher because she gave me a gift....\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>My fizzy brain</h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-34943 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/jared-rice-NTyBbu66_SI-unsplash-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy experience of yoga and meditation at that time was very limited so we arranged some private 1:1 sessions during which I wanted to learn how to calm my \'fizzy\' brain.\n\nFor me business ideas come constantly and while I do love what I do, my brain literally FILLS up with ideas, my daily schedule, jobs to do, people to see, places to go etc etc. So I wanted some calm, peace and a way to be able to focus on what was important.\n\nBecs taught me how to ‘focus on the breath’, where to breath into my body during meditation and how to breath into positions and poses during yoga poses. The incredible thing was the result of how all of this made me <em>feel </em>and also how long the effects lasted.\n\nIt was all so peaceful and undistracted and literally gave my brain TIME OUT!\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>Hoovering my head</h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-34812 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/IMG_9026-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBecs taught me how to feel calm and in control by using breath work as if she was running a hoover through my head. YES that exactly how is felt, like she <em>hoovered my head!</em>\n\nWhen considering the meditation aspect, Becs taught me…\n<ul>\n 	<li>imagery</li>\n 	<li>psychology</li>\n 	<li>holistic</li>\n 	<li>mind to muscle</li>\n 	<li>mind and body connection</li>\n 	<li>neuroscience</li>\n 	<li>think yourself…(something)</li>\n 	<li>mindset</li>\n 	<li>cognitive</li>\n 	<li>therapy</li>\n 	<li>the power of the mind</li>\n</ul>\n..and it was MIND BLOWING!\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>So what?</h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-30606 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/luis-villasmil-mlVbMbxfWI4-unsplash-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\nEvidence suggests we buy based on how we <em>feel. </em>\n\nConsidering potential clients, they too are very likely to invest based on how they <em>feel.</em> How can we make others feel? what skills can we utilise or gain? Would breathwork or meditation be a solution? If it works for me could it work for my clients? Could they be in need of head hoovering?\n\nThere are many in our industry writing about the mind and its neural connection for improving physical health. Lorimer Moseley and Dave Butler wrote the ‘Explain Pain’ from the perspective of neuroscience, describing pain as an input not an output. The Franklin Method teaches imagery for improving biomechanical set up from within.\n\nSo to having a deep connection with the self through breathwork and meditation increased my confidence and allow me to feel more in control and calm...ever tried hoovering YOUR head!?\n\n<a href=\"http://www.becsmcbride.co.uk/classes\">www.becsmcbride.co.uk/classes</a>\n\n&nbsp;','She Hoovered My Head!','','draft','closed','closed','','she-hoovers-my-head','','','2024-07-16 11:26:36','2024-07-16 11:26:36','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1268',0,'post','',0),(1269,0,'2016-09-16 06:36:49','2016-09-16 06:36:49','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-09-16-at-07-31-40','','','2016-09-16 06:36:49','2016-09-16 06:36:49','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-16-at-07.31.40-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1274,3,'2016-09-21 07:50:57','2016-09-21 07:50:57','<img class=\" wp-image-35817 alignright\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_4905-1-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"237\" />I LOVE hearing from you guys!\n\nTHANK YOU to those who take the time to write to me! Please do always send your feedback and any topic requests. The content I produce is aimed at you so your ideas are really helpful.\n<ul>\n 	<li>Can YOU caveman squat? Send us a photo!!</li>\n 	<li>What would you like to read more of?</li>\n 	<li>Do you have a specific movement or anatomy question?</li>\n 	<li>What do you think of our Juicemail?</li>\n 	<li>Do you have a question or some feedback about anything we do here at Biomechanics Education Ltd?</li>\n</ul>\nEmail me with your movement related questions rachel@biomechanicseducation.com\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Hi Rachel,</em>\n\n<em>Thank you for such a brilliant day. Excellent content and loved the way you delivered it! It was really informative and am now keen to learn more (and brush up on anatomy too!!) I also realised how dysfunctional my pelvis is atm! Will be working on this.</em>\n\n<em>Once again, many thanks, I really enjoyed Saturday and your patience and humour with us all! Looking forward to hearing from you, Hope to see you again, Aiming to move freely!!</em>\n\n<em>—————————————————————————————</em>\n\n<em>Brilliant course on Saturday, really enjoyed it. Am hoping to use some in my physio classes!</em>\n\n<em>—————————————————————————————</em>\n\n<em>Great meeting you too, again loved your session, very educational and I was left wanting more!</em>\n\n<em>—————————————————————————————</em>\n\n<em>I loved the course, want to do the whole diploma! Your delivery of it was great and funny, looking forward to the day I do the caveman squat with good form and ease and will send you a photo &#x1f606;</em>\n\n——————————————————————————————','Wanting to \'Caveman Squat\'.......!','','draft','closed','closed','','wanting-to-caveman-squat','','','2024-07-16 11:26:36','2024-07-16 11:26:36','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1274',0,'post','',0),(1275,0,'2016-09-21 07:50:47','2016-09-21 07:50:47','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-09-21-at-08-50-14','','','2016-09-21 07:50:47','2016-09-21 07:50:47','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-08.50.14-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1278,3,'2016-09-25 05:50:17','2016-09-25 05:50:17','We have such a lot going on at The Movement Convention, with so many fascinating lectures and people around, it is vital we are all well hydrated throughout the day with our favourite refreshments, coffee and water!\n\nBUT we don\'t have just any coffee and water, nope we have the highest quality coffee and water coming to you from Tracey &amp; Bradley!\n\n----------------------------------------------------------\n\nTracey Peake loves life and spreads positivity and super hydration with her negative ions in Kangen water, and so for your brain buzz see Tracey to get your electric impulses flowing!\n\nTracey is CEO of Kangen Life Club, pharmacist for 32 years, director of Peake Health Ltd, advocate of natural therapies and supplements for health promotion and disease prevention.\n\nKangen restructured electolysed water is alkaline, packed full of antioxidants (free hydrogen) and provides super hydration.\n\nIt is made by a medical device called a Kangen water ioniser, which attaches to your tap in your home to make this anti-aging, detoxifying, health promoting, disease reversing pure, fresh tasting miracle water .\n\n----------------------------------------------------------\n\nBradley Marchant\n\n\"Hi everyone,\n\n..who wants a free tea or coffee?\n\nI’ve been in the coffee industry for quite a number of years now and I know just how many people can’t function without their morning cup of coffee or their fancy made beverages.\n\nBut what if your daily habit was cheaper and actually healthier for you?\n\nWhat if the habit you’ve already established could actually improve your health?\n\nI will be bringing the world’s best Ganoderma infused teas and coffee’s to your cup on this date, so leave your cash at home, this one’s on me!\n\nI look forward to seeing you at The Movement Convention\"\n\nBradley\n\n----------------------------------------------------------\n\nLAST 20 PLACES !\n\n<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/events/tmc16/\">BOOK HERE QUICK!</a>','FREE Coffee & Water!','','draft','closed','closed','','free-coffee-water','','','2024-07-16 11:26:36','2024-07-16 11:26:36','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1278',0,'post','',0),(1279,0,'2016-09-25 05:50:08','2016-09-25 05:50:08','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-09-21-at-09-03-28','','','2016-09-25 05:50:08','2016-09-25 05:50:08','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-09.03.28-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1311,3,'2016-09-27 05:13:33','2016-09-27 05:13:33','Neil Eriksen was one of the first ever professionals to join our academy back in 2008 and he was also previously nominated as a Biomechanics Coach™ of the Month. Here he wants to share with you one of his life changing moments..\n\n<em>That was a really funny moment I\'ll not forget in my life. This is what happened...</em>\n\n<em>I was on the full Biomechanics Coach™ Diploma, kind of the second time doing it, already done the previous model course way back in 2008 when it was first being delivered by Martin Haines and the team, just starting to put it out there for use in the fitness industry.</em>\n\n<em>The more modern expanded model of Biomechanics Coaching™ I wanted to re-sit had evolved. It had been through years of development so I was keen to get on it to learn any new techniques and refresh on the old ones.</em>\n\n<em>Although I had been practicing the screens and exercise prescription with clients to some degree over the 6 year gap, I definitely felt that I\'d been playing Chinese whispers with myself and lost the way somewhat.</em>\n\n<em>Mostly I simply ‘personal trained’ my clients and put a few bits of the Biomechanics Coach™ programme in there if it seemed applicable.</em>\n\n<em>In fact I remember Martin sending me a nice email commenting on how \'low key\' my website presentation of the system was and that\'s exactly how he liked to see it. I\'d learned about sports injuries, sports massage and remedial therapy in my health and fitness degree so it was just another set of cool assessments…or so I thought.</em>\n\n<em>Back to the diploma;</em>\n\n<em>Rachel had just done my whole body assessment in class at the end of the complete Biomechanics Coach™ Diploma using me as the demo (I basically told her to DO ME! DO ME!). There were a number of things still showing dysfunctional after doing my 4 Sign and Leg Press anti spasms for a number of weeks and my back was still not a nice back to live with.</em>\n\n<em>Things improved but I was not there yet; Downings Sign, Leg Length Discrepancy, Sciatic Nerve, Spinal Flexion, Pec Minor, Median Nerve, Upper Traps, Infraspinatus were all still positive for dysfunction.</em>\n\n<em>So Rachel just tried the anti spasm on my Pec Minor left side, it was showing more tension than the right side, which we duly did. Then the retest of the whole body, all in front of the watching class and we wrote the results up on the flip chart for everyone to follow.</em>\n\n<em>It was surreal over the next few minutes as the retest was being done. I remember the sound of jaws hitting the ground and watching the shaking of heads of disbelief. That was the sound of a paradigm shift in action, it was funny to watch. I didn\'t really feel anything so I was a bit left out of the action as everyone else was seeing the, no less than astonishing, results.</em>\n\n<em>And then Matt made his classic comment \"he\'s a stooge!\".</em>\n\n<em>Was it so amazing that he didn\'t believe his own eyes?</em>\n\n<em>Well yes it certainly was, that\'s the integrated system in all it\'s glory and it appears that seeing is disbelieving!</em>\n\n<em>That one moment has changed my life, not only because since releasing Pec Minor on the left side my whole body has become way more \'bullet proof\', everything changed and I got myself a new upgraded body, but also because my quest is always to find that magic for other people.</em>\n\n<em>Now as Rachel said at that time \"Yeah, that was a good one, it doesn\'t always happen like that!\" Things can become quite confusing/difficult/complicated etc when you concentrate on changing specific things that may well have been adapted to for many years for a myriad of reasons.</em>\n\n<em>So I would to impart some advice to other professionals out there, it has been said before but here it is again: use it as a cool-tool guide but do not concentrate on fixing people with Biomechanics Coaching™, do what YOU do, whether that\'s PT, massage, yoga or whatever. That way when complications arise, and they will, or there is no magic, and sometimes there isn\'t, you\'re still doing you job, but with amazing insights and information from a very special systematic approach.</em>\n\n<em>It is easy to get caught up in a personal quest for magic and forget the client\'s goals or that there\'s more than one way skin the old cat. It\'s got to kind of run as a background programme, it\'s certainly one that I would never uninstall, I\'d rather chop off an arm!</em>\n\n<em>I would love nothing more than to ramble on about the infinitesimal layers of the onion that you peel away over time using Biomechanics Coaching™, maybe I will, but that\'s for another day.</em>\n\n<em>So to Matt, I\'m not a stooge mate, just living the dream ;)</em>\n\n<em>Thanks Martin and Rachel for helping me fix myself and helping me to help others (even when oftentimes they have no idea on what level we\'re working on).</em>\n\n<em>Kind regards</em>\n\n<em>Neil</em>\n\n----------------------------------------------------------\n\nHave YOU been thinking about becoming a Biomechanics Coach™?\n\nMaybe Neil\'s story has helped you to make up your mind?\n\nWhy not join our waiting list for the 2017 Biomechanics Coach™ Diploma workshops series dates?\n\nEmail in reply to this Juicemail\n\nOR\n\n<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\">CLICK HERE to register your interest</a>','He\'s A Stooge!','','draft','closed','closed','','hes-a-stooge','','','2024-07-16 11:26:36','2024-07-16 11:26:36','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1311',0,'post','',0),(1312,0,'2016-09-27 05:13:24','2016-09-27 05:13:24','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-09-27-at-06-13-02','','','2016-09-27 05:13:24','2016-09-27 05:13:24','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-06.13.02-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1315,3,'2016-09-29 06:55:58','2016-09-29 06:55:58','<b>If you work in the field of martial arts OR feel desperate to connect with other health care professionals keep reading..\n\nThese are 2 of the UK\'s leading presenters and we are really excited that they are coming along to speak to you at;\n</b><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/events/tmc16/\">The Movement Convention Saturday 8th October at Loughborough University. </a>\n\nMike &amp; Fletch are special guys and really awesome Master Trainers amongst other things!\n\nJust check out their session content..\n\nFletch - <b>Biomechanics of Combat</b>: <i>\"We have been involved in combat sports as far back as language could be used to talk about it. But is it functional for today\'s human. We look at the requirements of sports such as boxing, kickboxing and jujitsu and how they affect our body.\"</i>\n\nMike - <b>Introduction to working with allied healthcare professionals</b>. Where does Biomechanics Coaching™ fit in? What can the other professions do for us and how we can communicate effectively with each other.\n\nThis uniquely intimate event will allow you to meet them in person and interact with both presenters.\n\n<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/events/tmc16/\">GRAB A PLACE HERE!</a>\n\nP.S. We will provide a healthy lunch and refreshments are available all day\n\nIncluding a FRESH Juicebar and raw chocolate by Mairi of FABfitness!','YUP Check Out Ma Boys!','','draft','closed','closed','','yup-check-out-ma-boys','','','2024-07-16 11:26:36','2024-07-16 11:26:36','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1315',0,'post','',0),(1316,0,'2016-09-29 06:55:48','2016-09-29 06:55:48','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-09-29-at-07-55-35','','','2016-09-29 06:55:48','2016-09-29 06:55:48','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-29-at-07.55.35-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1319,3,'2016-10-01 04:55:31','2016-10-01 04:55:31','Having travelled for a number of years around the UK delivering workshops, presentations and lecturing at events and universities I have developed an appreciation of what is needed for me to be fresh and ready from a good nights sleep, feeling safe while travelling and staying away from home alone.\n\nCombine this with having set up 8 companies I have learned, and now understand better, the value of familiarity, knowing what you will and the confidence in my expectation.\n\nNow as I use Premier Inns it was Lenny Henry who not only promised me a good nights sleep guarantee, but he delivered and continues to deliver on this promise...\n\nEvery\n\nSingle\n\nTime\n\nHOW?\n\nBefore I even leave the house, and no matter where in the country I am going, I know exactly what to expect right from when I arrive at the car park, enter reception, enter my room, climb into my bed and anything in between.\n\nI know there will be a restaurant downstairs for food both in the evening and for breakfast.\n\nAND\n\nI know there will be a certain smell and temperature as I climb the stairs. In my room there will be a large bed made up in crisp white sheets with a purple runner, a choice of pillows, a hair dryer, shampoo and a TV that I can watch from my bed.\n\nThis hotel’s business model, in my opinion, is superb since they deliver on their promise every - single - time.\n\nThis hotel chain for me has been one of the best examples of customer confidence in knowing what to expect because it is my \'home from home\' even if I sometimes might pay a bit more. I am happy to pay knowing I will get exactly what they promise or I get my money back. There are other businesses that do this really well too…also known as the franchise model\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-36692 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screenshot-2023-08-23-at-08.44.24-300x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMcDonalds do it - whatever you think of them they deliver on their promise (and yes I have been known to slurp on the occasional Crunchie McFlurry). Listen to Michael E Gerber\'s audio book, The E Myth Revisited and he will tell you the whole story of how Ray Kroc saw the McDonalds brothers flipping burgers back in the 60\' and knew immediately there was something special about their business.\n\nLes Mills is probably the most famous company for setting this trend in our sector. You can go to any country in the world and know what to expect from a BodyPump or BodyAttack class. Now there are numerous examples from Zumba to Pilates and yet why am I writing to you about this?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-36693 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screenshot-2023-08-23-at-08.44.39-300x77.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"77\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIt is a bold statement to make a guarantee or promise about your product or service isn\'t it?\n\nDo you believe you could be that confident stating benefits about your services to potential clients?\n\nWhat could be your promise?\n\nConsider how you might develop your \'promise\' and also your client and potential client\'s expectation. Here is one idea.....\n\nIts something I have had to practice gaining confidence about but I am now in a position to make bold statements about my education company because I have proved it over and over again consistently for almost 18 years now. In fact I no longer need to make the statement because my customers do.\n\nEveryone who attends one of our workshops or joins our academy tells us they have a fantastic learning experience, I may even be so bold as to say, it changes lives. We also take pride in the amount of support we offer even beyond the classroom...\n\n<em>Hi Rachel,</em>\n\n<em>Thank you for a fantastic course last weekend. It was everything I was hoping for and really helped me understand why current training systems aren\'t working as they should be.</em>\n\n<em>I have already adapted some of my clients programs to include the anti-spasm exercises with good results in just a few days. The course has left me questioning everything I do as a PT, which is definitely a positive thing.</em>\n\n<em>I definitely want/need to complete the rest of the workshops as soon as possible.</em>\n\n<em>Thanks again for providing a fantastic course. I am really looking forward to the next courses.</em>\n\n<em>——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-35285 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DSC_6931-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————</em>\n\n<em>Hi Rachel</em>\n\n<em>Thank you very much for the Pelvic &amp; Spine Biomechanics workshop, I enjoyed every moment of it. I must say it is the first course when my brain was alert from 9  to 5 and there was no desire to have any conversation within my head , I do that when I am getting bored. You are an amazing tutor and a coach, you know how to make people feel important and have time to understand each and everyone. I did feel a lot of support whilst on the workshop and I think everyone felt that. The world is a much better place to live in, when people like you are around. Once again an enormous thank you.</em>\n\n<em>——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————</em>\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-35276 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DSC_6385-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\n<em>——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————</em>\n\n<em>I’m not normally big on writing reviews or testimonials, but I\'m making an exception for this 2 day Pelvis &amp; Spine Biomechanics workshop for a number of reasons</em>\n\n<em>To start,  I\'ve never felt so excited about what I\'ve learnt from a workshop or course before.</em>\n\n<em>Whilst some of it really challenged my thinking, and made me feel slightly uncomfortable at times (it made me question some of the ways I\'ve always done things).  Rachel explains it in such a way that it all makes perfect sense.</em>\n\n<em>I now have information that is scientifically proven, that makes me believe I need to change the way I work, and to incorporate biomechanics screens into much more of what I do.</em>\n\n<em>The tools and system that Rachel give you are so powerfulI both for you, and to get your clients onboard, they cannot be ignored.</em>\n\n<em>It’s going to take me a while to put everything I’ve learnt into practice.  But there’s a few things I know for sure.  I need to know more.  Everything I do in future must be backed up with science.  I need to question everything.   And I most definitely want biomechanics screens to be a much bigger part of what I do.</em>\n\n<em>Adding biomechanics screens to the way I work will most definitely, give me the confidence to charge more, have a real niche and elevate me far above my competitors.   I know I will get a return on this investment, and most importantly be able to help more people, and improve the service to the clients I already have.</em>\n\n<em>If you are unsure about committing to the Biomechanics Coach&#x2122; Diploma, attend the iMoveFreely® workshop as a starting point.  It’s a good way to sample it,  and come away with useful material without committing too much financially.</em>\n\n<em>I cannot recommend any of Rachel’s courses highly enough.  From the the content of the course, Rachel’s energy, knowledge, enthusiasm and obviously love of what she does.  I for one will definitely be back for more.</em>\n\n<em>Thanks Rachel</em>\n\n———————————————————————————————\n<h2><a href=\"https://www.futurefit.co.uk/personal-training-cpd-courses/biomechanics-coach-course/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">So why not join our academy in 2023/24 ?</a></h2>\nUse the skills the way we teach you to and…\n\nWe promise you will LOVE them!\n\nWe promise they will change the way you think!\n\nWe promise you will want more!\n\nWe promise full support even beyond your training!\n\n&nbsp;\n<h1><a href=\"https://www.futurefit.co.uk/personal-training-cpd-courses/biomechanics-coach-course/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Now there’s some promises! &gt;&gt;CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT</a></h1>\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\" wp-image-36450 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/DSC_6439-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"307\" />','What do Les Mills, Premier Inn and Crunchy McFlurry have in common?','','draft','closed','closed','','crunchy-mcflurry-promise','','','2024-07-16 11:26:36','2024-07-16 11:26:36','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1319',0,'post','',0),(1320,0,'2016-10-01 04:55:24','2016-10-01 04:55:24','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-10-01-at-05-55-06','','','2016-10-01 04:55:24','2016-10-01 04:55:24','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-01-at-05.55.06-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1325,3,'2016-10-10 18:56:48','2016-10-10 18:56:48','..if you didn\'t attend The Movement Convention,\n\nWHERE WERE YOU?!\n\nTMC16 was BUZZING!\n\nSocial media STILL IS!!\n\nThe entire even has been such a massive success, social media has been going nuts, I am literally floating and still feel quite emotional.\n\nThis awesome event began in 2014 and really has evolved since our debut! With twice as many attendees and such a fantastic line up of presenters we completely nailed it this year!\n\nI am not sure where to begin to describe this amazing experience but I will have a go with the help of the attendee feedback…\n\nFirstly Friday saw the gathering of the Biomechanics Education Master Trainers for our annual standardisation meeting. Some of these guys drove for 3hrs to attend a 3hr conference only to then drive back 3hrs to service their clients. THIS is the commitment and calibre of trainers we take on!\n\nWith such talent in front of me all feeling passionately about spreading the word and ethos of our academy I felt moved AND responsible. This special team are going to be delivering even more of our education programmes moving into 2017 -\n\nRead on to hear about those already representing us by presenting at TMC16!\n\nThen Friday afternoon saw the largest national gathering of Biomechanics Coaches™, who ravelled from Cumbria, Amsterdam, Dorset, Bristol, Norfolk and all the corners of the UK for a private mentoring session;\n\n<b>Chris Wright</b> - A business mentoring guru who\'s energy infected us all as he shared his skills with humour and vitality\n\nAND\n\n<b>Martin Haines</b> delivered an inclusive and very advanced Movement Analysis session that took our programming to the next level while confirming the INTEGRATED SYSTEM approach that Biomechanics Coaching™ is.\n\nFriday evening was a bit of a social at the Universities, Burleigh Court for a few drinks! Some of whom took great advantage of!\n\nBUT\n\nTMC16 was what it was really all about and so Saturday began at 7am at Loughborough University as the SSSPA crew arrived to help get us set up!\n\n<b>Amber Keats</b>, events manager, was cool as a cucumber organising things as I ran round like a headless chicken, not much use to anyone!\n\nAmber - is an outstanding example of both a stunningly skilled professional AND flipping awesome friend.\n\nEverything apparently fell into place pretty easily although I shouldn\'t have been surprised because the team was well prepared with Amber at the helm!\n\nEveryone arrived to an apple and ginger shot from Mairi of FABfitness, Gandorma coffee from Brendan and Kengan water from Tracey to set them up for the first session.\n\nA very professional, slick and fascinating presentation from <b>Ben Coomber</b> about ‘<i>Recovery &amp; Performance Strategies’.</i>\n\nPost event Ben said<i> “Strong morning presenting at The Movement Convention 2016 run by Biomechanics Education </i>\n\n<i>Rachel France a strong host as ever, quality line up for one day of</i>\n\n<i>learning, get there next year </i><i>”</i>\n\n<b>Brendan Chaplin</b>’s session ‘<i>Forget Strength, Let’s Build Power!’</i> demonstrated his clear knowledge in the very popular subject of strength and conditioning.\n\nPost event Brendan said;\n\n<i>“Enjoyed talking at the movement convention today, great event with a really cool crowd thanks for having me” </i>\n\n<b>Chris Kitson</b> - This up and coming industry influencer is a breath of fresh air and keen to communicate some simple but useful ideas from his session ‘<i>Dealing with Symptomatic Clients’</i>\n\nPost event Chris said;\n\n<i>‘What a whirlwind weekend at The Movement Convention in Loughborough! Met some awesome people and caught up with a few too! Can\'t wait for next year now”</i>\n\n‘<i>Going with the Flow</i>’ was the FABulous <b>Mairi Taylor’s </b>session - She’s seriously passionate and very candid in her sessions expanding on training women through the cycle and post event Mairi said;\n\n<i>“So I am going to share some of take homes from this weekends awesome event as one of them may just resonate with you and ensure you keep following your \"North Star\" - because as Mark Laws</i><i> said \"one should be an eternal white belt\" and one of the great things about this weekend was Rachel France</i><i> had brought some new ( WELL new to me) speakers into the arena and it was so refreshing to hear new and different perspectives on such important aspects of coaching and WELLness ! </i>\n\n<i>\"Stop waiting for permission to live\"</i>\n\n<i>\"Circle gets smaller pain gets bigger\"</i>\n\n<i>\"Focus on innercise\"</i>\n\n<i>\"Let\'s build power\"</i>\n\n<i>\"Sweet taste makes you work harder\" </i>\n\n<i>\"If you put your body in a place where it can recover then it will perform\"</i>\n\n<i>\"Biopyschosocial model\"</i>\n\n<i>\"It\'s about movement and capacity\"</i>\n\n<i>\"Try not to be a wally\"</i>\n\n<i>And of course for me look after your hormones and surround yourself with people who get it - are happy to disagree and have an open minded conversation where we can respect each other\'s maps of the world - unless of course they are a wally!”</i>\n\nLUNCH BREAK included a fabulous healthy choice of salmon with noddles, chicken with rice of tofu noddles all with salad.\n\n<b>Stephen Aish</b> - WOWZERS! My personal favourite 10 minutes of the whole event was watching 70 people completely under his spell of meditation - Emotional for the WHOLE room if you read social media, he literally changed lives in his ‘<i>Mindset Coaching</i>’ session. Perfect after lunch and to relax everyone.\n\nStephen said post event;\n\n“<i>Huge thank you to the superstar that is Rachel France</i><i> for inviting me to speak at The Movement Convention today.</i>\n\n<i>I got to meet friends old and new, hear some fantastic speakers and see the impact some very basic material can have on those ready to take it on board with an open mind and learn.</i>\n\n<i>There is no higher purpose than helping others and I am always grateful for the opportunity to impact lives”</i>\n\n<b>Mike Grice</b> - My all round favourite speaker on my professional subject with the kind of vocabulary I only dream of. <i>‘Working with Allied Health Care Professionals</i>’. Mike’s session was an eye opener for all of us not just the Biomechanics Coaches™ about being mindful of the langue we use with both clients AND other health care professionals to keep us all up to date and have some clarity.\n\n<b>Tom Waldron</b> along with his beautiful sister Rachel gave us an ‘I<i>ntroduction to the Franklin Method</i>’ with a fresh, interesting and very modern approach, Tom had us all on our feet moving which fitted perfectly in the schedule of the day. This presenter is one to watch!\n\nPost Tom’s debut presentation he was rather pleased with how things went stating…<i> “Nailed it!!!!” ..</i>you certainly did Tom!!\n\n<b>Mark Laws</b> - Hilariously honest - LOVE this guy! His session called ‘<i>Surviving the Industry</i>’ had the whole room belly laughing at just the right time in the day when everyone had taken on a lot of new information and really needed some light hearted humour.\n\nMark had made a huge effort to deliver his 45 minute session;\n\n<i>“Made it back to Fitness Fiesta in time for a couple of well earned beers with some fellow presenters!!!!</i>\n\n<i>7 hour, 392 mile, round trip journey to Loughborough was well worth it to be able to start to pay back Rachel France</i><i> for all the awesome things she has done for me in the past!!</i>\n\n<i>Shame I didn\'t get to see anyone else present at the Biomechanics Education Movement Conference but it was a huge honour to be invited to share my ramblings with such a good crowd and close up the day!!!</i>\n\n<i>Today has been a good day!!!</i><i>“</i>\n\n—————————————————————————————\n\nWe had a Twitter competition for the most and the easy winner was Hazel Oliver who took home £30 worth of cinema tickets!\n\nThe TMC16 Raffle was for The Big Cheese Society in honour of Sam who was killed in a cycling accident in may this year. Sam was passionate about helping kids to play sports who may have limited access due to funds. He was also our events organiser, Amber’s boyfriends and so\n\nwe are really thankful to all those of you who helped us to raise over £450!\n\nNow we couldn’t have done this with out our amazing sponsor donations;\n\nIndigo Fitness\n\nGroup X Training\n\niamtools\n\nFABfitness\n\nBTN\n\nS&amp;C Education\n\nThe Strength Academy\n\nMark Laws\n\nMovement Therapy Clinics\n\nTom Waldron\n\nCarbon Claw\n\nJordan Fitness\n\nAwesome Supps\n\nBrasilfit\n\nGrypit\n\nWe also had a small exhibition with;\n\nGrypit\n\nKengan Water\n\nOrgano Coffee\n\nBrasilfit\n\n———————————————————————————————\n\nThe Audience…\n\nNow I did attempt to close the event with a speech of thanks you’s but I got so emotional looking out at all of you and feeling the atmosphere in the room that I couldn’t speak, SO to officially close TMC16….\n\nTHANK <b>YOU!</b>\n\nTo all of YOU who attended the event. Those of you who travelled huge distances, flew overseas and took time out of work, clients and family to INVEST in this stupendous event.\n\nEverything WE do is because of YOU!\n\nSo spread the word, <a href=\"https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/membership/intrinsic-biomechanics-association-membership/\">join the IBA</a>, lets support each other and share our experiences!\n\n———————————————————————————————\n\n<i>TESTIMONIALS…..</i>\n\n<i>Dear Rach,</i>\n\n<i>Totally brilliant my dear!! </i>\n\n<i>I enjoyed last year\'s convention but this year blew it out of the water. Exceeded all my expectations (&amp; they were decently high!).</i>\n\n<i>The presenters today were great &amp; you scheduled them brilliantly - presentations to match energy levels throughout the day. I got seriously good things to take home from every single one.</i>\n\n<i>I\'ve come home on a high, buzzing, motivated, and really excited to be part of such a cool crowd.</i>\n\n<i>Huge thanks to you and the whole dancing team for all your hard work.</i>\n\n<i>———————————————</i>\n\n<i>Those who really know me will vouch that I usually talk rubbish, so this next bit may come as a surprise. I get up every morning with the intention of helping someone, a random act of kindness or helping someone achieve something, today was different,I was invited by Rachel France </i><i>to the Movement Convention 2016 at Loughborough University to meet some fitness professionals and like minded people, I listened intently to some very interesting speakers, however to get to the point, someone who I don\'t know, have never met and didn\'t speak directly to me had a remarkable effect on me, his words meant something to me and has helped me to see that I need to live life in the present, I hold toxic nocebo thoughts from previous jobs, relationships and decisions that spoil the moment that is now, I spend(waste) many hours worrying over things that have already happened or may never happen. I overthink things but now realise that I never actually had an influence on others behaviour, that was all down to them. Tonight I will sleep well, content with my life and my decisions. Tomorrow I resume posting shi7e and rants about BMW drivers just so the world won\'t stop spinning. Good night all x</i>\n\n—————————-\n\n<i>What a superb day at the Movement Convention. Rachel France</i><i> your hard work has paid off. The lectures and lecturers were brilliant, I even got a bit star struck meeting Ben Coomber! </i><i> I have no more words but if I had one, you\'d go in my gratitude book!</i>\n\n—————————————-\n\n<i>Great day at the Movement Convention with Rachel France </i><i>the day flew by with lots of take home snippets for clients this week.</i>\n\n<i>—————————</i>\n\n<i>Just wanted to say briefly how much I enjoyed today, some great speakers but your S&amp;C coach ..... I was guilt initially of being judgemental about meditation but he just made sense of the last 5 years of my life and given me a new perspective in which I can move on, so please pass on my thanks, he will make a difference to so many people in my life, clients, family, friends, I spoke at length to a friend on the way home who is suffering from previous relationships and I can say definitively that I have already made a change to her by relaying some of the info. Thanks again to your wonderful team and if I can do anything to promote them to my members then please just ask ,</i>\n\n<i>———————————</i>\n\n<i>Have had a fab time at the movement conference learning from the best in the movement biomechanics and therapy world. It\'s always a pleasure to spend time with these amazing people thanks Rachel France </i><i>and all the other Biomechanics C</i><i>oaches</i>\n\n<i>——————————-</i>\n\n<i>Hi Rachel! Just thought I\'d text to as didn\'t get a chance to say thank you for the movement convention! I have already learnt so much and loved everybody I met! &#x1f600; see you Thursday morning in London for the shoulder! X</i>\n\n——————————————-\n\n<i>Back safe and sound from The Movement Convention at Loughborough University.</i>\n\n<i>Great event from Rachel France</i><i> and the rest of the Biomechanics Education team.</i>\n\n<i>Enjoyed the lectures today and a few cheeky cold ones last night!</i>\n\n<i>—————————————</i>\n\n<i>An amazing day of learning &amp; listening at the TMC16 </i><i>at Loughborough University with </i><i>Mairi Taylor</i><i>, and a room full of other professionals and of course all the brilliant speakers .. thank you Rachel France</i><i> for such a Fab event .</i><i> </i><i>&#x1f61c;</i><i> </i><i>&#x1f4aa;</i><i> </i><i>&#x1f44d;x</i>\n\n<i>———————————————</i>\n\n<i>Thank you Rachel France</i><i> for a fab day. You have an amazing job and an amazing group of inspirational friends. </i>\n\n<i>Now on my way home back to Suffolk to get booked in onto your iMoveFreely course. </i>\n\n<i>Hope to see you then x</i>\n\n—————————————————————————————-\n\n<i>Hi Rachel- just a quick note to say what a great day it was on Saturday-the range of speakers was good and everyone was so friendly and positive.</i>\n\n<i>I stopped going to lots of fitness industry stuff as it can be very “superficial” but really love the vibe of other biomechanics trainers/coaches.</i>\n\n<i>Have a great week,</i>\n\n——————————————————\n\nFINALLY….!\n\nSomeone asked me what the purpose of TMC16 was and it set me off thinking and this is where we have realised its true purpose…\n\n<b><i>The Movement Convention is a celebration of beautiful human movement and ways to improve human movement through education. Changing lives by empowering others. </i></b>\n\n<b><i>One very special person changed my life by empowering me thus allowing me to do the same for others. </i></b>\n\n<b><i>So through this annual celebration WE share his gift. THIS is the purpose of TMC!</i></b>\n\nWANT TO BOOK NOW?\n\nIf you do it’s ONLY £100 no matter how many days TMC17 is or what the price increase is next year. So book NOW guarantee your place and guarantee your price!\n\n<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/events/tmc16/\">BOOK HERE !!</a>','YOU seriously missed out...','','draft','closed','closed','','you-seriously-missed-out','','','2024-07-16 11:26:36','2024-07-16 11:26:36','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1325',0,'post','',0),(1326,0,'2016-10-10 18:56:34','2016-10-10 18:56:34','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-10-10-at-19-55-53','','','2016-10-10 18:56:34','2016-10-10 18:56:34','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-19.55.53-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1333,3,'2016-10-14 06:07:00','2016-10-14 06:07:00','<ul>\n 	<li>Do you have clients who just can\'t move very well?</li>\n 	<li>Do they stretch regularly but still don\'t improve their posture or movement?</li>\n 	<li>Do you wish you had something new in your tool box?</li>\n 	<li>Do you wish you knew more about how to help clients with movement \'issues\'?</li>\n</ul>\nWhat if I suggested to you that not all muscles only need to be stretched and that more often than not muscles may require a low level contraction to improve function? If you have never heard of subclinical muscle spasm or Post Contraction Sensory Discharge please do read on....\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26985\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/shutterstock_1054776068-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"296\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><b>Question</b>: What is muscle spasm?<i> …’A muscle that cannot relax’ , </i>Dvorak</span></h2>\nRibot-Ciscar et al has established that a muscle relaxes maximally after it has been contracted sub-maximally and for a prolonged period. He refers to it as <i>Post Contraction Sensory Discharge. </i>\n\nThe anti-spasm, or 20/20 muscle energy technique (M.E.T) as we refer to it (20% effort muscle contraction held for 20 seconds), is described below by E. Ribot-Ciscar, M. F. Tardy-Gervet, J. P. Vedel and J. P. Roll.\n<blockquote><i>Summary</i><i> “The activities of human muscle spindle primary endings were recorded in the lateral peroneal nerve using the microneurographic method. The aim of the study was to test whether voluntary isometric contraction causes any after-effects, first in the resting discharge of muscle spindle primary endings and secondly in their responses to a slow ramp stretch. To investigate the latter point, the initial angular position of the ankle was passively adjusted until the unit fell silent, in order to introduce a delay in the responses to muscle stretch”....they found that “Isometric voluntary contraction led to changes in muscle spindle stretch sensitivity which resulted in a reduction in the stretch threshold and a decrease in the muscle spindle dynamic sensitivity. These data suggest that the after-effects observed may have been triggered by static fusimotor neurones. The results are discussed with reference to the theory according to which the processing by the CNS of muscular proprioceptive messages deals mainly with signals arising from muscles stretched during movement, and it is concluded that the coactivation of alpha and gamma motoneurones during the contraction facilitates the coding of the parameters of forthcoming stretching movements, by the muscle spindles”. </i></blockquote>\n&nbsp;\n\nSo in other words the M.E.T exercises like the 4 Sign or Leg Press, allow the muscle to stretch easier after the ‘contraction’, and consequently <b>improves the overall function</b> of the muscle.\n\nNo single method will help all ‘types’ of muscle spasm of course, this is one of many ways that can help. What this technique is great for is a great way to provide your clients with a method that they can help themselves so they’re don’t become reliant on their therapist or trainer. It’s something to empower them to have control over their own movement limitations between sessions with their practitioner.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<hr />\n\n<blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><img class=\"wp-image-25128 alignleft\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/shutterstock_1520541617-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"231\" /></strong></span></h2>\n<h2>Muscle in subclinical spasm</h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What it is?</strong></span>: A muscle in spasm is one that cannot relax in other words it is in a state of constant contraction (tension).</span></h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why?</span>: Usually because it’s trying to protect something (a joint or nerve perhaps) or its being loaded from another biomechanical problem remote from that muscle.</span></h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Management?:</span> Helped by M.E.T\'s and maybe massage techniques.</span></h2>\n</blockquote>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<hr />\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>Muscle that is \'tight\'</h2>\n<blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>What it is?</b></span>: A short/inflexible muscle (tight) is one that is not in spasm, it is merely shorter in length than it was</span></h2>\n<img class=\"wp-image-23770 alignright\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/shutterstock_1176407491-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"230\" />\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> intended (or needs) to be.</span></h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Why?</b></span>: Often adaptive shortening caused by adapting to inactivity, lack of use through full range, poor posture or poor technique.</span></h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Management?</b></span>: Helped by stretching techniques, some massage techniques may also help.</span></h2>\n</blockquote>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<hr />\n\n<blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><b><img class=\"wp-image-23141 alignleft\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/shutterstock_383061178-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"271\" /></b></span></h2>\n<h2></h2>\n<h2><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Tardeau and Tarbury in the late 90’s found that up to 40% of a muscle can change its composition if its been in spasm for more than 6 weeks to become more tendon-like (none contractile) to avoid the muscle having to exert energy to contract the muscle to protect (a joint for example). </span></em></h2>\n<h2><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">If the muscle is fibrotic, it requires less effort and therefore is less susceptible to fatigue, it is a body’s way of compensating and being ‘efficient’; not always productive or effective though as its painful of course.</span></em></h2>\n<h2></h2>\n</blockquote>\n&nbsp;\n\n<hr />\n\n<h2></h2>\n<h2>Finally..</h2>\nRibot-Ciscar et al refers to a muscle relaxing optimally after a prolonged sub maximal contractions. Jiri Dvorak (Neuroscientist &amp; FIFA Chief Medical Officer) refers to <i>Post Contraction Sensory Discharge</i>. Ribot-Ciscar looked at human muscle spindle primary endings to test whether voluntary isometric contraction causes any after-effects, first in the resting discharge of muscle spindle primary endings and secondly in their responses to a slow ramp stretch. This physiology has not been shown to be present in a ‘tight’ muscle.\n<h2>Would you like to learn more about techniques like this?</h2>\n<h1><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach-diploma-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE</a></h1>','Post-contraction Sensory Discharge','','draft','closed','closed','','1333-2','','','2024-07-16 11:26:36','2024-07-16 11:26:36','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1333',0,'post','',0),(1334,0,'2016-10-14 05:49:36','2016-10-14 05:49:36','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','woman-on-beach','','','2016-10-14 05:49:36','2016-10-14 05:49:36','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/woman-on-beach-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1337,3,'2016-10-17 05:44:44','2016-10-17 05:44:44','You want to move more freely, right?\n\nYour clients want to move more freely too, don\'t they?\n\nIn fact, do you know anyone who doesn\'t want to move more freely?\n\nIn many cases, moving more freely also = less pain\n\nIt really isn\'t that complicated to be honest but we do need to consider WHY we/our clients seem to be suffering so much with our movement. Even as fitness/exercise professionals WE often find the hectic lives we lead reduce the time we spend on ourselves and even WE need to regain responsibility for our own physical health to set an example to our clients.\n\nConsidering the average healthy adult (that includes YOU) spends a high proportion of their time (certainly compared to 50 years ago) either sitting at a desk, driving, travelling or hunched over phones for example, it’s no surprise we are suffering these low grade non specific aches and niggles, is it!? Our hips are forgetting they are capable of more than 90 degrees of flexion and our thoracic spine rarely seems to find extension these days.\n\nSo by setting an example to our clients and taking ownership, making a few small changes to OUR own lifestyles (and maybe some bigger ones for some of us too) we can reduce OUR risk of injury, while teaching our clients AND feel the benefits of the freedom of movement with these 6 really simple tips:\n\n<strong>1). See a skilled professional who can assess your intrinsic function BEFORE you have a problem</strong>\n\nNot to be confused with seeing a medical professional who\'s job is to assess medical conditions, find someone who understands intrinsic function like a Biomechanics Coach™, a Movement Specialist or Instructor who specialise in teaching you how to improve your movement .\n\n<strong>2). Do What They Say</strong>\n\nSimple = Own it!\n\nThe information they give you is what you are paying for, TRUST them!\n\nYOU’RE in the state YOU’RE in because of YOUR lifestyle.\n\n<strong>3). Get A Good Sports ‘Style’ Massage Regularly</strong>\n\nFind a good massage therapist and have a massage regularly - the good ones are the ones with a great reputation, they are NOT the cheapest!! You get what you pay for.\n\n<strong>4). Stop Carrying Your Bag On The Same Side</strong>\n\nWe would never consider going to the gym and only training one side of the body and yet every day we carry our heavy sports bags, shopping bags, laptop bags on the same side!\n\nGo shopping and get a trolley bag or a rucksack!\n\n<strong>5). Burn All Your \'Fashion\' Footwear!</strong>\n\nOk a tough one (specially for the ladies who like to party maybe) but I guess the question is this \"how much fun you gonna have sitting at home crippled with back pain looking ago those pretty high heels in the bottom of your wardrobe?\"\n\nAlso not all shoes are good for ALL feet.\n\nGet your feet assessed properly for advice on the best footwear for your foot function. If you have a loose MidTarsal Joint you probably shouldn\'t wear, lets call them \'finger\' shoes (you know the ones I mean), ballet pumps or converse.\n\n<strong>6). Move More!</strong>\n\nKind of an obvious one but one we still forget once sucked onto the TV or computer screen. Rather than set up all of your things within reach of your desk, move everything away from you so you are reaching and moving more. Offer to make drinks for everyone - all the time!\n\nInvest in a raised laptop stand onto of your desk so you can stand (this made a huge difference for me) so your hip muscles of permanently active. Or simply put your keyboard on a stack of books sometimes.\n\nFor more information on what a Biomechanics Coach™ prescribes <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/imovefreely/\">READ HERE</a>\n\nWe NEED YOU !\n\nDemand is increasing rapidly for this skill set so we need more Biomechanics Coaches™ around the UK!\n\nIs it you?\n\nDo you have what it takes?\n\nAre you prepared to take your profession to another level?\n\nDo you want to become part of a strong inter-professional team?\n\nBecome a Biomechanics Coaches™ <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\">REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE </a>','6 Tips GUARANTEED To Improve Your Intrinsic Biomechanics!','','draft','closed','closed','','6-tips-guaranteed-to-improve-your-intrinsic-biomechanics','','','2024-07-16 11:26:36','2024-07-16 11:26:36','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1337',0,'post','',0),(1338,0,'2016-10-17 05:40:41','2016-10-17 05:40:41','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','biomechanics-coach-cmyk-300dpi','','','2016-10-17 05:40:41','2016-10-17 05:40:41','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Biomechanics-Coach-CMYK-300dpi-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1339,0,'2016-10-17 05:44:11','2016-10-17 05:44:11','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','img_3647','','','2016-10-17 05:44:11','2016-10-17 05:44:11','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IMG_3647-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1342,3,'2016-10-19 07:44:34','2016-10-19 07:44:34','A ToroPro!\n\nLearn how on this kinesiology taping course with one of The Movement Convention\'s resident international presenters, Mike Grice of Movement Therapy Clinics.\n\nMike was proud to represent Biomechanics Coaches™ throughout the world when he presented 3 workshops on <i>\'Biomechanics Screening for Lumbo-Pelvic Dysfunction\'</i> at the IOC World Conference for injury prevention in Monaco with Dr Marie-Elaine Grant.\n\nHe is also an exceptional Master Trainer and teacher of therapies amongst our things.\n\nExperience Mike\'s classroom first hand\n\nNovember 16th 10am-4pm\n\nBirmingham Movement Therapy Clinic\n\nHarbourne\n\nLearn how to tape the ToroPro way..\n\n<a href=\"http://www.birminghammovementtherapy.co.uk/active-skills/\">BOOK HERE</a>','Kinesio Tape Like A \'Pro\'','','draft','closed','closed','','kinesio-tape-like-a-pro','','','2024-07-16 11:26:36','2024-07-16 11:26:36','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1342',0,'post','',0),(1343,0,'2016-10-19 07:44:27','2016-10-19 07:44:27','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-10-19-at-08-44-06','','','2016-10-19 07:44:27','2016-10-19 07:44:27','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-19-at-08.44.06-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1346,3,'2016-10-21 05:41:00','2016-10-21 05:41:00','This Biomechanics Coach™ of the Month nomination is the fantastic Lorna Wilson!\n\nShe is spreading the word internationally over in Amsterdam and we speak regularly every month to discuss all things \'intrinsically biomechanical\' amongst the things.\n\nLorna\'s nomination is not only for flying the Biomechanics Coach™ flag internationally but also for staying so committed and actively up to date even from so far away. She really does an awesome job with her clients - see her case study below.\n\n<b>What made you choose Biomechanics Coaching™?</b>\n\n<i>I felt that I was missing something in my personal training and doing the Biomechanics Coaching™ qualification was suggested by another Personal Trainer.  I jumped right in!</i>\n\n<b>What do you specialise in outside of Biomechanics Coaching™?</b>\n\n<i>I am a personal trainer and mostly trained more with people who had either never trained or hadn\'t trained for a long time.  Often this would be in the own house where they felt most comfortable and also outside.  People who needed a little bit more TLC to get them started.  Also, when I started this job in Amsterdam I worked with a lot of Expats.  At that time personal training wasn\'t very common.  Now I am working more with people like myself who are into running and triathlon.</i>\n\n<b>Where would you like to see yourself in ten years from now?</b>\n\n<i>I would like to have made Biomechanics Coaching™ more known in Amsterdam especially in the endurance world.  Also, I would like to have clients coming from all round the country as they have heard how amazing I am!</i>\n\n<b>What would be your advice to somebody thinking of becoming a Biomechanics Coach™?</b>\n\n<i>It is a very powerful tool to add to what you are currently doing.  I feel so much more confident in how I can help my clients than I have ever done before.  </i>\n\n<b>On the journey to where you are now what has been your achievements?</b>\n\n<i>• Personal - Successfully moving away from corporate life and being less stressed and loving what I do</i>\n\n<i>• Sporting - Despite currently planning to run Boston Marathon completing my first marathon still remains one of my sporting highlights.</i>\n\n<i>• Career highs - Being asked to talk at a conference for women doing triathlon.  It really made me feel I had made it even though the conference never went ahead :(</i>\n\n<b>Tell us a secret or something interesting about you that not many people know about</b>\n\n<b>you: </b> <i>I\'ve lived in the Netherlands for more than 14 years and still take Dutch lessons!</i>\n\nFancy joining Lorna in raising the profile of Biomechanics Coaching™Amsterdam? or anywhere?\n\n<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/schedule/\"><b>2017 dates are LIVE and the waiting list is immense!</b><b>\n</b><b>Register your interest QUICK!</b></a>\n\nHere is one of Lorna\'s case studies;  <a href=\"http://wilsonsworkouts.nl/success-of-a-runner/\">http://wilsonsworkouts.nl/success-of-a-runner/</a>\n\n&nbsp;','Less Stress in Amsterdam!','','draft','closed','closed','','less-stress-in-amsterdam','','','2024-07-16 11:26:36','2024-07-16 11:26:36','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1346',0,'post','',0),(1347,0,'2016-10-21 05:40:53','2016-10-21 05:40:53','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-10-21-at-06-40-34','','','2016-10-21 05:40:53','2016-10-21 05:40:53','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-21-at-06.40.34-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1350,3,'2016-10-23 06:10:07','2016-10-23 06:10:07','<b>How far would YOU travel? </b>\n\n<b>How much would YOU pay?</b>\n\n<b>What lengths would YOU go to...to find answers?</b>\n\nLet me give you some examples of how much Biomechanics Coaches&#x2122; are in demand and the lengths people will go to find us.\n\nNigel McHolland was one of our first learners many years ago and has also previously been our of the Month. Based in Scotland he practices a blend of skills including Sports and Remedial Massage and he is Strength and Conditioning Coach. So is he just like many of YOU reading this now.\n\nWhat sets Nigel apart is his SYSTEM. The ability to objectively analyse, assess, screen, deduce and monitor which then allows him to understand which skills to apply, when to apply them, how to create an extremely bespoke and personalised exercise programme AND also when to refer to someone else, for each one of his clients.\n\nWe LOVE to stay in touch with people like Nigel, and as many of the people who train with us as possible, because WE are united in our common goal of <i>improving human movement </i>and helping the nation be <i>free to move </i>(and because they are really cool, nice people!)\n\nAnyway Nigel emailed me the other day to share an experience with me and with his permission I want to share it with you because THIS is the REALLY AWESOME sort of thing WE get to experience as Biomechanics Coaches&#x2122;...\n\n<i>Hi Rach,</i>\n\n<i>Below is a testimonial from my Swiss client that visited me for a week recently. Some amazing results!!</i>\n\n<i>Nigel...</i>\n\n<i>Testimonial</i>\n\n<i>“I’m not a prolific reviewer, but I feel compelled to break cover. While on my way to Gullane to see Nigel, sitting on a plane from Switzerland to Edinburgh after having booked a B&amp;B for 5 nights, I thought to myself, “What am I doing? Am I crazy”.  I lead a relatively active life and had become frustrated with little niggles, discomfort and dissatisfaction pursuing the conventional route of doctors, physios, chiros, osteopaths, self-proclaimed wonder programs. Having discovered the world of podcasts, I heard Nigel being interviewed by Christopher Kelly </i><a href=\"http://t.co/pIOtlSUrOh\"><i>http://t.co/pIOtlSUrOh</i></a><i> and it so happens that my one leg was also functionally shorter. I was very interested, but the system he described had not reached Switzerland yet, so after an initial phone call I booked my ticket and accommodation allowing for 3 rapid fire sessions. The system is very simple, but voodoo-like amazing. The mystery quickly clears with Nigel’s anatomical explanations, but the result does not. He is also very open and accommodating to my uneducated diagnosis and clearly has a wealth of knowledge and experience. On the plane back to Switzerland, I felt equipped to manage and even regress my anatomical imbalances and to date my progress is very much upward. In hind sight I would have done this as a first resort, but then again I probably would not have appreciated the simple, yet powerful system. Ps. I didn’t bring my family along, but this trip has opened my eyes as a holiday destination and if you’re into Golf, Gullane has a pilgrimage feel to it.”      </i>\n\nSo if you are thinking about sampling our courses email me rachel@biomechanicseducation.com\n\n&nbsp;','\"AM I CRAZY?\"','','draft','closed','closed','','am-i-crazy','','','2024-07-16 11:26:36','2024-07-16 11:26:36','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1350',0,'post','',0),(1351,0,'2016-10-23 06:09:58','2016-10-23 06:09:58','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2015-11-21-at-20-08-59','','','2016-10-23 06:09:58','2016-10-23 06:09:58','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2015-11-21-at-20.08.59-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1353,3,'2016-10-26 07:01:29','2016-10-26 07:01:29','Do YOU wish you knew an easy way to recall muscle attachments?\n\nDo YOU wish there was a CPD that could help you understand the anatomy better from the INSIDE?\n\nWould you like to study human movement and how to improve it with your clients?\n\nAre you INSTINCTIVELY prescribing certain exercises BUT unsure if they are actually right for THAT client?\n\nWell we are confident we can help you with our CPD\'s but we asked Mark Blower, one of our previous learners this question...\n\n<b>What would your advice be to anyone thinking of joining our academy or even becoming a Biomechanics Coach™?</b>\n\n<i>\"Simple.. just do it! </i>\n\n<i>My experience is that it’s a real “through the looking glass” moment once you start with Biomechanics Education, and often it will challenge you and possibly some of your long held beliefs, but you will come out of it the other end on a completely different level as a fitness professional. So do it, keep your mind open and your notepad and pencil handy!\"</i>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\">LIKE THIS?</a>','Are YOU a PT who wishes they could remember their A&P?','','draft','closed','closed','','are-you-a-pt-who-wishes-they-could-remember-their-ap','','','2024-07-16 11:26:36','2024-07-16 11:26:36','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1353',0,'post','',0),(1354,0,'2016-10-26 07:01:20','2016-10-26 07:01:20','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-10-26-at-08-01-02','','','2016-10-26 07:01:20','2016-10-26 07:01:20','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-26-at-08.01.02-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1357,0,'2016-10-28 08:45:26','2016-10-28 08:45:26','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-10-28-at-09-45-03','','','2016-10-28 08:45:26','2016-10-28 08:45:26','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-09.45.03-2.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1358,3,'2016-10-28 11:31:22','2016-10-28 11:31:22','Walking down the street, training at the gym, watching girls teeter in high heels on a night out or walking knock kneed and their Uggs, watching the way people sit at events, at work or in the waiting room at the doctors is something I find quite fascinating.\n\nNOOOO I’m not a voyeuristic person (HONEST I never watch reality TV - well not regularly anyway!!) but I am a geek when it comes to watching human movement and analysing physical variations in our body types and the way we move because of those variations.\n\nWhy does THAT happen? Why do THEY walk THAT way?\n\nBeing on holiday the examples of our differences are more obvious with less clothing and what I noticed while on holiday this year was that we really should..\n\n<i>..Embrace OUR Genetics!</i>\n\nHaving spent 2 weeks half naked, with half naked people, lying around a pool watching each other walk to the bar or apply cream, step into a pool, swim, pick up kids, eat ice cream etc etc...\n\nIt really does emphasise human movement variations and of course the variations of aesthetics.\n\nIt is truly fascinating to see the many different body types from large to small, tall to short etc. It made me think about the ‘ideal’ body concept and in fact how dull and boring it would be if we all looked and moved the same way or if we ALL had those \'magazine cover\' bodies, the same hair styles, the same limb lengths, waist circumferences etc!\n\nBUT\n\n..in MY opinion using aesthetics as THE goal is possibly not the best way to plan exercising programmes even if that is ultimately the end goal. Creating a goal that is health and/or fitness related will of course still result in improved aesthetics based on YOUR body type, YOUR frame and YOUR genetics. Having this shift in the training programme goal offers more opportunity for positive achievement/s AND a more positive shift towards a realistic body image.\n\n(Here I am talking about the average client as oppose to competitive body builders of course, since body building is an aesthetically judged competition rather than health and fitness being the goal)\n\nThere is of course the beautiful aspect of our differing bodies types. From the cute PSIS dimples above large OR small and maybe wide OR narrow round buttocks. These dimples can appear wide or narrow or some people don\'t see to have any! There are various textures of tanned skin, even different ‘shades’ of white skin and some have scars or birth marks that no on else in the world has!\n\nThere is a huge variety of long OR short soleus calf muscles above feet that turn out OR turn in OR <i>flick</i> a certain way during their bare foot walk across the tiles. Some spines rotate and some stay rigid during movement. LONG shins, short shins, slim arms, muscly arms, <i>baggy</i> triceps and bulging ones.\n\nSeriously imagine if we ALL actually looked the same!!! BOOOOOOORRRRIIING!!!\n\nTHEN as PT’s, Fitness instructors, exercise professionals and even therapists we get frustrated that we struggle to understand why people move the way they do.\n\nBUT WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT!\n\nSo of course this will be a challenge for anyone trying to apply a system to human movement…\n\nNO ONE SYSTEM WORKS FOR EVERYONE!\n\nSo we should receive education that embraces the differences between us all rather than EXPECTS us ALL to move the same way. We should maintain an open mind to what our clients are capable of when using their bodies. A realistic aim or goal should always be individual to that person in relation to their history, genetics, lifestyle, diet, biomechanics and movement ability or capacity.\n\nYOU do KNOW the MORE you know the LESS you know, right?\n\nSo we should also demonstrate duty of care to our clients by continuing to attend up to date CPD’s, further training and we should also read more and do our OWN research to develop our OWN methods of application for the best care of OUR clients.\n\nWELL did you know you already learnt one of the simplest and applicable methods to analyse human movement (without any fancy equipment) as an exercise professional?\n\nYUP\n\nGroup Action of Muscles is what we call our <i>movement analysis</i> study section in the Spine Biomechanics 2 day CPD workshop, that is part of our Biomechanics Coach™ workshop series. This is where we take our learners back to their A&amp;P training, which often gets forgotten due to only ever using lay language with our clients! So we lose the skill of recalling the analysis of abduction, rotation, flexion etc as part of movements during our exercise prescription. PLUS this is disguised by lots of soft tissue (muscle, fat, fascia, nerves, skin etc) covering the skeletal system which is the part of the anatomy we use to understand those joint actions.\n\nThis L3 A&amp;P knowledge is the minimum <b>pre requisite</b> for accessing our academy at the appropriate level to understand the screening system we teach. BUT it is very rare that a learner has really come in and easily nailed this session. Yet it is what we are taught right at the beginning of our training!\n\nHere are the reasons professionals give for attending our CPD workshops:\n\n<i>I want to understand the body and movement better </i>\n\n<i>I want to learn more about the anatomy </i>\n\n<i>I want to understand how we move on the inside</i>\n\n<i>I want to understand why people move badly</i>\n\n<i>I want to understand how to help people move better</i>\n\n<i>I want to understand why they ache hurt get injured</i>\n\nIf we remembered out level 3 A&amp;P we would already have many of these skills and be more confident. We also hear…\n\n<i>“but I never use this language with my client!?”</i>\n\n<i>agonist </i>\n\n<i>antagonist </i>\n\n<i>synergists</i>\n\n<i>dynamic stabilisers </i>\n\n<i>fixators</i>\n\n<i>abduction</i>\n\n<i>adduction </i>\n\n<i>rotation </i>\n\n<i>flexion </i>\n\n<i>extension </i>\n\n..of course, me neither !! BUT if we talk to <i>each other</i> this way then at least we can enhance our recall AND memory of it.\n\nSadly the fitness industry in particular causes many of us to feel we can\'t admit to how bad our A&amp;P memory really is. If we are really honest it’s really poor isn’t it and therefore not surprising many exercise professionals lose confidence in what they are looking at when watching clients move!\n\nWe are expected to achieve so much when it comes to improving movement when we cannot even work out the WHY from WHAT we see.\n\nClients are suffering more and more due to lifestyles and our job of choosing the best exercise programme is getting even harder as everyone has SOMETHING going on, eh!\n\nPreviously we didn\'t feel we had REASON TO REMEMBER our A&amp;P.\n\nIn our academy we GIVE YOU REASONS to remember your anatomy which gives you increased confidence when watching your clients move.\n\nSo while embracing our differences, lets start getting serious about understanding human movement and improving confidence in movement and of course function.\n\nRemember NO ONE IS PERFECT …that would be SO dull!\n\nThe Spine Biomechanics workshop includes WAAAAAY more than just movement analysis by the way!!\n\n<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/workshop/spinal-biomechanics-3/\">REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE</a>','Embrace YOUR Genetics! -  I Confess - I’m A Geek!!','','draft','closed','closed','','embrace-your-genetics-i-confess-im-a-geek','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1358',0,'post','',0),(1359,0,'2016-10-28 11:31:13','2016-10-28 11:31:13','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-10-28-at-09-45-03-2','','','2016-10-28 11:31:13','2016-10-28 11:31:13','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-09.45.03-1-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1361,3,'2016-10-31 14:56:29','2016-10-31 14:56:29','Laura Walker has been nominated as Biomechanics Coach™ of the Month!\n\nWe do notice what ALL of our Biomechanics Coaches™ do that are actively promoting healthy lifestyles and ways to improve movement. We wanted to share Laura’s story with you as she is making a real difference with her wonderfully positive and motivational attitude.\n\nThank you Laura, for doing your part in getting the UK moving more freely up north in wonderful Aberdeen!\n\nLaura says…\n\n<i>In June 2015 I was delighted, and relieved, to qualify as a Biomechanics Coach™. Hooray!! </i>\n\n<i>When I was in school, I enjoyed the friendships much more than the school work, so I knew (as did my dad, to his frustration) I ‘could do better\', but I just wasn\'t interested, I was more interested in other things. </i>\n\n<i>Biomechanics Education came to my attention because it was presenting different fitness information. I\'m fascinated with how the body works and how everything is linked. Biomechanics Education gave me this important missing piece of the jigsaw. Despite my best attempts in school to do very little I have actually spent a lifetime learning and Biomechanics Education filled the gaping gaps that had been left by all of my specialist training. </i>\n\n<i>Now I am using Biomechanics Coaching™ &amp; iMoveFreely® with the older adult to improve fitness, strength &amp; balance and their quality of life. Over the last 20 years I have qualified in many fitness disciplines. As a specialist instructor with the older adult (my oldest client is 92) my oldest client in my aerobics class is 84!</i>\n\n<b><i>Where will I be in 10 yeasts time?</i></b>\n\n<i>Well to start with, I will be 63 by then so I\'m hoping I will be retired. But, with a little hard work, maybe not completely. My daughter has joined me in the business this year, which I am delighted about. We are currently working with business mentors to change how we work.</i>\n\n<b><i>To anyone THINKING of becoming a Biomechanics Coach™, THINK no more!!</i></b><i> Take action and invest the time, energy and money. The investment you make in your education, your confidence and your business is more than worth it.</i>\n\n<b><i>My Personal Achievements:</i></b>\n\n<i>Has to be my family. My husband took me to the Queens garden party at Hollyrood Palace this summer. </i>\n\n<i>I have watched my son play rugby for Scotland three years running. </i>\n\n<i>And, my two eldest girls took me to St James\'s Palace last week to collect their Duke of Edinburgh gold award,(and spoke to the duke himself.) </i>\n\n<i>Behind every great man....(or family!)</i>\n\n<b><i>My sporting achievements:</i></b>\n\n<i>These are a few: I played badminton for my university, (when I was there, </i><b><i>many</i></b><i> years ago). I Spent 10 years playing this great game. But I started with fitness in the 70\'s when it was known as Keep Fit and I was a large 10 year old girl. I loved the music, enjoyed being active as it was something I could do, and the fun we had as a group. Nothing much has changed then!!! </i>\n\n<b><i>My Career achievements: </i></b>\n\n<i>Last year I won my very first business award. It has been the highlight of my business career. I deliver fitness to what is termed \'Specialist Populations\' and so work with charities who support people back to work following long term illness or injury, adults with special needs, people who suffer stroke, MS, diabetes and more. </i>\n\n<i>The work I am most proud of is when I worked with NHS Grampian Diabetes department. At the time, the D&amp;O qualification did not exist. I wrote a training programme, delivered it to local instructors and organised a GP referral program throughout NHS Grampian for people with diabetes to receive an exercise and education session, delivering lifestyle and diabetes management and nutritional information. </i>\n\n<i>It\'s still in place today, 10 years later. </i>\n\n<b><i>Something nobody knows about me?</i></b><i> </i>\n\n<i>Some people know I speak Welsh, but few people know it was my first language. I grew up speaking Welsh, and all my education was through the medium of Welsh. I was fortunate to attend the only bi-lingual comprehensive school in Wales, at the time. </i>\n\nFinally Laura says..\n\n<i>Having had several success stories this one is the most poignant…</i>\n\n<i>This year I presented an exercise lecture at the Arthritis UK conference in Manchester. </i>\n\n<i>Those in attendance present with arthritis amongst other health conditions and pain is the one thing that\'s constant. We know as Biomechanics Coaches™ how the anti spasms have the potential help. I was fortunate enough to follow an arthritis consultant lecture. He had just used the same words and phrases Biomechanics Coaches™ use, which helped me to engage my audience with the exercise I was recommending. </i>\n\n<i>His lecture informed the audience:  if you live with pain for 6 weeks or more you\'ll change your movement pattern. This change will cause strain, and disfunction of muscles. </i>\n\n<i>In my session I then reiterated this information and added: if you perform these anti spasms, muscle function is likely to improve and the strengthening exercise will support this, thus contributing to relieving the discomfort of arthritis. </i>\n\n<i>I had a great response from the group after the session. People came up to me after class and generally commented how great they felt. However, two ladies waited till the other delegates had left to came to speak with me. They both said:  \'I  can honestly say that was superb. I\'ve not felt like this for years. I\'m amazed how well I can move\'. </i>\n\n<i>That for me was was job satisfaction. I was so pleased to be able to help those suffering long term pain to feel great. Job done!</i>\n\n<i>Thanks</i>\n\n<i>Laura</i>\n\n<i>&#x1f60a;</i>\n\n<b>Want to learn what Laura\'s missing link was?</b><b>\n</b><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\">READ MORE HERE </a>\n\n&nbsp;','Have You Found Your Missing Link?','','draft','closed','closed','','have-you-found-your-missing-link','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1361',0,'post','',0),(1362,0,'2016-10-31 14:55:34','2016-10-31 14:55:34','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','img_0353','','','2016-10-31 14:55:34','2016-10-31 14:55:34','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IMG_0353-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1365,3,'2016-11-04 07:26:48','2016-11-04 07:26:48','<b>The Integrated System</b> has been not only discussed but also sung about since I was little. For example I knew the <i>thigh bone connected to the hip bone and hip bone connected to the back bone</i>… (you know the song)\n\nBut I didn’t appreciate it like I have since becoming a <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\">Specialist Biomechanics Coach™</a> and this is the one of the biggest differences between <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\">Biomechanics Coaches™</a> and other professionals. So while other professionals TALK about the body being an <b>Integrated System</b>, here I would like to explain exactly what that means to those in the <i>intrinsic biomechanics</i> world and why I believe others talk about it but don’t actually practice it, and why.\n\nGenerally we only seek help when we have a problem otherwise, <i>why would we pay for advice?</i> is the general attitude right. We service and MOT our cars regularly (by law in fact) and yet we can buy a new car!\n\nWhat about our precious bodies?\n\nWell when we have an injury or some pain we automatically go to the locally recommended therapist, osteopath, chiropractor, physio, sports therapist or even your GP to find out what the injury or pain is, since they are <i>clinically </i>trained and understand how to ‘treat’ the <i>site of pain</i> or injury. Commonly they will then advise you what to do, maybe give you some kind of manual therapy treatment to improve the symptoms at the site of the problem to reduce the effects of the injury and generally try to make you more comfortable.\n\nSo if you are injured from a <i>trauma</i> then it is advisable to seek these professionals services for it because when there is a pathology, this is probably the most sensible way to go.\n\nYet there are many more cases of ‘low grade’ aches, pains and niggles that are <i>insidious</i> and do not fit into this category. The low grade insidious aches and pains we experience from our daily lifestyles are NOT really ‘injuries’ as they don’t always fit into this category of pathological or clinical changes. However this leaves many professionals with a <i>subjective </i>view of where injury has come from; one cause could be from sitting at a desk all day, for example. Yet there are those who sit at a desk without problems, so if it were simply the act of sitting at a desk, would we not all experience exactly the same low grade aches and pains while sitting at our desks?\n\nSo while I agree that the act of sitting at a desk can contribute, ultimately it is the individuals <i>intrinsic biomechanics </i>(part of which is the neuro-musculoskeletal system) that compensates for being static for too long when we are designed to move, maybe like hunter gatherers.  This can then cause the body to ‘grumble’ at the fact we have just been sitting and not using those hip muscles for 8 hrs giving us muscle spasm which tethers nerves and stiffens joints or any variation of those dysfunctions. These issues may initiate without pain but over time become more uncomfortable.\n\n<b>What happens if you gain mechanical compensations like this? </b>\n\nWell, this can happen in any order, but the muscle spasm might pull on a joint abnormally causing the loading to change in a subtle way that over time irritates the tissues and eventually, over time, causing areas to ache a little. If left unaddressed these low grade aches can become much more painful and eventually can result in a what is often thought of as a secondary injury.\n\n<b>How do we categorise injuries?</b>\n\nWell, there are a few ways, but as <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\">Biomechanics Coaches™</a>, we like the work of Sahramann when she breaks them down into 2 sections.  One is the <b>PathoKinesiology Model.</b>  This is where the injury (or pathology) causes abnormal movement and this is then picked up on a movement screen as a protective movement pattern.  The other category is the <b>KinesioPathology </b>Model where the movement causes abnormal loading on structures and it is this that causes the pathology (injury).  In these cases any abnormal movements are really compensatory movements, rather than protective movement patterns.\n\nSo, when a movement coach screens a client to look at any abnormal movements, they can not be sure of whether they are looking at a protective or compensatory movement pattern and of course its essential to understand which it is.  If it’s a pathology causing the abnormal movement, then the pathology needs to be dealt with first, but if it’s the movement causing the pathology, it’s the movement that needs to be dealt with first.  Unfortunately from a movement screen, you don’t know which is which.\n\nWith an <b><i>intrinsic </i></b><i>biomechanical</i> screen, it doesn’t matter which came first, as all we are doing is providing the <b>capacity</b> for whatever ‘normal movement’ is for that client.  We are not directly trying to ‘artificially’ change the movement, we are merely providing the building blocks for whatever pattern suits that individual.  This approach truly understands The Integrated System and compliments all other movement specialists work, as we are helping the client to be able to perform the movement patterns as directed by them.  This enables them to provide their movement correction exercises with on more stable biomechanical platform.\n\nSo, do other professionals understand <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\">The Integrated System</a>?\n\nYes of course they do, but the <b><i>intrinsic </i></b><i>biomechanics</i> approach is unique and is very complimentary to other approaches.\n\nBut what do you think?','They SAY It But Do They \'Practice\' It?','','draft','closed','closed','','they-say-it-but-do-they-practice-it','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1365',0,'post','',0),(1366,0,'2016-11-04 07:26:41','2016-11-04 07:26:41','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','humerus','','','2016-11-04 07:26:41','2016-11-04 07:26:41','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/humerus-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1378,3,'2016-11-08 07:11:30','2016-11-08 07:11:30','<h1>WOW What a year!</h1>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">YOU are super lucky because we are CELEBRATING the success of our..</span>\n\n<strong><em>Life Changing Education that Moves You!</em></strong>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">To say thank you to those of you who continually support us we have not 1 but 2 AMAZING offers for YOU to choose from;</span>\n\n<em><u>November offer</u></em> - Buy <strong>Pelvis &amp; 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Often, plantar fasciitis discomfort may nearly disappear for several weeks, only to re-emerge full-blown after a single workout. About 10 per cent of individuals who see a doctor for plantar fasciitis have the problem for more than a year.\n\nThe plantar fascia is actually a thick, fibrous band of connective tissue which originates at the heel bone and runs along the bottom of the foot in a fan-like manner, attaching to the base of each of the toes. A rather tough, resilient structure, the plantar fascia takes on a number of critical functions during running and walking. It stabilises the metatarsal joints (the joints associated with the long bones of the foot) during impact with the ground, acts as a shock absorber for the entire leg, and helps to lift the longtitudinal arch of the foot to prepare it for the \'take-off\' phase of the gait cycle.\n\nAlthough the fascia is invested with countless sturdy \'cables\' of connective tissue called collagen fibres, it is certainly not immune to injury. In fact, about 5 to 10 per cent of all running injuries are inflammations of the fascia, an incidence rate which in the United States would produce about a million cases of plantar fasciitis per year, just among runners and joggers. Basketball players, tennis players, volleyballers, step-aerobics participants, and dancers are also prone to plantar problems, as are non-athletic people who spend a lot of time on their feet or suddenly become active after a long period of lethargy. A recent study found that over 50 per cent of people who suffer from plantar fasciitis are on their feet nearly all day, and many cases of plantar fasciitis seem to occur in \'sofa spuds\' shortly after they\'ve made their first trip around their garden with a lawn mower in the spring.<b> </b>The injury is usually near to where the plantar fascia attaches to the heel bone.\n\n<b>Who gets plantar fasciitis?</b>\n\nPlantar fasciitis is quite common. It mainly affects people over 40 and seems to be more common in women. However, it can occur at any age. It is also common in athletes. Situations where it is more likely include the following:\n\n•If you do lots of walking, running, standing, etc, when you are not used to it. Conversely, people with a sedentary lifestyle are also more prone to plantar fasciitis.\n\n•If you have recently started exercising on a different surface. For example, running on the road instead of a track.\n\n•Wearing shoes with poor cushioning or poor arch support.\n\n•Sudden gains in weight or being overweight will put extra strain on the heel.\n\n•Overuse or sudden stretching of the sole. For example: athletes who increase their running intensity or distance; poor technique starting \'off the blocks\', etc.\n\n•Tightness of the Achilles tendon (at the bottom of the calf muscles above the heel) causing reduced ability to flex the ankle.\n\nOften there is no apparent cause, particularly in older people. A common wrong belief is that the pain is due to a bony growth or \'spur\' coming from the heel bone (calcaneum). Many people have a bony spur of the heel bone but not everyone with this gets plantar fasciitis.\n\n<b>What is the Cause?</b>\n\nThe most common cause of plantar fasciitis is very tight calf muscles which leads to prolonged and / or high velocity pronation of the foot. This in turn produces repetitive over stretching of the plantar fascia leading to inflammation and thickening of the tendon. As the fascia thickens it loses flexibility and strength. So repetitive small injuries to the fascia with or without inflammation or by biomechanical faults that cause abnormal pronation are likely to contribute.\n\nSome practitioners think you will see pronation by dropping and rolling in of the arch. This is not always the case. Sometimes it can only be seen with foot scans, especially if the patient has a high arched foot.\n\nOther causes include high arch or low arch feet (pes cavus / planus) and other biomechanical abnormalities including over-supination which should be assessed by a podiatrist / physiotherapist / biomechanist.\n\n<b>The \'red zone of tautness’</b>\n\nWhy does the fascia flare up? Although it is a fairly rugged structure, the plantar fascia is not very receptive to stretching, and yet stretching occurs in the fascia nearly every time the foot hits the ground. Studies indicate that the fascia can unkink itself to no more than 102 per cent of its normal length without suffering at least some tearing, but the force equal to almost three times body weight which passes through the foot with each step forces the fascia to come close to this \'red zone of tautness\' 90 times per foot per minute during the act of running (\'Anatomy and Biomechanics of the Hindfoot,\' Clinical Orthopaedics, vol. 177, pp. 9-15, 1983). So, it\'s not surprising that plantar fasciitis occurs fairly frequently, nor is it a surprise that the damage - and pain - often tend to occur near the heel, where stress on the connective tissue fibres is greatest, and where the fascia itself is the thinnest (it tends to broaden out as it reaches toward the toes).\n\nWhy are some people troubled by plantar fasciitis, while others remain relatively plantar fasciitis free? Research suggests that plantar fasciitis is often associated with a change in activity (like a sudden increase in the volume or intensity of training or a simple expansion of the total time you spend on your feet). Using worn-out shoes, especially while running on pavement or hard ground, also seems to increase the risk Individuals with flat feet are said to be at higher risk for plantar fasciitis, and - somewhat paradoxically - so are people with high arches. A sudden increase in hill training may also spark a bout of plantar fasciitis, and pregnancy and plantar fasciitis go together like hand and glove.\n\nGaining weight or being obese is also a strong risk factor for plantar fasciitis. A recent study determined that 77 per cent of its sample of 411 plantar fasciitis (heel spurs) patients were overweight. Another study found that 23 per cent of overweight women had plantar fasciitis (heel spurs) compared to 8 per cent of the normal body-weight group. The additional body mass simply places increased stress on the plantar fascia.\n\n<b>What are the Symptoms of plantar fasciitis?</b>\n\nPain is the main symptom. This can be anywhere on the underside of the heel. Commonly, one spot is found as the main source of pain. This is often about 4 cms forward from the heel, and may be tender to touch.\n\nThe pain usually eases on resting the foot, but is often worst when first used in the morning or after long periods where no weight is placed on the foot. Gentle exercise may ease things a little as the day goes by, but a long walk often makes the pain worse.\n\nSudden stretching of the sole of the foot may make the pain worse. For example, walking up stairs or on tip-toes. You may limp because of pain. Some people have plantar fasciitis in both feet at the same time.\n\n<b>What is the Treatment?</b>\n\nThe traditional remedies for plantar fasciitis are - at best - quite weak. Stretching the calf muscles is often recommended, as are massage, decreasing one\'s training, losing weight, purchasing better-fitting shoes (with a raised heel and arch support), using special insoles, relying on thick heel pads, icing the sore heel, and gulping down prescription-type doses of ibuprofen.\n\nThe trouble with most of these nostrums (e. g., stretching the calf muscles, getting a massage, cutting back on training, hitting the non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, and icing) is that they don\'t really address what\'s going on. Stretching out the calf area is often a step in the right direction (tight calf muscles put extra strain on the plantar fascia), but there are many other strengthening and stretching routines which work more effectively (we\'ll describe them later). In addition, you can refrain from training, employ ice packs, and wash down dozens of ibuprofen caps over a period of many months, but when you get back into full-fledged training again, plantar fasciitis is very likely to recur with full fury. As is the case with any injury, you have to understand why plantar fasciitis cropped up before you can really rehab yourself and make the impairment a distant memory. You also need to increase the strength and resiliency of the plantar fascia and the other muscles and connective tissues of the foot - and stabilise and strengthen the entire leg - before you can expect to stay away from plantar fasciitis in the future. The exercises outlined below do just that.\n\n<b>Exercises to recover from and prevent plantar fasciitis</b>\n\nOur plantar fasciitis routines are divided into two types - those that emphasise stretching and those that stress strengthening:\n\n<b>I. Stretching Routines</b>\n\nA. The Rotational Hamstring Stretch\nTo carry out this stretch, stand with your weight on your left foot and place your right heel on a table or bench at or near waist height. Face straight forward with your upper body and keep both legs nearly straight. As you stand with your right heel on the table and your left foot on the ground, rotate your left foot outward (to the left) approximately 45 degrees, keeping your body weight on the full surface of your left foot (both heel and toes are in contact with the ground). You are now ready to begin the stretch.\n\nLean forward with your navel and shoulders until you feel a steady tension (stretch) in the hamstring of your right leg. Don\'t increase the stretch to the point of pain or severe discomfort, but do maintain an extensive stretch in your right hamstring while simultaneously rotating your right knee in a clockwise - and then counter-clockwise - direction for 20 repetitions. As you move the right leg in the clockwise and counter-clockwise directions, stay relaxed and keep your movements slow and under control.\n\nAfter the 20 reps, remove your right leg from the table and rest for a moment.\n\nThen, lift your right leg up on to the table and repeat this clockwise and counter-clockwise stretch of the right hamstring, but this time keep the left (support) foot rotated inward (to the right) approximately 10 degrees as you carry out the appropriate movements. Perform 20 repetitions (clockwise and counter-clockwise) before resting.\n\nFinally, repeat this entire sequence of stretches, but this time have the right foot in support and the left foot on the table for the repetitions (do 20 clockwise and counter-clockwise reps with the left foot on the table and the right (support) foot turned out 45 degrees, and 20 more reps with the right foot turned in).\n\n<b>Why is this stretch valuable? </b>\n\nTight hamstring muscles (which cross both the knee and hip joints on the back of the leg) can lead to limited extension and exaggerated flexion of the knee during the running stride (they tend to pull the lower part of the leg backward). This over-flexion at the knee actually increases the amount of dorsiflexion at the ankle during the landing phase of the running stride (remember that the entire leg functions as a kinetic chain; change one thing, in this case hamstring flexibility, and that change will \'ripple\' right down the leg to the ankle joint). Increased flexion of the ankle creates an inordinate amount of stress on the Achilles tendon (the Achilles tendon\'s \'job\' during running is to control dorsiflexion of the ankle), which in turn pulls on the heel bone (calcaneus) and plantar fascia. The rotational hamstring stretch ensures that hamstring flexibility is developed in the transverse (rotatory) plane as well as the sagittal plane. The hamstrings undergo movement stresses in both of these planes during the running motion and therefore must have flexibility in both planes to avoid over stressing the plantar fasciae.\n\n<b>What other treatments are there for plantar fasciitis?</b>\n\nThere is no one specific treatment that appears stand out as the best. A combination of different treatments may help.\n\n<b>Rest the foot</b>\n\nThis should be done as much as possible. Avoid running, excess walking or standing, and undue stretching of the sole. Gentle walking and exercises described below are fine.\n\n<b>Footwear</b>\n\nDo not walk barefoot on hard surfaces. Choose shoes with cushioned heels and a good arch support. A laced sports shoe rather than open sandals is probably best. Avoid old or worn shoes that may not give a good cushion to the heel.\n\n<b>Heel pads and arch supports</b>\n\nYou can buy various pads and shoe inserts to cushion the heel and support the arch of your foot. These work best if you put them in your shoes at all times. The aim is to raise the heel by about 1 cm. If the heel is tender, cut a small hole in the heel pad at the site of the tender spot. This means that the tender part of the heel will not touch anything inside the shoe. Place the inserts/pads in both shoes, even if you only have pain in one foot. Orthoses should always be broken in slowly.\n\n<b>Painkillers</b>\n\nPainkillers such as paracetamol will often ease the pain. Sometimes anti-inflammatory medicines such as ibuprofen are useful. These are painkillers but also reduce inflammation and may work better than ordinary painkillers. Some people find that rubbing a cream or gel that contains an anti-inflammatory medicine onto the heel is helpful.\n\n<b>Injections</b>\n\nA steroid (cortisone) injection is sometimes tried if the pain remains bad despite the above measures. It may relieve the pain in some people for several weeks but does not always cure the problem. It is not always successful and may be sore to have done. Steroids work by reducing inflammation. Sometimes two or three injections are tried over a period of weeks if the first is not successful. Steroid injections do carry some risks including (rarely) rupture of the plantar fascia.\n\n<b>Splint treatment</b>\n\nSome people benefit from wearing a special splint overnight to keep the Achilles tendon and plantar fascia slightly stretched. The aim is to prevent the plantar fascia from tightening up overnight. In very difficult cases, sometimes a plaster cast or a removable walking brace is put on the lower leg. This provides rest, protection, cushioning and slight stretching of the plantar fascia and Achilles tendon.\n\n<b>Extracorporeal shock-wave therapy</b>\n\nHigh pressure sound waves directed at the plantar fascia may be used to stimulate healing if other treatments have failed. However, there are some uncertainties as to how effective this treatment is, mostly because of a lack of large, well-designed clinical trials to prove this. Also, there is a possibility of side effects from the treatment. These include damage to the bone, pain, damage to the Achilles tendon or a blood-filled swelling called a haematoma. You should discuss the treatment fully with your doctor if it is available.\n\n<b>Other treatments</b>\n\nVarious studies and trials have been carried out looking at other possible treatments for plantar fasciitis. Such treatments include injection with botulinum toxin and treatment of the plantar fascia with radiotherapy. These treatments may not be widely available.\n\n<b>Surgery</b>\n\nThis may be considered in very difficult cases. Surgery is usually only advised if the pain has not eased after 12 months despite other treatments. The operation involves separating the plantar fascia from where it connects to the bone and is called a plantar fascia release. It may also involve removal of a spur on the calcaneum if one is present. Surgery is not always successful. It can cause complications in some people so it should be considered a last resort. Complications may include infection, increased pain, injury to nearby nerves, or rupture of the plantar fascia.\n\n<b>Can plantar fasciitis be prevented?</b>\n\nThere are certain things that you can do to try to prevent plantar fasciitis, especially if you have had it before. These include:\n\n•Regularly changing trainers used for running or walking.\n\n•Wearing shoes with good cushioning in the heels and good arch support.\n\n•Losing weight if you are overweight.\n\n•Regularly stretching the plantar fascia and Achilles tendon (see exercises above), especially before exercise.\n\n•Avoid exercising on hard surfaces.\n\n*Contributed by Martin Haines, Managing Director of Brytespark, Specialist Biomechanics Coach™, Chartered Physiotherapist.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n<i>Would you like to learn how to assess foot function (pronation &amp; supination) so you can  prescribe </i><b><i>Pre Orthotic Conditioning</i></b><i> exercises for your clients?</i>\n\n<i>Do you want to learn how to communicate better with therapists, podiatrists &amp; orthotists?</i>\n\n<i>Would you like to learn how to assess for any descending root causes coming from the rest of body too?</i>\n\n<i>Do YOU have a minimum level 3 qualification?</i>\n\n<i>Then you will LOVE our Biomechanics Coach</i><i>™</i><i> Diploma!! </i>\n\n<i>Book for any course in 2017 </i><b><i>before Dec 20th 2016</i></b><i> and you will also get a fantastic Goodie Bag </i><b><i>(T shirt, Grypit water bottle, Awesome Pre-Workout, Jordan lifting gloves, Biomechanics Education bag)</i></b>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\"><i>SIMPLY REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE NOW!</i></a><i> </i>\n\n<i>Leave your contact number and one of us will give you a call !</i>','Ever Heard of Plantar Fasciitis?','','draft','closed','closed','','ever-heard-of-plantar-fasciitis','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1397',0,'post','',0),(1398,0,'2016-11-10 07:21:21','2016-11-10 07:21:21','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-11-10-at-07-10-48','','','2016-11-10 07:21:21','2016-11-10 07:21:21','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-07.10.48-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1402,3,'2016-11-12 06:38:51','2016-11-12 06:38:51','Having received a huge positive response to our recent Juicemail..\n\n<i>‘Ever Heard of Plantar Fasciitis?’</i>\n\n..it seems many of you have experienced it, or at least know someone who has. So we wanted to continue this theme with a more in depth explanation of how WE as exercise professionals and manual therapists can help AND what WE should consider if our client presents with this condition, even while another professional is treating them.\n\nThe Integrated System\n\nFirstly, there are often many ways of saying the same thing and this, in my opinion, is often what creates much of the controversy in our industry, combined with assumption.\n\nThe integrated system as we describe it, is also known as intrinsic biomechanics, bio-tensegrity, the kinetic chain and so on. Either way what is being suggested, in my understanding, is that each to these descriptions explains how all of the body’s ‘sub-systems’ (muscles, joints/bones, nerves) and they influence each other.\n\nFor example; We are taught at level 3 that the pec minor muscle attaches to the coracoid process and 3-5th ribs and that it contributes to protraction and depression of the scapular. Now IF your pec minor loses its ‘capacity’ for efficient movement due to lifestyle for example, we may find its range becomes limited, therefore ‘fixing’ the scapular forward on the rib cage into a round shouldered posture we commonly see, right?\n\nNow imagine this ‘fixed’ posture may now contribute to limited capacity for thoracic extension since the scapulae have now lost some of their movement capacity for REtraction.\n\nNext imagine if your clients thoracic spine doesn’t have the capacity to extend  due to this loss of scapula retraction, then think about how this may influence their capacity to squat.\n\nIn fact try it now…\n\nStand up, fix your shoulders in a protracted position as if dysfunctional, and then try to squat while maintaining an upright posture or imagine this a bar across your back or even to simply try brush your hair with protected scapular!\n\nCan you now feel how the shoulder/spine limitations are influencing what is possible at your pelvis?\n\nIn fact this forward scapular position may only present in one of the shoulders, thus creating a ‘twist’ at the spine. This in turn can place unnatural forces through the pelvis, which can result in a dysfunctional pelvis, meaning you could ‘functionally’ present with a leg length discrepancy or LLD.\n\nThe body will naturally try and compensate for this and part of this compensation may be internal rotation of the femur which results in a valgus/internally rotated knee in an attempt to try and shorten the leg.\n\nThese forces from above can create excessive or over pronation (or maybe late supination) on that foot which can in turn abnormally load the plantar fascia on that side. So imagine this stress on the plantar fascia combined with a common issue like tight calf muscles\n\nOne of the skills of a Biomechanics Coach™ is the ability to identify which areas of the body do not have their full capacity for function or efficiency. This as you can see from the example above, maybe areas of the body that are asymptomatic. They then apply a tried and tested system of exercise prescription to improve the movement in the areas of the body that have lost their full capacity. They can do this for the pelvis for example while their client is being treated by another professional for the foot like a podiatrist in this example. The communication between these 2 professionals is vital in delivering the best duty of care for the client.\n\nSo stay open minded when you see a Biomechanics Coach™ or if a professional doesn\'t do what you expect. Ask questions until you understand clearly WHY they are doing something like manual therapy or prescribing exercises for a different area of the body, away from the symptoms, that maybe you don\'t fully understand.\n\nAs Karel Lewitt once said..\n\n<i>“He who chases the site of pain is lost”  </i>\n\nWanna Join Us Now?\n\nWanna Learn About The Integrated System?\n\n<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\">REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE!</a>','How Can Your Shoulder Contribute To Your Plantar Fasciitis?','','draft','closed','closed','','how-can-your-shoulder-contribute-to-your-plantar-fasciitis','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1402',0,'post','',0),(1403,0,'2016-11-12 06:38:40','2016-11-12 06:38:40','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-11-12-at-06-37-45','','','2016-11-12 06:38:40','2016-11-12 06:38:40','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-12-at-06.37.45-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1405,3,'2016-11-14 06:53:57','2016-11-14 06:53:57','Ever known someone with dementia?\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">It is painful to watch and brings forth that realisation of mortality - for me it does anyway. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Watching someone close to you start to grow physically fragile is bad enough but when you know, they KNOW they are losing their mind too, THATS tough.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Once a manager, leader, actor, teacher and active social person, he lost confidence some years ago when he had a hip replacement which meant he could no longer run. This was a real blow since it was why he felt he could still get away with eating bacon butties each morning.\nWhile he tried all sorts of others things instead of running, like walking more, it just didn\'t feel the same. Cycling just didn’t work, he’s always had poor coordination and I found out he actually can\'t swim either, something I had never known growing up! </span>\n\nSo he began to sit for hours at his computer, playing solitaire or trying to navigate the internet but this frustrated him too since he couldn\'t work out how to use it for certain things. Also after getting his retina re-attached (one of his nieces toddlers kicked him in the eye- accidentally!) his vision was poor which contributed to making him feel even older, BUT he tried !!\n\nOh boy did he try!\n\nSadly the fact he couldn\'t work things out for any of these things just made him feel more and more useless.\n\nHe has always used his fantastic sense of humour to generate positivity around difficult subjects and even this began to wane.\n\nShe tried hard to encourage him to walk regularly, eat better, drink less wine - god forbid - <em>drink less wine!!?!?!?</em>\n\nAnyway even she is growing fragile herself having a knee replacement, then hip replacement, radiotherapy for breast cancer (twice!) and then a pace maker!\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">WOW all of this just contributed more and more to that feeling of ageing.</span>\n\nWe began to notice a change in his conversation, clarity, his confidence and then noticed he had begun to write a diary of what he had done each day, like where he had been or where he had put things.\n\nWe attempted to speak to him about it but he got annoyed, frustrated and the conversation was clearly uncomfortable for everyone.\n\nEventually when his doctor invited I\'m in for some regular testing he was put through some dementia screens and a CT scan of his brain showed damaged blood vessel’s which confirmed early onset of Alzheimers.\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">His jovial way of telling family members was clearly a cover for the pain this proud man was feeling about knowing his dignity was going to begin slipping away along with an uphill battle to maintain his intelligence. </span>\n\nHaving, he himself, watched agonisingly his own mother’s cognitive decline, he knows only too well the kind of experience awaiting him and his loved ones.\n\nSo whats the point to this story?\n\n<em>WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE, RIGHT?</em>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ok the point I am making in this blog is that we should recognise that we are all living longer but this experience also raises the question of whether we really <em>maintaining </em></span><em>quality of life</em><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> in that extra time?</span>\n\nCould we do more to protect these amazing organs we live in, our bodies?\n\nHow better can we serve them?\n\nAre there ways to improve both our physical and cognitive health to reduce the speed of decline?\n\nSurely improving the way we move increases blood flow thus increasing oxygen to the brain and body, right?\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">We should really stimulate our brains and bodies more appropriately, maintain human contact, we should probably try harder to communication in person RATHER THAN texting and turn off the TV to talk to each other or go for a walk.\nDon\'t you think?\nSurely this is a smarter was to contribute towards maintaining a healthy cognitive power for longer, right?</span>\n\nPLEASE PLEASE PLEASE\nMOVE MORE!\nTHINK MORE\nTALK MORE\n\n&amp;\n\nBE FREE FOR LONGER!\n\nFrom my heart\n\nx','WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!','','draft','closed','closed','','we-are-all-going-to-die','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1405',0,'post','',0),(1406,0,'2016-11-14 06:53:49','2016-11-14 06:53:49','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-11-14-at-06-53-33','','','2016-11-14 06:53:49','2016-11-14 06:53:49','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-14-at-06.53.33-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1409,3,'2016-11-17 07:19:27','2016-11-17 07:19:27','We are heading north to one of my favourite places in the world for our next IBA Discovery Day Workshop on <strong>Dec 3rd</strong> AND only £40 for non members.\n\n*Are you considering becoming a Biomechanics Coach™?\n\nDo you want to meet other Biomechanics Coaches™ or iMoveFreely® Instructors?\n\nDo you want to learn new practical skills or simply refresh?\n\nDo you want an insight into our academy and to meet and ask questions of one of our Master Trainers?\n\nDo you want to find other open minded high quality skilled practitioners in Scotland?\n\n<strong>We will be discussing and practicing FOOT BIOMECHANICS as part of this workshop.</strong>\n\nThis 2 in 1 workshop (for me anyway - holiday + work) means we get to gather amongst a fantastic group of professionals in <strong>Kirkcaldy</strong>, Scotland, at the venue of our host, qualified Biomechanics Coach™ and sports therapist, Graeme Temple.\n\nThis will be a SUPER workshop because it is going to run longer than the usual 4hrs - <strong>10am until 4pm</strong> - to give YOU more value in attending, MORE airtime to ask questions and plenty of time for practical up dates or refreshers.\n\nThis workshop carries 3 REPS points and HUGE value in the networking opportunity of being amongst others with your skills with the chance to ask THEM ..\n\n<em>\"how do you do it?\"</em>\n\n<em>\"whats your experience of...?\"</em>\n\n<em>\"can we cross refer our clients?\"</em>\n\nI am actually considering calling them EMPATHY DAYS lol!!\n\nThe workshop topics to be discussed as usual will be :\n<ul>\n 	<li>BUSINESS - what more can we do to improve our practices?</li>\n 	<li>TECHNICAL - discussions around different skills sets and blending them</li>\n 	<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">PRACTICAL - A look at how we can assess foot and ankle biomechanics  </span></li>\n</ul>\nWe have several places already taken for this IBA workshop so If you are not a member it is still ONLY £40!!\n<u>(IBA &amp; INNER CIRLE members come for FREE)</u>\n\nYOU really should clear your schedule and join us to prepare for YOUR success with our support in 2017 !\n\nHow easy is it to book?\n\n<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/workshop/iba-workshops-3/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JUST CLICK HERE</a>','Discovery Day Workshop in Scotland!','','draft','closed','closed','','discovery-day-workshop-in-scotland','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1409',0,'post','',0),(1410,0,'2016-11-17 07:19:19','2016-11-17 07:19:19','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-11-17-at-07-19-00','','','2016-11-17 07:19:19','2016-11-17 07:19:19','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-17-at-07.19.00-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1412,3,'2016-11-20 08:03:54','2016-11-20 08:03:54','<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Things can happen when you least expect it and this happened to me and someone I met at an event about teaching methods.</span>\n\nWe talked about being in our ‘element’\n\nour roles\n\nour ideals\n\nour purposes\n\nor goals\n\nWe talked non stop, bared souls and shared our common beliefs and ideas about our work and education ethos.\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">We discussed</span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> personal stories that gave some clarity of our shared feelings and empathy towards our bad learning experiences.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">We had shared stuff about our long term goals and he had said his goal was \'<em>making the world a better place</em>\' - he had said it with such pride, such confidence and a smile.  But then I asked him to explain how he would measure that?</span>\n\nHe looked at me, slightly shocked and said <em>“…oh, I don\'t know…? I had never thought of it like that...??”</em>\n\nI asked him <em>“But how will you know WHEN you have succeeded?”</em>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">He was stumped! </span>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">He couldn\'t answer! </span>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">He immediately scribbled some notes and I explained something I had learned recently as a result of a very traumatic time over 3yrs ago.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">At that time I had written down what I wanted the next 1 to 5 years to look like because I really needed to feel some hope and direction. The things I wrote down were very precise measurable things, figures, dates, numbers etc. </span>\n\nThe book I wrote in was then put away and over time I forgot about it.\n\nCoincidentally I had recently found that book, I explained, and I re-read those goals I had written down in 2013.\n\nWOWZERS! I HAD ACHIEVED ALL OF THEM, AND MORE!!\n\nBut I would never have felt such happiness and success had I not written them down in tangible goals!\n\nTHIS, I now believe, is vital in both business and personal settings\n\nMichael E Gerber (<em>The</em> <em>E Myth Revisited</em>) talks about your PRIMARY AIM being the end goal which allows you to work backwards in planning how you get there from today.\n\nBrian Tracy (<a href=\"http://www.briantracy.com/\">www.briantracy.com</a>) talks about Goal Setting for Self Development.\n\nSo what is YOUR primary aim?\n\nWhat does it look like?\n\nHow will you get there?\n\nWhen?\n\nWhat do you need to do this year? next year? in 5 years?\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">SHARING these thoughts with your loved ones can very often be a real insight into what you see in your future. It can even bring you closer together in your ‘vision’ as often its not what people discuss when in the thick of our day to day routines.</span>\n\nHowever this can allow you to plan for both business and personal success with measurable goals.\n\nSo ask yourself this questions regularly;\n\nHow will I KNOW when I have been successful?\n\nIs joining our academy one your goals list?\nYes?\nSimply register your interest <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/schedule/\">HERE</a>','How Do YOU Know?','','draft','closed','closed','','how-do-you-know','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1412',0,'post','',0),(1413,0,'2016-11-20 08:03:47','2016-11-20 08:03:47','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-11-20-at-08-02-59','','','2016-11-20 08:03:47','2016-11-20 08:03:47','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-20-at-08.02.59-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1415,3,'2016-11-22 10:48:58','2016-11-22 10:48:58','<b>Have you ever wondered exactly what do we get up to</b><b>?</b>\n\nAt the weekend I met with my colleague, Biomechanics Coach™, Franklin Method practitioner &amp; TMC16 presenter, Tom Waldron. We delivered our final iMoveFreely® Instructor workshop of 2016 at the Barbican Virgin Active club in London curtesy of Jayne Nicholls.\n\nThe 7hrs we spent with 11 VERY passionate professionals made for a fascinating and dynamic workshop. We had Pilates instructors, personal trainers, sports therapists, Biomechanics Coaches™ and group exercise instructors al discussing professionally about their experience and ideas.\n\nThis Juicemail is for those of YOU who want to know what one of our iMoveFreely® Instructor workshops are like. Here I will share our day AND some of the key take home messages we ALL learned.\n\nThe attendees, as you can see, were generally from the fitness industry but also (and often does) included therapists. This is such an exciting learning environment because it allows us to exploring inter-professional relationships that can enable us ALL to offer a better duty of care to our clients &amp; participants.\n\nSo the day began, as they generally do, with everyone introducing themselves so we knew who we would be spending the day with.\n\nThey said their reasons for attending were….\n\n<i>“learn more, something new, to get faster results and so that the client can feel something”</i>\n\n<i>“to help more clients and have more confidence helping with clients with problems”</i>\n\n<i>“for more skills in my tool box”</i>\n\n<i>“I want a programme that offers people a self help programme of exercises” </i>\n\n<i>“I want to learn more about how the body moves”</i>\n\n<i>“I want to help my older clients KEEP moving”</i>\n\n<i>“I feel like something is missing still”</i>\n\n<i>“my anatomy knowledge isn\'t great but with my special population I need more ideas for adaptions”</i>\n\n<i>“I help post rehab and wold like to know more about how I can help the safely”</i>\n\n<i>“More ideas for helping with my falls prevention clients”</i>\n\nWOW tall order eh!? lol\n\nSo the workshop began with some history and background about how the iMoveFreely® exercise programme &amp; system came about. We also discussed the data collected over 20+yrs from 4.5k subjects of all levels and abilities in relation to the screening system we teach on our other workshops. Some of these subjects were gold medalist olympic athletes, some were average gym goers, some elderly and some young.\n\nWe discussed this evidence of how effective these screens and exercises have been in enabling us to understand and improve function and movement in our clients even without any clinical knowledge or previous training in biomechanics.\n\nHowever we did acknowledge that a great SIDE EFFECT of giving our participants iMoveFreely® exercises can be that low grade aches, pains and recurring niggles could improve or even disappear completely.\n\nAfter a break we went through our renowned Group Action of Muscles (GAM) Movement Analysis made easy session (This will be one of the sessions we deliver at the Spinning® Showcase 2017 in Blackpool if you would like to find out more see you there!!).\n\nThis session meant in groups of 3 or 4 the group were set the task of how to analyse a movement and what it means for us a exercise professionals. The group were told they were not allowed to use muscle names at all, which some people found quite challenging.\n\nThis session is always an eye opener for most learners as to how easy movement analysis CAN be should we use some of the most basic principles we learn in our level 2 and level 3 qualifications.\n\nNext we began experimenting with the Quadra-set ‘flows’ of 4 iMoveFreely® exercises to create a better functioning pelvis, spine and shoulders. This can make up the main bulk of a ‘pure’ iMoveFreely® clinic/class for any level of participant from elderly to the super fit. Sections of them can also be used \'blended\' into our present classes.\n\nAfter lunch we discussed ‘core stability’ and what it means to us. We also looked at the evidence surrounding ‘core stability’ and ideas around training the ‘core’ in general.\n\nThis section is very simple and logical but not always what you might expect - simple and safe moves that can be super intense and nicely periodised for the ability of every client in front of you - all based on evidence.\n\nFrom here we all performed some really nice ‘pure’ mobility iMoveFreely® techniques that safely mobilise individual areas of the spine that maybe lacking capacity for movement.\n\nAt the very end of the day we demonstrated a series of just 3 intrinsic biomechanics screens that we teach in other workshops. Then the effectiveness of how, in 80 seconds, one simple iMoveFreely® anti spasm technique for the pec minor muscle of the shoulder can influence, and change, the rest of body right down the foot!!\n\nWould you like to learn more about the iMoveFreely® exercise programme or the evidence based intrinsic biomechanics screening system we deliver across 5 x 2 day workshop?\n\n<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/workshop/imovefreely-instructor/\">REGISTER YOUR INTEREST FOR 2017 HERE</a>\n\nJayne Nicholls, Director of Group X Training Ltd, has been a distributor of our iMoveFreely® Instructor 1 day workshop for the last 4 years. Working with her is a joy and we are proud to continue the collaboration with a professional who demonstrate such high standards of integrity.\n\nThank you Jayne!!','What Happens During An iMoveFreely® Instructor Workshop?','','draft','closed','closed','','what-happens-during-an-imovefreely-instructor-workshop','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1415',0,'post','',0),(1416,0,'2016-11-22 10:48:48','2016-11-22 10:48:48','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','img_6258','','','2016-11-22 10:48:48','2016-11-22 10:48:48','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_6258-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1418,3,'2016-11-25 11:14:54','2016-11-25 11:14:54','Something I have learned being in our industry for 25yrs is how small a world it is. One of the main reasons I LOVE what I do, and it doesn’t feel like work, is because of the people I am able to connect with and spend time with on a regular basis as part of my job.\n\nYesterday I was reminded of this over and over again and I am guessing that for those of you reading this Juicemail this will resonate with you too…\n\nAt 8am I drove over to the NEC Birmingham to speak at the <b>Sports Therapy Association’s </b>(STA) annual conference inside the Therapy Expo. STA founder, <b>Gary Benson</b>, had invited me to speak to his members.\n\nNow I met Gary several years ago before he founded the STA and he has become a fantastic person to know. He is trust worthy, delivers on and keeps promises, he cares and shows it in the way he communicates with everyone  and he has a reputation for all of this, it is not just my opinion, just ask anyone who knows him.\n\nNow the very core of the STA and its foundation was to advise manual therapy (and fitness) professionals on quality CPD’s, to offer members a huge amount of support, to keep the promises made and to have fun doing it. They are all REALLY nice genuine people who care about each other and their clients.\n\nSo this event was part of that support and gave STA members that chance to experience what CPD providers, like us, have to offer within our education programmes.\n\nUpon my arrival Gary was there with his phone tweeting, texting and guided me to the private STA conference theatre. He introduced the first speaker and I watched Matt’s dynamic talk as I waited for my colleague and friend, <b>Harry Snell</b> to arrive. Harry was a former student and has become a friend over the course of time as we have had many geeky conversation about human movement and intrinsic biomechanics mainly. However he has also become a great source of help at events, for videos, photos and even advice on websites.\n\nAnyway soon I was up and I saw <b>Stuart Farmer, Christine Buckley </b>and <b>Helen Stone</b>, 2 of my former students and one present one, also in the audience waving and smiling at me! Christine even came up for a hug.\n\nMy talk was titled <i>‘</i><b><i>Screening the Athlete’ - risk reduction &amp; optimising performance</i></b><i> </i>so with just 30 mins (and I always have a lot to say!) I began with a brief explanation about how our education programmes came about. From the 20+yrs of data collection from clients like Daley Thompson, Linford christie, Derek Redmond, Steve Redgrave, David Coulthard, Mica Hakjenan, Lenny Henry, Demi Moore, Will Carling, Robbie Coultrain, Anthony Ogogo and all varying sporting backgrounds and abilities of 4.5k client case studies in total.\n\nCalling for a volunteer from the audience I was able to demonstrate on a gentleman called <b>Andy Fairbrother</b>, what a mini evidence based ‘field’ test type of screen might look like ‘pitch side’ on one of the audience.\n\nAs the audience watched I explained that as simple as it may look these 3 screens, that take in total around 5 mins to perform, correlated very highly during the research to what the very expensive isokinetic machinery told us about what was happening inside the body. My triathlete ‘client’ Andy, had both pelvic and shoulder dysfunction we could see.\n\nSo I then demonstrated on him (in 1 min 20 seconds) an anti spasm on his right pec minor muscle that actually changed his pelvis right side AND both of his shoulders! As I promised I had never met Andy before he proceeded to say he knew one of my other former students, <b>Libby Upton</b>, who had been helping him with his intrinsic biomechanics and training!!\n\nSoon enough my 30 mins was up and with a whole bunch of people were giving me their business cards so I guessed it had been well received. What a wonderful feeling that people listen and care about what you have to say and then make it clear they want to hear more!\n\nAlso meeting really nice people like <b>Ed Clark</b> who came up to tell me he was gutted he had missed my session and could I still please send him the presentation!\n\nHarry and I chatted about the session as we went for a wander into the main expo. We found my log time colleague <b>Mike Grice</b> (who had introduced Harry and I a couple of years ago), after his lecture with 2 of Jessica Ennis’ professional team. Mike is now working with and delivering education programmes with these 2 professionals, <b>Poora Singh</b> and <b>Derry Suta</b>.\n\nHow cool to meet those guys and chat about their work with an olympian like Jessica!\n\nMy phone went next and it was <b>Clair Minshull</b>, whom I had spoken to earlier in the year when she called to explore commercial connections.\nWe sat down for this exploratory chat and Claire said <b>Mel Berry</b> had said to say hello! I have know Mel (a marketing expert) for several years too and she and Claire had met a few weeks earlier.\n\nAs I sat there another former student, <b>James Tomkies</b>, said hello and so as I left Claire, James and I had a good old catch up. The conversation led me to re-connect James with my fabulous Biomechanics Coach business advisor, <b>Chris Wright.</b>\n\nAs I said good bye to James, I went to connect with long time friend in the industry (after she attended some of our workshops many years ago) <b>Sue Wilkie</b> who was with <b>Suzanne Bowen</b> (also a contact of Mike\'s) on their stand promoting their <b>Toropro Products</b>.\n\nSue and I had one of our usual event girlie catch up and giggles - sssshhhhh cant tell you that bit! Then I watched as she offered a few demonstrations of the new Toropro Foam roller, trigger point ball and of course the kinesiotape.\n\nWhat a cool job eh!\n\nAs I stood there watching Sue, my present student, Christine, who had been in my session, came over for a chat. Now when Christine first came to one of our workshops we discovered we had been to the same comprehensive school!\n\nWe shared some of our thoughts on kinesiotape and diet amongst other things before I said goodbye.\n\nOn my way out I went to the STA exhibition stand and spoke to the very charming <b>Tom Sayer</b>, who said he has followed our work for some time now.\n\nFinally I began to make my way back to the car and struck up a conversation with 2 people who ad been at my session earlier. The 3 of us walked and chatted about the industry, good people, clients and the thought provoking day we had all had.\n\nTHIS is a typical event day of work for me ad see how many connections and re-connections across the industry (and even back to my school days!) there were!!?\n\nAlso having conversations or even just a smile or nod with people you have never actually met before (like Ed, Trevor, Joe, Nikki, Janet, Marcus, Patrick, Lotti, Juli, Jamie, Andy, Erica, Leon, Sharon and all the other lovely people I spoke to on the day!) who all clearly feel a connection to each other in their work and enjoy what they do makes my working life so much fun.\n\nTHANK YOU all of you!\n\nUltimately you never ever know who you might meet, what might come from that and what could happen in the future because of that connection. It always reminds me of the responsibility we have as education providers to maintain integrity when we are influencing so many people from afar and many of whom we may never even meet.\n\nMost of all I LOVE every day because THIS is one example of one of my ‘normal’ working day’s.\n\nWhat About You?\nDo you love every day?\nDo you connect with people?\nCould they be more important to you than you realise?\nMaybe one day they COULD even be your next million £ cheque!!\n\nHEY you never know!\n\nBut if you want to join into this world of connections we have already made.....\n\nEmail  me rachel@biomechanicseducation.com with ....\n\nYOUR REASON WHY !','You Just Never Know','','draft','closed','closed','','you-just-never-know','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1418',0,'post','',0),(1419,0,'2016-11-25 11:14:42','2016-11-25 11:14:42','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-11-25-at-11-14-22','','','2016-11-25 11:14:42','2016-11-25 11:14:42','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-25-at-11.14.22-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1422,3,'2016-11-27 06:48:47','2016-11-27 06:48:47','Recently a friend asked me to drive them to A&amp;E as HE thought he had ‘trapped nerve’ in his neck which gave him agony with any movement of his head or upper body..\n\n..OUCH!\n\nPoor guy, anyway the receptionist (bless her) was definitely NOT particularly pleased to see us, from the expression on her face anyway, and the clear lack of joy in her voice spoke volumes as she asked the compulsory questions listed on her screen, without lifting her gaze…\n\n<i>“name..?”</i>\n\n<i>“address..?”</i>\n\n<i>“who is your doctor..?”</i>\n\n<i>“why are you here..?”</i>\n\nThen she suggested we “<i>take a seat” </i>with the tone of someone so incredibly sad, or maybe it was simply boredom? It really made you wonder how she got through each day?\n\nThere we settled to wait amongst all the other sufferers, as even more sloped, crept, limped and shuffled in, got their 2 minutes of joy with the sad receptionist and then meandered to their seat.\n\nThe sign on reception said <b><i>approx 2 hours waiting.</i></b>\n\nSome 47 mins later someone called us in to ask again <i>“what is wrong?” s</i>he made some more notes on HER screen and sent us back to the seating area to wait for the NEXT call. I wondered what the difference in notes might be from those the receptionist made..?\n\n1hr 51 mins after this we were called through to an examination room\n\n“<i>YAY”</i> my friend said …actually it was more of a sarcastic Bells Palsy type drawl “…<i>yaaay</i>…” due the pain he was feeling if he moved his jaw.\n\nAnother 26 mins after entering the examination room a lady in blue scrubs came through. Interestingly she too did not appear <i>that</i> pleased to see us and asked for the 3rd time that day <i>“what is wrong?”</i>\n\nNow my friend is what you might call stocky and muscular in frame and stature and so upon seeing him it was clear she had made up her mind about the cause of his issue as she almost immediately asked, while looking him up and down..\n\n<i>“do you go to the gym..?”</i>\n\n<i>“how often do you go..?”</i>\n\n<i>“did you do it while exercising..?”</i>\n\nThis was before she had physically examined him or asked about any previous history, oh wait no she didn\'t ask him that question at all, also before she asked what his job entailed physically or anything else.\n\nAh no hang on, she didn\'t even ask him any details of that either!\n\nJust if he used the gym and how often…YOU KNOW what I was thinking, right!?\n\nI only just managed NOT to say <i>“ffs!?!?!”</i> out loud.\n\nShe then proceeded to prod and poke his neck and glands with no warning of what she was going to do and without even looking at his reactions (she actually turned her head away from him as she did this) nor even taking her time to be tender. This caused him to yelp out in pain at the sudden discomfort. Trust me this dude is NOT a yelper!!\n\nOnce she had caused him further suffering she suggested to simply..\n\n“… <i>have a massage… try to relax</i> …<i>.and keep moving.. ” </i>\n\n(*In my head i am thinking...<i>\"but you just implied movement was the cause...????? How does the person know which movements are good and which are bad???\")</i>\n\nHe then explained that I was a Biomechanics Coach™ and manual therapist and had suggested he come to A&amp;E due to the severity of the pain, so she then went on to say..\n\n“..<i>well OK then I can give you diazepam and some extra strong pain killers but just try and relax you shoulders and neck..”</i>\n\nLIKE HE COULD JUST RELAX BY CHOICE!!\n\nNow before I continue I just want to say one of the things I LOVE about being British is the fact we actually have an NHS. How much I appreciate that the NHS gets slagged off and is under funded and staff are over worked and under paid and all of that stuff!!\n\nI am ON their side seriously\n\nBUT\n\nThis was really really quite disappointing and annoyed that the impression she was giving was that the fact he exercised was a bad thing and the cause of his suffering!! This guy trains literally, at most, 45 mins 3 x timer per week and yet he works over 50 hours a week.\n\nNow I don’t know what kind of a day any of these professionals had that day and I am quite sure they are faced with crazy schedules and miserable people all day every day, BUT to barely even smile, to make assumptions and to give the impression that exercising was the cause of his agony, made me feel such frustration, maybe I was feeling THEIR frustration that MAYBE they don\'t feel they have anything more to offer!?\n\nJust a small sign of empathy would have worked wonders and I would have expected more questions but it did make me realise the HUGE GAP between US and THEM is still far to wide. We should try and understand each other better.\n\nAs a Biomechanics Coach™, manual therapist I was demonstrating MY duty of care by suggesting he get checked out due the level of pain he was in. While massage well may help, the implication that exercise was bad for him and the cause of his pain was, in my opinion, unfair and unjust.\n\nKNOWING when it is our remit or not is vital but I really wish we were working together more.\n\nThis particular professional, on this particular day, was giving him the impression  that his exercise routine was the cause of his pain and yet also saying he needed to keep moving. Yet this advice was without guidance on the difference of the reasons why.\nThe way she dealt with him, was like she was just \'dealing with another one\' and while she may well have been right in her diagnosis and suggestion, her manner was not. In MY opinion it was inappropriate and misleading.\n\nWhat I had done as a Biomechanics Coach™ was assess him to understand which exercises were good or bad for him because THAT\'S WHAT WE DO, this trip to A&amp;E was my attempt at duty of care to him to rule out anything clinical or sinister with the support of someone medically trained. What she could have just done was just make my job harder ...\n\nLet\'s try to communicate better, more efficiently about what we do and the benefits of exercise shall we!\n\nDo you want to join me and a leading community of professionals in the UK who are on a mission to improve inter professionals relations and communication?\nWe offer massive amounts of support to all of our learners and have joined forces with likeminded associations, like the Sports Therapy Association, who feel the same.\n\nRegister your interest in the Intrinsic<a href=\"https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/membership/intrinsic-biomechanics-association-membership/\"> Biomechanics Association HERE</a>\n\n&nbsp;','“ffs!?!?!”','','draft','closed','closed','','ffs','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1422',0,'post','',0),(1423,0,'2016-11-27 06:48:40','2016-11-27 06:48:40','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-11-27-at-06-48-29','','','2016-11-27 06:48:40','2016-11-27 06:48:40','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-27-at-06.48.29-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1429,0,'2016-11-29 06:44:17','2016-11-29 06:44:17','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-11-13-at-07-21-13','','','2016-11-29 06:44:17','2016-11-29 06:44:17','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-13-at-07.21.13-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1430,0,'2016-12-01 06:46:22','2016-12-01 06:46:22','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-12-01-at-06-46-06','','','2016-12-01 06:46:22','2016-12-01 06:46:22','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-01-at-06.46.06-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1432,3,'2016-12-05 07:16:50','2016-12-05 07:16:50','<strong>...of The Fitness Industry?</strong>\n\n<b>As Biomechanics Coaches™ we analyse and monitor...</b>\n\n.. and we are becoming the \'go to\' referral point for other professionals trying to find answers to their clients movement problems that are as yet unanswered.\n\nThe GP is a first point of call when you are poorly and they might be able to treat you themselves with medication or some advice  If they cannot find the answer they will refer you to a therapist, for a scan or maybe for further tests, right?\n\nThat is similar to what we do as Biomechanics Coaches™!\nWe are becoming reputed as the first point of call in both the fitness industry, and even the therapy world, to assess intrinsic function and movement. Then we prescribe iMoveFreely® exercises and/or we will refer our clients to the appropriate practitioner for any specific requirement that we feel they may be better suited to address.\n\nTo do this, with the best duty of care for each individual client, we meet several times a year, through the Intrinsic Biomechanics Association (IBA). This is to network, up date our techniques, swap contact details and to meet other Biomechanics Coaches™ with differing primary skills. We also share the common language of our Biomechanics Coach™ screening system and iMoveFreely® exercises and therefore understand each other clearly.\n\nBiomechanics Coaches™ are Personal Trainers, Physio\'s, Pilates Instructors, Podiatrists, Yoga teachers, Manual Therapists, Fitness Instructors, Sports Coaches and very often have skills in 2 or 3 of these disciplines.\n\nWe have an increased level of confidence due to this multi faceted community and the shared concept of being very open minded. We communicate through our forums and workshops, we embrace change where necessary and we also accept being challenged for service improvement.\n\nWe are not precious about keeping clients simply to pay our mortgage because we are more concerned about results and are mostly far too busy anyway.  Our income has, in most cases, doubled (or trebled) now that we are Biomechanics Coaches™ because we are getting the return on our investment from our reputations and also through the referrals network we have grown.\n\nBUT we are still in need of more Biomechanics Coaches™ from ALL disciplines due to the huge demand in the UK for this skill set that is only increasing. We have more and more practitioners and client asking for our guidance and seeking our services across every city, town and boarder in the UK, and internationally!\n\nThe most significant feedback from Biomechanics Coaches™ everywhere is the degree of job satisfaction they feel which increases massively - and this is even when they had job satisfaction before their training!\n\nDo you think you have what it takes?\n\nWould you like to be on our FIND A BIOMECHANICS COACH MAP?\n\nMaybe you simply want to find a Biomechanics Coach™ to refer your clients to?\n\nThis fantastic locator resource will be RE-launched onto the website in the new year to promote ALL the registered Biomechanics Coaches™ (on the IBA register) who are demonstrating professional commitment to their practice.\n\nAll you need is to be an IBA member and a qualified Biomechanics Coach™ and we will promote your business and services too! This band of hybrid professionals demonstrate an extremely high standard of service.\n\nSo <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\">BOOK NOW</a> to become a Biomechanics Coach™\n\n<a href=\"https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/membership/intrinsic-biomechanics-association-membership/\">JOIN NOW</a> to become and IBA Member\n\nP.S. Some of our workshops are already fully booked or almost full so HURRY!','Are Biomechanics Coaches™ Becoming GP\'s...?','','draft','closed','closed','','are-biomechanics-coaches-becoming-gps','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1432',0,'post','',0),(1433,0,'2016-12-05 07:16:35','2016-12-05 07:16:35','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-11-10-at-08-16-36','','','2016-12-05 07:16:35','2016-12-05 07:16:35','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-08.16.36-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1442,3,'2016-11-29 06:44:31','2016-11-29 06:44:31','Following on from Martin\'s recent plantar fasciitis article and my follow up about what can be contributing in the descending pattern of the integrated system, here Martin talks about another common problem that can occur.....\n\nCalf muscle injuries are common in running and can be quite debilitating as well being frustrating, as they often take a long time to heal and can become recurrent.\n\nThey are caused by both <i>extrinsic and intrinsic </i>factors.  The typical extrinsic factors will be subjecting the calf to an unexpected load or one that your calf has not been conditioned to tolerate.\nFor example doing plyometrics, hill running, speed work or even running longer distances can be sufficient to damage your calf if it’s not prepared sufficiently.\n\nTrauma is more likely when the calf is being stretched while it’s simultaneously contracting strongly.  Intrinsic factors consist of inflexible calves (both gastrocnemius; the longer calf muscle that passes over the knee, and soleus; the shorter muscle that stops just below the knee) and over pronating feet or overly supinated feet are also common causes as they alter the efficient mechanical function of the foot and so can increase the pressure on the calves.\n\nAnother very common cause is a tight sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve runs down the back of the leg, through the hamstring and calf groups as it passes into the foot.  It can become tight due to <i>clinical or biomechanical </i>issues with your back, pelvis or even your hamstrings.\n\nIn these cases your hamstring or calf can go into a ‘protective spasm’ to minimise the stretch on the delicate nerve and render these muscles more likely to injury.\n\nThe spasm can be immediate and cause pain in the muscle itself or it can alter the ability of the muscle to contract and relax effectively and can therefore cause the muscle to tear when loaded too heavily.\n\nThere are 3 levels (or degrees) of calf strain/tear:\n\n<b> • Grade 1</b>: The muscle is damaged causing some micro tears.  It usually takes 2 weeks to recover from a grade 1 strain.\n\n<b> • Grade 2</b>: There is partial tearing of the muscle. Recovery usually takes 6-8 weeks.\n\n<b> • Grade 3</b>: This is the most severe calf strain as it is a complete tear or rupture of the muscle.  Complete recovery can take 3-4 months and occasionally surgery may be needed.\n\nDepending upon the severity of the injury, you will typically feel a sharp stabbing pain in the calf at the point of the tear or strain, and standing up on tip toes or pushing off will usually be painful.  Swelling and bruising sometimes follow with the more extensive tears and it is usually tender to touch.\n\nThe usual self management methods for muscle injuries apply for calves too.  Make sure it is rested, ice the area as often as possible, compress the muscle (especially if it is swollen, by using a compression support) and elevate the leg to help reduce the swelling too.\n\nOnce the swelling has reduced and the acuteness has started to subside, stretching and massage will help to restore the pliability of the muscle.  Gradually you can then start to teach the muscles to work again slowly using cliniband exercises and then light weight training exercises in the gym, and then progress to higher speed exercises like plyometrics.\n\nIt is important to identify the causes too. Check the list of extrinsic and intrinsic causes discussed earlier.  If you suspect an extrinsic cause make sure you address it as you start to train again.  If you feel there were intrinsic causes, check them out with a suitable practitioner who understands intrinsic biomechanics to make sure it is being dealt with while you are rehabilitating.\n\nClearly adequate warm ups are essential to prevent any injury, so make sure that you spend plenty of time working on your calves as you plan your warm up routine.\n\nLearn how to assess for causes of calf injuries<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\"> HERE</a>','Ever Injured Your Calf Muscle?','','draft','closed','closed','','ever-injured-your-calf-muscle','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1425',0,'post','',0),(1443,3,'2016-12-01 06:46:30','2016-12-01 06:46:30','So we are really excited to announce our Biomechanics Coach™ of the Month is Tom Waldron!\n\nThis nomination is for the huge committed Tom demonstrates to his personal development and education, his pro-active promotion of these skills and for being for being one the nicest guys I know both to work with and just be around.\n\nBoth his passion and kind nature are obvious to all who meet him and we feel honoured that he has chosen to represent our programmes!\n\nAs always our nominee kindly shares his story with you so you can see what it means to Tom to be a Biomechanics Coach™...\n\n<b>Your biography in short</b>\n\nProudly born and bred In Portsmouth, currently living along the coast next to the beautiful sandy beaches of North Devon. 25 years young, 2017 will be my fourth year in the health and fitness industry. I’m a Biomechanics Coach™ (training to become a Master Trainer), Pilates Instructor and Franklin Method level 1 Educator (currently doing my level 2 studies in Portland Oregon, America). Starting more studies next year to become a Sports Therapist.\n\n<b>What made you choose Biomechanics Coaching</b>™<b>? </b>\n\nI first came across Biomechanics Coaching™ when I was 18/19 years old. Rachel was delivering a one day workshop in London and I was studying Sports Science &amp; Excellence in college at the time. Although I felt I had zero knowledge of anatomy or biomechanics, Rachel and her team left a lasting impression with their passion, work ethic and integrity.\nAs I continued with my studies I followed them and when I finally had the confidence to do the Biomechanics Coach™ Diploma. So I contacted Rachel some 4 years later.\nI chose Biomechanics Coaching™ because I want to give people the tools to facilitate their own change and that’s something Rachel, Martin and the whole Biomechanics Education team value - empowering others to create their own positive change.\n\n<b>Where would you like to see yourself ten years from now?</b>\n\nTen years from today I see myself having my own clinic. Practising Biomechanics Coaching™, Franklin Method and Sports Therapy. I’d love to teach the Biomechanics Coach™ Diploma, be active in public speaking and teaching the Franklin Method teacher trainer course internationally. I also want to study more on neuroplasticity.\n\n<b>What would be your advice to somebody thinking of becoming a Biomechanics Coach</b><b>™</b><b>? </b>\n\nI only qualified as a Biomechanics Coach™ this year in March and my life/career/business has totally changed for the better!!!!!\n\nThe friends, knowledge and opportunities that have already come about from becoming a Biomechanics Coach™ is actually unreal and I’m still taking it in if I’m being honest. It’s an phenomenally loving, fun and humble community, that genuinely have people’s best interest at heart. It’s such a privilege to be apart of this movement of passionate and caring individuals. It’s like being at the cool kid’s table at school haha. So if you’re on the fence about contacting Rachel, get of the fence and contact her today!!!\n\n<b>On the journey to where you are now what has been your achievements?</b>\n\nThis might sound funny but my biggest achievement in my mind is finishing school with good grades. I was predicted very low grades through out my time at school and I was even held back a year because of my poor exam results. Finishing school with A’s and B’s and Head Of School was quite the transformation, believe me!!\n\nQualifying as a Franklin Method Educator in Paris, 2015.\n\nQualifying as a Biomechanics Coach™ 2016\n\nCo-running a successful Pilates business with my amazing sister Rachel Hall and beautiful Mum, Ruth Waldron.\n\nPresenting at Loughborough University this year at The Movement Convention.\n\n<b>Tell us a secret or something interesting about you that not many people know about..</b>\n\nWhen I was really young I had some hearing problems which meant I had a slight speech impairment, lots of stuttering, fast paced talking and un able to pronounce big words. 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And HOW would you know?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research papers around ‘core stability’ work identified as the best method of </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trunk conditioning</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are often conflicting and pretty sketchy to be honest? (Akuthota, Ferreiro, Moore, Fredericson, Krabak, Kennedy). </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let’s explore some definitions;</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>What is core stability work?</h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exercises ONLY done to specifically to improve the cores stability ie planks, bridges, dead bugs maybe?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>What is trunk conditioning?</h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This could be deemed as generic exercises that utilise core stability while you perform a more global muscle exercise for your sport or chosen activity ie squat, clean, running, swimming etc. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BUT when you ask clients why they WANT to do core stability training, they often say things like:</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I want a 6 pack”</span></em>\n\n<em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I have poor posture”</span></em>\n\n<em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I have back pain (knee pain, shoulder pain ….fill in with any area of the body) and assume, or have been told, it\'s due to a lack of core strength “</span></em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You get the feeling that if you\'re not doing ‘core stability’ work then it seems you\'re just plain weird!! </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Everyone</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wants it, right?!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The question is does </span><b>everyone need it</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>Got an injury? Do core stability work...or should you?</h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Core stability training is being used as the answer to pretty much everything. My class participants and clients are coming to me with their recurring injuries having seen professionals who have advised them. It seems more often than not they insist on core stability training in addition to whatever else they prescribe due to the </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">assumption</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the individual’s core is </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">weak</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>Some Examples;</h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have </span><b>low back pain…</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ah you must have a weak core, you should do core stability work</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.”  </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Very often with no assessment made of the trunks capacity or strength other than verbal questioning. </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also very often with little advice on exactly what kind of core stability training.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have </span><b>sore knees…</b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> “well your core is likely to be weak so do some core stability work.” </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feet and knees maybe assessed for this client but again often with no assessment made of the trunks capacity or strength. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your </span><b>shoulders niggle…</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mmmmm ok shoulders need strengthening but also your core doesn’t work properly, planks it is!”</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Shoulders maybe assessed but again often with no assessment made of the trunks capacity or strength.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This just shows there are far too many</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> assumptions </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that symptoms being caused by a ‘weak’ core , with not enough objectivity to the assessment, in my opinion. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>So why does pretty much everyone go on about core stability training?</h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I believe many professionals make the </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">assumption</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that everyone has a weak core these days so it’s pretty standard to prescribe core stability training work. Maybe they have been unable to find a root cause to the client’s complaint and so this “one answer fits all” type of response, is one that clients don\'t mind hearing.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let me make it clear at this point that due to our lifestyles many people DO in fact require some kind of core/trunk conditioning. The problem is not enough questions seem to be asked, like; </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>WHEN? WHY? HOW?</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>How can you conclude “core stability” training is actually the answer to the symptoms/problems?</h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So consider exactly, how do any of these symptoms or problems tell you the core is ‘weak’ thus requiring strength work? </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evidence does tell us back pain is more often than not linked to an ‘inhibited’ core, and logic tells us </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inhibition doesn\'t automatically require strength work</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also know a common issue intrinsically occurring due to our lifestyles, is the presentation of a </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">functionally </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">longer leg, caused by a twisted pelvis. This is due to compensations made by any of the joints, muscles or nerves being influenced by sitting, driving etc. There is also a higher incidence of low back pain reported in those with a leg length discrepancy.</span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Friberg, Matheson et al, Giles and Taylor)</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Logic would suggest this discrepancy requires being ‘uninhibited’ at the root cause first right? E.g. de-rotate the pelvis.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/4-sign-pelvic-release-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff0000;\">Do you want to learn how to release your client’s back pain with 1 simple exercise? Click here to download your free tutorial video...</span></a></p>\n<a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/4-sign-pelvic-release-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1480 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-13-at-10.56.55-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\n<h2>Is there ever a time when we might use core stability training?</h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well yes of course; when the core has an area that requires an increase in strength, particularly the ratios of strength around the trunk, then we need to strengthen it. Specifically when the core strength ratios have been lost due to lifestyle, injury etc, THEN we need to strengthen it. McGill has done a number of studies on a variety of subjects to understand the norms when it comes to isometric core ratio testing. (McGill 2006)</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, how many professionals actually consider the fact that all core stability training hits one area of the core more than another?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, the Plank is a spinal </span><b>flexor</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> dominant exercise.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 4-point kneeling leg/arm extensions are a spinal </span><b>extensor</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> dominant exercise.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh and let’s not forget the lateral </span><b>flexors</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which often lose their appropriate strength ratio due to bag and baby carrying type lifestyles. Side planking on the less dominant side only, temporarily, for example would go towards improving this ratio of strength.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>Assess the core ratios first</h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you can assess the core strength ratios first, </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">then</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> prescribe an appropriate balance of core stability exercises in relation to those results, to regain the recommended norms of core strength ratios then this is when we might logically use core stability training type exercises.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you know for men the ratio of strength between spinal flexors and spinal extensors should be 84% flexor to 100% extensor and for women 72%? (McGill 2006)</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no evidence (I have found) to suggest muscle definition automatically equals strength, nor equals appropriate core strength ratios.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also who decided what poor posture looks like? WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No symptoms? Leave it alone and focus on smart programming and changing the lifestyle, maybe? </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IF they are symptomatic be aware that simply changing the posture (ie the way they stand or look aesthetically) may not reduce or address symptoms. 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Click here to understand what that could mean for your client and how to release it...</span></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/4-sign-pelvic-release-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1480 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-13-at-10.56.55-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a></p>','Do you REALLY have a \'weak\' core?','','draft','closed','closed','','do-you-really-have-a-weak-core','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1519',0,'post','',0),(1533,0,'2017-01-31 10:35:11','2017-01-31 10:35:11','    	','','','inherit','closed','closed','','do-you-really-have-a-weak-core-2','','','2017-01-31 10:35:11','2017-01-31 10:35:11','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Do-you-really-have-a-weak-core-1-2.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1534,3,'2017-02-07 09:32:51','2017-02-07 09:32:51','Some time ago I headed down to London to see Trevor Prior and his wonderful team at <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http://www.premierpodiatry.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier Podiatry</a></strong></span> to be assessed to see if my custom orthotics needed an upgrade. I took my trainers, my inov8 weightlifting shoes (Yes THOSE pink ones on instagram!) and also my favourite casual boots.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1535\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"840\"]<a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/biomechanics_education/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"wp-image-1535 size-large\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-06-at-16.39.52-1024x661.png\" width=\"840\" height=\"542\" /></a> <span style=\"color: #333333;\">Just in case you missed them ;-)</span>[/caption]\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now I had been wearing custom orthotics because my feet were uncomfortable at times h</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">owever, there was a lot of conflicting research out there on custom fit insoles/orthotics, which could make our decision on whether we need them somewhat confusing.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then one of my learners sent me the one shown below...</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Let’s Take A Look At This Article About Insoles</b></h3>\n[caption id=\"attachment_1536\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"480\"]<img class=\"wp-image-1536 size-full\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/implication-of-articles-blog-.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /> <span style=\"color: #333333;\">“Runners’ insoles are ‘useless’ at stopping injury”</span>[/caption]\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Article - </b><b><i>“Runners’ insoles are ‘useless’ at stopping injury”</i></b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The article stated… “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shock- absorbing insoles used by runners to reduce impact injuries do not work, according to a study of clinical trials</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”.</span>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It mentions…”</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among long distance runners and physically active defence force personnel, injuries ranged from 19-79%</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>The list of injuries being:</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">→ Stress fractures of the shin</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">→ Torn Achilles’ tendons </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">→ Knee pain</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">→ Plantar fasciitis</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">→ Inflammation of conceive tissue of the foot</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The study the article was talking about, was published in the </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of Sports Medicine </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and looked at 11 clinical trials relating to orthotics that are designed to re-distribute pressure and change gait.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The study suggested that the orthotics did not reduce injury risk and one study even showed them to increase risk.</span>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please Note; All of the above is taken from this article.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>My Thoughts </b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It appears that there is an </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">assumption</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> these </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">injuries</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are coming from the the foot in the first place since no evidence is offered about why, or at least none in the article.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The writer of the article has a job to do, which is to help sell the paper, while I imagine they are given a limited word count for their piece.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The article might actually make individuals who could benefit from orthotics feel wary. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There will always be the ‘marketing’ angle of wanting to encourage people to open the email or read the article, by using a juicy title to grab attention. However, content should be unbiased to present an ethical view. if offering a personal opinion, this should be made clear and could also be valid for some justifiable reason when context is given.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSo as always when reading article (yes even this one) we should keen an open mind and read critically\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are wondering if you need orthotics, </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as a Biomechanics Coach, </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have 2 key tips:</span></h3>\n&nbsp;\n<h2><strong>1) Always seek the advice of specialist first and find out what is right FOR YOU.</strong></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would strongly recommend a visit to see someone like Trevor Prior and his team at <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http://www.premierpodiatry.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier Podiatry</a></strong></span> for several reasons;</span>\n\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-1547\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_7422-1024x1024.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" />\n\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-1546\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_7423-1024x1024.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n→ They have the most up to date and fantastic equipment to be extremely thorough. With not only a gait analysis but also a full series of MSK, ROM &amp; strength tests.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">→ The team are extremely knowledgeable and accommodating.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">→ The explanation of the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/so-what/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">‘so what’</a></span></strong> element of what they found in my assessment was relevant and very clear.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">→ They did NOT simply sell me more orthotics!! In fact they encouraged me to first go away and work on some strength issues around my pelvis! My present orthoses were actually doing ok since I am not in pain and injury free. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><strong>2) Do some of your own research and don’t simply take 1 article /writers view point.</strong></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember you are always welcome to email be about any health or fitness related question on: </span><a href=\"mailto:rachel@biomechanicseducation.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rachel@biomechanicseducation.com</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I’d love to hear from you.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move Freely,</span>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rachel</span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/4-sign-pelvic-release-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Struggling with lower back pain? Are your clients movement patterns a bit funky? Download your Pelvic Screen &amp; Release to start releasing back pain and moving more freely --&gt;</span></em></a></p>\n<a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/4-sign-pelvic-release-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1480\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-13-at-10.56.55-300x169.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" /></a>','Can Your Custom Fit Insoles Really Be Damaging To Your Performance?','','draft','closed','closed','','custom-fit-insoles-damaging-workout-performance','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1534',0,'post','',0),(1535,0,'2017-02-06 16:41:03','2017-02-06 16:41:03','    	','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2017-02-06-at-16-39-52','','','2017-02-06 16:41:03','2017-02-06 16:41:03','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-06-at-16.39.52-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1536,0,'2017-02-06 16:42:42','2017-02-06 16:42:42','    	','','','inherit','closed','closed','','implication-of-articles-blog','','','2017-02-06 16:42:42','2017-02-06 16:42:42','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/implication-of-articles-blog-1-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1540,0,'2017-02-06 16:58:43','2017-02-06 16:58:43','custom fit insoles    	','','','inherit','closed','closed','','insoles','','','2017-02-06 16:58:43','2017-02-06 16:58:43','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/insoles-3.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1546,0,'2017-02-07 09:28:29','2017-02-07 09:28:29','    	','','','inherit','closed','closed','','img_7423','','','2017-02-07 09:28:29','2017-02-07 09:28:29','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_7423-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1556,0,'2017-02-07 09:39:41','2017-02-07 09:39:41','    	','','','inherit','closed','closed','','insoles-2','','','2017-02-07 09:39:41','2017-02-07 09:39:41','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/insoles-1-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1566,0,'2017-02-13 17:55:40','2017-02-13 17:55:40','    	','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2017-02-13-at-17-54-51','','','2017-02-13 17:55:40','2017-02-13 17:55:40','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-17.54.51-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1592,3,'2017-02-20 09:43:00','2017-02-20 09:43:00','<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are trained at level 2 to understand the hamstring muscle attaches from the knee, to the sitting bone. Then we go onto learn at level 3, that there are in fact 3 hamstrings that attach to the tibia, fibula (knee) and ischial tuberosity (sitting bone) - semitendinosis, semimembranosis and bicep femoris. Is it all coming back to you now? ;-)</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From there we go onto learn that they act like a horse’s reigns on the knees stability. Actually the 3 hamstrings are part of a system that continues upwards from the ischial tuberosity into the sacrotuberous ligament at the back of the pelvis. From here, the tissue blends into the thoracolumbar fascia and crosses over into the opposite latissimus dorsi. This then, inserts into the humerus. Therefore indicating that, via this integrated system, the left hamstring eventually inserts into the right shoulder!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now for some of you this is old news, I recognise that, however for some readers this will be a surprising thought... And it is crazy right?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The important bit now, is what you do with that information. I like to call this the “So What?” scenario you come across, whenever you receive new information. There’s no denying it, it can take time to process new information, sometimes known as the Kubler-Ross curve stages of emotion. But when we do receive this new knowledge bomb, we should always ask ourselves, </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“What should I do with this information now that I have it!?”</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Which means as our brains make sense of it, we need to find a way of understanding it, therefore without the answer to the “SO WHAT?” part this can be challenging.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Are You In Shock Or Denial? Maybe Both?</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once we have a </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reason</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to understand something, it makes it easier to process, so to start with, we pass through the stage of shock and denial… “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WOW is that really true?</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">” ... Into the stage of fear and depression… “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So why wasn\'t I told that previously on my training course?</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”… Finally into the stage of acceptance and moving on… “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ah ok so we need a certain level, or layer, of knowledge before we can process this amount of detail?”</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is when we arrive into this layer of exploration and understanding that we recognise how little anybody truly knows about the intrinsic body’s capability and function. In fact, much of what we, as exercise professionals work with, is hypothesis. Input versus output, do that and this happens, do this and that happens… and so on.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><strong>What’s That… There Are 5 Quads?</strong></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had the luxury of spending some time in a Cadaver Lab some years ago (very limited time I might add), accessing the superb knowledge of the medical lab technicians. Now these guys teach medical students anatomy, so you can imagine their level of knowledge.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We looked at 5 quads and triple-headed biceps inside individual cadavers, 6 orientations of the sciatic nerve and piriformis relationship. There was also an ASIS measuring 26mm on one side and then 14mm on the other side of the same individual. We even saw the striations of fascial connective tissue crossed from the right pec minor into the left hip! It was also just amazing to pick up various sizes of median nerves in our gloved hands and so as we went on, it became clearer and clearer, just how gloriously fascinating and complex human anatomy is. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let’s just say… My mind was blown! But it is very clear, we are as different on the inside as we are on the outside and no one person is the same intrinsically.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Stay Away From Pain!</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So when someone spends time doing research to discover the output of an input, to create a value in the hypothesis over many years, you start to realise just how valuable that is to us ALL.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1478 size-medium\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/tulang-ngilu-300x219.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also makes you realise why </span><b>nothing is the answer to everything</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and why we should </span><b>stay open minded </b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and</span><b> utilise other professionals</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for best practice and duty of care to our clients. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also highlights why, in our roles as exercise professionals (and maybe even as therapists), it might be best to </span><b>stay away from the area that hurts</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or is sore (generally).</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is certainly not our remit as PT\'s, to be working on the ‘injured\' and yet, with the right training, there is strong evidence to suggest we can take pressure off one body part by working on another area, since MOST of our clients have some low grade niggle or ailment somewhere... Don\'t they?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is where our anxiety kicks in about what to do with them doesn’t it?! Technically, there are very few people above the age of maybe even 10yrs old these days, that fit within our ‘no medical conditions’ remit!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Proof of The Integrated System</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a Biomechanics Coach™, the proof of seeing this this integrated system work right before my eyes, is one of the parts of my job that excites me the most. When I see how working on one area of my clients body, can directly impact upon the movement and capacity of another area, is truly amazing! For example; by releasing their pec minor, it immediately impacts directly upon the depth of my client’s loaded squat. Like WHAT? And by releasing their pec, another great side effect of this too, can potentially also be a reduction in their low grade, no specific back ache.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/4-sign-pelvic-release-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Do you want to see this in action yourself?</a></span></strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/4-sign-pelvic-release-video\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Download the Pelvic screen &amp; release, to test your Pelvic function here… You can also use this on your clients to, to start improving their movement &amp; reducing their niggles.</span></a></span></p>\n&nbsp;\n<h3>It’s ALL Hypothesis!</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How we understand the body to work is still being challenged, and rightly so, since it is almost impossible to KNOW what is happening inside a living person when it comes to their intrinsic biomechanics. Much of our research is done on cadavers, which removes all neural influences and \'live\' reactions when testing. But having access to a tried and tested input/output system, it gives me as a Biomechanics Coach™, an increased confidence in what I can do and what is likely to happen as a result of that.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, it is also impossible to prove that we have </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prevented</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an injury or even merely reduced the risk to our client. However, as a professional, to do what we enjoy with an increased level of confidence, while keeping an open mind, demonstrates good practice and duty of care to our clients (considering what evidence we have to work with), doesn’t it!?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>What’s Your View?</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m always interested to hear other peoples views on any topic we write about, so please do add your comments below and tell me your thoughts, we are always keen to hear more about research!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are looking for skilled professionals who want to be part of an ever growing team of diversely skilled people working together to improve the way the nation moves. If you want to be considered, have a look at the</span><a href=\"https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/membership/intrinsic-biomechanics-association-membership/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <b>Intrinsic Biomechanics Association (IBA)</b></a><b>;</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for like minded professionals from both the exercise and medical world. Increase your confidence when referring and learn how other professions work for an increased confidence and quality of service for your clients. You can also subscribe to our mailing list for updates on new research, upcoming courses and more!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move Freely,</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rachel</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">P: 07976 933113</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">E: rachel@biomechanicseducation.com</span>','What’s That…? There Are 5 Quads?','','draft','closed','closed','','whats-that-there-are-5-quads','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1592',0,'post','',0),(1595,0,'2017-02-20 09:41:48','2017-02-20 09:41:48','    	','','','inherit','closed','closed','','shutterstock_383061178','','','2017-02-20 09:41:48','2017-02-20 09:41:48','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/shutterstock_383061178-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1608,0,'2017-01-29 18:55:17','2017-01-29 18:55:17','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','map-marker-marker-outside-azure','','','2017-01-29 18:55:17','2017-01-29 18:55:17','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Map-Marker-Marker-Outside-Azure-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1646,0,'2017-03-07 08:48:11','2017-03-07 08:48:11','    	','','','inherit','closed','closed','','_mg_0055-1-1','','','2017-03-07 08:48:11','2017-03-07 08:48:11','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/MG_0055-1-1-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1649,3,'2017-03-13 15:25:54','2017-03-13 15:25:54','<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet again I have been really grabbed by my latest audiobook </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KNOW</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> WHAT TO DO, SO </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WHY</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> DON’T I DO IT? The new science of self discipline” by Nick Hall PH.D. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hall is charismatic, funny and really honest about the evidence behind the influence of the way we think about our health and also on how we feel about situations. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is where I say it…. Yes… </span><b>“The Power Of The Mind”</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">… THIS is something I believe strongly in (but clearly need more practice at) and there are industry leaders out there who are far more knowledgeable on this subject than I.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stephen Aish and Tom Waldron for example BOTH lead sessions at The Movement Convention 2016, with a lot of evidence based information about the benefits and influence of mindset and imagery.</span>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"></h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1658\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-13-at-11.47.46-300x163.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"211\" /></p>\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Have You Fallen Into The Negative Statement Trap?</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We as humans, spend a lot of time making statements like this….</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b><i>“I wish…</i></b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..I was thinner</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..I had more flexibility</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..I could lift more weight</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..I experienced less pain</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..I could squat better</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..I had more money</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..I worked less hours</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..I was not sitting in this traffic jam”</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thinking this way puts us into a negative frame of mind, that we are LACKING or MISSING out for example. I know I am guilty of this sometimes, especially when it comes to the amount of kilo’s I can chuck over my head in the snatch!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s important to become aware of when we are making these “negative” statements, so we can correct our thought process and mindset.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1655\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-13-at-11.45.20-300x197.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" /></p>\n&nbsp;\n<h3>How Can You Stop Doing This?</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well there is a section in his book where Hall suggests that, when we are in a situation we don\'t like, we should say, or think…</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong><i>“I Am Glad I Am Not…”</i></strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">… and then add the ‘thing’ you are glad that you are not in, at that moment.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This converts how we feel from a negative state of mind, to a more positive and happier state of mind.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Examples might be...</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><i>“I Am Glad I Am Not…</i></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..morbidly obese</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..unable to exercise</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..unable to perform a deadlift</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..in agony that ruins my day</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..unable to squat!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..as poor as others </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..unemployed</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..in the traffic accident up ahead”</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This simple method of mindset can be SO POWERFUL and is something I have mostly done, due to the way I was brought up of seeing the positive side of any situation, however I will also be the first to put my hand up and say I have fallen into the “negative” trap. Yet, don’t you notice in our industry in particular, we often hear our clients making the negative </span><b>“I wish…”</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> statements.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>What Happens When Our Client’s Come To Us With Pain?</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we can convert a negative goal into a positive one there is a higher chance of success. For example, when a client comes to us with pain and asks for our help to relieve it. Removing the pain is NOT our remit as exercise professionals, but What we COULD do, is invite them to change their goal to something their pain stops them doing. Ie; squat 60kg or play on the floor with the grandkids. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YES, you might well be able to improve the way they feel or even reduce their pain. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1654\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/blue-skele-man-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></p>\n&nbsp;\n<h3>But removing their “pain” still isn’t in your remit!</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nor should we focus on it, follow it or try to advise PT clients that we can help their pain. If you do, then you could be running a tight rope.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“He who chases pain, is lost”, </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karel Lewitt. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>So What CAN We Do To Help?</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can convert the goal and the promises to be positive ones. For example, we can 100% guarantee we can teach them how to move better or how to improve the way they move.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember, promising what another person can achieve is always going to be ambiguous and risky… BUT THEY NEED TO OWN IT. If they </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">don’t</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> take responsibility (coaching attitude and motivation is a lot of what we do, right?) then WE can’t expect success in another individual.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However HALL’s suggestion of changing the way we think about our situation in itself, can completely change how we feel. There are even studies that indicate a change of attitude towards the body has changed pain levels… CRAZY RIGHT? (</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lorimer Moseley/David Butler - Explain Pain)</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mindset of our clients is key to the success of the relationship and desired outcome (even if we ask them to change it). This comes from our skills in motivation through education. 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So I often use visual resources like <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/rachfit12/feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube</a>, to help me process and learn new information. Over the last couple of years however, I have also found audiobooks and podcasts to be fantastic resources for learning, processing and absorbing information in the auditory form.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/rachfit12/feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe to Biomechanic Education\'s YouTube Channel by clicking here.</a></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During my time trawling through these awesome resources as I researched squatting and dead lifting biomechanics, I came across all sorts of fascinating things. The </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fun</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> part was that I discovered that not ALL leaders in this subject area actually agree! This encouraged me to delve even deeper to try and understand both viewpoints. It also meant I did actually even buy more books.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>What Happens When World Leader’s In Biomechanics Disagree?</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyway my research also involved a chat with a friend of mine, <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biomechanics Coach™</a> Lawrence Farncombe, who is the head coach for our GB powerlifting team. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We discussed the debate between McGill and Gracovetsky on spine mechanics, the loads and the risk during deadlifting specifically. The fact that those two world leaders in biomechanics completely disagree with each other, was what Lawrence and I were trying to make some sense of. Interestingly this very debate came up again in an online forum recently and a healthy debate was had between several Biomechanics Coaches™.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Fitness-Performance-Stuart-McGill/dp/0973501804/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1490020052&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=McGill%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Ultimate+Back+Fitness+%26+Performance%E2%80%99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1674 alignleft\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/back-mechanic-by-stuart-mcgill-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" /></a>\n\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-1675 size-medium\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/The-Spinal-Engine-Full-cover-100-dpi-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basically McGill’s take is that the spine should be ‘stacked’ without deviation (ie flexion or extension) occurring during a loaded movement, which he discuss\'s in his book, </span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Fitness-Performance-Stuart-McGill/dp/0973501804/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1490020052&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=McGill%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Ultimate+Back+Fitness+%26+Performance%E2%80%99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance</span></a></span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\nGracovetsky argues in his book </span><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Spinal-Engine-Serge-Gracovetsky-2010-04-27/B01K3K9EKI/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1490019930&amp;sr=8-4&amp;keywords=Gracovetsky%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98The+Spinal+Engine%E2%80%99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Spinal Engine by Serge Gracovetsky (2010-04-27)</a></span> </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that the thoraco lumbar fascia acts like an hydraulic amplifier so an amount of flexion could be helpful.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After discussing this over several conversations, both Lawrence and I felt that McGill’s view holds a more favourable reasoning in our opinions, however there are still professionals I have also spoken to in forums who defend Gracovetsky’s view.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It just goes to show, that the best way to determine what works best for you, is by doing YOUR OWN research after finding out about something new, no matter how much evidence there is to back that particular view up. This way you can be sure you’re practicing and teaching the philosophy\'s YOU believe in with YOUR clients and for YOUR own training. If you understand the arguments for and against and you’re able to JUSTIFY your reasoning, it would be a difficult for anyone to challenge you. YOU know YOUR client that YOU care for and ALL the details required to make that decision.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YOUR knowledge and understanding will allow you to coach better and lead by example. We should NEVER use techniques we don’t fully understand or use simply because… \"</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rachel said</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">…..\" or \"...</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so and so said</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">…\" or \"...</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">no idea, I heard it on a course</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..\" or \"<em>...I </em></span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>r</em>ead it somewhere</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">…\"</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>So Find Ways To Process Information Until You Get It:</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Personally….</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In videos and the gym I would SEE &amp; FEEL moves...</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In forums and phone calls I would DISCUSS them, hear others views … </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In books I would READ reasoning and technical information…</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The audiobooks, podcasts also NOW feed my auditory learning style.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which would ALL contribute towards getting a better understanding of a particular debate or concept and allowed me to form some kind of an opinion. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>What’s YOUR Problem?</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All too often PT’s, Pilates instructors and other exercise professionals come to us because they ENJOY discussing new research and these topics, but they also feel like they lack some of the knowledge (or resources) required to be able to challenge concepts, ideas or sometimes just to grasp and debate a technical argument. Which isn’t surprising really when even world leaders sometimes don’t even agree...!!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do YOU feel </span><b>anxious</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about YOUR anatomy knowledge...</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do YOU </span><b>lack confidence</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in knowing exactly </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">why</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> your clients are moving that way...</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are YOU looking for a </span><b>deeper understanding</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of what’s going on inside your clients bodies..</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don’t worry! </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For years I WANTED to learn and read, but I just didn’t feel I had it in me; now I feel like a complete sponge and literally cannot get enough! 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Biomechanics Coaches™ and Master Trainers, Tom Waldron and Chris Kitson arrived for the day and also to present on behalf of Biomechanics Education.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nUp first was Chris, who is also an Osteopath, with ‘Why Your Flexibility Routines DON’T Work’.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1705\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_7959-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThen Tom, who also teaches the Franklin Method &amp; Pilates, was on later in the day with ‘Why You’re Exercising Wrong’.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1704\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_7999-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBoth session were full and not only was the feedback fantastic, the boys energy was infectious as they obviously enjoyed themselves!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWendy Arthan, also a Master Trainer and Biomechanics Coach™ who also runs her own facility, did an amazing job manning the stand and offering free screens to the event attendees interested in what we do within the academy.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1703\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_8022-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWe all had such a great day catching up AND discussion global domination ;)\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Saturday Was ALL About Making Things Simple</h3>\nOn Saturday my session first thing was fully booked and had such a diverse range of attendees from class participants with absolutely no anatomy training or knowledge, to L2 fitness/gym instructors and L3 PT’s, with one sports therapist.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nConsidering my session was called ‘Movement Analysis Made Easy’ I thought … ‘wowzers, how do I pitch this?’.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnyway, as I set the tone of the session, I explained that we were going to analyse ‘group actions of muscles’ without using ANY names of muscles.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWhenever I teach, present or lecture, I always try to remember how I had felt as a learner or attendee in this type of environment. While not an unconfident character (as some of you may have guessed), I would however feel very anxious that I would be picked out to give an answer, that I might not know, and I would then look stupid in front of everyone else. I always thought everyone else knew so much more than me and were much smarter than me.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1701\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_8291-169x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy challenge (in my own head) is ALWAYS to include and connect positively with, every single audience member in some way. To remember, and to use, as many of their names as possible. To offer an inclusive learning environment where healthy discussion allows everyone to have a go. To NOT judge if someone gets it wrong or isn\'t quite right, but to praise the effort to try and share their thoughts. To encourage and facilitate discussion rather than to ‘tell people what I know’. To embrace a learner lead environment where we ALL learn from each other.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTHIS is MY purpose.\nTHIS is what the Biomechanics Education ethos is about.\nWE give YOU the opportunity to learn, expand and grow your confidence and knowledge in the field of human movement, also known in our academy as intrinsic biomechanics.\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Why Analyse Movement?</h3>\nSo after my introduction to the purpose of the session I started by asking the group; “Why Analyse Movement?” …to reduce risk and improve performance… the group decided… Great!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“So What’s The Problem?”, I asked… The problem is identifying what is influencing what, when you can’t see what’s actually happening inside the body. We all agreed!\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>It’s All A Hypothesis!</h3>\nNo one REALLY knows, I explained, everyone (even the ‘experts’) are guessing from the ‘input/output’ studies, from cadaver studies and logical analysis and this is actually the best we have got.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWell if it’s THAT complex and challenging how about we simplify it down to that great “SO WHAT?” question?… I suggested to the group.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAs ‘movement specialists’ we don’t really NEED to know that anatomy of the muscles (we SHOULD know it), BUT in the meantime, while we find ways to remember it, why not use this technique to understand movement first...\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1702\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_8290-169x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>The Session Went Like This</h3>\n<strong>Example 1 - Shoulder Abduction.</strong>\n\nWe discussed what GROUPS of muscles were the agonists, antagonists, fixators and dynamic stabilisers. i.e. The shoulder abductors, the shoulder adductors, trunk fixators.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWe added the question, “Which part of the trunk is working hardest due to the load?”… Cobwebs were being brushed away for some people here but I could literally SEE them mentally processing the discussion. We got to our conclusion then moved on to the next one.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Example 2 - Supine Leg Lift (30 degrees).</strong>\n\nAgain we discussed agonists, antagonists, fixators and dynamic stabilisers.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nInitially some people had opposing views until we explored their justifications for their answers. This allowed a few of the attendees to offer their ideas to then find the answer that they then all agreed on.\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/release-low-back5jirv1qh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &gt;&gt; Download your own free Low Back Releases including leg press &amp; pelvic tilt by clicking here &lt;&lt;</a></strong></em></p>\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Example 3 - Side Lying Hip Abduction.</strong>\n\nAh ok starting to get a bit of a flow now…. still a few questions initially but the process was becoming quicker. 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Even the non fit pros had been involved!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFor the rest of the day I was networking with all sorts of fascinating people!\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>In fact this is my favourite working weekend of the entire year for several reasons:</h3>\n1) We get a weekend in Blackpool!! (c’mon we all secretly love the place)\n\n2) My long time buddy and a partner in collaboration, Sara Morelli of Athleticum &amp; Spinning®, was there and she is ALWAYS so great to be around.\n\n3) Her A.W.E.S.O.M.E team of Master Trainers are like a family I get to see once a year - many are also trained Biomechanics Coaches™ or Trainers™!\n\n4) 3 of my team, Master Trainers, were there to present and man the stand. 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06:58:34','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-06.57.52-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2273,3,'2016-12-10 07:01:13','2016-12-10 07:01:13','So one of the biggest days of the year for our Biomechanics Coach™ learners is their practical assessment. Even after 5 months of training, the discomfort of being observed for how skilled you are as a practitioner is clear for most learners.\n\nAfter the 5 x 2 day workshops this is their ‘qualification’ that they are ready to do their 12 weeks of case studies.\n\nAs an assessor I perceive their nerves as a good sign because it demonstrates how much they care. The degree of nerves isn\'t always indicative of how skilled they are though!\n\nIn fact often it is those who put the most pressure on themselves that perform the best and can show they understand the system better.\n\nNow when a learner passes it feels great for both of us!\n\nAs an assessor I can see how well the information has been passed over during their training. The learner feels success from being able to demonstrating effectively what they have learned and retained over the period of the training.\n\nBut what about when someone isn\'t quite hitting the expected criteria?\n\nHaving to tell someone they haven\'t quite made it can be emotionally tough for both people involved. For myself, as the assessor, having to tell the learner the didn\'t make it is hard but I am also aware I want to do it without crushing their confidence.\n\nThe learner is obviously going to be disappointed, having to hear the news and knowing they aren\'t quite good enough yet and also then having to go back home and tell loved ones they didn\'t pass.\n\nI find it an interesting thing that we can feel so <i>personally</i> judged by our performance in these situations. For example; I am terrible in exams, I get nervous and I even lose some of the common sense I have because of those nerves, often making dumb mistakes!\n\nWHY?\n\nNo one is going to love you less, no one will think you’re a bad person, no one will stop talking to you!! And yet it can be really quite upsetting cant it?\n\nIt seems that we are seeking approval that we are good enough, that we have achieved something and surpassed where we previously were and demonstrated we have moved into a higher plane of understanding.\n\nAs I said earlier the feelings we have, show that we care about how others see us and how they perceive our ability and our performance. It represents the hard work we have put in and time spent studying and practicing and honing our skills.\n\nAs a tutor, I really feel a huge sense of responsibility when my learners are being assessed. Their performance is based on things the academy has taught them. Either myself or one of the Master Trainers I have trained to deliver the education.\n\nWOW that is a MASSIVE responsibility!!\n\nSo when one of my ‘flock’ doesn’t quite make the grade I really feel it and I also feel responsible for it.\n\nWhat more could I have done to get them ready for this moment? How am I going to ensure they reach the target next time?\n\nNow believe me, I am going to do everything in my power to support them in reaching the standards required and that we expect of our Biomechanics Coaches™.\n\nWhile not unreasonable, the standards we expect are very high and it is one of the things we are passionate about maintaining as we continue to teach these programmes. This is what creates the value, the reputation and therefore the confidence in those who pass through our academy and become qualified Biomechanics Coaches™.\n\nHowever I constantly question how I personally deliver, the methods used, did I do enough as a tutor? have I failed my learners in any way? should I have done more? could I have done more?\n\nThese thoughts all go into my reflective journal and allow me to work on areas for improvement of my own contributions to the learner experience.\n\nThen yesterday I received this email…..\n\n<i>Just a quick email to say a BIG thank you for helping me through the Biomechanics Coach™ modules and assessment today. I have really enjoyed it so far and can\'t wait to get using the system with more confidence and see how people develop.</i>\n\n<i>You have an excellent delivery style which suits the qualification content, you re-re-re-(!) emphasise the H&amp;S considerations and exactly where the Biomechanics Coach™ system fits so that learners really can\'t be mislead. There is plenty of flexibility to meet learner needs, you are easily approachable and highly supportive to everyone attending and considerate to individual situations. A major strength is your coaching style delivery of questioning learners and flipping questions back to the learner, it doesn\'t stop people questioning things but it helps learner led learning. There is plenty of \"stretch and challenge\" through resources and references learners can use from the manuals and you constantly give links to other professionals supporting this further. The practical content and receiving your feedback is invaluable.</i>\n\nBLOWN AWAY!!\n\nThe learner who sent me this email is an assessor and internal quality assurer for another fitness training provider company so her feedback how huge value. Especially after I had to tell someone they didn\'t quite make the grade.\n(If this happens we create an action plan together and the learner simply re-sits for free when we both feel they are ready)\n\nSo if you have been wondering whether the Biomechanics Education academy is for you, rest assure WE as a team will do everything in our power to support YOU in reaching a standard to be proud of!\n\nRegister your interest <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\">HERE</a> today!    	','BLOWN AWAY!','','draft','closed','closed','','blown-away','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1437',0,'post','',0),(2274,3,'2016-12-12 06:40:01','2016-12-12 06:40:01','By 5:30am this morning I was out of the house, without brushing my teeth, big coat, walking boots and audiobook playing. My arms swinging as I raised my pulse, rotated and hydrated my pelvis and spine, while learning something new through my headphones.\n\nHaving discovered a ‘health app’ on my phone a few months ago I was horrified to discover it had measured the number of steps I was doing on average daily. Now before you start shouting at the screen I KNOW these apps aren\'t THAT accurate AND I often don\'t have my phone on me while I am taking steps BUT it did give me an impression and let me tell you it wasn\'t a good one.\n\nI pretty much have my phone attached to my hand MOST of the time so I knew it would give me at least a representation of my daily activity.\n\n10,000 is the suggested number for general health right? OK GUESS…..Go on! GUESS….Do you know how many I was doing daily??? C’mon….nope ….less…..closer……ALMOOOOOST!\n\n1,200 Steps on a daily average!!!!\n\nWHAAAAAT!?!?\n\nWow and this was the daily average of a human movement specialist who preaches ..”<i>we should all move more and teach our clients too…blah blah…” </i>\n\nOMG, I was literally horrified! Not only at the lack steps but also the fact I hadn\'t realised just how few I was taking until I saw this health app. BUT do you know what it did for me? It proved something to me AND taught me something at the same time.\n\n1). We are ALL at risk of not moving enough\n\n2). THIS lack of awareness might be what happens to our clients\n\nWe potentially just don\'t realise, or even have time, to consider or acknowledge things like this. My job requires several hours a day in front of a computer and 35k miles sitting in a car annually and so while I KNEW this, I was <i>getting away with it </i>because I regularly do exercises that improve my movement but long term I know this isn\'t enough.\n\nIt is our job, as exercise professionals or movement specialists, to pass on ideas (and also measure) how we can improve the way our clients move AND also how much AND how often. It has to relate to the individuals lifestyle because I am quite sure a 5:30am morning walk just wont work for some people!\n\nNo one can get away with simply doing an hour or so of exercise a day then expect this to be enough to keep a good blood flow and our intrinsic tissues and structures healthy!\n\nSo one of my New Years Resolution’s started 3 weeks ago….walk for 30-60 minutes every day.  My average step count on my health app is now up to 8,000-9,000 a day and I FEEL so much better. Not only physically but also mentally it sets me up for the day AND I get an hour or so of education from my audio book every morning too! BONUS!\n\nNow it takes some planning and I don\'t even have kids to feed and get to school BUT we must all find ways to do things like this for ourselves in our own circumstances AND also for our clients.\n\nThis needs to take a priority if we are to really have healthy pelvic and spine biomechanics, hydrated discs, joints and soft tissue.\n\nSo which New Years Resolution are you starting early??\n\nLearn ways to assess movement on our Pelvic &amp; Spine Biomechanics workshops\nBook both before Dec 20th &amp; gain a FREE Low Back Health workshop!\n\n<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/workshop/november-special/\">HERE</a>    	','Do You Know How Many....?','','draft','closed','closed','','do-you-know-how-many','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1440',0,'post','',0),(2275,3,'2016-12-14 08:02:28','2016-12-14 08:02:28','Ok so you qualified but....\n\n<b>Do YOU Know Enough..?</b>\n\nSo many of us have found ourselves attending more and more training to try and know as much as possible to help all of our clients to the best of our ability, right??\n\nYet we are still left feeling like we don\'t know enough or maybe we still don\'t have all the answers.\n\nMaybe you\'re just fed up with taking course after course and you just want someone to talk to and maybe refer your clients to?\n\nWhile more and more of us are starting to work together with other professionals, this style of practice should be how we are taught for the best duty of care we can offer. Here are 4 tips on how it could be done...\n\n<b>No 1. Attempt To Open Up Communication With Other Professionals.</b>\n\nThis very simple concept may feel alien to some out there BUT we shouldn\'t feel that we should try and know everything to help our clients. We should get REALLY good at the skills we possess and feel confident to refer out to someone else when we do not find the answer or feel another opinion is required.\n\nTHIS IS OUR DUTY OF CARE..\n\n…and demonstrates our commitment to it. With the clients permission we should share our view on their physicality to best advise them on how to improve their movement ability.\n(Don\'t forget you will need their permission to swap and discuss their personal details with another professional).\n\nSo rather than simply suggesting they go see ‘<i>a therapist</i>’ or someone else, actually refer them to someone you know who has different, but complementary, skills to yours. Build a relationship with practitioners you trust, who are open minded and offer you their thoughts and opinion. Getting their ideas about the issue and discussing their thoughts and yours combined allows you both to come to a joint conclusion of best practice for this individual. This is SO powerful and just makes sense!\n\nThis way YOU learn, THEY learn, the client learns AND neither professional has to worry about doing it alone, while the client gets to experience truly outstanding service.\n\nA blend of minds, experience and skills is surely better than one, right?\n\nForm a working relationship with this professional, and others, to obtain not only more information but referrals FROM them too!! Commercially this is better for you and it is a really confident professional who refers clients away!\n\nThis way each of you can focus on becoming the best you can be at YOUR skill set and service, accessing professional discussion with your ‘partners’ for added confidence in the service/s you provide.\n\nHow many practitioners do you think would turn you away if you approached them and said..\n\n<i>“I want to send my clients to you, are you interested?”</i>\n\nObviously find someone who is willing and open to reciprocate and that you can build trust with. Maybe book yourself appointments with practitioners in your area, for your own interest and based upon how you feel about the way they manage you, approach those that you felt offered a quality, knowledgeable service.\n\n<b>No 2. Get REALLY REALLY Good At Your Skill Set</b>\n\nNow you can focus on being the best at what YOU do. We are all turning into hybrids and this is a good thing to allow us to understand each style of practice;\n\nASSESS - MASSAGE- EXERCISE - TREAT\n\nASSESS - TREAT - EXERCISE - MASSAGE\n\nASSESS - EXERCISE - TREAT - MASSAGE\n\nASSESS - MASSAGE - TREAT - EXERCISE\n\nASSESS - TREAT - MASSAGE - EXERCISE\n\nASSESS - EXERCISE - MASSAGE - TREAT\n\nYou get the idea....\n\nBUT we can’t be great at everything and doing all of this during one session might be a push since the expected time slot is usually an hour.\nBy the way this doesn’t have to be how you work. Many assume the 1hr session protocol just because everyone else does but you might decide to work based on 90 min sessions. So long as this is clear up front and it could be your USP (unique selling point)\n\nAnyway if you do cram all of this into one hour or session then you may well be pushed for doing each really well - I know I would in the 1hr time frame. This could be an issue if you know your client requires all of these. So create a ‘flow’ with your team where by one is the specialist for one area, ie assessment. They then refer to the trainer about which exercises would be good and which can then be based on the assessment results. The exercise professional then refers them to the manual therapist for the hands on part. Hey then refer on to the clinician should an injury or problem arise. The clinician then refers back to the assessment professional for the clients journey back into exercise.  Maybe they need a foot specialist or a sports specific coach!?\n\nHaving massage skills doesn’t mean you have to use them, knowing about foot function and orthotics doesn\'t mean you prescribe them but this knowledge allows you to understand when to refer for this service AND how to communicate with the other professional.\n\nNow you may decide you want to offer 2 or even 3 of these services, but decide which part of the services you are able to offer within your practice appropriately in your scheduling and then refer the rest. BUT do communicate where possible or build a team around you.\n\n<b>No 3. Stay Open Minded - Things Change!!</b>\n\nThe idea that you qualify and TADAAAAH!…you’re done with training is of course out of date. Hence the plethora of CPD’s we are consistently being informed about.\n\nTHINGS CHANGE!\n\nNew ideas or research develops and new ways of doing things become available. So we need to decide when we re-train, sample the new idea and refer or amend our commercial offering. Either way remember you can only do so much really well and also we should find professionals willing to stay up to date too. We should challenge each other AND what we are taught by education providers ALL of the time! Professional open discussion should be inclusive and positive even where challenges might be made about a certain method. To have technical discussions about what is right for the individual, based in the data or evidence available and all thoughts laid out is really quite exciting and fascinating aside for it being BEST DUTY OF CARE for the client.\n\nKeep asking WHY until you understand at depth WHY that idea is better or a great addition or something to consider for that particular client for example.\n\n<b>No 4. Find Trusted Organisations Who Offer Networking Opportunities. </b>\n\nThere are some fantastic organisations out there that have set up as a support and networking system for professionals.\nThe Intrinsic Biomechanics Association (IBA) which has a monthly subscription fee offers at present 4 free workshops a year, branded clothing, £150 credit for education with the academy, discounted events, mentoring and networking opportunities for fitness professionals interested in both the study of human movement/exercise and also looking for professionals to work alongside.\n\nThe Sports Therapy Association (STA) founded by Gary Benson is a superbly run resource for manual therapists. Gary is really passionate about offering genuine support. For a very small annual fee he works very hard to give his members access to information and CPD\'s through various mediums along with his regional ambassador team.\nWe delivered a session at the STA annual conference this year inside the Therapy Expo at the NEC and the line up Gary had organised was fantastic (of course lol).\n\nGary and I are both very passionate about supporting YOUR success and confidence. We are enabling our members to meet each other and cross refer to each other allowing us all to offer great DUTY OF CARE to our clients across these 2 amazing and merging industries.\n\nTo find out more or to join the <a href=\"https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/membership/intrinsic-biomechanics-association-membership/\">IBA CLICK HERE </a>\n\nTo find out more or to join the <a href=\"http://www.sportstherapyassociation.co.uk/site/\">STA CLICK HERE </a>    	','TADAAAAH!','','draft','closed','closed','','tadaaaah','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1444',0,'post','',0),(2276,3,'2016-12-17 08:19:32','2016-12-17 08:19:32','<b>Change How You Feel In A Moment </b>\n\nHaving become a massive audio book fan to make use of the 35k miles I have driven over the last 12 months, I have literally filled my phone with all sorts of fabulous books FILLED with information! As a ‘non academic’ this resource is SO exciting for me and helps me to learn quickly and easily during a time that would normally be wasted. it amazes me that I can get through a book a week some times. With all sorts of subjects from business and marketing to emotional intelligence and communication skills. Me and my buddy and colleague, Chris Wright of Level 10 Living, are always swapping audio book ideas.\n\nHere’s one I would like to share with YOU (for starters)…\n\nRecently I got engrossed in the well known book by Stephen R Covey, ‘<i>7 Habits of Highly Successful People’ </i>and<i> </i>I heard the term ‘<i>Paradigm Shifting’</i>. This term is something we have used in our academy from the very beginning of our course development and design. Covey gives a fantastic example of how to understand this term.\n\n<b>But first what is a ‘Paradigm?’</b>\n\nThe internet says;\n\n<i>A typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model.</i>\n\n<i>\"society\'s paradigm of the ‘ideal woman’”</i>\n<i>A world view underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject.</i>\n\n<i>\"the discovery of universal gravitation became the paradigm of successful science”</i>\nIn simple terms I guess it is <i>how you see things in your head.</i>\n\nThis idea would suggest it to be a great way to influence someone else behaviour by offering a new way of seeing a situation.\n\nThe example scenario Covey experienced and explained in his book went something like this;\n\nA man with his 2 kids who were being unruly, running around and disturbing people, while he sat on a bench next to Covey.\n\nCovey was trying to read his paper and felt annoyed by these ‘out of control’ kids thinking to himself.. <i>“why cant he control his kids?”</i>\n\nEventually Covey said to the man..<i>“excuse me but aren\'t your kids a little out of control?”</i>\n\nThe man replies, looking somewhat deflated.. <i>“yes yes I guess I should but well we just left the hospital and their mother just died an hour ago and I guess they don\'t know yet how to deal with it and I guess me too”</i>\n\nCovey’s paradigm shifted in a moment once he heard the plight of this poor family and his annoyance shifted to sympathy.\n\nCovey encourages US to think about how OUR feelings shifted as WE heard or read the story here.\n\nIt is evidence of how ones own perception of a situation can shift instantly the moment we realise the other view point.\n\nSo can we give more detail about how WE view a situation to enable better understanding of the circumstances surrounding it or at least our view of it?\n\nShould we be asking more questions prior to making some kind of judgement?\n\nMaybe we should open our thoughts to differing view points before we make a decision?\n\nImagine your client saying they forgot to do their exercise home work or couldn’t find time to make the healthy dinner we suggested.\n\nHOW ANNOYING!\n\nYou had created a beautiful exercise sheet and paid to get it printed at the post office. Also you had taken the time to explain each one in detail and how to perform them for better movement ability ready for their next session with you. You had spent a good hour last night typing up some really simple healthy recipes for your client to make for the whole family that will contribute to their weight loss goals.\n\nYOU would feel frustrated by the fact they turned up for they next session saying they didn\'t do anything with this wouldn\'t you!?!?\n\nIt REALLY annoys you because it will make YOU look bad as their trainer if your client is not succeeding. GGGRRRRRRR\n\nBUT now consider how you would perceive the situation if you heard this;\n\nThey are struggling to think of anything other than their really sick parent who lives 100 miles away and they had to drive to care for them after they got a call after work that their parent had fallen and couldn\'t get up. So with the kids in the back of the car they had to drive straight there from the school pick up. This also meant they were left wth no time to do their exercises and to shop and create the fantastical healthy (and easy to do) meal you had suggested. Hence the fast food meal they had ended up buying instead.\n\nParadigm shift right?\n\nWe humans are generally empathetic by nature.\n\nAnother example relevant for our industry is that there are so many articles and videos out there that are by people who are not demonstrating an inclusive view point considering ALL of its readers or viewers. What I mean is those articles that suggest that everyone should do one thing, for example;\n\n<i> • squat with toes pointing forward</i>\n\n<i> • women should do more cardio</i>\n\n<i> • everyone should eat paleo</i>\n\n<i> • dairy is bad for you </i>\n\n<i> • orthotics are bad</i>\n\n<i> • stretching is bad for you</i>\n\n<i> • we should all learn to use foam rollers</i>\n\nNone of these statements are considering every person who may squat, like dairy, need orthotics etc.\n\nIt is often a single view point that is offered into our industry about methods of exercise prescription, movement correction, risk reduction or diet etc. The author has usually had an experience that created THEIR belief or idea and maybe this happened to most of the people they knew. So they wanted to tell others in an attempt to help.\n\nYet we are all different!\n\nSome people can eat dairy, some like paleo, some do and some don\'t respond to stretching.\n\nMaybe we should be encouraged to challenge the ideas we hear more, in a positive way of course!\n\nThis would allow us to understand better the thinking behind an idea or view point we hear someone else describe. WE should give clarity on our ideas along with the WHYs.\n\nUltimately this would also allow us, our audience, clients and peers to appreciate better WHY WE feel the way WE do or WHY WE think this way about a certain situation.\n\nSo rather than simply following the crowd maybe we should learn about the thinking behind an idea, method or trend so we can consider logically our own view as to what is right for US or each of our clients - individually.\n\nNo method works for all, ALWAYS case by case or ‘it depends\' on the individual SHOULD always be considered.\n\nDon’t you think?\n\nDo you want to experience an excitingly inclusive learning environment?\n\nWould you like to learn how to positively challenge concepts?\n\nAre you looking for an open minded methodology of exercise prescription?\n\n<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/contact-us/\">CONTACT US HERE</a>\n\nReference; Stephen R Covey, ‘<i>7 Habits of Highly Successful People’</i>    	','Paradigm Shift','','draft','closed','closed','','paradigm-shift','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1448',0,'post','',0),(2277,3,'2016-12-19 09:06:11','2016-12-19 09:06:11','People ask me all the time about insurance cover, now I am not a legal person however I do have insurance policies.\n\nThis information is based upon my very limited knowledge and experience of insurance companies.\n\nSome insurance policies are compulsory, some are a very good idea and others are a waste of time in my opinion.\n\nNow generally we can choose who we take out insurance with for our various ‘potential’ problems, like house insurance incase it burns down or car insurance in case we have an accident.\n\nThis is the same for professional cover in case our client/patient has an accident or problem under our care or guidance for example. THIS is the cover I am going to discuss here.\n\nMy advice to anyone who is wondering about their cover is to ask yourself;\n\nIs it right?\n\nIs it enough?\n\nIs it legal?\n\nThen how do you KNOW this?\n\nThe insurance policy you take out is a legally binding contract between YOU &amp; the INSURER. Not me, not your colleague or mate who says what they have, not even the lady receptionist you chatted to on the phone, just YOU &amp; the INSURER.\n\nWhat this means is that image worst case scenario and an accident happens for example and you need to access that cover…\n\n1). The insurance company will look for a reason NOT TO PAY OUT\n\n2). In a court of law the legally binding contract is the T&amp;C’s YOU agreed with the insurer.\n\n3). The person who suggested which cover to take is not responsible at that point.\n\n4). Neither is the receptionist of the insurance company who told you stuff over the phone.\n\nNow what am I suggesting?\n\nWell YOU are the person responsible for arranging the most appropriate cover and contract with your insurer. If you don\'t like the one they have offered you, go somewhere else. The actual figure you’re covered for SOUNDS impressive at £5 million or £10 million BUT this is not the biggest deal. READ the terms and conditions of what the insurance actually covers YOU FOR.\n\nFor example;\n\nDoes it cover you for being hands on?\n\nDoes it cover you if the client falls off a step in your gym?\n\nDoes it cover every professional skill set you have?\n\nAre YOUR professional skills listed in the T&amp;C’s?\n\nIf you want to know the answer to these questions YOU ask YOUR INSURER then ask if they will write them into the T&amp;C’s. READ IT &amp; DON\'T PAY until YOU\'RE HAPPY. The clauses may already be in there in some form but written a certain way to include the things you need.\n\nYour insurer SHOULD be able to explain this if not find a legal person who can.\n\nIf they are a decent company they should take the time to advise you and create a T&amp;C’s that correlates to YOUR skill set.\n\nWe sat down with Graybrook Insurance Brokers Ltd to discuss the very unique Biomechanics Coaching™ skills. These skills give personal trainers hands on techniques which is something a large group of our learners didn\'t necessarily have in their skill set previously as PT’s and exercise professionals. We wanted to make sure they were covered for the skills we were teaching them.\n\nGraybrook recognised that while this was the case, the clients were in fact safer in our hands than a PT or exercise professional without these assessment skills. So they wrote the title Biomechanics Coach™ INTO the contract T&amp;C’s for us AND even gave us a premium rate that covers ALL their skills sets including manual therapy and group exercise.\n\nSo while we have done SOME of the work for these professionals every single insurance contact is individual and still between YOU and the INSURER.\n\nNow although these types of claims are rare, the right insurance cover is vital to cover any ‘potential’ problem or risk. They offer comfort that your assets are safe and they demonstrate good practice.\n\nThere are other great insurance companies out there, Balens Ltd for example, who are also very accommodating I am told. But do your research for your skill sets.\n\nSo my final piece of advice is this;\n\n<b><i>READ THE CONTRACT BEFORE YOU SIGN</i></b>\n\nI KNOW I KNOW …..the small print\n\nBUT you never know when you might need it and you will need it to be right!    	','Is It Legal?','','draft','closed','closed','','is-it-legal','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1451',0,'post','',0),(2278,3,'2016-12-21 07:29:55','2016-12-21 07:29:55','Approval..\n\nWe all seek it and yet what does it matter what other people think?\n\nFor some reason as a race we have a desire to fit in and be accepted by those around us. If you watch programmes that involve singing or dancing competitions on TV its ALL about acceptance and being voted in. Does this mean we feel liked? Popular? Worthy?\n\nDoes this differ when we are seeking new clients?\n\nAre we not simply in competition with others to be chosen?\n\nPick me!\n\nPick me!\n\nWhy pick me?\n\nBecause I will make you feel valuable, liked, chosen, popular, accepted!!\n\nYes it is like a continuous cycle of being liked, feeling valued and chosen, isn\'t it.\n\nWhat a fascinating thought.\n\nAre the singing show winners the best singers? Not necessarily, but they stand out or catch your heart strings for some reason. They become ‘popular’ for a reason that is generally that they are ‘liked’ and therefore get picked or chosen.\n\nHow do you demonstrate that you are ‘the one’?\n\nHow do you stand out from the crowd?\n\nHow will you become the clients choice?\n\nWell of course it is a bit of a popularity contest.\n\nSo ask yourself what makes YOU pick someone when it comes to choosing your singing competition winner, or more to the point, how do you pick someone when you’re buying services?\n\nConsider that really hard for a moment…\n\nDo you simply pick the cheapest?\n\nDo you pick the nearest?\n\nDo you pick the one with certain certificates?\n\nNone of these guarantee the best service do they?\n\nAnd none guarantee they will make YOU feel valued or accepted.\n\n(BTW How many times has the client asked to show them your certificates?)\n\nYou might read an \'advisor of trips\' for the reviews of best services for your holiday destination! This will be based one service and how well \'looked after\' they were.\n\nChances are you pick the service provider your friend or colleague or the reviews recommend because “<i>they made me feel great and they look after you with excellent service</i>\"\n\nSo what is the best service?\n\nWell I believe going the extra mile is the part we are talking about here.\n\nThe ‘service’ part of being an exercise professional isn\'t necessarily the exercises or the dietary advice specifically because there are millions of people doing that and clients would simply pick the nearest and cheapest.\n\nIt’s the WAY you do it, the WAY you make them feel at each session, and afterwards.\n\nA great service means YOU make your client feel important, valuable, successful and liked or chosen! (Along with the results of course but thats a given if they are paying for your service right?!)\n\nWe empower our clients to achieve things themselves by giving them the right information or details. We inform them fully so they know exactly what to expect and we deliver on our promise every single time.\n\nDo YOU think about how someone makes YOU feel when you are in their company or buy their services?\n\nWhat is it that THEY do to makes YOU feel that way?\n\nMaybe they smile a lot, give eye contact, maybe gently touch your elbow or shoulder as they listen to your every word. Maybe they make you feel important by simply being in your company showing understand of your situation.\n\nDo you want to know how YOU can stand out from the crowd in your profession?\n\nDo YOU want US to PICK YOU to join our community/academy?\n\nDo you want to know HOW to get chosen or picked by ALL the clients in your area?\n\n<a href=\"https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/membership/intrinsic-biomechanics-association-membership/\">Click here and PICK ME!!</a>    	','PICK ME! (AGAIN by request)','','draft','closed','closed','','pick-me-again-by-request','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1455',0,'post','',0),(2279,3,'2016-12-24 14:22:47','2016-12-24 14:22:47','Ok it IS xmas and everyone feels that they have earned the right to sit on their bums for several days, including YOU, am I right?\n\nWell, ok ok ok some of us might go walking or to the gyms that are open at some point, BUT xmas day is pretty much SIT ON YOUR BUM ALL DAY, DAY don’t you agree?\n\nSo this Juicemail is NOT going to tell you NOT to sit on your bum.\n\nOh no!\n\nI myself will be doing this for at least a full day or maybe even 2.\n\n<b>A Rubbish Secret</b>\n\nHowever let me tell you a really rubbish secret…..even sitting on my bum for a day I KNOW how to keep my pelvis moving freely!!\n\nThe question is DO YOU???\n\nIn fact another question is DO YOUR CLIENTS??\n\nSince they are the people who pay us to get them moving well, pain free and with reduced risk of injury, right?\n\nNow I KNOW one of your biggest problems is not only getting them moving well in the first place but also KEEPING them moving well. So the last thing you want is for all of that hard work to be undone over xmas, isn\'t it?\n\nThe practical skills a PT like YOU can learn in our academy will enable you to educate your clients how they can maintain a freely moving pelvis over the xmas break. This is even possible without getting up from their sofa!\n\nSo my xmas gift to all of YOU is a sample of one for you to use yourselves AND also to pass onto your clients right now or maybe when they came back to you a couple of pounds heavier AND feeling a little bit stiffer…\n\n<b>The 4 Sign Pelvic Function Exercise</b>\n\nSitting on your sofa, cross your right ankle over your left knee, ensure your party hat remains in place.\n\nMake sure your ankle bone is on the outside of the thigh and you’re as relaxed as possible. Maybe even with a mince pie in your left hand.\n\nNow put the wine glass thats in your right hand down on the table and place your right hand on the inside of your right knee. (Don’t worry this will only take 1 minute 20 seconds then you can pick up your wine glass again)\n\nNow while rotating your right knee/leg into your right hand so that your right ankle is also rotating down into the outside of your thigh - understand this movement should be coming from the hip - you can still talk part in the games of charades going on.\n\nIf you are doing this correctly you will be adding pressure with your hand to keep the knee from lifting - so no movement actually occurs. This creates a muscle energy technique.\n\nThis particular one requires ONLY 20% effort which wont feel like a lot, if anything at all - don’t worry this is correct and is also why this technique is so fantastic for doing while you are sitting on your bum next to your sleeping grandma!\n\n<b>How It Is Done</b>\n\nNow hold this with 20% effort as a static contraction for 20 seconds.\n\nRepeat 4 times (maybe even in between slurps of wine)\n\nThen do the same on the left leg.\n\nIf you do this periodically over the days that you are glued to the sofa it should contribute to maintaining at least some of the function of your pelvis.\n\nHigh doses of chocolate and xmas pudding have not been shown to reduce the effects of this pelvic function exercise…\n\n<b>Final Word</b>\n\nPlease do your 4 Sign, enjoy yourselves everyone and <i>KEEP MOVING FREELY!</i>!\n\nWant to LEARN MORE about Pelvic Biomechanics? <a href=\"http://%20https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/pelvis-module\">CLICK HERE</a>','Sitting On Your Bum This Xmas?','','draft','closed','closed','','sitting-on-your-bum-this-xmas','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1458',0,'post','',0),(2280,3,'2017-01-09 10:02:26','2017-01-09 10:02:26','<h2><strong>Health V\'s Fitness</strong></h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previously I have written about the book; ‘Body by Science’ written by Doug McGuff &amp; John Little, for its research and their approach to the point they were making.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMore recently I read another book and was reminded of a point they make about health and fitness being quite different goals.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">‘Intervention’ by Dan John, is, in my opinion, an investment for any strength training fan. In this book his methods based on 3 decades of experience as a Strength &amp; Conditioning Coach and he comes across as very honest about his failings, which also enhanced his coaching. This is something I am familiar with, as I am sure you are!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>When you get it wrong, you learn!</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John explains, with his reasoning, the differences between health and fitness and that many clients do not realise which of these their goal is. This then interferes with the PT’s programming since the client asks for what they THINK their goal is, as opposed to what they’re really trying to achieve.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John’s view is that </span><em><b>health</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the homeostasis of an organism and </span><b>fitness</b></em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em> is simply the ability to perform a task</em>.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>McGuff’s definitions:</b></h3>\n<em><b>HEALTH</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Is a physiological state in which there is an absence of disease or pathology and that maintains the necessary biological balance between the catabolic and anabolic states.</span></em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-34945 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/dan-gold-4_jhDO54BYg-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em><b>FITNESS</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The bodily state of being physiologically capable of handling challenges that exist above the resting threshold.</span></em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-34941 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/edgar-chaparro-sHfo3WOgGTU-unsplash-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So the common theme here suggests that your </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">health </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and your </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fitness </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are not the same thing. But what is more important to understand, is how they can (and often do) impact upon each other, in both a positive way but also negatively.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>The Problem</b></h3>\n<b>Example one;</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Training for a marathon demands hours and hours of repetitious high impact activity on hard surfaces for long periods of time. Some would say this is not necessarily the best thing for our joints. Yet many people really enjoy that challenge and feel great for achieving the distance/time they set out to do. So here, their ‘fitness’ goal outweighed the </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">health</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> implication of wear and tear on their joints.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Example two;</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Preparing for a weightlifting competition requires heavy lifting and loading joints beyond what they may have done previously. Again, this is likely to put additional stress on the joints which some would deem a high risk for the body; yet it would bring the individual so much joy should they get to the desired weight they wished to snatch. Therefore the training goal is ‘fit’ for the task rather than the safest for the joints. Your health takes the step back.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Example three;</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weight loss generally put, means eating less calories than the body is used to, in order for your body to use it’s own energy supplies to keep your energy going throughout the day. So for many people, losing weight could be a ‘health’ related goal, for example to reduce the risk of diabetes. However, if they also started running to increase calorie expenditure this could start to tip their journey into a ‘fitness’ goal, for example if they decided to enter a race. At this point we would then need to consider the implications of the added calorie expenditure which actually requires MORE food and therefore a higher food intake, just to keep you moving throughout the day, even with weight loss as the goal.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-34942 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/jonathan-borba-lrQPTQs7nQQ-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finding a balance of homeostasis, while maintain optimal health is now necessarily that easy when you think about it..</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>The body is a MASTER OF COMPENSATION. </b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the body has adapted, something will change either for better or worse. How you gauge better or worse is an interesting thought when you consider the goal. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I completed my first marathon!….. but my knees are shot and it hurts to walk upstairs.”</span></em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I lost 2 stone!….. but I feel shattered ALL the time.”</span></em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, simply being ‘healthy’ may not have the same excitement of a race or competition and therefore it might bring less of a sense of ‘achievement’ as you may never reach a point of satisfaction or completion to the goal set. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now I am not suggesting it is impossible, but as PT’s, exercise and \'fitness\' professionals, it is essential that we have the skills to help our clients </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">realistically</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while keeping their goal in mind. Part of that may be keeping them on track and educating them on the implications of changing their goal as they progress, which is highly likely in many cases. Gaining an understanding of their behaviours which they wish to change and using motivational interviewing and a person centred approach with your clients.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We should have the skills to best prepare our clients for movement, be able to suggest general advice on eating well, ensure our clients exercise efficiently, wisely and safely in order to obtain success in reaching their desired goal but the emotional drivers MUST come from within the client.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-34938 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/luke-chesser-rCOWMC8qf8A-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Could We Go As Far As To Say \'Exercise\' Is Bad For You?</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well that depends on the alternative!?</span>\n\nAlso \'exercise\' is just one type of <strong>movement </strong>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sedentary is </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not good.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But ultimately movement in general is good, if its consistent, daily and regular</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As is consuming the right food, of course</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think you understand where I am coming from, right?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-34558 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_1564-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>So What Do We Do?</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let’s clarify the true desire of the client from the beginning by asking questions that will give more clarity on what their start point and end goal REALLY are, to avoid any assumptions we may make. We should use our soft skills to learn the core of their emotional drivers by asking open questions, ensuring we affirm and reflect the positive language they use to avoid them sabotaging their own success and always summarising back what you understand their goal/s to be.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can also educate the client on risks, or possible outcomes of how they can achieve their goal, and the differences between health and fitness so they recognise the importance of moderation and appropriate adaption.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most importantly, and one of the things Dan John also discusses over and over again, is the importance of assessment and repetition of them REGULARLY! Every 6 weeks at least.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>“If you ain’t assessing, you’re guessing”,</em> John states.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\" wp-image-34940 alignright\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/jennifer-burk-ECXB0YAZ_zU-unsplash-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"489\" />\n<h3><b>What Kind Of Assessment/s Do You Do Now?</b></h3>\nParQ?\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weight/Height?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Waist/Height?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sit &amp; Reach?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Body Fat?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 rep max?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VO2 max test?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lifestyle Q&amp;A?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Food diary?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Functional movement screens?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Video analysis?</span>\n\nBiomechanics assessment?\n\nPsychometric testing?\n\nRoland Morris\'s pain questionnaire?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How valid do you feel each of these test are, in relation to your clients start point and end goal? Are they easily replicable?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDo you feel you are adequately equipped to assess your clients start point?\n\n&nbsp;\n\nCan you regularly and easily re-assess and monitor their progress objectively? critically?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assessment and reassessment is vital in demonstrating of both progression and regression to allow you and the client to adapt what is being done whether it be diet, preparation for movement, exercise, number of hrs sleep, routine, recovery, lifestyle factors, psychology and so on.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-29666 aligncenter\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screenshot-2021-09-28-at-07.31.40-1-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" /></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without a clear training goal, which is likely to be either a health OR a fitness goal, and without the ability to assess and monitor we lose \'specificity\' in our planning. We need to be able to celebrate achievement by demonstrating progress throughout with appropriate assessment tools!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And remember - One size does not fit all, its always case by case. What may work for 1 client could be completely different to a new client, with every client bringing new goals and challenges.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How exciting it is that we are all so different - don’t you think?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMove Freely,\n\nRachel.\n\n<hr />\n\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Would You Like To Be Able To Assess Your Clients Biomechanics? </b><b><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/workshop/pelvic-biomechanics-2/\">CLICK HERE</a> To Find Out How.</b></h1>\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-32556 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_1591-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />','Can Being Fit Stop You Being Healthy?','','draft','closed','closed','','can-being-fit-stop-you-being-healthy','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1467',0,'post','',0),(2283,3,'2017-01-17 16:02:18','2017-01-17 16:02:18','<h3>How to Alleviate Back Pain: A Guide for Rugby Players</h3>\r\nBack pain is a widespread issue, affecting up to 80% of people at some point in their lives, including rugby players. However, traditional diagnostic methods often fall short, with accuracy rates as low as 15-20%. This underscores the need for a new approach to managing back pain.\r\n<h3>Long term back pain</h3>\r\nLong-term back pain can lead to further complications as the body compensates for the injury, making diagnosis even more challenging. Rather than merely addressing the symptoms, focusing on the mechanical causes of back pain has shown promising results.\r\n<h3>Can You Achieve Better Recovery Rates By Looking At The Mechanical Causes?</h3>\r\nBiomechanics Coaches™ advocate for this approach, which has demonstrated significant improvements in functional capacity compared to traditional treatments. For rugby players, who are prone to back injuries, this method offers a proactive way to manage and prevent pain.\r\n<h3>How Rugby Players Can Actually Help Their Own Back Pain</h3>\r\nThis intrinsic biomechanical approach is rapidly establishing itself as a much more effective method of treating back pain, especially for rugby players. Furthermore, the most interesting aspect of this approach is that players can be shown how to look after themselves. This reduces the risk of them becoming reliant upon a particular therapist or doctor and, significantly, their compliance with exercise programmes is higher too.\r\n\r\nOf course, no single method can be the panacea of all ills, but we are finding that once the mechanical causes are addressed, the pain can often subside without treatment to the ‘injury’, whatever it might be. Sometimes treatment is also required, although patients find that, once they have committed to an exercise programme that addresses the causes of pain, they are more able to manage the problem themselves. Then, should local treatment still be necessary, it is more likely to be successful, as the mechanical causes are no longer present.\r\n<h3>The 4-sign test</h3>\r\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">The 4-sign test is a valuable tool for assessing back health. By measuring the height difference between crossed knees while seated, players can identify asymmetry that may indicate muscular tightness or spasms contributing to back pain.</span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Here are the steps of the 4-sign test:</span></b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\"> </span>\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li data-leveltext=\"%1.\" data-font=\"Aptos\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;%1.&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sit on a chair or stool and cross one ankle over the opposite knee.</span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\"> </span></li>\r\n 	<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Relax the crossed knee down to a comfortable position.</span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\"> </span></li>\r\n 	<li data-leveltext=\"%1.\" data-font=\"Aptos\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;%1.&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Measure the height difference of the crossed knee to the grounded knee by running an imaginary line through the grounded knee, parallel to the floor, and up to your crossed knee. Your knee should be only 2-3” higher than this line.</span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\"> </span></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1479\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-13-at-10.57.16-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-01-13 at 10.57.16\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" />\r\n\r\n<span class=\"TextRun SCXW147249764 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147249764 BCX8\">4. Repeat the process with the other leg and compare the height difference between the two sides. Symmetry between the two sides </span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147249764 BCX8\">indicates</span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147249764 BCX8\">a healthy</span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147249764 BCX8\"> range of movement, while asymmetry may </span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147249764 BCX8\">indicate</span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW147249764 BCX8\"> tightness or spasm in the hip muscle.</span></span><span class=\"EOP SCXW147249764 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1480\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-13-at-10.56.55-1024x577.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-01-13 at 10.56.55\" width=\"650\" height=\"367\" />\r\n\r\n<span class=\"TextRun SCXW203353283 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW203353283 BCX8\">Performing the 4-sign exercise can help alleviate tension in the pelvis, relieving pressure on the back and related structures. Consistency is key, and gradual progress should be expected over time.</span></span><span class=\"EOP SCXW203353283 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\"> </span>\r\n<h3>Conclusion</h3>\r\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Incorporating the 4-sign exercise into warm-up and cool-down routines can enhance performance on the field while reducing the risk of injury.</span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">By adopting a proactive approach to back pain management and focusing on mechanical causes, rugby players can enjoy greater comfort and performance on and off the field.</span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">[Download the 4-Sign Release </span><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/4signtestexercisepdf_2016.pdf\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">here</span></a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">] to start implementing this effective strategy today.</span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lkur9ZcNXw&amp;t=6s\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">4 Sign Screen &amp; Exercise (youtube.com)</span></a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\"> </span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','How To Reduce Your Own Back Pain: The Rugby Edition','','publish','closed','closed','','how-to-reduce-back-pain-rugby-edition','','','2025-01-20 16:03:29','2025-01-20 16:03:29','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1477',0,'post','',0),(2284,3,'2017-01-23 11:01:50','2017-01-23 11:01:50','Have you ever had a client who just cannot move in the way you are coaching them to move?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No matter what teaching points you give, visual demonstrations you do or stretching you get them to do, they simply lack the </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ability</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to squat or lunge, or at least to do so in a way you feel they should be capable!?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surely the first question that we should be asking ourselves is WHY? Instead of assuming what we are looking at is simply poor technique.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As PT’s we are taught to correct technique, form and the joint positions of our clients to improve the way they move, therefore improve their strength and thus reduce risk, right?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However it is professionals like US who continually ask ourselves the question WHY that are drawn to further educating ourselves by reading blogs and articles and by attending extra workshops. We can be found seeking out more information &amp; knowledge rather than simply continuing to try to change or force our client’s movement.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WE want more answers to the ‘WHY’s’ because we recognise that weird lunging movement they are doing may not be simply because of bad technique.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I KNOW you are one of these professionals because you are reading this ;)</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Are You Ill Equipped?</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without knowing WHY someone is moving the way they are, we are surely ill equipped to address their ‘poor’ movement or lack of capacity.  This is surely a job for the PT!?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For many years I myself worked on the </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">assumptions</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that I was taught in my basic L2/3 training. If a muscle appeared short we stretch it, if it appears weak strengthen it, if someone cannot perform a movement; repeat coach repeat coach repeat - right!?</span>\n\n<img class=\"wp-image-1494 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/muscles-stretching-3.jpg\" alt=\"muscles-stretching-3\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my experience, my </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">assumptions</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were just not good enough because some people just didn’t improve, didn’t get stronger or didn’t move better. Some just looked downright uncomfortable! I just KNEW this wasn’t enough!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instinctively we recognise there has to be more to their inability to move than we may actually have the skills for. Discovering the ability to remember and retain our anatomy knowledge, combined with gaining a good understanding of how the intrinsic biomechanics of that individual are influencing their movement can give us more confidence, more results, therefore more referrals, more clients and so increase our income - or treble it in fact as I did!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Life Changing Knowledge Bombs</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recognising that not all short muscles need stretching was quite profound for me coming from a dance background that was ALL about flexibility and stretching. To discover that stretching some muscle dysfunction can actually compound a problem was a knowledge bomb that blew my mind and was truly life changing. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also learning that ‘weakness’ is a very broadly used term and can have several different meanings or causes that don’t automatically require strength work also completely changed the way I practiced.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>What Is Weakness Anyway?</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A common ‘weakness’ could be an inhibition of a muscle, coming from the antagonist being dysfunctional. Would you want to strengthen a muscle that is inhibited? Well probably not initially at least. First you would want to remove the inhibition to then give the muscle its ‘capacity’ for strength back, don’t you agree?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The inhibition could be come from several root causes; muscle spasm of the ‘weak’ muscle, muscle spasm of its antagonist as in the example above (remember the law of reciprocal inhibition?), tethered nerves and/or stiff joints to name a few. None of which require strength work initially even though they may be </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">seen</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a ‘weakness’.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of the above could directly impact upon the way your client moves of course and yet we might be asking them to repeat a movement in an endeavour of improving their ‘technique’ which could actually be the wrong thing to do in an effort to improve it. However hopefully you can see how there can be more to that weird lunge than simply bad technique, posture or form.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Change The Way You Think - Start With WHY?</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So maybe a good place to START would be to rule out &amp; correct dysfunction FIRST. To do this we need some way of measuring capacity and function. Once we have screened our client we can then apply our knowledge of corrective exercise techniques.  This then gives our client the CAPACITY to move. We then re-measure and upon observing improved movement we can apply our verbal and visual technique coaching.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you want to increase your confidence in assessing capacity and function for your clients?....</span></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/4-sign-pelvic-release-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out the 4 Sign screen and exercise to get you started. Just CLICK HERE &gt;&gt;</span></a></span></span></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/4-sign-pelvic-release-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-1479 size-large\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-13-at-10.57.16-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-01-13 at 10.57.16\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" /></a></p>    	','Why Can’t They Lunge..?','','draft','closed','closed','','why-cant-they-lunge','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1491',0,'post','',0),(2285,3,'2017-01-27 09:44:07','2017-01-27 09:44:07','<h3>By Ken Robinson</h3>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">So as you probably already know I am a massive fan of the audio book as great way to take advantage of long car journeys by immersing yourself into a mobile academy.</span>\n\nYou may, or may not, also be aware that Ken Robinson is my all time hero and the person I would most like to have dinner with. If you don\'t know of him please do go and check out his TED talk which is ranked as the most watched of all of them. He is a charismatic and funny presenter yet articulates extremely well his points of view.\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">ANYWAY I have just finished his book \'Out Of Our Minds\', which is the 3rd of his books I have read now after \'The Element\' &amp; \'Finding Your Element\' and I wanted to share a portion of it with you. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Robinson is on a mission to improve the education experience since he believes the present one, that most of us experience, leaves many of us feeling less intelligent than we actually are. </span>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Here he states some of his ideas on how \'teaching\' SHOULD be done:</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Robinson states teachers should be able to \"<em>TEACH \'FOR\' CREATIVITY</em>\".\n<em>\"Facilitating creative work, encouraging independence of judgement, willingness to take risks, be enterprising, persistent and resilient in the face of false starts, wrong turns or dead ends.\"</em></span>\n\nAlso be able to \"<em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Promote experiments of inquiry and willingness to make mistakes. Encourage generative thought, free from immediate criticism. Encourage expression of personal ideas and feelings.\"</span></em>\n\n<em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\"Convey an understanding of phases in creative work and the need for time. Develop roles of intuition and aesthetic processes. Encourage learners to \'play\' with ideas, possibilities and facilitate evaluation of ideas.\"</span></em>\n\n\"Enabling learners to be more effective at handling future problems and objectives. Also to deepen and broaden awareness of the self as well as the world and to encourage openness to new ideas.\"\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Robinson says we should be \"<em>...developing independent creative work, self confidence/independence of mind and capacity to think for self. Helping individuals to identify/discover our creative strengths and capacities.\"</em>  </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">ALL of this resonates profoundly with me growing up being told I was a non academic. Since being open about my own insecurities, how I have dealt with them and then gone on to become Managing Director of an international education company in biomechanics, many of you have confessed to having similar feelings about your own abilities or self belief systems.</span>\n\nSo this Juicemail is for all of YOU, to say I am with you, I am like you and as an education company \'we get it\'! This is why all of our academy learners express their joy at the  inclusive learning experience/environment we provide.\n\nHave an awesome weekend!','\'Out Of Our Minds\'','','draft','closed','closed','','out-of-our-minds','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1510',0,'post','',0),(2286,3,'2017-02-13 17:56:14','2017-02-13 17:56:14','<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It really isn\'t that complicated to be honest, but we do need to consider WHY we/our clients have so many physical complaints. Even as exercise professionals, we often find the lives we lead with technology &amp; transport reducing how we use our bodies, we need to regain responsibility for our own biomechanical health; to set an example to our clients.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s no secret that the “average healthy adult” spends a good proportion of their day sitting at a desk, driving, travelling or hunched over their phones. Considering that our bodies came from a history of hunting and gathering, it is really no surprise we have started to experience these aches and niggles, is it!? We are no longer leading that lifestyle, so our bodies are slowly trying to adapt to this new sedentary way of living. They just cant adapt quick enough!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we set an example to our clients by making a few small changes to our own lifestyles (and maybe some bigger ones too), we can reduce our own risk of injury, and then, we can then teach our clients about making the right choices in their lifestyle too.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>Feel the benefits from the freedom of movement with these 6 tips:</h2>\n&nbsp;\n<h3>1) Stop carrying our bag on the same shoulder</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We wouldn’t necessarily consider going to the gym and only training one side of the body over and over again would we!? Yet we regularly carry our heavy sports bags, shopping bags, laptop bags on the favoured side! This results in the lateral flexors on the spine of the opposite side of the trunk will be working harder than their antagonists, becoming over worked, more tense &amp; creating extra tension on the nerves that side too. </span>\n\nOver time this can result in asymmetrical adaptions that start to become more apparent unless we address the issue.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trying using a trolley bag or a rucksack.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1572 alignleft\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cs-bag-causing-back-pain-1440x810-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>2) Get a massage regularly (when possible)</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find a good soft tissue therapist and have a massage regularly - the good ones are the ones with a great reputation, they are NOT necessarily the cheapest!!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s the old saying… You get what you pay for.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\" wp-image-1573 alignleft\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/sports-massage-therapy-steyning-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"168\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3></h3>\n<h3></h3>\n<h3>3) Ditch your \'fashion\' footwear</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ok maybe a tough one when wanting to wear a certain outfit or if you want to taller!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However I guess the question is this <em>\"how much fun you gonna have sitting at home with back pain looking at those pretty high heels in the bottom of your wardrobe?\"</em></span>\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1574 alignleft\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/high-heels-for-women-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also not ALL shoes are good for ALL feet.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get your feet assessed properly for advice on the best footwear for your foot function. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/custom-fit-insoles-damaging-workout-performance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read my post here on my visit to Premier Podiatry and the \"need to know\" behind custom orthotics.</a></span></span> If you have a loose MidTarsal Joint you probably shouldn\'t wear, let’s call them \'finger\' shoes (you know the ones I mean), ballet pumps or converse. Trevor Prior at Premier Podiatry Ltd is someone I would strongly recommend because he does not just try to sell you orthotics, he gives you the best advice.</span>\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1575\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/custom-fit-insoles-damaging-workout-performance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"wp-image-1575 size-medium\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_4580-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a> My visit to Premier Podiatry. Read the post here.[/caption]\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>4) See a skilled professional who can assess your whole body<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1576 alignright\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_7390-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not to be confused with seeing a medical professional whose job is to assess medical conditions, find someone who understands intrinsic function like a Biomechanics Coach&#x2122; who specialises in movement quality evaluation.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>5) Do what yhey say</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simple = Own it!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are in the physical conditions we\'re in because of our lifestyles.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>6) Move more</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kind of an obvious one but one we still forget once we are sucked into the TV or computer screen.</span>\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1577 alignleft\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/family-running-together3-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also rather than set up all of your things within reach of your desk, move everything away from you so you are reaching and moving more. Offer to make drinks for everyone - ALL the time!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invest in a raised laptop stand on top of your desk so you can stand (this made a huge difference for me) so your hip muscles are permanently active.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you apply these 6 tips into your daily routine, you’ll see yourself performing better, your range of movement increasing, your recovery improving &amp; so much more. Your clients will also see the benefits if you install this lifestyle into them as well.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move Freely,</span>\n\nRachel\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We need more Biomechanics Coaches&#x2122; around the UK… Is it you? Do you have what it takes?</a></span></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you prepared to take your professional career to another level?</span></a></span></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you want to become part of a strong inter-professional community?</span></a></span></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Become a Biomechanics Coach&#x2122; today… Find out more, click here.</span></a></span></p>','6 Tips Guaranteed To Improve Your Client\'s Biomechanics','','draft','closed','closed','','6-tips-guaranteed-to-improve-your-biomechanics','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1565',0,'post','',0),(2287,3,'2017-02-28 08:24:50','2017-02-28 08:24:50','<h3>Have you ever wondered…..<i> ‘What Exactly Is The iMoveFreely® Programme?’…?!</i></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well this blog has been especially written for YOU.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These ‘techniques’, individually, have been around for many years in some form.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BUT </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have merged evidence that we collated, with evidence from other world leaders in biomechanics and developed an entire SYSTEM to empower manual therapy and exercise professionals, giving them access to these ‘movement preparation’ techniques. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>So What Exactly is The iMoveFreely® Programme?</h2>\nThe iMoveFreely® Programme is a series of low grade exercise technique, which have been designed through over 25 years of research, into a logical, evidence based system that makes exercise prescription safer. It does this by improving movement ability which reduces risk using a very simple pyramid approach to exercise.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previously these techniques have only been available to high level athletes some 25yrs ago. However, increasingly they are being recognised as the fundamental basics for anyone wishing to achieve the ability to move more freely. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The full programme is made up of the following 3 phases of exercise delivered by </span><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>Biomechanics Coaches™</i></b></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who are able to assess clients and therefore understand WHEN they are ready for certain exercises.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Phase 1. Preparation &amp; Capacity<b> </b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This phase in particular is often named ‘The missing link’ or the ‘foundation for fitness’. This is based upon the fact that the human body is an integrated system. This integrated system means muscles, joints and nerves all affect each other so we must acknowledge and demonstrate this when we prescribe exercises.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first phase of the iMoveFreely® programme provides low grade, subtle techniques to affect each of these 3 sub-systems and create intrinsic capacity.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This initial series of techniques consists of anti spasm exercises based on Ribot-Ciscar’s work (Jiri Dvorak had the same results from similar studies) using a type of muscle energy technique. There are also a series of nerve mobilisation techniques based on David Butler’s work. These are followed by the ‘pure’ joint mobilisation techniques that isolate (as much as is possible) the joint sections that don’t move so freely.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are modified from much of what is seen in our industry today, which is ‘combined’ movements where the body is effectively allowed to </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cheat</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to produce the required movement. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aim of this first phase of preparation restores an individual’s capacity around the pelvis and spine so that they are level and moving freely, or correctly, for that individual.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1479\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-13-at-10.57.16-300x169.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/4-sign-pelvic-release-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Download your first muscle energy screen &amp; release here for free, called the 4-sign &gt;&gt;</span></a></span></span></p>\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Phase 2. Stability &amp; Control</h3>\nThis secondary phase of training for stability and control, requires phase one’s preparation to give the pelvis and spine their alignment and capacity back. This safety conscious methodology means that risk is reduced when performing any variation of core strength work.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coming out of the first phase, we advise this is the perfect time to initiate specific, periodised core training, to promote a ‘grooving out’ of the ‘new’ level and moving position of both the pelvis and spine.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We start with principles based on evidence shown in the work of Haines, McGill, Matthews and Cholwewicki’s, who each demonstrated the benefits of a logical series of neuromuscular progressions, which are in the </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">continuum of exercise</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> progressions.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This then follows with isometric core ratio exercise programming, which gives our clients a good balanced base of support, around their entire trunk.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, the more advanced functional stability exercises are periodised to allow us to confidently create stability and control, while performing more compound moves, taking your clients into their final phase of function and performance.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1646\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/MG_0055-1-1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Phase 3. Function &amp; Performance</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This third ‘function and performance’ phase takes into account strengthening of the shoulders, knees and feet to allow better ‘function’ to be ‘fit for purpose’. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With specific exercises based on joint strength ratios of these areas. Here we consider more sport specific movements and (potentially) pre-orthotic conditioning on top of (the now built) solid foundation.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of which reduces risk and optimises performance ability.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you ever wondered if orthotics could actually be damaging your workout performance? Take a look at the blog post I wrote back in January on this very topic &gt;&gt; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/custom-fit-insoles-damaging-workout-performance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>“</strong></a></span></span></span><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/custom-fit-insoles-damaging-workout-performance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Can Your Custom Fit Insoles Really Be Damaging To Your Performance?”</b></span></span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I discuss my visit to meet Trevor and his team at </span><a href=\"http://www.premierpodiatry.com/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Premier Podiatry</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https://www.groupxtraining.com/imovefreely-certification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to find out the course information for the iMoveFreely®, just click here to register your interest.</span></a></span></span></p>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move Freely,</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rachel</span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff0000;\">We need more Biomechanics Coaches™ around the UK… Is it you? Do you have what it takes?</span></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff0000;\">Are you prepared to take your professional career to another level?</span></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff0000;\">Do you want to become part of a strong inter-professional community?</span></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff0000;\">Become a Biomechanics Coach™ today… <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Find out more, click here.</span></span></a></p>','‘What Exactly Is The iMoveFreely® Programme?’','','draft','closed','closed','','what-is-the-imovefreely-programme','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=1601',0,'post','',0),(2288,3,'2017-04-03 13:30:19','2017-04-03 13:30:19','<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>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<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>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1736\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Im48-300x108.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" />\n\n<b>Intrinsic Biomechanics </b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To understand this better imagine an example like this:</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1) You look at your clients squatting and their knee caves inwards.</span>\n\n<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>\n\n<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>\n\n<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>\n\n<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>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1737\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/musculoskeletalpic-300x296.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Knowing Which, When and Who?</b>\n\n<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>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<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>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<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>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Nate Agrees With Us </b>\n\n<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>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“This allows them to get better results, far quicker” Nate.</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who the hell is Nate?</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I can hear you thinking. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<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>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<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>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<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>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-857\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-05-09-at-14.59.09-300x206.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" /><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1710\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-27-at-11.06.01-2-248x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>What I Wanted To Bring To YOU This Week</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If this kind of topic interests YOU...</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If YOU are a human movement geek...</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If YOU enjoy studying and discussing human movement...</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If YOU would like to learn in an inclusive classroom - where no question is a stupid one…</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Then THIS Might Interest YOU!</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professionals who invest time in our classroom have stated:</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n1) How simple our screening ‘SYSTEM’ is\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2) How easily they are able to monitor their clients progress</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3) How quickly they get results</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4) How surprised they were at how much they learned</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5) How it hugely helps their own confidence</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6) How much they valued the support they received before, during and after their training</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7) How it expands their technical language to communicate with different professionals for referral  </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<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>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<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>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move Freely,</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rachel</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Become a Biomechanics Coach™ today… Find out more, <a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE</a>.</span></span></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/biomechanics_education/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"wp-image-1717 alignnone\" 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400;\">o with her permission I wanted to share with you one of mine:</span>\n<h3>Gold Medalist &amp; British Champion in Olympic Weightlifting, Laura Hewitt</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laura has been making a huge impression on the Olympic Weightlifting world! We originally met during some fitness classes I was covering at local chain gym several years ago. She eventually trained and worked there as a personal trainer.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next time I saw her was while I was training at PowerBase Gym at Loughborough University. This fabulous athlete was literally lifting ridiculous amounts of rubber and steel over her head and onto her shoulders, as I stood watching in awe! She was clearly built to lift with her awesome frame and as I discovered through our conversations, had also come from a competitive gymnastic background. So she was obviously already familiar with the graft and discipline attached to being a high level athlete.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having been chosen as one of the GB Olympic Lifting potentials she become semi-professional and started her training with the three girls under the guidance of Giles Greenwood. </span>\n<h3>The Problem</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However on one occasion Laura and I were training alone and started chatting. She expressed her problem in being unable to maintain an upright torso during the receive position of her clean and so I offered to screen her. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(The receive portion of a clean is a full range deep squat taking the full force of a loaded barbell dropping onto the front of the shoulders) </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Screening her was really quite fascinating as she moved really well but still had some of the most common dysfunctions I often see. However the difference with a true athlete like Laura is: </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a). They get it</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">b). They do their homework</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">c). They can see the difference in their performance</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">d). They LOVE anything that gives them an edge!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-31185 aligncenter\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screenshot-2022-01-26-at-11.34.54-300x212.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"328\" />\n<h3></h3>\n<h3>The Solution</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The buzz I personally get is seeing performance improve using simple techniques from the iMoveFreely</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">®</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> programme. Would you believe a low grade 20% effort muscle energy technique (<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/1333-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ribot-Ciscar et al, 1991</a>) for the pelvis and then pec minor, were 2 of the key influencers on improving her clean receive position!? </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just brilliant!!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easy to perform anti spasms, nerve mobilisations along with specific and very ‘pure’ joint mobility techniques, really DO enable ‘capacity’ for movement throughout ‘the integrated system’.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This little pocket rocket is already making waves in the comps! She is now a PT and Olympic Lifting Coach at a local Strength and Performance Gym in Nottingham called </span><a href=\"http://rwfgym.co.uk\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">REAL WORLD FITNESS</span></i></a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1747\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-07-at-16.16.47-300x194.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"297\" /></p>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is such a determined and committed lifter that she spends quality time on smart training. She worked on the iMoveFreely</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">®</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> techniques I gave her and within literally just 2 weeks she saw a great improvement in her front squat position and clean technique without gaining any body weight herself.</span>\n<h3>The Result</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With her Gold Medal for the British Championship now in place, she really is growing in confidence about what she can be truly capable of. Clearly it is not ALL down to the iMoveFreely</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">®</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> programme but also the blend of fabulous coaches involved in Laura’s training. All will have a had an impact in some small way even though ultimately it is Laura who has done ALL of the hard work. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developing her capacity, patterns, skill, technique, power, strength and performance. This fabulous athlete now invests in coaching from the A.M.A.Z.I.N.G Cyril Martin (my first ever lifting coach whom Laura originally recommended to me) and together they will, I am confident, take her back to the podium!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1746\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-07-at-16.16.54-271x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"356\" /></p>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if YOU have clients like Laura</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OR</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If YOU would like to work with clients like Laura</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OR</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you simply want to help people to improve their performance then come along, join us and learn the very screens and exercises I used to improve her movement.</span>\n\n<a href=\"https://bit.ly/3ACboJh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">START by clicking HERE</span></a>','[Case Study] Elite Lifter Laura Hewitt','','draft','closed','closed','','case-study-elite-lifter-laura-hewitt','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',0,'https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=2530',0,'post','',0),(2534,0,'2017-04-13 13:42:18','2017-04-13 13:42:18','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','laura-hewitt','','','2017-04-13 13:42:18','2017-04-13 13:42:18','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/laura-hewitt-2.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2535,0,'2017-04-13 13:47:46','2017-04-13 13:47:46','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','laura-hewitt-2','','','2017-04-13 13:47:46','2017-04-13 13:47:46','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/laura-hewitt-1-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2537,0,'2017-04-13 15:29:40','2017-04-13 15:29:40','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2017-04-11-at-07-36-42','','','2017-04-13 15:29:40','2017-04-13 15:29:40','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-11-at-07.36.42-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2538,0,'2017-04-13 15:29:43','2017-04-13 15:29:43','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2017-04-07-at-16-16-54','','','2017-04-13 15:29:43','2017-04-13 15:29:43','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-07-at-16.16.54-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2539,0,'2017-04-13 15:29:45','2017-04-13 15:29:45','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2017-04-07-at-16-16-47','','','2017-04-13 15:29:45','2017-04-13 15:29:45','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-07-at-16.16.47-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2540,0,'2017-04-13 15:29:48','2017-04-13 15:29:48','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2017-04-07-at-16-15-59','','','2017-04-13 15:29:48','2017-04-13 15:29:48','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-07-at-16.15.59-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2541,0,'2017-04-13 15:29:51','2017-04-13 15:29:51','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2017-04-03-at-15-20-42','','','2017-04-13 15:29:51','2017-04-13 15:29:51','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-03-at-15.20.42-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2543,3,'2017-05-01 20:04:29','2017-05-01 20:04:29','<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember Laura Hewitt, Elite Olympic Lifter, the case study from last week?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In that blog, I explained how we had used an anti spasm on her pec minor, to improve her front squat and clean receive position.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What I wanted to do in this blog, is begin to explain why that happened.</span>\n<h3>Pectoralis Minor Anatomy</h3>\n<b>Muscle Attachments:</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> As you can see from the diagram below, the </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pectoralis minor</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> attaches to the coracoid process on the front of the scapula and travels diagonally downward and medial to </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">attach</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th ribs.</span>\n\n<b>Function:</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pectoralis minor</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has two main functions. On one hand, it pulls the scapula anteriorly and therefore creates scapular protraction. As a secondary function, it also has some influence on scapular depression.</span>\n<h3><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2549 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-13-at-13.32.48-211x300.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-13-32-48\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" /></h3>\n<h3>The Problem</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can imagine, this is one of those muscles that adapts to common daily ‘activities’ like desk work, texting or driving; thus creating a round shouldered appearance or poor looking posture.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So while this small muscle doesn’t even attach to the humerus, you can see why it can massively impact upon your client’s ability to move their arms or even squat. Let me explain further;</span>\n<h3><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2552 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-13-at-11.24.47-290x300.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-11-24-47\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" /></h3>\n<h3>Try this exaggerated practical example yourself:</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1) Stand up and protract your scapular forwards into the rounded position as if you have ‘overactive’ pec minors</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2) While maintaining this round shouldered position try to raise your arms or extend your thoracic spine.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3) Now try to squat, maintaining an upright posture….</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">…. </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Difficult</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> right?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now you have that practical example for a clearer understanding, just imagine what that ‘tension’ on the </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pectoralis minor </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can effect with regards to general function and movement. If your scapular are ‘locked’ around your rib cage, they can ‘fix’ your thoracic spine into flexion, which will of course, impact upon your client’s ability to move in your training session.</span>\n<h3>The Integrated System</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we refer to the integrated system, we mean all of the subsystems within the body that affect movement of the neuro-musculoskeletal system, which is basically the nerves, muscles and bones.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As personal trainers, we MUST consider the body as an </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">integrated system</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and so prescribe exercises with this in mind, taking into account every area of the body.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A common mistake among PT’s, can be to assume poor squat technique (for example) is simply because of poor pelvic or ankle mobility, however what we can see from example above and from Laura’s case study last week, this just simply isn’t the case and there may be far more to the complexity of the movement that first meets the eye.</span>\n<h3>The Solution</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I have a short video clip for you to watch and learn how to anti spasm your client’s pec minor if you feel they may benefit.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Complement this with some antagonist strength work, like *‘pure’ </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">retraction</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (retraction being the opposite movement to the pec minors protraction) band or cable training, and see if this goes towards improving their movement. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*When I say ‘pure’ what I mean by this is do not bend the elbows, as in a row, but keep the arms long and simply retract against the resistance. This can be more effective at regaining strength ratios around the shoulder.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2550 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-13-at-11.30.58-300x123.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-11-30-58\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" /></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another great complement to these 2 exercises is one of my favourites. Very simply lie </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">long ways</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on a long foam roller for a 2 minutes each day. Ie Sit the bum on one end and rest the back of the head on the other. Then simply relax over it.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2551 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-13-at-11.25.50-300x148.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-04-13-at-11-25-50\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" /></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A dysfunctional Pec Minor and shoulder function is one consideration BUT remember it is just one example of an adaption to our lifestyles. 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09:48:59','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_4580-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2655,0,'2017-05-01 20:01:29','2017-05-01 20:01:29','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2017-05-01-at-20-58-33','','','2017-05-01 20:01:29','2017-05-01 20:01:29','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-20.58.33-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2656,0,'2017-05-01 20:01:32','2017-05-01 20:01:32','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2017-05-01-at-20-49-59','','','2017-05-01 20:01:32','2017-05-01 20:01:32','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-20.49.59-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2657,0,'2017-05-01 20:01:34','2017-05-01 20:01:34','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2017-04-25-at-07-39-55','','','2017-05-01 20:01:34','2017-05-01 20:01:34','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-07.39.55-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2658,0,'2017-05-01 20:01:36','2017-05-01 20:01:36','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2017-04-25-at-07-35-11','','','2017-05-01 20:01:36','2017-05-01 20:01:36','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-07.35.11-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2668,3,'2017-05-03 10:54:35','2017-05-03 10:54:35','<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foot Biomechanics has gone down a storm with exercise professionals when we have presented or lectured on this topic at events and conferences. In 2016, after a 1hr lecture a newly qualified podiatrist stated...</span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Thank you, that 1 hour lecture has just made my entire podiatry degree make complete sense!”</span></i>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As exercise professionals we really should understand a little bit more about foot function. While a very complex part of the anatomy, it is still a part of The Integrated System that we are working with, when we exercise and train our clients. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So let’s break it down to the simplest level...</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><em><b>What do we, as exercise professionals, need to know about foot function and exercise that can contribute to helping our clients movement ability?</b></em></h2>\n<h3>Foot Function</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Firstly once we understand </span><b>pronation</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and </span><b>supination</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the rest is relatively easy. These 2 actions are </span><b>‘triplanar’</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> meaning there are 3 components to 1 motion. (Donatelli.R, ‘</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Biomechanics of the Foot &amp; Ankle</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">’ 1980) </span>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><b>PRONATION</b></span></h4>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">- Dorsiflexion - Eversion - Abduction = ‘unlocks’ MidTarsalJoint (MTJ), flatter, longer, wider, flexible, mobile foot which enables </span><b>shock absorption</b>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><b>SUPINATION</b></span></h4>\n<b>- </b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plantarflexion - Inversion - Adduction = ‘Locks’ MidTarsalJoint (MTJ), higher, shorter, narrower, stiff, rigid foot which enables a </span><b>rigid foot to ‘toe off’</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and therefore propels you forwards during the gait cycle. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So during the gait cycle the foot SHOULD be able to achieve both pronation and supination. However, we also need them to occur at the appropriate phase of the cycle, in order for it to be </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">biomechanically efficient.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this image you can see the gait cycle broken down into its stages.</span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1784\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-18-at-10.55.17-1024x642.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" />\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #33cccc;\">HS OR HEEL STRIKE</span></h4>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the heel first comes into contact with the floor and so the foot is pronating to absorb the force or shock. </span>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #33cccc;\">FFL OR FOREFOOT LANDING</span></h4>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the forefoot then lands coming into contact with the floor and so is still pronating.</span>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #33cccc;\">MIDSTANCE</span></h4>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the weight of the body starts to shift over the ankle. This is when the foot transitions from pronation to supination via the ‘windlass mechanism’ (see below), that initiates tension in the plantar fascia taught.</span>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #33cccc;\">HL OR HEEL LIFT</span></h4>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the foot starts to become more rigid. The more the big toe (also known as the Halux or 1st metatarsal) extends, the more the plantar fascia tension increases. This creates a more rigid arch for the propulsion phase of supination.</span>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #33cccc;\">TO OR TOE OFF</span></h4>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The extension of the big toe completes the cycle, eventually lifting to the swing phase.</span>\n<h3>The Problem</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most common problems identified is ‘</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">over</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> pronation’ and so prescriptions are given to </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reduce</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the degree of pronation ie; shoes with a supporting arch. This could be the right thing to do if symptoms are occurring.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However we must be mindful of the fact that our feet </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">need</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to pronate. So considering the gait cycle above, it can be more helpful to consider this foot type as a </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">late</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> supinator. In other words, the foot doesn\'t ‘lock’ in time to re-supinate at the midstance phase. This means the foot is still pronating and unlocked leaving the foot in a lax position for propulsion. </span>\n\n<strong>Now there are many things that can influence these triplanar motions as you can imagine:</strong>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1) Footwear</span>\n\n2) Impact force and frequency\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3) Descending Biomechanical issues (i.e. pelvic dysfunction)</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4) Previous injury</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5) Genetics</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6) Ground surfaces</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7) </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Job type</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8) Sports</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so on...</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we look at the potential problems, it can allow us to understand what we can and can’t influence, or do.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Orthotic and footwear prescriptions should always be left to the professionals trained to deal with these, like podiatrists for example. However, descending biomechanical problems are certainly within the remit of a PT or exercise professional.</span>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/custom-fit-insoles-damaging-workout-performance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check out my blog about my visit to Premier Podiatry by clicking here.</a>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As personal trainers we could conduct a </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">series</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of foot screens or use a foot posture index, to get a good idea of whether our client has a propensity for pronation or supination or in fact has a neutral foot. Once we’ve concluded the outcome that most suits our client, we can start to plan the right exercises to prescribe, to either contribute to better foot function or as pre-orthotic conditioning process (see below). This allows us to communicate much more effectively with podiatrists when we need to make a referral.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We would </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ALWAYS </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">advise performing more than one screen, due to the complex nature of the movement planes in the foot and ankle, as it can commonly occur that your client may present as having a propensity for pronation in one screen and a propensity for supination in another.</span>\n<h3>The Solution</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What CAN WE do?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first thing is to get an understanding of foot anatomy and function, in relation to pronation and supination. Visually someone might look like a pronator yet they are structurally a supinator. If they have a fat pad on the arch for example, it may give the impression of a low arch or pronated foot. So we must never assume anything and certainly not when we don\'t need to!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This screen is just one example of a foot screen and how simple they can be. This particular screen is simply to identify if the foot has the </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">capacity </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to re-supinate.</span>\n<h3>Jacks test (ascending influencer)</h3>\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1785\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_4580-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" />\n<h3>Why?</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Jack’s test assesses the force required to activate the windlass mechanism. This test assesses the tension in the plantar fascia associated with Heel Lift, Toe Off and Propulsion to identify the foot\'s capacity to supinate. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The way in which the terminal strands of the plantar fascia wind around the metatarsal heads, has been called the Windlass Mechanism (Hicks, 1954). What is fascinating is that people vary greatly in the force required to dorsiflex the big toe, to activate this Windlass Mechanism. It is believed that orthoses that decrease this force, reducing the strain in the Plantar Fascia and thus improving the efficiency of gait.</span>\n<h3>The Windlass Mechanism</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The term ‘Windlass Mechanism’ is used to describe the function of the plantar fascia. </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Jack’s test can be used to assess the effect of devices on the establishment of the Windlass Mechanism.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plantar fascia is drawn tightly around the big toe joint, so as the big toe moves upwards (dorsiflexes), it develops tension within it. This tension pulls the joints of the foot tightly together, and converts the foot to a rigid structure, in preparation for the forward thrust of propulsion. This increased foot rigidity is reflected by the increase in arch height, as the fore-foot is drawn down and closer to the rear-foot. This is also very important in relation to shoe design.</span>\n<h3>What?</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You’ll be using the 1</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">st</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> metatarsal (big toe) as a lever in the sagittal plane </span>\n<h3>How?</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You manually dorsiflex the big toe and estimate the force required. Kneeling in front of your client, who should be standing naturally, place hands flat on either side of their foot. Slide both your thumbs underneath their big toe and pressing the fingers into the floor for support you push the big toe upwards sagittally and as far as it will go. Look to see if the inside of the foot lifts into an arch.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This effort or resistance it takes to do this can be graded from 1 to 5. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1= no effort at all to push the toe up</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5= toe impossible to lift and engage any arch or supination </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tension in the plantar fascia increases as the big toe is dorsiflexed and the subtalar joint must supinate to raise the arch.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A score of 2-3 is a pass, anything higher or lower is a fail.</span>\n\n4-5 is difficult to lift and therefore means that the subtalar joint has limited capacity to re-supinate the STJ and so they are more likely to be a pronator.\n\n0-1 is really easy to lift and therefore means the subtalar joint easily supinates and the client is less likely to be a pronator.\n<h3>Ok Now What?</h3>\nWell we must still be mindful of appropriate referral and duty of care if we are ever unsure or particularly if clients are symptomatic. However an example of something safe we could do is POC-ing.\n<h3>POC-ing</h3>\nPOC-ing or pre-orthotic conditioning is simply a series of exercises that prepare the lower limb, ankle and foot for orthotics. Often the leg is unprepared for changes to the new position under foot. This can sometimes result in discomfort or achy muscles (DOMS) even though the orthotic is correct for that individual. They may simply need some ‘preparation’ for their new position.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Note: Likewise sometimes a wrong orthotic can alleviate pain even though a prescription might be inaccurate, as the simple act of changing the load going through the joints could alleviate loads to a different place.)</span>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>EXAMPLE;</strong></span></h4>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you feel your client lacks the capacity to supinate have them sit down and place a resistance band around the inside of their foot, like the image below. Tie or hold the band to give the resistance. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now encourage them to turn the foot inwards against the resistance band for 15 reps and 3 sets or as you see fit.</span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1786\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_8821-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" />\n<h3>Final note;</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Always use inter-professional relationships for optimum duty of care.</span>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://futurefittraining.gemalpha.com/view/f9bda512d28d43c98e059c7872a146ac0e943b51f6954ebc939e435a4ab0b43f/Bio+Sales+toolkit+Guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Would you like to learn more about foot biomechanics on our Biomechanics Coach course?</a></h1>\n<h2>FIND OUR MORE BY CLICKING HERE <em>I want to learn more please!!</em></h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"></p>','Over Pronation Or Late Supination?','','draft','closed','closed','','over-pronation-or-late-supination','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',0,'https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=2668',0,'post','',0),(2671,3,'2017-05-03 10:56:33','2017-05-03 10:56:33','<b>Do Your Knees Knock?</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only during Halloween? Haha no I mean during exercise or your chosen sport…</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Something prevalent in observing our client’s knees during movement is knock knees, otherwise known as knee valgus.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now while looking at the mechanics of the knee, during gait for example, what we see in simple terms is knee flexion and extension, but it is a bit more complex than that.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the purposes of this article I am going to keep it simple but, if looking at what happens intrinsically during knee flexion and extension does excite you as much as it does me, and you want to find out more, just leave your email below and I can get in touch about our knee &amp; foot biomechanics workshop.</span>\n\n<b><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Ligament Dominance</span></b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now if we are truly following The Integrated System idea that people have talked about for years (but often still don’t </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">really</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> practice), it goes without saying, there are likely to be both ascending and descending biomechanical influences upon human movement.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last week we discussed just one of the possible ascending biomechanical issues in the blog </span><b><i>‘Over Pronation or Late Supination’</i></b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that may affect your client\'s movement, but this week we will be discussing a potential descending influencer.</span>\n<h3>The Problem</h3>\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><b>Ligament Dominance</b></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ligament</span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dominance occurs when your client allows the knee ligaments, rather than the extremity musculature, to absorb a significant portion of the ground reaction force, during their chosen activity or an exercise you have given them. (</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hewitt TE, Paterno MV, Myer GD. Strategies for enhancing proprioception and neuromuscular control of the knee. Clin Orthop 2002</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Typically during single-leg landing, pivoting or declaration (all common Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury mechanisms), your client may allow the ground reaction force to control the direction of motion of the lower extremity joints. This motion is especially evident at the knee; which is not only influenced by direct external moments (the floor), but also by the ankle and hip internal moments. (</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Winter DA, Biomechanics and Motor Control of Human Movement 2</span></i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd</span></i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ed. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons; 1990). </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In these instances the neuromuscular and ligamentous control of the joint is unbalanced</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, (Hewett TE, Myer GD, Ford KR, et al</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).</span>\n<h3>So What?</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Measurement of neuromuscular imbalances allows individuals who are at potential risk of ACL injury to be identified. A client may display techniques that place them at an increased risk because of one or more imbalances. During single-leg landing, pivoting or deceleration, the motion of a </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ligament dominant knee</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a client may be directed by the external ground reaction forces, rather than by their musculature.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>A Runner</strong></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example the client who wants to train with you to prepare for a race will ultimately need to practice running, of course. However it would be prudent to identify if they have any knee stability issues while running, because if they do, they may require bespoke strength work to reduce their risk of injury. As we know, the impact and repetitive nature of this kind of activity, has a high instance of ‘overuse’ symptoms. This force of landing transfers up *The Integrated System, through the pelvis and spine, at which point there is a rotational force too. If the ligaments are dominate in taking the impact, rather than the lateral hip muscles, this ‘shock’ can stress not only the knee, but also the body higher up.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if we can assess, monitor, exercise, re-assess and create more stability with smart individualised programming, your client will be a more efficient runner, with a reduced risk of hurting their knee.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*See more detail below about further considerations </span>\n<h3>How To Identify If Your Client Is Ligament Dominant</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The evaluation of a client’s level of </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ligament dominance</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can be accomplished using a 31cm box-drop test combined with a maximum effort vertical leap. (</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ford KR, Myer GD, Hewett TE. Valgus knee motion during landing in high school female and male basketball players. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2003</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).</span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1802\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-04-25-at-07.39.55.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"318\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When dropping from a box, a </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ligament dominant</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> client displays substantial medial knee motion in the transverse plane which is visually identified upon the point of the foot contacting the floor. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Medial knee motion may be related to an overall dynamic knee valgus ie; femoral adduction, femoral internal rotation in relation to the hip, tibial external rotation in relation to the femur with or without foot pronation.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Movement patterns that place your client in positions of high ACL load (excessive external knee abduction moments), combined with a low knee flexion angle, may well increase the risk for ligament injury or failure (</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lloyd DG</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).</span>\n<h3>Now It’s Your Turn</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So using your slow motion setting on your phone or camera, squat down in front of your client and ask them to let one leg hang off the box. Then ask them to drop onto the hanging leg allowing the knee to flex to 30 degrees upon landing. Now watch back the slow mo and notice the exact point the foot comes into contact with the floor and notice what action occurs at the knee. </span>\n\n<strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">You can see an example of the drop box test in action here:</span></strong>\n\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/1dZ_Ta3S00U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\n\n<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><b>Ask yourself;</b></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does the knee ‘flick’ inwards?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does the knee land medially?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you answer yes to one of these then the test is positive and this would indicate an unstable knee which increases their risk of injury. Always reassure your client this is quite common and more often than not, a simple bespoke exercise programme will address it.</span>\n<h3>The Solution</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we consider that the ligaments are taking the force, then the muscles that would limit this knee valgus would logically produce the opposite movement.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is knee valgus in terms of </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">movement?</span></i>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well if the knee is dropping inwards in terms of </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">analysing the movement</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> this would be hip adduction and internal rotation of the hip. This movement comes from the pelvis of course but what this means is there are simple ways of strengthening the hip that will contribute to a more stable knee upon landing and taking load.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The opposing movements to hip adduction and hip internal rotation would be hip abduction and hip external rotation.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So any strengthening exercises for these 2 movements individually or combined would likely contribute to improving ligament dominance and therefore create a more stable load through the knee.</span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1804\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-20.58.33-1024x416.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"341\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is just one of the knee assessments we teach during the </span><b>Knee and Foot Biomechanics workshop</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and we should always take into account The Integrated System when it comes to assessment and exercise prescription for true long term objectivity in improving human movement.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>If you are interested in learning more about this 2-day workshop; fill in your details below and we’ll get in touch to tell you more.</b></p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1801\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-20.49.59-1024x508.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"298\" />\n\n[activecampaign form=19]\n\n<b>Other References</b>','How To Measure Neuromuscular Imbalances & Identify If Your Client Is At Risk Of ACL Injury','','draft','closed','closed','','how-to-measure-neuromuscular-imbalances-identify-if-your-client-is-at-risk-of-acl-injury','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',0,'https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=2671',0,'post','',0),(2720,3,'2017-05-16 08:18:03','2017-05-16 08:18:03','<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anatomy Is Pretty Grey… Movement Is More Black &amp; White. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anatomy on the whole can be very a complex subject and a nightmare for some to learn and grasp. Yet there are very simple ways of applying what you NEED to know when it comes to initially analysing movement and exercise prescription.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the things we teach during our workshops is to forget the muscles at first, analyse the movement in relation to joint actions, THEN go back and look at which muscles contribute to that movement.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This blog is to talk about the complexities of one particular muscle and how this may or may not influence your exercise prescription. </span>\n\n<b>Why The Adductor Magnus Muscle?</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well first of all it is my favorite muscle because as I began to research its attachments and actions several years ago, I became quite fascinated by all that it does. Particularly, its involvement in opposing actions and the idea of it being also known as, “the extra hamstring”!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clearly I am not the only one fascinated by the adductor magnus….</span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Just as we must be cognisant of the potential injuries that can result from an imbalance between the quads and hamstrings, we must recognise that the adductor/abductor strength ratio must be appropriate as well.” Eric Cressey (Construction by adduction - T nation 2004)</span></i>\n\n<b>Where Is It? What Does It Do?</b>\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2762 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2016-12-18-at-06.52.03-224x300.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-18-at-06-52-03\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word </span><b>adductor</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> comes from the Latin words “</span><b>ad</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">” which means </span><b>toward</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and “</span><b>ducere</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">” which means </span><b>to lead</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word </span><b>magnus</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a Latin word meaning </span><b>large.</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adductor magnus then, is a large muscle that leads something toward the body.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This muscle is the largest of the adductor muscles and, by some measures, the second largest muscle in the body after Gluteus maximus. It is also often underestimated when it comes to good pelvic function.</span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/4-sign-pelvic-release-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Would you like a muscle energy technique to check your pelvic function &amp; release any spasm there might be, allowing you to see improved movement and potentially reduced pain?</span></i></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Download your 4-Sign Screen &amp; Release by Clicking HERE</span></i></p>\n<b>Adductor Magnus has 2 parts; according to the sports injury clinic</b>\n\n<b>Adductor Head</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> = Inferior Ramus of Pubis. Gluteal Tuberosity, Linea Aspera &amp; proximal Supracondylar line. Adducts, flexes &amp; medially rotates the hip.</span>\n\n<b>Hamstring Head</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> = Ischial Tuberosity. Adductor Tubercle of the Femur. Extends the hip.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to this wonderful meshy fan of fibres, this beast not only adducts the hip but it also can flex AND extend the hip!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WHAT???</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How on earth can one muscle contract in opposite directions?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes this is a “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I need to </span></i><b><i>see</i></b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> this</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">” moment isn\'t it. Rubber band, life sized skeleton and several pairs of hands. </span>\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2765 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_9354-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_9354\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BUT WAIT!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It does more! The part that attaches to the linea aspera can also act as BOTH a medial and lateral rotator - really?! OK now I sense heads exploding.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you change hip angles, or start points, the ‘line of pull’ can change, therefore potentially (and beautifully in the case of this particular muscle) changing the muscles action to be antagonistic to itself. </span>\n\n<b>Other Descriptions and Research</b>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“While adduction is the primary function of each, the amount of hip flexion present determines whether or not some of the adductors work on the femur as medial or lateral rotators and extensors or flexors. As odd as it may sound, the adductors are important as both hip flexors and extensors during the sprinting motion. Depending on the individual, the shift from flexor to extensor role occurs between 50 and 70 degrees of hip flexion. This phenomenon is possible due to the distal insertion point on the femur. When the hip is extended, the adductors\' line of pull is anterior to the hip joint axis, whereas this line of pull is posterior to the axis when the hip is flexed.” Cressey (2004)</span></i>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EMG studies also show that ‘</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">adductor magnus was most active during internal rotation and  extension. This may imply a great potential to absorb vertical ground reaction forces in functional tasks like walking and running and contribute to hi and pelvic rotation during gait’ (Benn et al, jsams 2017)</span></i>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reading several articles and studies reported in </span><a href=\"http://www.strengthandconditioningresearch.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.strengthandconditioningresearch.com</span></a>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“….Despite its name, the adductor magnus is actually a very important hip extensor when the hip is flexed. Németh and Ohlsén (1985) reported that the adductor magnus muscle moment arm length for hip extension was 5.7 – 6.1cm at 90 degrees of hip flexion, compared to 4.0 – 4.8cm for the hamstrings, and 3.1 – 3.3cm for the gluteus maximus</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means that exercises that have peak contractions in positions of hip flexion (like full squats) likely train the adductor magnus very effectively. </span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ignoring the adductor magnus is therefore likely to lead to a failure to maximise overall muscular hypertrophy in the lower body.</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The adductor magnus appears to display a relatively mixed muscle fibre type proportion, albeit with a greater proportion of type I muscle fibres. Garrett et al. (1984)The adductor magnus displays a mixed-to-slow muscle fibre type, which may imply higher repetitions with lower loads and slower bar speeds may be beneficial.”...</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chris Beardsley definitely puts some interesting stuff out!</span>\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2761 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-01-11-at-10.11.31-300x166.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-01-11-at-10-11-31\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We should note that each part (hamstring and adductor) has different nerve supply, so some may say it is not such a big deal, as each component doesn’t have to engage at the same time as the other. The </span><b>adductor</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> portion is innervated by the posterior division of the obturator </span><b>nerve,</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while the hamstring portion is innervated by the tibial </span><b>nerve</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But if you are like me, we are simply trying to move on from those anatomy books, right!?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes I know - NOW can you understand why this is my favourite muscle!? </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No? OK OK, hands up, I am a geek. :D</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However this one beautiful piece of human tissue explains why the human body is both fantastical and complex and why it contributes to so much controversy when we are trying to learn about it and understand it.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We ALL LOVE a bit of controversy right!? (that’s why everyone loves the BGT auditions more than the actually live show isn\'t it?)</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sorry back to the blog….</span>\n\n<b>SO WHAT? </b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A problem with this muscle could influence the integrated system in so many ways but here is an example...</span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Additionally, those of you that suffer from patellofemoral pain syndrome might be interested to note that weak adductors are one of several potential causes for your persistent knee troubles. The origin of the vastus medialis oblique is at the tendon of the adductor magnus, so adductor based strength training merits inclusion in a rehabilitation program” </span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“If being fast tickles your fancy more than moving big weights, you\'ll be interested to note that the adductor magnus rivals the hamstrings and gluteus maximus in terms of its contribution to sprinting speed”, Cressey (2004).</span></i>\n\n<b>In Conclusion</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are taught at L2/3 that muscles go from point A to B and do an action. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That they have an antagonist. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That they are part of a group. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However as you </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">really</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> learn about them you realise the laws don\'t </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">always</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> apply </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> simply in every case; like in the case of Adductor Magnus. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the gym, we don’t really NEED to know the exact attachments of Adductor Magnus, in order to teach someone an exercise. It might also be argued that we don’t really </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">need</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to know the exact attachments, to do soft tissue work on the adductor group too.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My suggestion is of course to study anatomy for confidence and for fascination, but try NOT to get caught up in the stress of trying to recall it all </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">immediately,</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while in a session with a client. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over time, as you find reasons to study a particular area or muscle, for some reason you will start to recall it more easily. You will also realise just how </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GREY</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> this subject matter is when it comes to laws (s’cuse the pun!), in fact, it creates debates even among the experts - (as I research the Psoas Paradox for another Juicemail!).</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adductor Magnus is one example of why, as exercise professionals, we should find ways to recall detailed anatomy, even if we do firstly focus on the movement/s. This then allows us to understand movement and exercise in even greater detail for designing our client programme. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GO ON Geek confessional = tell me which is your favourite muscle and why….? lol.</span>\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2760 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-16-at-06.15.15-300x147.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-05-16-at-06-15-15\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/pelvis-module\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If Pelvic Biomechanics interests you, click here to check out the fantastic 2-day practical workshop we have that will see your skill set hugely improved for your clients.</span></i></a></p>\n<b>References;</b>\n\n<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adductor_magnus_muscle\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adductor_magnus_muscle</span></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/anatomy/human-muscles/adductor-magnus\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/anatomy/human-muscles/adductor-magnus</span></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://rad.washington.edu/muscle-atlas/adductor-magnus/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http://rad.washington.edu/muscle-atlas/adductor-magnus/</span></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.lumen.luc.edu/lumen/meded/grossanatomy/dissector/mml/admg.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http://www.lumen.luc.edu/lumen/meded/grossanatomy/dissector/mml/admg.htm</span></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.teachpe.com/anatomy/muscles/add_magnus.php\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http://www.teachpe.com/anatomy/muscles/add_magnus.php</span></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.orthobullets.com/anatomy/10067/adductor-magnus\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http://www.orthobullets.com/anatomy/10067/adductor-magnus</span></a>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.yoganatomy.com/adductor-magnus-muscle/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https://www.yoganatomy.com/adductor-magnus-muscle/</span></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://ericcressey.com/strength-and-conditioning-textbook-synergists-and-antagonists\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http://ericcressey.com/strength-and-conditioning-textbook-synergists-and-antagonists</span></a>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.t-nation.com/training/construction-by-adduction\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https://www.t-nation.com/training/construction-by-adduction</span></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://rhinofitness.ca/articles/article_trigger_point_adductors.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http://rhinofitness.ca/articles/article_trigger_point_adductors.html</span></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.jsams.org/article/S1440-2440(17)30012-9/abstract\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http://www.jsams.org/article/S1440-2440(17)30012-9/abstract</span></a>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989399/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989399/</span></a>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https://www.strengthandconditioningresearch.com/muscles/adductors/</span>','Anatomy 50 Shades Of Grey','','draft','closed','closed','','anatomy-50-shades-of-grey','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',0,'https://www.www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=2720',0,'post','',0),(2721,0,'2017-05-16 08:17:34','2017-05-16 08:17:34','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2017-05-16-at-06-19-57','','','2017-05-16 08:17:34','2017-05-16 08:17:34','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-16-at-06.19.57-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2722,0,'2017-05-16 08:17:35','2017-05-16 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08:17:41','2017-05-16 08:17:41','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_9448-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2726,0,'2017-05-16 08:17:43','2017-05-16 08:17:43','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','img_9327','','','2017-05-16 08:17:43','2017-05-16 08:17:43','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_9327-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2727,0,'2017-05-16 08:17:45','2017-05-16 08:17:45','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2017-01-11-at-10-11-31','','','2017-05-16 08:17:45','2017-05-16 08:17:45','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-01-11-at-10.11.31-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2728,0,'2017-05-16 08:17:47','2017-05-16 08:17:47','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-12-18-at-06-52-03','','','2017-05-16 08:17:47','2017-05-16 08:17:47','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2016-12-18-at-06.52.03-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2729,0,'2017-05-16 08:17:49','2017-05-16 08:17:49','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2016-12-18-at-06-51-56','','','2017-05-16 08:17:49','2017-05-16 08:17:49','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2016-12-18-at-06.51.56-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2755,3,'2017-05-22 20:02:25','2017-05-22 20:02:25','One of the most disabling and common problems in golfers today (and our society in general) is back pain.  In fact, according to a top researcher, lower back pain is as common as headaches in modern society. Crazy right?\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent study also showed that if you see your GP with your back pain, and he then refers you to a specialist, who then sends you for X-rays and MRI scans, the accuracy of diagnosis is 15-20%.  A frightening, yet little known fact.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately the principles of modern medicine mean that the medical profession cannot treat an injury without an accurate diagnosis; so is there any wonder why the incidence of back pain has doubled every 10 years for the last 30 years?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can imagine, the problem is made even worse when you have had back pain for some time, especially if you are a golfer where the high speed spinal movements increase the pressure on your spine significantly.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem is, when you’ve had an injury for more than 6 weeks, another part of your body will start to compensate, leading to new pains and a deterioration in your condition. So you can actually end up with more than one injury due to the mechanical compensations, which makes diagnosis even more difficult. We need to shift the paradigm and look at back pain differently.</span>\n<h3><b>A New Way Of Looking At Back Pain</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists, called Biomechanists, and exercise professionals trained as Biomechanics Coaches</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">™</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have been looking at back pain quite differently for some time. They look at the </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mechanical</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> causes of back pain rather than focusing on the pain itself. They have found that they get better results by managing the biomechanical causes than many in the medical profession achieve by treating the symptoms.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, independent research has shown that if you see a Physiotherapist over a 6 week period for your low grade back pain, your average improvement will be around 39% in functional capacity (the capacity of your back to perform work). If however, you were to perform an exercise programme to manage the mechanical causes of your back pain, your average improvement would be around 140%. A profound difference and one that cannot be ignored!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This biomechanical approach is rapidly taking over from the medical approach in popularity, as it is a much more effective method of treating back pain.</span>\n<h3><b>How The Median Nerve Can Affect A Golfer\'s Swing</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A compensation that is often found in golfers is a tight median nerve. Nerves really don’t like to be stretched and particularly at high speed. The anatomy of the Median Nerve and the positions required in the golf swing will also reduce the amount the player can complete his back swing and adopt the best position at the top of his swing.  This would be due to the muscle spasm that builds up in muscles like Pectoralis Minor to try and protect the inflexible nerve.</span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2775\" src=\"http://dev-biomechanicseducation-com.stackstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-22-at-07.13.31-300x137.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-05-22-at-07-13-31\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" /></p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The greater the muscle spasm (which is unbeknown to the player as its sub clinical at this point) the more he\'ll try and force his shoulder turn, which then increases the tension etc etc.</span>\n<h3><b>Pectoralis Minor</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we consider the Pectoralis Minor (PM) muscle again from a previous Juicemail <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/case-study-elite-lifter-laura-hewitt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Case Study Elite Lifter Laura Hewitt)</a> you may recall how we discussed how it could limit your thoracic spines ability to extend.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is also apparent here therefore is how the PM muscle would also limit thoracic rotation</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your thoracic spine doesn’t have the capacity to rotate, the golf swing movement has to come from somewhere, right? This could then contribute to excessive movement around joints lower down in the lumbar spine for example and could eventually if unaddressed result in low back pain.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The key to a sound and reproducible swing, is to obviate any tension in the swing, so help with timing and rhythm.  So by also mobilising the median nerve, we are helping with all of the above.</span>\n<h3><b>The Take Home Message</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course no single method can be the panacea of all ills, but what we are finding is that if the mechanical causes are addressed, the pain can subside without treatment on the \'injury\', whatever it might be.  Sometimes treatment is also required, but often golfers find that once they\'ve committed to an exercise programme to address the causes of their pain, they are then more able to manage the problem themselves.  Then if local treatment is necessary, it is more likely to be successful, as the mechanical causes are no longer present.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Considering the problems that golfers can have with back pain, prevention is important as it’s far less painful, less inconvenient and far less expensive! The same biomechanical principles that can help manage back pain, can be adopted to minimise the risk.  </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So the ‘take home message’ is to find a professional who can assess your mechanic (like a Biomechanics Coach</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">™</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) get yourself or your golfer screened and learn which are the best exercises for those results.</span>\n<h3><b>Practical Tasks To Think About:</b></h3>\n<strong>Thoracic Spine;</strong>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When considering how we might mobilise the thoracic spine what kind of exercises can you think of that would improve ‘pure’ thoracic rotation?</span>\n\n<strong>Median Nerve;</strong>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you look at the pathway the Median Nerve follows in the arm, try working out how you might put it onto a stretched position, to then release and add the tension very slowly as a nerve mobilisation technique.</span>\n<h3><b>How We Can Help...</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another option is to attend our one day <a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/golf-biomechanics-workshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golf Biomechanics workshop</a> June 30th at NLSSM.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This fantastic sports specific workshop will be delivered by Martin Haines, PGA advisor, Biomechanics Coach</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">™</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and chartered Physiotherapist. During the day you will learn about:</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">✓ The correct terminology to approach golf clubs</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">✓ How to assess your golf players biomechanics</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">✓ How to improve your golf players biomechanics</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">✓ How to improve velocity &amp; planes of swing</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">✓ How to better prepare your player for reduced risk of injury</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This workshop is aimed at Fitness Professionals, PT’s, Golf Coaches and practitioners involved in or interested in Golf Performance. Learn from the best and enter professional discussions with like-minded people.</span>\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2774 aligncenter\" src=\"http://dev-biomechanicseducation-com.stackstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-22-at-07.13.21-300x155.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-05-22-at-07-13-21\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/golf-biomechanics-workshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>If you’re interested in finding out more, click here.</b></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2781 aligncenter\" src=\"http://dev-biomechanicseducation-com.stackstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BIOMECHANICS-COACH-300x157.png\" alt=\"biomechanics-coach\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" /></p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally if you have a minimum of level 3 anatomy knowledge you could just go straight into our <a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biomechanics Coach</a></span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">™</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Diploma to learn the entire system. This enables you to assess and correct every joint and structure within the Integrated System of our bodies to help ALL of your clients whatever their sport or lifestyle.</span>\n\n&nbsp;','How Back Pain Whilst Playing Golf Can Stem From A Dysfunction In The Median Nerve','','draft','closed','closed','','how-back-pain-whilst-playing-golf-can-stem-from-a-dysfunction-in-the-median-nerve','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=2755',0,'post','',0),(2756,0,'2017-05-22 20:01:57','2017-05-22 20:01:57','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2017-05-22-at-21-01-16','','','2017-05-22 20:01:57','2017-05-22 20:01:57','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-22-at-21.01.16-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2759,0,'2017-05-23 05:27:05','2017-05-23 05:27:05','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','screen-shot-2017-05-23-at-06-26-43','','','2017-05-23 05:27:05','2017-05-23 05:27:05','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-23-at-06.26.43-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2760,3,'2017-05-23 05:27:30','2017-05-23 05:27:30','One of the most disabling and common problems in golfers today (and our society in general) is back pain.  In fact, according to a top researcher, lower back pain is as common as headaches in modern society. Crazy right?\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent study also showed that if you see your GP with your back pain, and he then refers you to a specialist, who then sends you for X-rays and MRI scans, the accuracy of diagnosis is 15-20%.  A frightening, yet little known fact.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately the principles of modern medicine mean that the medical profession cannot treat an injury without an accurate diagnosis; so is there any wonder why the incidence of back pain has doubled every 10 years for the last 30 years?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can imagine, the problem is made even worse when you have had back pain for some time, especially if you are a golfer where the high speed spinal movements increase the pressure on your spine significantly.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem is, when you’ve had an injury for more than 6 weeks, another part of your body will start to compensate, leading to new pains and a deterioration in your condition. So you can actually end up with more than one injury due to the mechanical compensations, which makes diagnosis even more difficult. We need to shift the paradigm and look at back pain differently.</span>\n<h3><b>A New Way Of Looking At Back Pain</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists, called Biomechanists, and exercise professionals trained as Biomechanics Coaches</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">™</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have been looking at back pain quite differently for some time. They look at the </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mechanical</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> causes of back pain rather than focusing on the pain itself. They have found that they get better results by managing the biomechanical causes than many in the medical profession achieve by treating the symptoms.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, independent research has shown that if you see a Physiotherapist over a 6 week period for your low grade back pain, your average improvement will be around 39% in functional capacity (the capacity of your back to perform work). If however, you were to perform an exercise programme to manage the mechanical causes of your back pain, your average improvement would be around 140%. A profound difference and one that cannot be ignored!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This biomechanical approach is rapidly taking over from the medical approach in popularity, as it is a much more effective method of treating back pain.</span>\n<h3><b>How The Median Nerve Can Affect A Golfer\'s Swing</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A compensation that is often found in golfers is a tight median nerve. Nerves really don’t like to be stretched and particularly at high speed. The anatomy of the Median Nerve and the positions required in the golf swing will also reduce the amount the player can complete his back swing and adopt the best position at the top of his swing.  This would be due to the muscle spasm that builds up in muscles like Pectoralis Minor to try and protect the inflexible nerve.</span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2775\" src=\"http://dev-biomechanicseducation-com.stackstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-22-at-07.13.31-300x137.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-05-22-at-07-13-31\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" /></p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The greater the muscle spasm (which is unbeknown to the player as its sub clinical at this point) the more he\'ll try and force his shoulder turn, which then increases the tension etc etc.</span>\n<h3><b>Pectoralis Minor</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we consider the Pectoralis Minor (PM) muscle again from a previous Juicemail <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/case-study-elite-lifter-laura-hewitt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Case Study Elite Lifter Laura Hewitt)</a> you may recall how we discussed how it could limit your thoracic spines ability to extend.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is also apparent here therefore is how the PM muscle would also limit thoracic rotation</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your thoracic spine doesn’t have the capacity to rotate, the golf swing movement has to come from somewhere, right? This could then contribute to excessive movement around joints lower down in the lumbar spine for example and could eventually if unaddressed result in low back pain.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The key to a sound and reproducible swing, is to obviate any tension in the swing, so help with timing and rhythm.  So by also mobilising the median nerve, we are helping with all of the above.</span>\n<h3><b>The Take Home Message</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course no single method can be the panacea of all ills, but what we are finding is that if the mechanical causes are addressed, the pain can subside without treatment on the \'injury\', whatever it might be.  Sometimes treatment is also required, but often golfers find that once they\'ve committed to an exercise programme to address the causes of their pain, they are then more able to manage the problem themselves.  Then if local treatment is necessary, it is more likely to be successful, as the mechanical causes are no longer present.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Considering the problems that golfers can have with back pain, prevention is important as it’s far less painful, less inconvenient and far less expensive! The same biomechanical principles that can help manage back pain, can be adopted to minimise the risk.  </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So the ‘take home message’ is to find a professional who can assess your mechanic (like a Biomechanics Coach</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">™</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) get yourself or your golfer screened and learn which are the best exercises for those results.</span>\n<h3><b>Practical Tasks To Think About:</b></h3>\n<strong>Thoracic Spine;</strong>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When considering how we might mobilise the thoracic spine what kind of exercises can you think of that would improve ‘pure’ thoracic rotation?</span>\n\n<strong>Median Nerve;</strong>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you look at the pathway the Median Nerve follows in the arm, try working out how you might put it onto a stretched position, to then release and add the tension very slowly as a nerve mobilisation technique.</span>\n<h3><b>How We Can Help...</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another option is to attend our one day <a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/golf-biomechanics-workshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golf Biomechanics workshop</a> June 30th at NLSSM.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This fantastic sports specific workshop will be delivered by Martin Haines, PGA advisor, Biomechanics Coach</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">™</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and chartered Physiotherapist. During the day you will learn about:</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">✓ The correct terminology to approach golf clubs</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">✓ How to assess your golf players biomechanics</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">✓ How to improve your golf players biomechanics</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">✓ How to improve velocity &amp; planes of swing</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">✓ How to better prepare your player for reduced risk of injury</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This workshop is aimed at Fitness Professionals, PT’s, Golf Coaches and practitioners involved in or interested in Golf Performance. Learn from the best and enter professional discussions with like-minded people.</span>\n\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2774 aligncenter\" src=\"http://dev-biomechanicseducation-com.stackstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-22-at-07.13.21-300x155.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-05-22-at-07-13-21\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/golf-biomechanics-workshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>If you’re interested in finding out more, click here.</b></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2781 aligncenter\" src=\"http://dev-biomechanicseducation-com.stackstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BIOMECHANICS-COACH-300x157.png\" alt=\"biomechanics-coach\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" /></p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally if you have a minimum of level 3 anatomy knowledge you could just go straight into our <a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biomechanics Coach</a></span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">™</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Diploma to learn the entire system. This enables you to assess and correct every joint and structure within the Integrated System of our bodies to help ALL of your clients whatever their sport or lifestyle.</span>\n\n&nbsp;','How Back Pain Whilst Playing Golf Can Stem From A Dysfunction In The Median Nerve','','inherit','closed','closed','','2755-revision-v1','','','2017-05-23 05:27:30','2017-05-23 05:27:30','',2755,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/2755-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(2780,3,'2017-06-02 05:48:10','2017-06-02 05:48:10','<b>Why Don’t They Listen?</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you ever feel utterly convinced that you KNOW you could help someone, but they just wouldn’t listen? It is often someone you really care about right? How frustrating is it?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well in the past it has driven me completely nuts with frustration when they did not listen, until eventually it dawned on me that in fact I was the one in the wrong…. ARGH!!....</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why?</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I can hear you thinking...</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<ol>\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a) …for thinking I was the one who could make a difference</span></li>\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">b) ...for trying to impress MY ideas of what was best for someone else without being asked</span></li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2269\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-13-at-11.45.20.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-03-13 at 11.45.20\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Tough Lesson</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This tough lesson made me take a good look at the way I practice and communicate and is now a big part of what we now teach within our academy. It’s the idea that you cannot help someone if they are not receptive to helping themselves; no matter what you say or do!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our workshops we discuss the fact that a practitioner shouldn’t offer to </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fix you</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, they should however teach you how to look after your own body and to improve your own biomechanics, with simple exercises and lifestyle advice. Of course within professions like manual therapy there is likely to be some external input BUT for long term success empowering the client is vital.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without this approach clients aren’t made aware of addressing the very lifestyle issues that have often been the very reason for seeking advice in the first place. Thus meaning the ‘problem’ can often recur!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my situation, my friend had not come to me for help, I just </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">felt</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at that time that I could make him feel better… how arrogant of me!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>We Only Want To Help, Right?</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is often hard to take this since we are, as exercise professionals and therapists by nature, ‘helpers’ who want to make everyone feel better. However, while I now have a much better system of approach with my clients and also my loved ones, my previous experience of wanting to help my friend, exposed this area for improvement. My reflective journal exposed the true cause of my dilemma.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My efforts to try everything to ‘help’ him when he did not WANT that help, was not in fact helpful at all. It actually made them feel useless, because they felt they were letting me down. Individuals really need to be ready and open or at least willing, to receive information or it gets lost. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>He Proved Me Wrong!</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My friend proved me wrong and that is not his fault, it was MY fault.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We must remind ourselves that as much as we want to help and want to change things for others; we also need to </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">keep in mind</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> they may not want our help, no matter how well intended. And you shouldn’t take that personally!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Unwanted Advice is Not Helpful</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advice is not helpful if it’s not wanted is it!?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As coaches, we must be mindful of knowing our boundaries as well (as much as our remit) with clients by ensuring we LISTEN and take on board what THEY tell us.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>What Can YOU Do?</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The real skill is in a more subtle approach and being great at asking questions. This way they often TELL YOU what they WANT, giving you more information about what to then SELL to them. This is a basic sales technique and opens any opportunity that </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">might</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> be available to you. At the same time, it also makes them feel </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">valued</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by you because you’re interested in them and encouraging them to talk.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Try this next time you want to help someone. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Try NOT to offer help at all. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Try just asking lots of questions and really listen to what they tell you. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paraphrase back the specific language THEY use. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make lots of eye contact, nodding and smiling.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wait until THEY ask YOU a question but DON’T offer to help unless they ask!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See what happens as you practice this method. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another HUGE benefit is if THEY approach YOU, they are far more likely to comply and do their homework to get results. If you approach them, chances are they won’t be motivated to do their homework and this would make you look bad!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WE shouldn’t try to fix people anyway, but we should </span><b><i>teach them</i></b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> how they can help themselves. This way, they can choose the direction they want to go in, ultimately feeling more successful and therefore more likely to adhere.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2759\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-23-at-06.26.43.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-05-23-at-06-26-43\" width=\"594\" height=\"308\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/#coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are interested in become a Biomechanics Coach™ and joining our community of like-minded Master Trainers, click here.</span></i></a></p>','This Tough Lesson Could See Your Client Relationships & Success Excel','','draft','closed','closed','','this-tough-lesson-could-see-your-client-relationships-success-excel','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=2780',0,'post','',0),(2781,0,'2017-05-27 08:18:25','2017-05-27 08:18:25','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','this-tough-lesson-could-see-your-client-relationships-excel','','','2017-05-27 08:18:25','2017-05-27 08:18:25','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/This-Tough-Lesson-Could-See-Your-Client-Relationships-Excel-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2785,3,'2017-05-29 19:08:02','2017-05-29 19:08:02','<h2>Identifying Quadratus Lumborum Spasm and Its Impact on Lower Back Pain and Mobility</h2>\r\nThe quadratus lumborum (QL) muscle plays a crucial role in the stabilization and movement of the pelvis and spine. Understanding its function and identifying when it is in spasm can help manage lower back pain and improve movement ability.\r\n<h3>What is the Quadratus Lumborum?</h3>\r\nThe QL is a deep muscle located in the lower back, with one on each side of the spine. It attaches to the 12th rib, the iliac crest, and the transverse processes of the lumbar spine.\r\n<h3>Function of the Quadratus Lumborum</h3>\r\nWhen both QL muscles contract simultaneously, they extend the spine. When one QL contracts, it causes lateral flexion of the spine or hip hitching.\r\n<h3>Common Problems with the Quadratus Lumborum</h3>\r\nDue to sedentary lifestyles, we often spend extended periods sitting in lumbar flexion. This can lead to the QL being in a state of subclinical spasm, which restricts movement and can cause discomfort.\r\n<h3>Effects of QL Spasm on Movement</h3>\r\nA QL spasm limits the spine’s ability to laterally flex, making activities such as bending to pick up objects or turning in a car challenging. For physical activities like bear crawls or rock climbing, where hip hitching is necessary, a QL spasm can hinder speed and control.\r\n\r\nA spasm in the QL can also cause mechanical compensation, leading to a functional leg length discrepancy. The spasm lifts the ilium on one side, affecting pelvic function and potentially causing issues in the knee and foot.\r\n<h3>Testing for QL Spasm</h3>\r\nTo test for QL spasm, ask your client to sit and perform lateral flexion. Observe the spine’s movement and shape; a smooth curve is normal, while a ‘hinge’ in the lumbar area indicates a spasm.\r\n\r\n<em>This video shows a few QL tests in action: QL Hinge Positive &amp; Negative Test Results (youtube.com)</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/xWlGWanUOPE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h3>Solution: Wall Glides</h3>\r\nWall Glides are an effective technique to alleviate QL spasms. This is not a mobility exercise but a proprioceptive method to desensitize the QL spasm.\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Have your client stand side-on to a wall and measure their foot distance from the wall.</li>\r\n 	<li>Rest the whole upper arm against the wall, fixing the ribs to the inside of the arm as if holding a newspaper.</li>\r\n 	<li>Bend the elbow to 90 degrees at the waist while keeping the body straight.</li>\r\n 	<li>Glide the hips gently towards the wall by an inch or two, then return to the original position.</li>\r\n 	<li>Repeat slowly for 8 reps on both sides, twice daily. If tender, reduce the range of motion.</li>\r\n 	<li>Clients with any clinical conditions affecting the lower back should consult their Biomechanics Coach™ first.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2787\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/MG_9964-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"_mg_9964\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" />\r\n<h3>Considerations</h3>\r\nRemember, the body is an integrated system and a master of compensation. Both descending and ascending compensations can cause or result from a QL spasm.\r\n\r\nUnderstanding and addressing QL spasms can significantly improve lower back health and overall mobility. By incorporating techniques like Wall Glides and assessing for compensations, you can help clients manage pain and enhance their movement abilities effectively.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>For further information and guidance, feel free to reach out:</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Phone: <em>020 3841 6151</em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Email: <em>rachel@biomechanicseducation.com</em></p>','How To Identify If Your Quadratus Lumborum Muscle Is In Spasm & It’s Effect On Lower Back Pain & Movement Ability','','publish','closed','closed','','how-to-identify-if-your-quadratus-lumborum-muscle-is-in-spasm','','','2025-01-20 16:03:29','2025-01-20 16:03:29','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=2785',0,'post','',0),(2786,0,'2017-05-27 08:23:54','2017-05-27 08:23:54','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','spine-biomechanics-blog','','','2017-05-27 08:23:54','2017-05-27 08:23:54','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SPINE-Biomechanics-blog-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2787,0,'2017-05-27 08:26:20','2017-05-27 08:26:20','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','_mg_9964','','','2017-05-27 08:26:20','2017-05-27 08:26:20','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/MG_9964-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2788,0,'2017-05-27 08:29:11','2017-05-27 08:29:11','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','how-to-identify-if-your-quadratus-lumborum-muscle-is-in-spasm-its-effect-on-lower-back-pain-movement-ability-1','','','2017-05-27 08:29:11','2017-05-27 08:29:11','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/How-To-Identify-If-Your-Quadratus-Lumborum-Muscle-Is-In-Spasm-Its-Effect-On-Lower-Back-Pain-Movement-Ability-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2808,3,'2017-06-19 10:20:09','2017-06-19 10:20:09','<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever had a question spinning around in your head for ages? A client issue that you just can’t work out?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Me too! I had a couple of things bugging me for a while and so I spent some time reading research papers about leg length discrepancy (LLD), pelvic function, sacro iliac joint (SIJ) pain, symmetry of the pelvis, methods of measuring LLD etc. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now as a Biomechanics Coach™ I found it interesting that so few of the papers I found related simply to function, or how to correct it. Almost all the papers were connected to ‘clinical’ findings or ‘medical’ issues and ‘symptoms’.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well why on earth would you do a research study on something that isn\'t already a ‘problem’? </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well….actually to </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prevent</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the problem might be a good reason, right?!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>The Problem</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2815\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-18-at-20.24.53.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-18-at-20-24-53\" width=\"842\" height=\"608\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So imagine all of your clients for a moment… yep ALL of them, past and present! </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ok now ask yourself how many of them were without any pain, previous injury, moved really well, had full capacity to squat, lunge, pull and push easily? </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is my bet that, like mine, most of your clients (maybe all of them for some of you) have something they find is a niggle, a limitation or impedes their movement.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When our clients come to us we have some kind of initial consultation where we ask questions to understand how we are going to help our clients to get fit, lose weight, build muscle, move better, avoid symptoms and clinical problems, pathology and pain. Some of us may use postural assessments and range of movement tests too. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What we really need a series of objective physical screens for each joint and structure of their body, this allows us to monitor their progress and KNOW what actually helps them to move better. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Screen - Exercise - Re-screen</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>Preparation for Movement</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2814\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-18-at-20.22.27.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-18-at-20-22-27\" width=\"526\" height=\"548\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So ask yourself...</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you wonder about some of your clients and whether you have done the right thing with them or chosen the right exercises simply because of their physical limitations, eh?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you ever thought a 5 minute treadmill warm up may not be adequate?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever wondered if there is something you should do when your client explains they have been told they have a leg length discrepancy?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you ever considered if their back pain related to that leg length discrepancy?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe you thought “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">well everyone has a leg length discrepancy...it’s normal right?</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well these are questions I used to ask myself and I really wanted to understand these things better. This is when I really became a </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">human movement</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> geek!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>The Cause/s</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The key component that can often be missing is a true </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">preparation for movement</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> programme which, due to our lifestyles, is vital for long term physical health. The lives we now lead is amongst technology, gadgets, a lot of sitting and equipment that all make our lives ‘easier’, less effort, quicker and in fact, </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">less active than ever.</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The body is TRYING to evolve to this sedentary routine but can’t do it quick enough and so we are experiencing all sorts of compensatory problems. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>Leg Length Discrepancy</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyway my project was because I wanted to understand </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the relevance</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of a leg length discrepancy (LLD), based on as much evidence as possible.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I found papers that discussed pelvic position, structural leg length discrepancy (SLLD), even functional leg length discrepancy (FLLD) and some looked at whether the LLD affected lower back pain (LBP).</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My question was - does the evidence tell us that a LLD affects low back health? And is there a difference between SLLD and FLLD and their influence on back health?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>Structural Leg Length Discrepancy</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SLLD - or structural leg length discrepancy.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An example of this is the individual\'s femurs are genetically different in length, therefore creating a structural difference that cannot be changed without surgical intervention. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another example might be someone who has broken a bone and therefore now has a structural difference caused by the trauma.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>Functional Leg Length Discrepancy</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FLLD - or functional leg length discrepancy.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is discussed often in research papers and describes a twisted or rotated pelvis, around the SIJ which creates the appearance of a LLD. Should the dysfunction causing the rotation or twist be removed, the LLD can also disappear. Hooray!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>How do we know if we have either an SLLD or FLLD?</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good question! In podiatry, it is my understanding that if there is a LLD that is less than around 11mm it is classed as clinically ‘insignificant’.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, in the research, it almost always seems to be assumed there has a to be a clinical significance, if there is a LLD present. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While in my very limited experience as a Biomechanics Coach™ most LLD’s (and they are more often than not, UNDER 11mm) are FLLD that are NOT clinical and can be addressed/corrected with simple exercises. The presence of a FLLD also seems in many cases to coincide with the degree of low back pain they experience.  </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>Why Does Function Leg Length Discrepancy Coincide With Low Back Pain?</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let me give you the lowdown about what I found out:</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Pelvis</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is evidence from Rose McDonald\'s work when she was head physio at Crystal palace athletics club, that the hips/pelvis are at least partly responsible for 60% of lower limb injuries from a biomechanical point of view.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also in my 10 years experience of using pelvic muscle anti spasms, particularly on the hip rotators, flexors and extensors, it has has had a huge impact on all of my clients, in particular the appearance of a FLLD.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their range of movement (ROM) improves, pain is reduced, strength has increased, they report feeling more stable and overall feel they move better. They certainly get better results in the screens I do!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is also mirrored in what all qualified Biomechanics Coaches™ report with their clients. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now I am confident many of you reading this now have had success with making clients feel less low back pain. Yet this common issue is rife and still only an add on course for L3 PT’s! How many people do you know who have ever experienced some kind of low back pain? Exactly, our basic training should have compulsory screens and preparation exercises these days since we are intrinsically physically different to how we were when PT education was researched and designed. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>A Solution</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Better preparation for movement first, BEFORE the warm up even! Yes BEFORE the warm up! A warm up is a warm up, this does not necessarily set the body up to move again and undo those static compensations and adaptations. We need to get moving more freely FIRST - THEN warm up.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A common issue or adaptation like a FLLD can addressed often very simply in less than 5 minutes with an easy to do technique like this one below. Download your FREE muscle energy technique by clicking below.</span>\n\n<b> </b>\n\n<a href=\"http://bit.ly/2jrj9NK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FREE Muscle Energy Technique </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>How do you know if they have a FLLD OR SLLD?</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This can be really quite simple - KNOW that their pelvis is fully functional! However if you don’t know how to assess for a functioning pelvis then this might be a challenge SOOOOO you could attend a Pelvic Biomechanics workshop to learn a whole series of pelvic assessments AND a whole series of techniques, including specific strength and conditioning work, to improve your clients pelvic function.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If this would be of interest to you, <a href=\"http://bit.ly/2svUc5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here</a> to find out more and fill in your name to show your interested in a spot on this fascinating 2-day workshop.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2810\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-19-at-11.13.10-1024x509.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-19-at-11-13-10\" width=\"1024\" height=\"509\" />\n</span>\n\n<a href=\"http://bit.ly/2svUc5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click here to find out more about the Pelvic Biomechanic Workshop.</span></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the meantime please feel free to read away to your heart’s content some really interesting papers listed here ;</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And as always …….keep moving freely!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rachel</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have any questions, feedback, want to discuss this topic further or you want to find out about our courses, just pop me an email on: rachel@biomechanicseducation.com, I’d love to hear from my readers :-).</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>References;</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allyn.L e al, 1984, Leg length discrepancy assessment:accuracy &amp; precision of 5 clinical method of evaluation</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arumugam et al (2012) Effects of eternal pelvic compression o form closure, force closure &amp; neuromotor control of the limbo-pelvic spine.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beattie et al (1990) Validity of derived measurements of leg length differences obtained by use of tape measure </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calvilla et al, 2000, Anatomy and pathophysiology of the SIJ</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cibulka (2002) Understanding SIJ movement as a guide to the management of a patient with unilateral low back pain</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Connell (2007) A case study report - concept of assessment &amp; treatments of anterior knee pain related to altered spine &amp; pelvic biomechanics </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cooperstein, Lew (2009) The relationship between pelvic torsion &amp; anatomical leg length inequality</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cummings et al (1993) The effects of imposed leg length difference on bone pelvic asymmetry </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cusi (2009) Paradigm for assessment &amp; treatment of SIJ mechanical dysfunction</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dillen et al (2008) Hip rotation ROM in people with &amp; without LBP who participate in rotation related sports.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DonTigny (1985) Function &amp; pathomechanics of the SIJ</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DonTigny (1989) Anterior dysfunction of the SIJ as major factor in etiology of idiopathic Low Back Pain syndrome</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Duff et al (2000) The reliability &amp; validity of the ‘tape’ &amp; ‘block’ methods for assessing anatomical leg length discrepancy.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forst et al (2005) The SIJ; Anatomy, physiology &amp; clinical significance </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fryer (2004) Methods used by members of the Australian osteopathic professional to assess the SIJ</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fryer (2005) Factors affecting the inter-examiner &amp; inter-examiner reliability for supine medial malleoli asymmetry</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goode et al (2008) 3 dimensional movements of the SIJ </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gurney  (2001) Leg Length Discrepancy</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hungerford et al (2003) Evidence altered lumbo-pelvic muscle recruitment in the presence of SIJ pain</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jacob, Kissling (1994) The mobility of the SIJ’s in healthy volunteers between 20-50yrs</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kasis et al (2008) External fixator assisted acute shortening wit internal fixation for leg length discrepancy after retool hip replacement </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kiapour et al (2012) Relationship between limb length discrepancy &amp; load distribution across SIJ </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Krawiec et al (2003) Static innominate asymmetry &amp; leg length discrepancy in asymptomatic collegiate athletes</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McCaw, Bates (1991) Biomechanical implications of mild leg length discrepancy</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McGrath (2004) Clinical considerations of SIJ anatomy; A review of function, motion &amp; pain</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Middleton-Duff et al 2000, The reliability and validity of the `Tape\' and `Block\' methods for assessing anatomical leg-length discrepancy, Harcourt Publishers Ltd</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pel et all (2008) Biomechanical analysis of reducing SIJ shear load by optimisation of pelvic muscle &amp; ligament forces</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Preece et al (2008) Variation in pelvic morphology may prevent the identification of anterior pelvic tilt </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Richardson et al (2001) The relation between the TVA, SIJ mechanics &amp; low back pain</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sabharwal, Kumar (2008) Method of assessing leg length discrepancy </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Santaguida, McGill (1994) The psoas major muscle; a 3 dimensional geometric study</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sturesson et al (1999) A radiostereometric analysis of movements of the SIJ’s during standing hip flexion</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suter et al (1999) Decrease in quadricep inhibition after SIJ manipulation in patients with anterior knee pain</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takasaki et al (2008) The influence is increasing SIJ closure on the hip &amp; lumbar spine extensor muscle firing pattern</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Van Der Wurff et al (2006) A multitest regimen of pain provocation tests as an aim to reduce unnecessary minimally invasive SIJ procedures.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Van Der Wurff et al (2000) Clinical tests of the SIJ </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vleeming et al, 2003, Stabilisation of the SIJ in vivo: verifications of muscular contribution to force closure of the pelvic</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vleeming et al (2012) The SIJ: An overview of its anatomy, function &amp; potential clinical implications</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Winderden et al (2003) Stabilization of SIJ in vivo</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Woerman et al (1984) Leg length discrepancy assessment; Accuracy &amp; precision in 5 clinical methods of evaluation</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Woodfield et al (2011) Interexaminer reliability of supine leg checks for discriminating leg length discrepancy</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wylde et al (2008) Prevalence &amp; functional impact of patient perceived leg length discrepancy after hip replacement</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Would you like to learn how to assess pelvic function?</span>\n\n<a href=\"http://bit.ly/2svUc5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE</span></a>','Why The Pelvis Should Be The First Place You Look When Assessing Clients','','draft','closed','closed','','why-the-pelvis-should-be-the-first-place-you-look-when-assessing-clients','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=2808',0,'post','',0),(2810,0,'2017-06-19 10:13:27','2017-06-19 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src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_0101-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"img_0101\" width=\"559\" height=\"559\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ok I tell a lie, while the fire alarms went off we took advantage of the sunshine and the steps ….</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZimgNHcDPes\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyway, as a tutor and mentor to these wonderful and diverse professionals I </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">always</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> feel a huge sense of responsibility; but there are particular moments that I feel it most profoundly. I felt it very strongly for the whole of Sunday!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>What Does That Responsibility Mean Exactly?</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teaching is a position of trust, students/learners can feel vulnerable being asked questions or when they’re given ideas that take their thinking to a different place and maybe deeper level. As teachers we should be trained to recognise and respect this vulnerability, so we can make sure we coach our students to find the answers they need.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It means we have to be honest, genuine and confident in what are delivering, while recognising what we are not delivering when questions arise, to maintain our professional integrity and to encourage a positive learning environment.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This fact is never more apparent than when we are assessing our learners. Assessment creates a particularly vulnerable time for their weaknesses to be exposed; since we always focus on our own weaknesses, rather than our strengths which I think is part of human nature.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Sunday I had many “moments of realisation”, as I assessed 11 nervous learners for their Biomechanics Coach Diploma™ practical assessment.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assessing brilliant, smart, intelligent and open minded people who inspire ME, made ME really emotional too.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes my learners were nervous, as they spent an hour demonstrating the practical skills they have learned over several months with me observing and making notes.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes I could tell they were nervous because as I watched them I could see a quiver or wobble during the Downing’s sign pelvic function screen; or their fingers shook during the midtarsal joint screen.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the thing that makes me SO emotional with the impact of responsibility, is that they desperately want my approval and do you know why?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/yQYEBcNSJSg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These fantastic people are nervously showing;</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<ol>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How much they care </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How badly they want this </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How much they improved since the mock exam</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How clearly they have practiced </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How safe their clients will be </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How impressed their peers will be </span></li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And as I sit watching, with my straight face giving nothing away, focussed on the job of maintaining a fair unbiased assessor, I realise (maybe with wet eyes);</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<ol>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How their journeys are just beginning </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How much I love my job</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How proud I am </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How lucky I feel </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How excited I am about these Biomechanics Coaches™ </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How excited I am for those of you booked onto the Aug intake already </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How Biomechanics Coaches™ everywhere are making a real difference to the way the nation moves and feels</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am living a dream</span></li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Would You Like An Education Experience?</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So for all of you reading this who have been </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">thinking</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about attending our workshop but feel nervous about the level and the intensity of the content, please understand the importance we put on YOU. Here at Biomechanics Education ALL of our learners become a part of a team, a community and a even a revolutionary movement of professionals changing the industry. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We appreciate that you have a busy schedule, a family you would love to see more of and yet a desire to learn more cool skills to help this tricky clients (that are actually becoming the norm these days!)</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We understand that maybe finances can be a balancing act with time away from paying clients to learn and also all of those costs that seem to eat away at all you income.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>How We Can Help?</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What we offer is a solution to all of these problems. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We break things down for you to make learning this complex subject of intrinsic biomechanics, simpler that you can imagine.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are super proud to offer a massive amount of support to ALL of our learners and this goes beyond your training days with us in the academy. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b><i>Tommy Berrabe says.....</i></b>\n\n<strong><em>You are such an amazingly passionate and inspiring lady I feel so lucky to have picked this course, and even more lucky to have you delivering it. </em></strong>\n\n<strong><em>After spending those 2 days in the class taking in what I can, I actually leave feeling not just more knowledgeable but more enthusiastic about life in general, and I think that\'s all down to you. </em></strong>\n\n<strong><em>I\'m not a very confident person at this time in my life but you put me at ease, you don\'t just rush through it you make time for everyone. You\'re always more than happy to be challenged on anything. </em></strong>\n\n<strong><em>You\'ve got some teaching techniques that just work for everyone, understanding of where people are at, and give an explanation in a way that\'s suited to the individual\'s needs. </em></strong>\n\n<strong><em>It\'s clear to see that you literally love, live and breathe what you do. </em></strong>\n\n<strong><em>How you do all what you do and make time for so many people, your drive and passion is just mind blowing, and I will say again, truly inspiring. </em></strong>\n\n<strong><em>For myself moving forward in life this course is probably the best thing I had ever done, so lucky that I didn\'t miss out on this. Thank you for all you do Rachel </em></strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The workshops are designed for easy attendance across a short space of time with the diploma optionally spread  over between 5-24 months.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also we have put together payment options that are attractive to everyone - we listen and create a plan WITH you.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our ethos is our passion, to work as a team toward a common goal of improving the movement of our nation.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We believe YOUR success is OUR success.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So ask yourself this question….</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Are You Living Your Dream Yet?</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If not JOIN US <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>&lt;&lt;CLICK HERE&gt;&gt;</strong></span></span></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/hzryoGqyF3M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Why You Shouldn\'t Let Your Nerves Hold You Back From Living Your Dream','','draft','closed','closed','','why-you-shouldnt-let-your-nerves-hold-you-back-from-living-your-dream','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',0,'https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/?p=2845',0,'post','',0),(2846,0,'2017-06-26 09:26:29','2017-06-26 09:26:29','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','img_0096','','','2017-06-26 09:26:29','2017-06-26 09:26:29','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_0096-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2847,0,'2017-06-26 09:26:32','2017-06-26 09:26:32','','','','inherit','closed','closed','','img_0101','','','2017-06-26 09:26:32','2017-06-26 09:26:32','',0,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_0101-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2855,3,'2017-07-03 11:09:47','2017-07-03 11:09:47','<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rivalry between these 2 professionals has been apparent for years, often with a ‘them and us’ type of mentality in gym facilities. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>The Rivalry</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"wp-image-2858 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-27-at-19.05.55-1024x643.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-27-at-19-05-55\" width=\"390\" height=\"245\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many PT’s do not think it is possible to safely coach a group of different levels at one time AND to music!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PT’s get frustrated by new members simply going straight into classes when they have not been coached into good movement by them first.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PT’s can also get frustrated by Group Ex Instructors who simply beast their participants ruining their knees and backs.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2860\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-27-at-19.13.59-1024x513.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-27-at-19-13-59\" width=\"462\" height=\"232\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Group Ex Instructors often do not really understand why 1:1 PT is popular since it must be SO boring exercising with one person.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Group Ex Instructors see PT’s doing group PT and wonder why they don’t simply send them into the classes?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ALL Group Ex Instructors KNOW the challenges they face teaching exercise to a group of people.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Group Ex Instructors get frustrated by... </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..the newbies who ALWAYS stand at the back?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..the participants who never tell you about their injury until halfway through the class?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..the fact everyone is so different you have to be seriously skilled at your verbal cueing to get everyone doing the same thing but within their limits?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..that you have newbies with advanced in the same class?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..that your clients ask you impossible questions about their bodies that you really don’t feel are possible to answer when you start your next class in 20 seconds?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now most of you will know group exercise has certainly been a passion of mine for almost 30yrs because I really enjoy the atmosphere of a group. The key principle being that we have a lot of fun while getting fit.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asking your PT client to break into their favourite dance moves probably isn\'t appropriate in one to one sessions right!?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then there are also the ‘moments’ like when one of the very quiet ‘back row’ girls came up to me at the end of a class with tears in her eyes, put her hand on my arm and said emphatically; </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Thank you I really needed to laugh like that after the week I have had”. </span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now I have no idea what happened to her that week, and I don’t need to, but that demonstrated how we can even unknowingly be helping others within the group setting without individuals feeling exposed.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BUT</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Group Exercise Also Drives Us NUTS Too!!</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyone is different, moves differently, has different body types, different injury history, different lifestyles, are different ages, has different levels of fitness and different characters. Hell we all wake up in different moods some days!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we look at one person who we feel could squat a bit lower, we worry about saying it out loud as the one who is already almost at full range may try to go further due to hearing the verbal cue for someone else to go lower!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encouraging one to do a tuck jump while simultaneously saying to others to simply box jump.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It seems the days of beginners, intermediate and advanced classes have gone!!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So for those PT’s who might consider group exercise as unsafe or is ruining people, please recognise how we can work TOGETHER for the health of our gym members.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Let’s Work Together!!</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2857\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-27-at-19.04.21-1024x675.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-27-at-19-04-21\" width=\"475\" height=\"313\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So with good intention, often I find myself doing ‘clinics’ at the beginning or at the end of my classes to educate them on WHY they might be unable to squat or what a good deadlift should look like, how they can use foam rollers or should see a one to one professional for bespoke exercise prescription.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes I have done handouts and have been known to set them homework or tasks to make them aware of their own physical abilities. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their movement issues often have nothing to do with </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">technique </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">because no amount of teaching points, coaching cues or guidance can help them during a group class or even if I try speaking to them individually afterwards. Just this week we had a 4 Sign and foam roller education for 10 minutes before the class. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out of 22 participants just 3 had used a foam roller and none really understood what it was for! Most knew me and so had done my 4 Sign pelvic anti spasm previously so we all did that prior to starting the class, while I explained how these complementary preparation techniques were not really even a warm up, they were actually </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">preparation for the warm up!</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However what I do recognise is that some of these individuals really do need some one-to-one training, to improve the way they move with bespoke exercises. This is where I refer them to the PT within the club. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am stunned that ALL clubs don’t have this set up as a trained SYSTEM!!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>A Member/Participant Pathway System</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now if both Group Ex instructors AND the PT’s within the club had common skills AND were given a system to follow when someone presented with a particular issue this would solve a lot of this. Group Ex instructors support who they can (the low risk participants) and identify the higher risk ones to refer out the their PT colleagues. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The PTs learn to assess and correct intrinsic biomechanics and prepare members for the classes while giving them some bespoke training. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>What Group Ex Instructors Can Do</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2859\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-27-at-19.13.05.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-27-at-19-13-05\" width=\"288\" height=\"344\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK so I recognise not all group exercise fans/participants are going to buy into some one to one sessions but with a little bit of education on what could be causing their knees to cave in during lunges during our classes can go along way - they trust us!!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More often than not they have just spent 8 hours sitting at a desk after driving to work and then they drive to your class and expect their hips and spine to function normally!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Group Ex participants make up a huge % of gym membership, they are super keen to improve the way they look and move and are an avid and trusting audience that come back to see their group fitness instructor week in week out, often multiple times a week.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine how many members we influence up to every week AND while getting paid to market our ideas to them. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Group Ex instructors you could approach the PT’s in your gym and ask them if they would like you to refer your participants to them. If they are open to this (they would be daft to turn you down right?!) ask if you could sample a session so you could talk to your people about it.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Group Ex instructors could design handouts that help clients beyond your classes and cross link it to the PT’s.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>What PT’s Can Do</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2862\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-27-at-19.25.30-1024x685.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-27-at-19-25-30\" width=\"348\" height=\"233\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PT’s really should start talking to the Group Ex instructors more, building a relationship with these passionate professionals who can directly refer people with good reason and regularly. Maybe offer to train the instructors at a reduced rate or even for free so they can talk about the benefits of your one to one training to their class members.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PT’s could design a small group PT package or a special arrangement for these participants where they can share the cost with their friend and still enjoy the ‘group’ feel even if it is just 2 or 3 of them for example.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even as PT’s you might want to consider delivering group exercise as a paid way to advertise yourself to a new market of gym members!?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For those clients you have, who can’t afford as many session as you feel they need each week, you could suggest they attend your Group Ex colleagues classes to ensure they are more likely to reach their goal, by increasing their activity levels and keeping them moving.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I recognise many of you may well be doing some of this already but for those who aren\'t it might be something to seriously consider. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is room for all types of exercise from group to one to one - lets work together for better duty of care of our people, right!?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>A Ready Made System To Connect PT’s &amp; Group Ex Instructors</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have a ready made system that can help initiate the connection between you both...</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OR</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you already deliver both group AND 1:1 training then either option below...</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Group Ex Instructors = <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/#movefreely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iMoveFreely® Instructor workshop</a></b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The revolutionary iMoveFreely® Instructor workshop gives you a common language and set of techniques that link straight into 1:1 training with a PT/Biomechanics Coach</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">™</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This awesome one day workshop is a great resource for any club wanting to start connecting these 2 worlds and we have 2 dates remaining this year.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To find out more and register your interest, <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/#movefreely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here</a>. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Personal Trainers = <a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biomechanics Coach</a></b><b>™</b><b> Diploma Workshop Series </b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To really stand out from the rest of the team AND to have a common link with all iMoveFreely® Instructors, this evidence based workshop series will really elevate you to another level. 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