(38787,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:33','2024-07-16 11:26:33','<h2><b><i>28/11 SO WHAT?</i></b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having come from a fitness/exercise profession background with some sports massage skills my knowledge of clinical ‘stuff’ is understandably limited.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although having a mentor and good friend who is a chartered physiotherapist, remedial gymnast and recreational therapist to question on a daily basis for the last 10 years has helped me to understand, at least more clearly what my limitations are and when I need to refer clients or when I can\'t simply carry on what I am doing with exercise. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1232\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-26-at-08.01.16.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"221\" />\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One thing I learned during my time in cadaver labs (highly recommended if you get the chance by the way) was that for my role I don’t NEED nor WANT to know everything. That\'s a pretty tall order to expect of yourself right!? There is enough STUFF bouncing around in MY head that I want to keep it to a minimum thank you very much!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what I need is to know MY preferred specialist subject REALLY well (that’s </span><b><i>intrinsic biomechanics </i></b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of competitive strength athletes in particular in case you didn’t know) to do my best and provide the best duty of care I can. This understanding also allows me to best advise my learners. It is a lot of responsibility advising learners on their remit and can be quite challenging when they are from such diverse backgrounds. However, the really exciting thing is that often we get both therapists and exercise professionals together on our workshops.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1045\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-12-at-07.37.45.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"235\" /></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyway, while I NEVER diagnose nor do I do ‘clinical’ work I DO want to understand enough that I am realistic about my clients best interest when they have a clinical issue or question. So reading research is something I TRY to do regularly.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now if you are a fitness professional like me, with clients who have medical conditions and you wish you understood these conditions better have you ever tried to read clinical research or ANY kind of research in fact!?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brain frying right?!</span>\n\nNow I don’t know about you but I am definitely NOT a ‘reader’\n<h2></h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever heard of the V.A.R.K principles?</span></h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VISUAL</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AURAL</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">READER</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KINESTHETIC</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, there are simple tests you can do to discover which ‘style’ of learning is your prefered method to absorb information but most of us already instinctively know which one it is. That is not to say we don’t learn for all of these by any means, they enhance each other.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am SO kinesthetic!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am a fidget. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kinesthetic, or practical, all the way, I am a doer, a performer, tactile, physical, a people person and do not like the act of reading a lot of text (it kinda hurts my eyes) but LOVE reading to gain understanding at the same time.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My attention span is very short and so I have developed techniques that allow me to absorb information on ‘reading material’ because I recognise the value of information gained this way or that is only represented in this way.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having discovered audiobooks, which are a godsend, and one of the things I LOVE about technology for when I drive for hours around the UK (I have a LOVE/HATE relationship with technology like most of us I think) BUT frustratingly not all of the books I want to read are on audio.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having amassed over years literally hundreds of research papers online that relate to the grassroots of some of the techniques I use, I do take time out to ‘practice’ reading them. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My method:</span></h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Print off papers with a common theme or around a subject I want to study.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then I highlight the key areas as I ‘scan’ read the content. Then I repeat until I have found all the ones with something to interesting in that I want to learn more about or understand better.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then I put time aside to read a few, or maybe I simply read for a set time, due to having the attention span of a fish.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then I do this repeatedly and periodically over time. This allows the information to pass into my thoughts during movement or exercise (the kinesthetic bit) or when I teach fitness classes or when I am watching people move in the gym (I KNOW you do that too!!)</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">THEN when I feel I have something of relevance that I can understand or put into practice, then I discuss it or share it with my learners and then you guys.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now please understand, as my school teachers constantly told me, I am </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not an academic</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> this does not mean I am stupid (well I keep telling myself that anyway) and for me I always look for the ‘SO WHAT?’ in things otherwise without having a reason to my brain simply as no reason to retain it!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I have read a huge pile of papers that relate to leg length discrepancy, SIJ function and pathology, different methods of assessing these areas, ideas on what the results mean, relevance or significance and also how they related to symptoms and pain.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is all with the hope that I can find and then bring you, my learners, something of interest to read, discuss and maybe put into practice with your clients.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do YOU adapt to your areas of weakness?</span>\n\n<img class=\"wp-image-3634 alignright\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Question-myself-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"3d human with a red question mark\" width=\"189\" height=\"189\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What methods do YOU use to get around this?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What strategies do YOU use to improve your skill set?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With all of this in mind let me also encourage you to consider the best question ever….. SO WHAT?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2></h2>\n<h2><b>The Results Speak For Themselves</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now there are groups and individuals out there who still challenge everything which I would always encourage anyone to do since we should always seek clarity for understanding. My learners have definitely challenged ME on my methods and the evidence-based programme I use, many times.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is these times, when confronted and challenged, that I grow and expand the most. When at my most uncomfortable is when the real learning takes place because I NEED to understand it. When someone questions the very core of what I do in my practice and the methods we teach in the academy, which I am most passionate about, well that’s when I learn!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having been challenged I found myself on this exploration through reams and reams of research papers and books and conversations with peers, mentors and colleagues and wowzers I was in the ‘growth zone’!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you know where I ended up?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from writing this for you guys of course….</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well after reading complex equations, difficult language, conflicting evidence, fascinating arguments, strange opinions and lengthy articles I ended up with…</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>SO WHAT?</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well yes, that’s where I ended up asking myself SO WHAT? </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What am I trying to achieve with my clients?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wait NO… </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AM</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I achieving with my clients?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their ROM improves, pain is reduced, strength has increased, they report feeling more stable and overall feel they move better.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So no matter what the research states, no matter what the trolls say, no matter what challenges you, if your client feels better, moves better, experiences less pain and you have some objectivity to measuring improvements - SO WHAT?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However the learning never stops and we can always do more, learn more. So if you want to add some more tools to your kit bag to offer you more confidence when you ask the SO WHAT question why not try one of our workshops in 2018?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE</a> To Grab Our Xmas Offer! </b>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"></div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"></div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"></div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"></div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"></div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"></div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"></div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"></div>','28/11 SO WHAT?','','inherit','closed','closed','','3902-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:33','2024-07-16 11:26:33','',3902,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38787',0,'revision','',0),(38788,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:33','2024-07-16 11:26:33','<h1><b><i>NO, I DAMN WELL CAN\'T!</i></b></h1>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So there will be endless opportunities coming up for PT\'s everywhere this week/month BUT be prepared to be faced with a common problem and misconception I have experienced for the entire 25 years of my career.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It never ceases to amaze me how many people approach me expecting literally 5 minutes of advice on how to cure all of their physical problems, ailments, ache and pains.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3830\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/PT-FUSTRATION-1.jpg\" alt=\"pt-fustration\" width=\"358\" height=\"269\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why do people/clients still think that all they need to do is a little exercise for a day or 2 to completely rid themselves of all their aches and pains long term!?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now for a small number of people, this may well be the case but I am not talking about them. I’m talking about the people who have been to see their GP, physio, massage therapist, chiro, podiatrist and so on and have still not found the root cause of their problem.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The type of client who thinks that after say 30 years of a crappy lifestyle, sitting at a desk, walking around in high heels, carrying heavy bags on one shoulder and their babies on their hip, that we can simply give them an exercise for the specific area of the body and cure them!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seriously!?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Typical Conversation;</b>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Potential Client; “Hi, I hear you are the \'go to\' person for helping back pain and I was wondering if you can give me an exercise for this bit….(points to lower back)”</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Me; “Sorry but I would need to do a full assessment to understand better what might be causing it and to understand your medical history…”</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Potential Client;“…can’t you just give me an exercise for that area..?”</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Me; “NO I DAMN WELL CAN’T &amp; IF IT WERE THAT FLIPPIN’ SIMPLE DON’T YOU THINK I WOULD BE A MILLIONAIRE!?”……</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this part happens in my head so what I actually say is</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">…..</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Not if you want a long-term improvement that is based on the parts of your body that need addressing rather than simply the area that hurts. Often the area that hurts is not that area where the problem has occurred …….” blah blah blah</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">   <img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3831\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/coaching-1.png\" alt=\"coaching\" width=\"278\" height=\"278\" /></span></i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">     </span></i>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then I begin my spiel…but ONLY if I think I can genuinely help and sadly often, with this type of client, I cannot because they are the types of client who just won’t do their homework and so I refer them otherwise there is a high chance they will make me look bad!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attitude towards what we CAN do to help ourselves is still very lazy and of the mindset that WE, as practitioners, therapists, Biomechanics Coaches&#x2122;, personal trainers, actually ‘fix’ people and that it can be done quickly.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>This Is Simply NOT TRUE!</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seriously, \'quick fixes\' would be an arrogant, and potentially can be harmful (to your business)!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How can anyone truly KNOW what is happening inside a ‘healthy’ but dysfunctional body? </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine that we study on cadavers (dead bodies), pigs spines, take samples OUT of the body and using extrinsic video analysis, none of which replicate a live human on the inside.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YES, pretty much EVERYTHING we \'know\' about what’s happening inside the body, is a hypothesis!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is why even the world leading experts often disagree because they both prove AND disprove concepts with their research.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Often with convincing data for both!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>So What The Hell Are WE PT\'s Supposed To Do?</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, we have logic and the hypothesis built from whatever we DO know and trials of input/output.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World leaders like Haines, Chek, Poliquin, Gray, McGill, Gracovetsky and others have hypothesised their ideas from the research they have done, or data they have collected over many years, on many subjects, and used both their educated logic and results from the input/output.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is why they are deemed ‘experts’.</span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Education + Experience = Expert </b></p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3832\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/sprinterglow-1-1024x735.png\" alt=\"sprinterglow\" width=\"415\" height=\"298\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is also why those in the industry (like any of us) that are maybe not so experienced or are not necessarily in a position to collect data and perform research, seek out tried and tested input/output ‘systems’. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are ALL after the same end result - to look after our clients - and we go about it via the route that makes the most sense to us, from the way we are educated, the way our brain processes that information plus other things we read, learn, hear. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my opinion, the simpler to apply the better- would you agree!?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, don’t undervalue what you gain from your own service since we do in fact, gather ‘results’ from our own clients and form our own opinions on what might help, with a whole battery of ideas, tools, resources and methods in an endeavour to help each client.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More often than not, and on a superficial level, the client actually KNOWS what they SHOULD do, to some degree at least, to feel better or to lose weight.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Move More</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Eat Better</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yep that’s pretty much the entire industry\'s requirement, isn\'t it!? - think about it!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>But It’s NEVER That Simple - WHY?</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ATTITUDE </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&amp;</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EXPECTATION</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We ALL need to be working towards changing our client’s attitude and expectation by EDUCATING them on how to better help themselves, WITH OUR GUIDANCE of course!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whilst we are doing this, we would be gaining experience, learning what works and what doesn’t by our own methods, effectively trialling and testing what we have learned, so far. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So why not learn an ‘experts’ tried and tested system to improve your confidence and better serve them?!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experts like Ben Coomber of Body Type Nutrition, and his team, will educate you with a smart, yet simple system of ideas on how to advise clients how to fuel their bodies.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Grice of Movement Therapy Clinics, and his team will give you awesome practical manual therapy skills using a logical system.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chris Wright of Level 10 Living, and his team will teach you a fantastic system to help your business succeed.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our own workshops offer you a physical assessment system or ‘benchmark’, to decide which exercises will help and which will hinder your client.  With movement preparation techniques to reduce injury risk, improve movement performance and often with the awesome side effect of pain relief.</span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3833\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/shutterstock_52725265-1.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_52725265\" width=\"507\" height=\"189\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So even if you attended ALL of these courses the question is; </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How are YOU going to change YOUR client’s attitude?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Firstly we need to change OURS!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need to start learning HOW to educate them on what is happening to their bodies.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need to take TIME, to be honest </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need to allow for time to EXPLAIN things</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need to understand what we are explaining technically and then make it SIMPLE for the layperson to grasp</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">‘If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough’ </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Albert Einstein</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>We Don’t Have An Easy Job!</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this is vital if we are to maintain our ‘duty of care’, get the best long-term results we can and built on a ‘system’ to demonstrate from our own results something that is valid, reliable and reproducible.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without a system, we are GUESSING, flailing around from one idea to the next with no way of measuring what actually worked which means we lose our confidence.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we don’t know what worked how can we repeat it and help the next person?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So the value in taking longer to do things initially is VITAL for our future client\'s long-term success and the long-term success of our services. Over time we will become quicker and slicker at this method of delivery. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Really we should simply refuse to take on clients who do not adopt the methods or system we teach.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WHY pay for my expertise and then not heed it?!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We should </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interview</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> clients to decide if they a suitable to OUR method.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because if we do not filter out the ‘liggers\', as I call them, they will make us look rubbish!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>(Urban Dictionary ‘</b><b><i>ligger\' = along for a free ride)</i></b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the ones who want that a quick fix, the ones who think a little exercise will fix them.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you KNOW you could help someone IF they did as they were told BUT they didn’t like it or buy in - what’s the point!?!?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Get Rid Of Those Clients</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attract the type of clients you ENJOY working with because they trust YOU, respect your professionalism, do what you suggest and therefore change their bad habits</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be confident about turning people away </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meaning you enjoy working more</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allowing you to focus on people who get results following your system</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allowing you to charge more based on results </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allowing you to increase your income</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will reduce the stress of clients not adhering to the system and making YOU look bad!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BUT</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I agree it is never simple</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything is hypothesis</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just find a ‘system’ (create one or, if you do not have the resources, utilise a tried and tested one)</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stick to the ‘system’</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interview clients to find the ones who will follow your ‘system’</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explain what that ‘system’ is on day 1</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Create the appropriate expectation in them on day 1</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maintain integrity by being honest.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carefully use the right language</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just make sure your ‘system’ is;</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tried and tested</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simple</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Logical </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easy to follow</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Removes guesswork</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OR</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Would You Like A Ready Made ‘System’?</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You already know my next question, don’t you?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So remember if I TURN YOU AWAY it’s because I don’t believe you will follow MY system!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But you won’t know unless you ask …….</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So why not start with a 2-Day Pelvic Biomechanics Workshop Feb in North London or Loughborough?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">P.S. Did you know we have an offer on????</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click <a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here</a> Discover It!</span>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"></div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"></div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"></div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"></div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"></div>','NO, I DAMN WELL CAN\'T!','','inherit','closed','closed','','3827-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:33','2024-07-16 11:26:33','',3827,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38788',0,'revision','',0),(38789,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do You Ever Wonder If The Terminology You Use Is Right?</span></h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe you get flummoxed between lay language and technical speak when switching chat between clients and peers?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe you have simply got so used to speaking that language with clients that you have forgotten how to use technical jargon which makes you anxious when speaking your thoughts to peers or on courses?</span>\n<h4></h4>\n<h4>Language in relation to the human body can be rather ambiguous.</h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">- Tight</span></h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">- Inhibited</span></h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">- Overactive</span></h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">- Dysfunctional</span></h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">- Spasmodic</span></h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">- Weak</span></h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">- Dominant</span></h4>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s language that very often causes great controversy in the health &amp; fitness industry and in my opinion, often unnecessarily.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3821\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/communication-1.png\" alt=\"communication\" width=\"555\" height=\"222\" /></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The language we use can potentially result in a great session or a not so great one - Are our choice of words hitting the spot with the person receiving the information?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do they look at you confused when you try to communicate what you feel might be going on?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are the words we choose relevant to their capabilities of understanding or even what they give a damn about to be blunt!?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3693\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/seek-a-professional-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"378\" /></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Communication is absolutely paramount in, not only for our client\'s sessions but between us and our peers.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And there is still a gap between us.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PT’s generally call problem muscles tight or short</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therapists mostly call them overactive or inhibited</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what’s the difference?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, it doesn’t really matter too much what you call it in your own thoughts….</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s what you\'re going to do about it and to whom you want to communicate it with that is key.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, you wouldn’t be explaining to a client that </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you feel their piriformis muscle may be reciprocally inhibited by the gluteal muscles due to the laws found in a research paper a or b.</span></i>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No! You would likely just say </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your hips are a little stiff or limited</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But when seeking ideas from a peer then your language should switch to a more technical vocabulary. This allows you to have an absolute clarity to discuss thoughts on potential causes of musculoskeletal ‘issues’ and therefore the various interventions you may have between you. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As an education company, we are very pedantic about the language we use during our workshops. We train all of our Master Trainers to speak with absolute clarity otherwise what we are saying can be misinterpreted.When it comes to the duty of care for our learner\'s skills clarity is imperative. This also goes for our learner\'s ability to communicate with their clients, which is often a whole different set of words. It kind of like being bilingual!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2896\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/table_pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"351\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">‘Language’ and the problems it can cause means we are faced with challenges when it comes to choosing the right words. This is something I would like to talk about in more detail in an endeavor to bridge the gap between all practitioners. Ultimately this offers further opportunity for us to provide an even better duty of care to our clients. Doing this </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">together </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">through inter referral sites and systems has got to be smarter than possibly struggling on our own; don’t you think?!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So with meetings planned with colleagues to discuss this very topic keep your eyes peeled for more information and resources coming your way!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within our <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">academy</a>, we provide all of our learners with all they need to utilise the most appropriate language to communicate professionally with both clients and peers.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you would like to improve your communication skills when talking human movement stuff why not try one of our really cool workshops?</span>\n\nClick <a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE</a> to find out more.','Is Your Choice Of Language Confusing Your Client?','','inherit','closed','closed','','3817-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',3817,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38789',0,'revision','',0),(38790,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We regularly test every system in our body to predict problems <em>except</em> our musculoskeletal system - WHY??</span></h3>\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yearly eye test</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regular hearing tests</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dentists once a year</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wellman/Wellwoman screening </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Breast screening</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cholesterol testing </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blood pressure testing</span></li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet with the musculoskeletal system we literally WAIT until we have symptoms before we seek help! Usually by this time it’s probably been hanging around for some time because of our body’s amazing ability to compensate, adapt and yet continue to function.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter 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=\"235\" height=\"245\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our body has proven to be ingenious at evolving to its environment, which we see very obviously in various situation. Take bodybuilding competitions for example, with the right environment in place i.e. training and diet etc, muscles can grow.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A runner will adapt to their sport and a desk workers body will also adapt to prolonged sitting with certain areas in their bodies staying in lengthened or shortened positions as they sit and type.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even a bricklayer\'s hands can develop a thick layer of calluses on the skin that’s to protect their hands.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3803\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/calluses-on-hand-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"calluses-on-hand-1\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" /></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With all of this evidence and information I find it incredible, particularly with the amount of musculoskeletal problems commonly suffered today, that there is not a compulsory standardised annual musculoskeletal screening system. This could then be offered to everyone to help reduce NHS costs and absenteeism costs for businesses both large and small? Medical insurance companies would LOVE something like this, right!? They are happy to pay out for you to have other physical examinations to avoid problems later on that might cost them even more.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As movement/exercise specialists we could all contribute to reducing these costs with risk reduction screenings and bespoke exercise programming. Some barely even speak to each other professionally because of a fear of losing clients but thats a whole other Juicemail topic! ;)</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not only would having these skills enable us to assist reduction  unnecessary injuries and recurring ones, it could reduce insidious low grade aches and niggles, improve the way people move and all while increasing performance levels!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bodybuilders gain symmetry<img class=\"wp-image-2964 alignright\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-03-at-10.10.13-1024x813.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-07-03-at-10-10-13\" width=\"373\" height=\"296\" /></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The runner gets faster\n</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The desk worker had less fatigue &amp; pain thus reducing absenteeism</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bricklayer would probably still have hardened skin on his hands but hopefully, would have less back &amp; knee problems!</span>\n\nCommon problems like non specific low back pain could be addressed bespokely instead of a uniform method that is based on assumptions.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are perfectly placed with our exercise knowledge for this very role!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People employe our services for the fun stuff, they see us sometimes several times a week. With us they have positive goals because we are the movement specialists and THAT is more commonly the problem isn’t it!?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We should stop slagging PT Education off and take some responsibility to improving it. L3 PT, Pilates or Sports Massage are superb base level qualifications to get started.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We cannot appreciate L3 without demonstrating the ability to appreciate L2 first. It’s called layered learning.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So once you’ve gained L3, practise it and understand the right questions you need answers to THEN we go on to learn more. With our personal development and education ultimately being our responsibility, surely learning how to perform these types of musculoskeletal screens/assessments would be ideal.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WE, as movement specialists, could be the first point of call each year for assessing the nation’s physical health to REDUCE injury risk and improve movement ability through appropriate exercise  preparation to improve intrinsic capacity.  </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having a standardised, evidence-based, reproducible system could make a huge deal of difference to our client\'s success and achievements.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And in fact to our Nation!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And of course over-time the NHS </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWho’s in?\n\nCheck out our Diploma and learn how you can increase your knowledge so you can better serve your clients through our <a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biomechanics Education Diploma</a>\n\n<a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3502\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2018-locked-prices-1-1024x536.png\" alt=\"2018-locked-prices\" width=\"361\" height=\"189\" /></a>','Why Go To The Dentist?','','inherit','closed','closed','','3800-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',3800,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38790',0,'revision','',0),(38791,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<h4><b>Do you know what one looks like?</b></h4>\n<h4><b>Do you know what to do when your client has a hernia?</b></h4>\n<h4><b>Do you have a clear idea of what to do if you or someone you know has one?</b></h4>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are many different causes of abdominal pain, but despite being quite common, there is little written about abdominal pain from a musculoskeletal perspective. Read on as we discuss some of the more common musculoskeletal disorders.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Incipient (Sportsman’s) Hernia</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The various muscles of the abdominal wall are penetrated by the inguinal canal, which contains nerves and, in men, the spermatic cord, in women the inguinal canal, contains a small fibrous ligament. Where the inguinal canal penetrates the abdominal wall, weak spots arise, and this is the site of an incipient inguinal hernia. It is effectively a tear of the muscles and connective tissue in the area.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"wp-image-3789 aligncenter\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/hernia-1.jpg\" alt=\"hernia\" width=\"516\" height=\"298\" /></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is some debate in the literature as to how this is diagnosed, but the symptoms include the following:</span>\n<ol>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lower abdominal pain</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stiffness or soreness after training.</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Groin pain that is increased by running, sprinting, twisting and turning.</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Groin pain that is increased when coughing, sneezing, etc.</span></li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is claimed that in 30 percent of athletes, there is a history of sudden injury, but the majority indicate an incipient hernia is a gradual overuse injury. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It depends upon the skills of the doctor or therapist as to whether a sportsman’s hernia can be diagnosed, but this problem accounts for many of the unsuccessfully treated abdominal and groin injuries seen in sports today. If any of your clients complain of the above types of symptoms, one of the main areas to check first is the sacro-iliac (SI) joint function.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If there is an abnormal positioning of the SI joint, this can increase the load on the external and internal obliques and consequently the inguinal canal, causing damage. So before trying to manage a hernia, you need to try to correct any biomechanical causes that may be loading the area. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two best tests to check for correct biomechanical function of the pelvis are Downing’s Sign and the 4-Sign (Patrick Fabre’s sign). This was established by Barrow and Haines when they biomechanically tested over 4,000 people to look at which manual tests had the highest correlation with the biomechanical tests in the Lab for establishing pelvic function. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Downing’s sign is a non-weight bearing test and also establishes whether there is a functional or apparent leg length discrepancy.  While this test is difficult to describe in text try this (or go to our YouTube Channel); lay your client supine, ask them to do a bridge, then taking their legs you lift their knees to their chest and then straighten their legs out to the floor or couch.  At this point measure any difference in height between their medial malleoli. Now move their hips by rotating them passively into adduction, then flexion, then abduction and then back down into extension.  Then take a look at the heights of their medial malleolus.  If their pelvis is working correctly that leg should have lengthened and the malleolus on that side should be lower.  Then reverse the movement and when you now measure the medial malleolus height that leg should have shortened again, making the leg lengths the same as they were after they bridged.  </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Try on both sides. If the legs both lengthen and shorten, then the pelvis is working correctly.  If they don’t, then the pelvis is dysfunctional and can be loading the hernia area.  The 4-Sign can be found when you Google Patrick Fabre’s Sign and has much more written about it, but it’s usually applied clinically rather than biomechanically.  </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this test, you lay your client supine (or you can do it seated) and cross one ankle over the other with the lateral malleolus placed outside the lower quad of the opposite leg.  Look at how low the knee drops to the floor or mat. Then repeat on the other side. They should be symmetrical, if they aren’t symmetrical then the pelvis is dysfunctional. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, if the pelvis is abnormally rotated, as well as causing a functional leg length discrepancy, it can increase the load on the symphysis pubis, which can also refer pain into the lower abdominals. The best way to mobilise the pelvis and correct any SI dysfunction through exercise is to perform anti-spasm exercises (a form of hold-relax exercise) for the hip extensors and specifically glutes and piriformis. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the pelvis is in good biomechanical shape, then core work can help to stabilise the pelvis after it’s in a correct biomechanical position and also working on the scar tissue around the inguinal canal to help the healing. Then when your client is ready, you can progress onto the functional stability work. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is critical that you work the adductors of the hip as well. This is because the adductors and the trunk muscles work closely to control and stabilise the pelvis, and for men especially, their adductors are often “weak” or inhibited. This may be one of the reasons that they have an incipient hernia in the first place. While today the latest trend is “functional movements,” there are times in rehab and conditioning when you need to isolate muscles first, and this is one example. As Mark Verstegen says: “First isolate, then integrate.” Working the hip adductors symmetrically in the seated adductor machine helps engage the adductors (and core when positioned correctly) and mobilise the symphysis pubis. Then progressing to asymmetrical adductor work on the total hip machine (hip conditioner) will introduce a more weight-bearing challenge with additional torque through the pelvis, and then functional movements can be a very effective way of integrating the pelvic and trunk musculature.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem with functional movements, in this example, is that if one of the muscles is not firing correctly or is inhibited (in this case the adductors), and you do functional training for the hip and trunk, the body is a master of compensation, and other muscles can take over to protect it. The muscle needs to be “taught” how to contract and fire again, so it is able to be integrated into a functional pattern of movement. So in this case (as with many others), isolate then integrate.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More often than not, the incipient hernias can be managed through exercise rather than surgery. Just try to make sure you correct the mechanical faults with the pelvis as well as strengthening the obliques.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Referred Abdominal Pain</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Referred pain is a term used to describe the phenomenon of pain perceived at a site adjacent to or at a distance from the site of an injury origin. The International Association for the Study of Pain, as of 2001, has not officially defined the term, so several authors have defined the term differently. Despite an increasing amount of literature on the subject, there is no definitive answer regarding the mechanism behind this phenomenon. Physicians and scientists have known about referred pain since the late 1880s, yet the true origins and causes of referred pain are unknown. However, we do know that referred pain can come from a number of areas, like the thorax (pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, ischemic heart disease and pericarditis), the spine (radiculitis) and from the genitals (testicular torsion). </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you have any uncertainty at all, refer your client to a relevant medical specialist. If you think there may be some cardiac involvement, refer to a cardiologist, and if you are concerned that the pain may be referred from the spine, then any good manual therapist should be able to help. Don’t worry too much about whether it’s a physiotherapist, osteopath or chiropractor. Consider the person rather than the qualification. Try to find one who understands biomechanics so he/she can work out why your client has the pain and also someone who understands exercise and is prepared to discuss the science with you to come to a logical conclusion.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As long as there is no underlying clinical pathology, exercise is an excellent way of managing musculoskeletal-related abdominal pain and its many causes. The key is to identify the biomechanical causes (rotated pelvis, weak or inhibited adductors, tight lumbar spine, tight thoracic spine etc) and manage them. Then progressively condition the relevant muscles, and the abdominal pain usually looks after itself. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With thanks to Martin Haines, Specialist Biomechanics Coach, Chartered Physiotherapist.</span></i>\n\nIf you would like to find out more about Biomechanics Education and how you can benefit from our research, <a href=\"http://bit.ly/2svUc5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here</a>.\n<h3><b>References</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n<ol>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anderson, DM, Mosby\'s Medical Dictionary 6th ed, St Louis, Mo: Mosby; 2002. </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fredberg U, Kissmeyer-Nielsen P, The sportsman\'s hernia – fact or fiction? Scand J Med Sci Sports, 1996 Aug;6(4):201-4. </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Giles LGF, Taylor JR, Low back pain associated with leg length inequality, Spine 6:5, 510, 1981. </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lacroix VJ, Kinnear DG, Mulder DS, Brown RA, Lower abdominal pain syndrome in national hockey league players: a report of 11 cases, Clin J Sport Med, 1998 Jan;8(1):5-9. </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marx J, Rosens Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice 6th ed, St Louis, Mo: Mosby; 2006. </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thompson, Ann and Skinner, Alison. eds. \"Tidy\'s Physiotherapy.\" Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd. 12th ed. 31 Mar 1991</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http://www.sportnetdoc.com/injury/09-02.htm</span></li>\n</ol>','Abdominal Injuries - Hernia','','inherit','closed','closed','','3783-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',3783,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38791',0,'revision','',0),(38792,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<b>You want to move more freely, right?</b>\n\n<b>Your clients want to move more freely too, don\'t they?</b>\n\n<b>In fact, do you know anyone who doesn\'t want to move more freely?</b>\n\n<b>In many cases, moving more freely also = less pain</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It really isn\'t that complicated, to be honest but we do need to consider WHY we and our clients are in such dysfunctional states. Even as exercise professionals we often find the hectic lives we lead to reduce the time we spend on ourselves and 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;\">Considering the average healthy adult (chances are that includes you) spends a high proportion of their time sitting at a desk, driving, travelling or hunched over their phones for example, so much so it is no surprise we are suffering these low grade non-specific aches and niggles, is it!?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So by setting an example to our clients and taking ownership, making a few small changes to our own lifestyles (and maybe some bigger ones too) we can reduce our risk of injury, teach our clients and feel the benefits of the freedom of movement with these 6 tips:</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>1). See A Skilled Professional Who Can Assess Your Intrinsic Function</b>\n\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; or iMoveFreely® Instructor who all specialise in this area of expertise. </span>\n\n<b><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3693\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/seek-a-professional-1.jpg\" alt=\"seek-a-professional\" width=\"410\" height=\"273\" /></b>\n\n<b>2). Then Do What They Say...</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><img class=\"wp-image-3694 alignleft\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/you-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"you\" width=\"84\" height=\"84\" /></b></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simple = Own it!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\'re in the state you\'re in because of your lifestyle, now do what you coach/trainer advised you!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>3). Get A Good Sports Massage Regularly</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find a good sports massage therapist or manual therapist and have body work done regularly - the good ones are the ones with a great reputation, they are NOT the cheapest!! You will get what you pay for.</span>\n\n<b><img class=\"wp-image-3692 aligncenter\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Biomechanics-physio-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Chiropractor massage the female patient spine and back\" width=\"386\" height=\"257\" /></b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>4). Stop Carrying Your Bag On The Same Side</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We 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!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get a trolley bag or use a rucksack.</span>\n\n<b><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3695\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/shoulder-blade-pain-1.jpg\" alt=\"shoulder-blade-pain\" width=\"450\" height=\"225\" /></b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>5). Burn All Your \'Fashion\' Footwear</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ok, a tough one but I guess the question is this ‘how much fun are you gonna have sitting at home crippled with back pain looking at those pretty high heels in the bottom of your wardrobe?’</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, not all shoes are good for all feet.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get 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 minimalist shoes, ballet pumps or converse for example.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>6). Move More<img class=\"wp-image-3699 alignright\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ballet-pumps-1.jpg\" alt=\"ballet-pumps\" width=\"120\" height=\"173\" /></b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kind of an obvious one but one we still forget once we get sucked into 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!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invest in a changeable laptop stand that you can put on top of your desk so you can change position regularly and easily so your body is permanently active. Ask for a FitBit for Xmas - I LOVE mine!!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWe NEED YOU!\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need more Biomechanics Coaches&#x2122; around the UK</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is it you?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you have what it takes?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you prepared to take your profession to another level?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you want to become part of a strong inter-professional team?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Become a Biomechanics Coaches&#x2122; </span><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE!</b></a>','You Want To Move More Freely, Right?','','inherit','closed','closed','','3689-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',3689,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38792',0,'revision','',0),(38793,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Are You Up To The Beyond 90 Challenge? </b></h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Win A Low Back Health Workshop worth £187</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are YOU up for the challenge?</span></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More and more I am aware of how much sitting we all do and it is scary how </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">normal </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it is! How ‘lazy’ we have all got simply because of what is deemed </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">normal </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">now. Here is an example of how ludicrous it is;</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I went to get my nails done (as you do) and the little man on reception there offered me a seat to wait, as you would </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">expect,</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> right? </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\nNO WRONG - WHY? <img class=\"wp-image-3630 alignright\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/arms-crossed-1.png\" alt=\"arms-crossed\" width=\"103\" height=\"103\" />\n</span></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look, I did say thanks in order to let him know that I had heard him but I continued to wait standing up. He came back and said again “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">please have a seat</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”, “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">no I am fine, thanks,</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">” I said. He offered it to me 3 more times &amp; actually looked confused\nlike he had done something wrong or I was testing him like I was a secret shopper or something. So much so I actually felt sorry for him and nearly sat down!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whoah Rach</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!”, I said to myself, “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this is your body and you know how much you sit down for work already AND you’re about to sit for the next 45 mins having your nails done!”</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  (Yes I too talk to myself in my head just like you)\n</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnyway, this is not the first time I have experienced odd looks for choosing to stand in ‘sitting’ situations. At the doctor\'s, for example, I walk <img class=\"wp-image-3632 alignright\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/I-will-stand-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"i-will-stand\" width=\"239\" height=\"159\" />around reading the leaflets and posters about incontinence, dementia, and mental health, that I have read before (several times), just so that no one thinks I am standing, maybe due to piles or something<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, when there are 80 empty seats! Because there must be something WRONG if I am standing right?\n</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choosing to stand on a bus when there are loads of empty seats gets me sideways glances. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I mean I can’t just be standing because I want to when there is the option to sit, can I?????</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"wp-image-3634 aligncenter\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Question-myself-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"3d human with a red question mark\" width=\"185\" height=\"185\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Errrrrrrr, actually yes and I have now started to tell people who offer me seat that </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“hey I sit all day and the LAST thing I want to do is sit again”</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because I want to <strong>start a trend</strong> and make it ok to stand and hopefully reduce the prejudice towards the ‘<strong>Beyond 90 Challengers</strong>’.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who are the ‘Beyond 90 Challengers’?</span></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look we all have sofas, dining chairs, cars (unless your </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Katy Bowman</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of course). There are seats in bars, restaurants, bus stops, doctors waiting rooms, in market squares, coffee shops, airports. Our toilets even sit us at 90 degrees just like pretty much every other seat or chair around us - unless of course, you have a ‘Squatty Potty??’...that’s a whole other blog…..YouTube it…it has over 32,341,095 views </span>&#x1f633;&#x1f633;&#x1f633;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"https://youtu.be/YbYWhdLO43Q\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3635\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/squatty-potty-unicorn-1.png\" alt=\"squatty-potty-unicorn\" width=\"329\" height=\"163\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyway imagine for a moment sitting on a toddlers little chair…..yeah you would probably FEEL weird and look funny but actually….it is truer to how we are physically designed to sit.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I want to set you a challenge….<strong>The Beyond 90 Challenge</strong>.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>The Beyond 90 Challenge</b></h3>\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3636\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Beyond-90-Challenge-3-1-1024x536.png\" alt=\"beyond-90-challenge-3\" width=\"454\" height=\"238\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is quite a simple challenge BUT is likely to take you out of your comfort zone on a couple of levels.</span></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But if you are able to make it to the other side, the rewards are GREAT!</p>\n\n<h3></h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rules</span></h3>\n<ul>\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avoid sitting at 90° as often as possible.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Either stand with hips ‘beyond 90°’ = fully extended</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or</span>\n<ul>\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sit with hips ‘beyond 90°’ = fully flexed so you are sitting on your haunches like the cavemen did.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now if you <strong>collect evidence</strong> by way of photos &amp; videos of your situation and post them on the <strong>Biomechanics Education Facebook</strong> page and across social media with #beyond90 and you could <strong>win a FREE workshop</strong> with Biomechanics Education Ltd!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The winner of </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Beyond 90 Challenge</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the person who posts the most </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">different</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ‘Beyond 90 Challenge’ images/videos. So get creative. </span><b>Remember you MUST post to the Biomechanics Education Facebook page so you can be judged as we get to see ALL of your videos and photos.  </b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The winner will receive a 1 day Low Back Health Workshop worth £187!</span>\n\nIf this article has now got you questioning what else are we could be doing to better correct our bodies, then you are in luck. We have a whole Diploma where we cover much more. Click <a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE</a> to learn more.','Are You Up To The Beyond 90 Challenge?','','inherit','closed','closed','','3628-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',3628,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38793',0,'revision','',0),(38794,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you wonder what more you can do to help your clients with recurring injuries?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you have CrossFit clients who want to increase their performance level for their regionals?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you gain back pain clients in your Pilates class and worry if you are giving them the right exercises?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here we are looking at one of the main reasons why our clients suffer discomfort from their lifestyles and fall short of their optimal performance level during exercise. We are also going to explain how you can get immediate results easily with this revolutionary technique which, while relatively new to the fitness industry, has been around for many years. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Firstly, let’s look at the problem:</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since technology has taken such a dramatic role in our lives we, and our clients have become more sedentary and often find ourselves bent over our iPhones, computer screens and spending many hours driving around all over the place because it’s easier and faster. Then as we understand that movement is good we go and use repetitive exercise movements in an attempt to counterbalance this.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the body has not had time to evolve to this kind of environment and is attempting to compensate with a variety of adaptations. Muscles are reacting to protect joints that have spent much of the day static and are then expected to function to full capacity during our favorite activities. Nerves can become tethered and joints become stiff and we wonder why we and so many of our clients have low-grade non-specific aches and niggles and also what on earth can we do about it?! </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But when clients want to compete with peers in our HIIT, insanity, Metafit or Grit classes they are struggling with stiffness in their burpees, tuck jumps and plyometrics. They have functional asymmetries like a rotated pelvis and functional scoliosis that during our Pilates or Core Conditioning classes become ‘glued’ into place potentially enhancing their low back pain. Overactive Pec Minor gives them a protracted shoulder posture which hinders their thoracic spines’ ability to extend during their overhead squat in CrossFit or push presses in BODYpump. Functional leg length discrepancies and quadricep dominance give our runners, cyclists, and triathletes achy knees. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe you have an overweight client who doesn’t do any of the above but simply wants you to help him lose weight? Well, they will also need the ability to move freely right? </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So let’s look at one of these compensations in more detail:</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>SubClinical Muscle Spasm</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>What is Muscle Spasm? </b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In practical terms, it is “A muscle that cannot relax” applied from the work by Jiri Dvorak &amp; Ribot-Ciscar</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SubClinical Muscle Spasm is muscle spasm that is not painful.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Work carried out by Ribot-Ciscar and colleagues, abstract below...</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<ol>\n 	<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ribot-Ciscar, M. F. Tardy-Gervet, J. P. Vedel and J. P. Roll </span></i></li>\n</ol>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summary “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”</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">............they found that</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> “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 any motoneurones during the contraction facilitates the coding of the parameters of forthcoming stretching movements, by the muscle spindles”. </span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This physiology has not been shown to be present in what is considered a ‘tight’ muscle. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No single method will help all ‘types’ of muscle spasm of course, this is one of many ways that can potentially help, including trigger points, soft tissue massage etc too. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Typically if the muscle has an EMG signal and the client has positive test (and it improves by doing anti spasms) then it’s likely to be in spasm.  If the test result does not change after the anti spasm then the chances are that it does not have an EMG signal and is then simply tight or fibrotic. You can then select your intervention accordingly.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Why Does It Happen?</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Usually, because it’s trying to protect something (a joint or nerve perhaps) or it’s being loaded from another biomechanical problem remote from that muscle. Often adaptive shortening caused by adapting to inactivity, lack of use through the full range, poor posture or poor technique. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>How can we reduce Muscle Spasm?</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ribot-Ciscar has established that a muscle relaxes maximally after it has been contracted submaximally and for a prolonged period. He and Jiri Dvorak (FIFA Chief Medical Officer, also senior Editor of British Journal of Sports Medicine) refer to it as Post Contraction Sensory Discharge. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, in other words, the anti-spasm exercises allow the muscle to lengthen easier after the ‘contraction’ and consequently improves the function of the muscle. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This technique, also known as a muscle energy technique (MET), is a great way to provide your clients with a way that they can help themselves so they’re don’t become reliant on their coach, therapist or trainer. It’s something to empower them to contribute to improving their own problems between sessions with you and the responsibility. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>The Anti-Spasm Technique</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consider the muscle you would like to release, let’s take pec minor as an example, then look at its attachments - 3rd-5th ribs and coracoid process. Consider its main action - protraction (it will also aid scapular depression but let’s keep it simple for now). Take the muscles attachments away from each other into retraction, making sure you stop before the point of stretching it. Now place resistance onto the shoulder with the opposite hand or using a door frame and then press the shoulder into protraction isometrically with ONLY 20% effort and hold for 20 seconds. Repeat this 4 times and then repeat periodically throughout the day. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The less we change our lifestyles the longer we will need to do this but we can also use strength work to specifically address this issue and reduce the chances of the problem recurring. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antagonist strength training is a simple, logical and effective method to do this and this will be discussed in a future Juicemail!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Would you like to learn how to manually screen for pec minor muscle spasm?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join us for the full <a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biomechanics Coach™ Diploma</a> starting Feb 2018</span>','Frustrated By Recurring Injuries?? Our bodies just can’t evolve quickly enough!  In the meantime what should we do?','','inherit','closed','closed','','3550-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',3550,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38794',0,'revision','',0),(38795,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>How Would You Feel If We Made The Costs A Bit Easier For You? </b></h3>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wowzers! </span></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\'s almost October already and that means we have just 5 of our amazing workshops remaining. </span></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What an incredible year this has been for everyone involved in the Biomechanics Education Academy. </span></h6>\n<h6></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Master Trainers have felt privileged to see so many of our academy learners gain more confidence, improve their communication skills, increase their knowledge and earn more money than ever before. </span></h6>\n<h6></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For many, completing the Biomechanics Coach™ Diploma workshop series has brought them far more than they anticipated, just check out some of the feedback below….</span></h6>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"wp-image-3506 alignnone\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-14-at-11.17.15-1-1024x588.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-09-14-at-11-17-15\" width=\"368\" height=\"211\" /> <img class=\"wp-image-3505 alignnone\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-14-at-11.17.01-1-1024x640.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-09-14-at-11-17-01\" width=\"333\" height=\"208\" /></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, have YOU been thinking about doing our workshops? Or have YOU ever said to yourself </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“That looks fantastic I will do that next year”? …. Well </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">then keep reading because we have a special offer especially just for YOU. If you have been following our community for a while you are likely to know all about our fantastic dynamic workshops. We help PT\'s, Yoga instructors Pilates instructors like YOU to better serve your clients.</span></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So do any of these questions make YOU say YES..?</span></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do YOU feel frustrated by not knowing why your client moves the way they do?</span></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Would YOU like to help MORE of your clients get even better results?</span></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Would YOU like to have more confidence when assessing your clients?</span></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do YOU feel like you\'re guessing about the root causes of their movement issues? </span></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Embarrassed you have forgotten all, or some, of your A&amp;P?</span></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, it is time to remove the guesswork, increase your confidence and teach YOU how to never forget your A&amp;P with these evidence-based assessment skills. During our workshops, we will show you how to assess your clients from their nerves, to their muscles, to their joints and know exactly which exercises will help and which could hinder their progress. All of this getting them, and YOU, better results, sounds amazing right?</span></h6>\n<h6> <img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3507\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-14-at-11.16.10-1-1024x329.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-09-14-at-11-16-10\" width=\"514\" height=\"165\" /></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are super pumped to let you know that we have a special offer just for YOU up until the Dec 31st, 2017 after which we will be increasing our prices for 2018.</span></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YOUR special offer is that YOU have the chance to keep the 2017 prices for our 2018 workshops. But you must act fast! All YOU need to do is contact us NOW to tell us you are mega keen, pay a small deposit to secure your place and BOOM you’re in!</span></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We don’t want YOU to miss out on these massively popular workshops that literally EVERYONE is talking about!</span></h6>\n<img class=\"wp-image-3511 aligncenter\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-14-at-11.15.58-1-1024x526.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-09-14-at-11-15-58\" width=\"374\" height=\"192\" />\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, to grab a quick call with one of the Biomechanics Education team simply <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[CLICK HERE]</a></span>. Fill out a few details and we will give YOU a call. </span></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">......Move Freely!</span></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rachel</span></h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\nP.s. We run workshops all over the UK and have plans to also come to <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/event/special-fast-track-3-day-pelvic-spine-biomechanics-workshop/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scotland in Jan 2018.</a>. The team are always excited to support you and the superb Master Trainers always look forward to welcoming you onto the workshops. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[CLICK HERE]</a></span> to find out more information and to request a call.</span></h6>\n<h6> <img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3528\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-26-at-06.36.47-1.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-09-26-at-06-36-47\" width=\"530\" height=\"194\" /><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3504\" src=\"https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-14-at-11.16.38-1-1024x421.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-09-14-at-11-16-38\" width=\"559\" height=\"230\" /></h6>','I B***** LOVE This System!','','inherit','closed','closed','','3501-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',3501,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38795',0,'revision','',0),(38796,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<h2>Are You Confused?</h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you been wondering what all this fuss is about Biomechanics Coaching</span><b>™</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? Does it leave you feeling confused and wondering how on earth it can help you or your clients? Maybe you’re anxious that it is far too complex for you to apply within your PT sessions?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, let me take you right back to the beginning….</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Remedial Gymnastics</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever heard of this profession?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No, I hadn’t either until  2006 when I met Martin Haines, a world leader in biomechanics and founder of the Intrinsic Biomechanics Method.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few years ago I decided to do some research into the origins of my profession and the skills I have taught for many years. The education programmes we deliver at Biomechanics Education all started with a profession called ‘Remedial Gymnastics’.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What I found interesting was the definition of the role of a Remedial Gymnastics still to this day holds true to what we as Biomechanics Coaches™ do. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remedial Gymnastics is a special treatment method that involves the means of preventative physical training to accelerate patient’s working capacity and avoid consequences of the pathological process.</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another definition I came across based on the understanding of this type of approach was:</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uses movement as the basic means for the p</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">urpose of prevention and correction. Correctly chosen and well-directed movements help faster and more successful restoration of impaired function of certain segments of the organism as a whole</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AIMS &amp; APPLICATION </span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increase in the scope of movement of the joint</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increase in muscle power </span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maintenance and improvement in coordination of movement</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rise in the speed of movement</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improvement in general and local stamina</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By certain exercises a series of our objectives are realised: improvement of circulation, after transportation of energetic potential to feed tissues, improvement in metabolic and regeneration processes, reduction of pain, relaxation, psychological balance or such</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Founder of the Intrinsic Biomechanics method that we call Biomechanics Coaching™, Martin Haines, was originally a Remedial Gymnast before it merged with physiotherapy and he went on to become a chartered physiotherapist. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He recognised the value in having BOTH, the Remedial Gymnastics and physiotherapy, methods combined available to individuals since many of the ‘injuries’ or low-grade non-specific problems people were experiencing did not require site-specific treatment but a more general means to overcome discomfort with the use of simple exercises. He recognised that should this type of problem go unaddressed for a period of time it may well result in a more severe condition then requiring the attention of a physiotherapist. Therefore the 2 professionals working alongside each other is a perfect combination for the overall recovery and improvement in the movement of the client.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Haines took his ideas even further. Having access to isokinetic equipment meant he could trial and test his, and his colleague Nick Barrow’s, ideas. This evolved a tried and tested series of manual assessments to identify where an individual may have a risk of an injury waiting to occur. This systematic ‘functional’ approach to injury prevention is quite unique in that level 3 exercise professionals are perfectly placed to deliver this kind of programming. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, we as PT’s, Fitness professional’s, Pilates or Yoga teachers are the exercise experts and we are crying out for objectivity in our assessment and exercise prescription process! Which is why the Intrinsic Biomechanics methodology of Biomechanics Coaching™, that has evolved from the Remedial Gymnastics professional since the 1980’s, is having such a massive success in the fitness industry. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The badge of the Society of Remedial Gymnastics has a motto in Latin;</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPES SIBI QUISQUE</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let each man’s hope be in himself </span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or put another way, ‘rely on his own resources’. </span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is absolutely the ethos of being a Biomechanics Coach™. To empower individual’s, clients, participants, patients, whatever we define them as, to care for themselves, take ownership of their physical state and consider the impacts of their chosen lifestyle. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are the professionals who prepare people for movement, educate people how to regain functional capacity, inform people where to begin using a tried and tested system, identify risk, teach true function, all with simple logic and exercise guidance.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We form alliances with those who have different skill sets, knowing what WE know really well and accepting we do not have certain skills, therefore, utilising our clinically trained colleagues for occasions where clients have ‘true’ medical injuries.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hopefully, this gives you some idea of what Biomechanics Coaching™ is, where it comes from and the benefits gained from our practice. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So are you a PT who would like to help more people move better?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Would you like to become a Biomechanics Coach™?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach-split\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Register your interest in our 2018 workshops HERE &gt;&gt;</span></a>\n\nP.S. Our 2018 schedule is now <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/events/2018-01/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LIVE on our website </a>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Article References:</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.mediclub.az/en/35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http://www.mediclub.az/en/35</span></i></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1986/mar/24/professions-supplementary-to-medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1986/mar/24/professions-supplementary-to-medicine</span></i></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&amp;dsqApp=Archive&amp;dsqDb=Catalog&amp;dsqCmd=show.tcl&amp;dsqSearch=(RefNo==\'SACSP%2FL\')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&amp;dsqApp=Archive&amp;dsqDb=Catalog&amp;dsqCmd=show.tcl&amp;dsqSearch=(RefNo==\'SACSP%2FL\')</span></i></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/careers/conditions/Awards/dt_hsu_remedial_gymnast.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/careers/conditions/Awards/dt_hsu_remedial_gymnast.pdf</span></i></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.feellife.rs/eng/remedial-gymnastics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http://www.feellife.rs/eng/remedial-gymnastics.html</span></i></a>\n\n&nbsp;','Are You Confused?','','inherit','closed','closed','','3478-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',3478,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38796',0,'revision','',0),(38797,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<b>‘Bacon Can Cure Nosebleeds’ </b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was an actual study done by researchers!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you read research papers along with all the details surrounding them it really is quite fascinating and certainly, makes you think. Take this scientific study ‘</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bacon Can Cure Nosebleeds</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">’ as an example…. </span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a study conducted by Ian Humphreys and his team, bacon can quickly and effectively treat a nosebleed by serving as a nasal tampon. For this bizarre method to work, one must plug the bleeding nostril with a piece of </span></i><a href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/jan/23/improbable-research-pork-nosebleeds\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cured pork</span></i></a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The meat must be uncooked.</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Detroit Medical Center, Humphreys and his colleagues tested their bacon hypothesis on a girl who had Glanzmann thrombasthenia, a rare hereditary disease that causes prolonged bleeding. After sticking a piece of cured pork inside the girl’s bloody nose, the bleeding stopped immediately.</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The results of this bizarre scientific research were published in the Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology. The researchers acknowledged that doctors had used cured pork to treat nosebleeds in the past. However, the practice was discontinued.</span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Humphreys and his colleagues speculate that the high risk of acquiring parasitic and bacterial complications from stuffing one’s nose with cured pork caused the unconventional treatment to be abandoned.</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">..OR this one….</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/study-that-said-diet-fizzy-drunks-can-help-weight-loss-was-quietly-funded-by-coca-cola-and-pepsi-a6817686.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>A recent study that said Diet Coke can help you lose weight was quietly funded by Coca-Cola</b></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It brings up a lot of questions about the validity of scientific studies, doesn’t it? </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether it be the duration, the organisation funding the study, the number of subjects or the even the method of ‘proving or disproving’ something scientifically. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact don’t you hate how much conflicting evidence we see in the fitness industry?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>The Problem</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What I find interesting is that if you read research papers you will see how sketchy and conflicting it can be when it comes to the </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">evidence</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. However, when a study is done across a long period of time, on a large group of subjects and they are from a variety of levels &amp; backgrounds it offers a far more robust argument for its results. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, many studies around movement, biomechanics, force, loads and relevant topics we PT’s might be interested in, usually average 20-30 subjects. The subjects are often young athletes at the university that are conducting the study. Also while the ‘start point’ is often ‘</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">all subjects are healthy adults</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">’ they rarely (if ever) have an assessment to check they are starting with a common ‘biomechanical’ start point.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet you would imagine this would be a vital component for a biomechanics study, don’t you think? </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consider that if you are analysing loads and forces on the limbs of one subject who has a tight sciatic nerve, another subject in the study has a functional leg length discrepancy and another has an overactive pec minor creating a stiff thoracic spine - ALL of whom are ‘</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">healthy adults</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">’...well how much will these very common </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">intrinsic</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> biomechanical compensations give you a different starting load in joints? Or a limitation of the individual’s movement that differs from the other subjects? </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>The Evidence</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this in mind, if you consider a study with the input/output repetition of 4,500 subjects across 20+ years, from GB levels to sedentary, with an intrinsic biomechanical assessment at each point of analysis, the work we did was pretty groundbreaking. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The high volume of data allowed us to establish a system which we have developed into the high standards of content that we now teach exercise professionals like YOU, during our workshops. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our sample size = 4500 subjects.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our study duration = 20+ yrs </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The results we discovered, allowed us to develop a simple system based on how to assess the entire integrated system, from the joints, muscles and nerves. Which allows YOU to screen and prescribe exercises to improve capacity &amp; function in every area of the body and in everyone.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How does this affect YOU the exercise professional?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn a system and always have a methodology to your programme design for beginners, elite, elderly and right through to post rehab, and be confident in the fact that it is backed by a whole stack of evidence in the real world!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To find out more about our programmes developed from this massive research study <a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE</a> now!!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nP.S. Our 2018 schedule is now <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/events/2018-01/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LIVE on the website </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"https://www.healthambition.com/7-steps-to-replace-diet-soda/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7 STEPS HOW TO REPLACE COKE BY HELEN SANDERS OF HEALTH AMBITION </a>','Did You Know Bacon Can Cure Nosebleeds?','','inherit','closed','closed','','3321-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',3321,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38797',0,'revision','',0),(38798,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','Has Periodisation Disappeared OR Maybe We Just Didn’t Get It!?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PT’s are rarely employed anymore and so you find yourself competing with each other. The problem with this is that others are using their clients training sessions to ‘show off’ the funky looking methods they have to offer, trying to look interesting so as to stand out from the crowd, swinging from TRX’s, hollering at them to swat the heavy ropes up and down or loading up the squat rack. Which is kind of understandable if these PT’s feel they have to ‘perform’ in the gym to gain more clients. When actually, it’s your current client\'s long term results that speak for themselves and actually draw more and more people in.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, it is our professional duty as PT’s to ensure that the very basic preparation for movement is in place prior to introducing any of the sexy stuff wouldn\'t you agree!? In fact, not even just professional duty, if you want your clients to stick around for a long time, then you had better start with the foundation\'s first.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes I wonder if periodization has been lost as it appears almost non-existent in the gym these days.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clients want ‘beasting\' because that’s what they have been conditioning to think makes it a good session. They are often ignorant of the fact that ‘more is NOT better’, ‘harder does NOT mean healthier’ and actually some low grade possibly even, dare I say it, boring unsexy stuff, will, in fact, mean they can train for longer, with less risk of injury and also increase their strength output possibly by 50% over just 10 days! </span><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/want-to-increase-muscle-output-by-50-in-10-days/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>&gt;&gt;see that blog here</b></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We as trainers are </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">educators and teachers </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and we all have a duty of care to our clients to make them aware of the importance of periodization. We don’t even have to call it that, we can call it preparation for movement or giving the body the ability or capacity for movement. While using some sensible conditioning principles we don\'t have to avoid strength work completely either. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spending almost 30yrs in various gyms across the world, I have listened to and seen many trainers at work with clients, some fantastic ones and some not so great. As they chat to their clients, maybe count their reps, show caring and empathy and offer motivation and support, it can appear to be a relatively easy job. (This might be why the industry is now saturated with PT’s). Yet recently, and over the last few years in particular, the training sessions have become almost ridiculously complex. It has now reached a point where the client is virtually incapable of performing the movements or shows a much bigger increase in risking an injury.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Push ups can no longer simply be push ups on the floor, on the knees or on the toes. They have to be in a TRX and/or with feet on a stability ball. Core work seems to be no good unless you are rotating on one arm and one leg with a dumbbell in one hand. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where have the basics gone?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of this and many of us are not even </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prepared</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the basics especially with the lifestyles we now lead!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think for a moment how many times or how many places you sat down, hips at 90 degrees, knees flexed, knee and hip muscles held long or short for long periods. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our clients come from sitting behind their desk all day and while I am an advocate of ‘movement is good’ the movement also has to ultimately be safe but also effective and appropriate to the clients biomechanics. In other words, rather than a show for the other people in the gym watching, it should be practical movements because this could compromise the individual in front of you paying for your professional advice. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what do we need to consider to get back to fundamentals of movement and the ability to train our clients appropriately? We need an objective and systemised approach for each client. So we have our ParQ, ask verbal questions and make notes on their forms and then ‘induct’ the client to understand how they move and what they might enjoy doing in the gym. We might use weighing scales, body fat callipers, fitness tests, movement tests but just how objective is this in relation to their intrinsic movement ability?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having an evidence based objective biomechanics assessment that is easy to apply here would mean you </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">know</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which exercises might harm them or help them. This then allows you to create a very bespoke thorough plan based on all of the information gathered. It also gives you the ability to monitor progress accurately with the screening forms - Here is an example we use to identify where the client is at risk from our screening system: </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3015\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sample-case-study-2-741x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Biomechanics Screening system for personal trainers\" width=\"741\" height=\"1024\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then depending on the client and the results we can start simply to a). Consider safety &amp; adaptions b). Allow the client to gradually build confidence in the way they move c). Build a rapport with the client feeling successful d). Allow the clients body enough time to adapt to their new training regime.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let’s look at a simple system of thought for any trainer, coach or exercise professional. The pyramid example:</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2963\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-06-30-at-08.23.34-1024x764.png\" alt=\"Pyramid For Movement Progression For Personal Trainers\" width=\"1024\" height=\"764\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we consider this as a simple way of explaining the periodisation process to a client right through to their GOAL at the top it sets up an appropriate level of expectation from the outset. So when they tell you their GOAL you might actually ask them to write it into the top circle thus making it more real to them and empowering them more in committing to the achievement THEY have set. This really passes the responsibility onto them for reaching it, which ultimately it is, as we are simply facilitators, assessors, analysts and advisors.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can then explain simply to our clients why intrinsically they need to prepare for that GOAL, by showing them the layers of periodisation from preparation for movement first so they are level and moving freely. Explaining that while in this phase they might be using machines to simplify with symmetry, thus making movement easier while in the preparation phase. It also limits the core work while the pelvis and spine are encouraged to move better with anti spasm techniques and mobilisations until they are more aligned and level. This also means we are less likely to be ‘gluing’ them into an asymmetry before we even begin.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you re-assess them you will know from your screens when they are ready for the next phase (Stability &amp; Control) which might include specific and periodised core training, less machine work, more free weights and maybe you can start to introduce some asymmetrical challenges too.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phase three is now the more functional part, now that they move better, have stronger muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints and proprioception has improved, all stacked on top of a strong foundation, we can start to challenge with functional specifics. This piece may even be over weeks too and as a trainer can you now see how you can create logical longevity to their requirement of your services with this approach? Starting simpler is not only safer but also gives your session long term progressive and interesting exercise content. Clients LOVE this!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The time lines on this periodisation is always going to be case by case and client specific but unless we continue to assess, re-assess and monitor progress sensibly with a periodised training system we could, in fact, be setting our clients up for injury albeit without knowing it.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you really care about your clients, educate them, rather than trying to be sexy, funky and exotic with your exercise choice.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make it smart! </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember smarter does NOT mean harder!</span>\n\n<a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE <b>If you need some help with periodisation for your clients, or you worry about the order that you are doing things</b></a>','Warning For PT\'s: Don’t Get Caught In The “Sexy” Trap','','inherit','closed','closed','','3239-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',3239,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38798',0,'revision','',0),(38799,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Problem </span></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<a href=\"http://bit.ly/2lTqLtc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> ‘Weak Core’ </a>Epidemic - everyone is talking about it but what is it exactly?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You get a new client and they say they want to strengthen their core. Maybe they have a sore lower back or have recently been to a therapist who suggested they need strengthen their core.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sound familiar?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If something is ‘weak’ you strengthen it, right?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well not necessarily so let’s start by clearing a few things up….</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1). Pain or discomfort is not indicative of  being ‘weak’.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2). An apparent ‘weakness’ can be caused by several things, many of which do NOT, initially at least, require ‘strength’ work. In fact strength work could actually compound issues in some cases.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3). A ‘weak’ core is being used as a blanket term for a variety of problems.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4). If you can walk around and hold your body upright then chances are your core ain’t simply in need of strengthening!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The big question is WHY are is your core ‘weak’???</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3229\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-29-at-09.45.59.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-08-29-at-09-45-59\" width=\"353\" height=\"235\" />\n<h2></h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Solution </span></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the kind of question we really need to start asking ourselves along with;</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What exactly does the term ‘weak’ really mean in relation to the core?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why are people being told they have a ‘weak’ core if this isn\'t the case?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Firstly let’s attempt to define the term ‘weak’.....</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WEAK</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; Oxford Dictionary’s Definition;</span>\n<ul>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lacking the power to perform physically demanding tasks; having little physical strength or energy.</span></li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ok we get that but how does this translate into this discussion? Well let’s consider a few of the common problems that could contribute to an apparent ‘weakness’ in relation to the core. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well we have 3 sub systems within our bodies that make up our intrinsic biomechanical setup. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myofascial</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neural </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Skeletal </span></li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These 3 sub systems can directly influence each other in a variety of ways through the kinetic chain or integrated system of how our bodies function. Now should any one of them become problematic they can compensate for each other or because of each other. Here are some common adaptations or compensations we might find in someone identified as having a ‘weak’ core;</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subclinical muscle spasm (eg; QL, Psoas)</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antagonist inhibition (eg; glutes, erectors)</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joint Stiffness (eg; thoracic spine)</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nerve Tension (eg; sciatic nerve)</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What we should be mindful of is identifying the root cause of the ‘weakness’ FIRST, to then address is appropriately rather than assuming it requires core strength work.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3228\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-29-at-09.46.31-1024x421.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-08-29-at-09-46-31\" width=\"513\" height=\"211\" />\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How We Can Help</span></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having looked at the evidence that is out there in relation to assessing and understanding dysfunction around the core area we have developed, tried and tested a system that enables you to do just this. To identify WHY the core maybe ‘weak’. This then allows you to know what to do to correct it with a safe and logical series of periodised core exercise we can show you. This creates a prepared trunk with improved capacity. It would then be logical to follow this with some core strength ratio screening and correction based upon McGill’s work to give your client stability and control. Finally some functional stability screens and exercises would give your clients a greater function and performance ability fit for purpose (client relative). Some of this will certainly include strength work BUT not before creating the base of prepared and improved intrinsic function, capacity and then movement.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you fancy spending a couple of days discussing the evidence and what we can do to better provide safe training and exercise for your clients?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://bit.ly/2lTqLtc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CLICK HERE TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST </span></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://bit.ly/2lTqLtc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spine Biomechanics Workshop</span></a>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept 7th/8th London (NLSSM) </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept 16th/17h Loughborough University</span>','The ‘Weak Core’ Epidemic!','','inherit','closed','closed','','3227-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',3227,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38799',0,'revision','',0),(38800,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you wish you could see what we REALLY look like on the inside?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you fascinated by anatomy?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you wonder why people move the way they do?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Would you like an anatomy experience like no other?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you want an opportunity to ask the experts about REAL A&amp;P?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Would you like to see just how different we all are on the inside too?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you answered yes to any of the above then this blog is definitely for you…..now bare with me while I set the scene…</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you ever met someone in one of the most unlikely circumstances and they have turned out to be someone much more valuable than you might have imagined?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the things I was trained for in my very first job as a silver service waitress at the tender age of 14yrs was..</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Treat everyone you meet like they could change your life for the better</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This attitude has stood me in good stead over the years and so I want to share with you an unlikely meeting that has resulted in an incredible, and exclusive, opportunity I am now able to offer to YOU and all of our academy learners. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you want to hear about it?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thought you might ;)</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read on..</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>It All Started In A Sauna..</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3206\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-21-at-14.57.23-1024x413.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-08-21-at-14-57-23\" width=\"570\" height=\"230\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yup a sauna! </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At one of my local gyms after a hard training session I had taken myself down to the quiet spa area. Finding the quietest sauna of the five there I settled into the opposite corner from a gentleman already in there. We exchanged </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">‘hello’s</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">’. He then asked about my training in a soft german accent and so we got chatting. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It turns out he’s a professor at <a href=\"http://bit.ly/2vXvlci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nottingham Medical School, Queen’s Medical Centre.</a> Dr Michael Rittig actually teaches medical students in the </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anatomy Teaching Suite. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WOWZERS!</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">” I exclaimed to him “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How I would LOVE to be able to take my learners into a cadaver lab!”. </span></i>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having experienced about 3 ‘cadaver days’ myself at Keele Medical labs several years ago I had known then it was a privilege.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Guess What He Said…..?</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well I am confident I can arrange that for you</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My jaw literally hit the floor. I knew how difficult this could have been to arrange as an ‘outsider’ without ‘clinical’ qualifications. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For just a moment I felt slightly weird sitting there sweating in my swim wear, jaw on the floor, wishing I had a pen and paper to take his number…</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BUT</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The opportunity was far too exciting to feel weird for long!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He promised to leave his email address at reception on his way out.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I changed, very quickly, I wondered if he would actually leave his email or even if he would remember! Feeling so excited for my learners I made my way back to the car and home imagining their faces when I sent out the email saying we have a <a href=\"http://bit.ly/2vXvlci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cadaver experience </a>on the schedule.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During my lessons I had been telling them about my experience and how it had boosted my own confidence in anatomy due to the complexity of it all. It had reassured me not to feel I had to know everything. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, yes you guessed it, I had forgotten to ask for his email as I left </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DOH!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I rang reception immediately and they eventually found it but couldn\'t read his writing. So I typed out an email and wrote every version of the spelling I could imagine it might be.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Then I Finally Got My Reply!!</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WHOOP WHOOP!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So as I started to schedule potential dates we put out a ‘</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who’s interested?</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">’ email to create a waiting list.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within 4hrs we had 27 names, after 24 hrs we had 46! We had 2 organisations contact us one with 65 people the other with 103!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://bit.ly/2vXvlci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>The First Biomechanics Education Cadaver Experience</b></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3207\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-21-at-14.58.44.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-08-21-at-14-58-44\" width=\"172\" height=\"244\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBiomechanics Education Ltd’s first <a href=\"http://bit.ly/2vXvlci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cadaver Experience</a> was on a Monday…\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some learners felt trepidation at this first experience and ALL of them confirmed afterwards they did feel freaked out after all once inside. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we donned our white lab coats and latex gloves, Dr Mike and Dr Rana were both poised ready, one at the upper limb station and the other at the lower limb station.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We split into 2 groups and listened intently for around 2 hrs before we took a break for lunch.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We then continued until around 3pm and moved to different stations to discuss and explore the foot, spine, pelvis and shoulder.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sadly no photos are permitted because I would have loved to show you the looks of awe on the learners faces, as they held various body parts, peeled back different layers of dissection while studying these amazing specimens. It was just fantastic!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3208\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-21-at-15.02.45.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-08-21-at-15-02-45\" width=\"462\" height=\"247\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Would YOU like to experience real anatomy?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YES? <a href=\"http://bit.ly/2vXvlci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO REGISTER</a></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Just check out the feedback…..</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3201\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-21-at-14.45.38-1024x772.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-08-21-at-14-45-38\" width=\"528\" height=\"398\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3203\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-21-at-14.45.13-942x1024.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-08-21-at-14-45-13\" width=\"514\" height=\"559\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3202\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-21-at-14.45.28-769x1024.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-08-21-at-14-45-28\" width=\"511\" height=\"680\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3200\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-21-at-14.45.45-749x1024.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-08-21-at-14-45-45\" width=\"495\" height=\"677\" />','THE Cadaver Experience','','inherit','closed','closed','','3198-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',3198,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38800',0,'revision','',0),(38801,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<h3>The Problem Facing Our Learners Today</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you pass your A&amp;P and promptly forget all those muscle attachments?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does the thought of attending a course raise your anxiety about being asked any anatomy questions in front of your peers?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you look at your client moving and wish you could remember your A&amp;P to work out which muscle isn’t doing its job?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you feel ashamed at how much of your anatomy training you can’t remember?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is one of the most common things that most of our learners share with us confidentially, prior to attending our workshops. Our workshops are designed to INCREASE knowledge and deepen understanding, but they are absolutely perfect and specifically designed for L2 fitness instructors or L3 PT’s, sports masseurs and coaches (depending upon which workshop/s) who want to increase their confidence and skills combined.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also as an education provider we take our role very seriously in never ever setting anyone up to fail…. Yet so many of you still actually FEAR not knowing enough to attend. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now the whole point of attending a course or workshop is to discuss, explore and learn things you didn’t know before, right? So they are SUPPOSED to be somewhat uncomfortable. We should expect a new level of thinking, for our paradigm to potentially shift and to potentially be taken through the Kubler-Ross curve of emotions. Shock, denial, fear and eventually acceptance.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently we had messages like…. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Very scared about tomorrow. I know nothing and am a slow learner! And getting old.............”</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Oh dear god my anxiety levels have just  shot through the roof when I skimmed this email...Hopefully I shall calm down by Saturday lol”</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upon receiving these kinds of emails, we obviously contact the learners to reassure them that they are more than qualified to attend the workshops, as it is compulsory they provide evidence of the pre-requisite requirements.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We pride ourselves on the huge level of support we offer, taking it very seriously by providing a wide range of resources for our learners to access;</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Screening forms</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Webinars</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mentoring</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Skype</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Texts</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calls</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emails</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diversely skilled Master Trainer’s</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Books</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Videos - YouTube</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photos</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forums</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free Workshops</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find a Biomechanics Coach map</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Events</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Newsletters</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blogs</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Articles</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Website</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>The Solution</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now I am fully aware that the industry is full of egos which includes presenters, teachers, tutors and mentors. There are gurus out there who seem to take pleasure in telling people what they know, rather than actually demonstrating a desire to create supportive educational environments, that not only allow individual growth but also contribute to improving the entire industry. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A true educator will admit when they don’t know the answer to a question. They will facilitate rather than simply lecture. They will encourage and provoke thought rather than simply recite information. They will ask questions rather than state facts. They will encourage learners to challenge everything rather than just accept what they are told. True educators will wait for the learners questions rather than push the detail too soon. True educators accept they too are continually learning alongside and from their learners. A true educator does not KNOW everything but guides, supports and encourages thinking.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3179\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_1180-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"img_1180\" width=\"590\" height=\"442\" />\n<h3>How We Can Help</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Biomechanics Education Ltd our mission statement and ethos is ….</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“To Improve Movement Through Education, While Improving Education Through A Movement”</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By creating inclusive education experiences that embrace diverse interprofessional relationships, we embrace small steps towards improvement not just for the individual, but also for the entire industry.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are examples of feedback after recent workshops…..</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I have already expressed how great it was to meet you and you certainly surpassed my expectations of how great a tutor you are.</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You made me feel at ease when chatting with you and even when I wasn\'t confident in answering any questions, I wasn\'t made to feel silly or stupid.</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I def would pick you to be lost on a desert island with,  as I would be in total awe of your knowledge and enthusiasm.</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attending on Saturday has brought my excitement back for learning and I definitely want to explore biomechanics further. I for one would love to commit to learning more and would love to have the chance to study the diploma. (I found my old flash cards for muscles) </span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look forward to hearing from you :-)”</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Hi Rachel</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks for a great course I learnt a lot and it was a great pace! I actually feel confident that I can go away and use those tests not like other courses I have done when I go away overwhelmed and confused. I realise I still have more to learn and practice though.”</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3188\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/imovefreely-blog-2-300x169.png\" alt=\"imovefreely-blog-2\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" />\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Would you like to start with a 1 day workshop like the <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/event/imovefreely-instructor-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iMoveFreely Instructor Workshop Saturday 2nd Sept London?</a> </strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/event/imovefreely-instructor-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE</a></strong></p>\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-3180 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-12-at-16.23.04.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-08-12-at-16-23-04\" width=\"566\" height=\"312\" />','Do You Fear You Just Don\'t Know Enough?','','inherit','closed','closed','','3178-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',3178,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38801',0,'revision','',0),(38802,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever had a perfect client?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know the one who does everything you suggest, enjoys it and gets the results they came for?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HOORAAYY!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had one of these perfect clients BUT at the same time, he had the most challenging of circumstances.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We’re going to call this client Simon for this blog. I don’t know why, it just felt right haha.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simon gave me permission to use his information anonymously to share his story with you all, which I am forever grateful for!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now bear in mind, Simon had to fight to get a consultation with me in the first place, as I don’t usually take on clients in pain like he was. My usual clients are athletes looking for the performance edge. He lives in Brighton, my clinic is in Nottingham and yet even when I tried to point him the direction of a Biomechanics Coach nearer to him, he was not deterred. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“You helped my wife a few years ago, I want to see you” </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> he said adamantly. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My initial email to him set up all levels of expectation as I explained what I do and don’t do, how I work, what I expect of him and what he should expect while working with me along with what to bring or wear, that would help me assess him easily. It also states very clearly that I do not promise pain relief. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Back Pain &amp; Shoulder Pain</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now the whole point to Simon’s reason for contacting me was shoulder and low back pain. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So after he had read and agreed to my initial email, we spoke over the phone so I could clarify a few things in advance of us booking the face to face sessions. He was happy to discuss his goal and we agreed to address it upon meeting. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We booked in 3 sessions over the course of 2 weeks, to give me a good grasp of his biomechanics, his adherence, how his body responds to the programme or whether there might be a need for the skills of a different professional for best duty of care to Simon.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also unusual to my practice, I actually collected Simon from the train station and it was like we had actually known each other for a long time already, even though we had never met or spoken before that week.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>The Consultation </b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The initial consultation was a couple of hours during which we discussed his daily routine, working hours, home situation, previous injuries, training or sporting activities, sleeping habits, footwear and anything else that might influence his biomechanics.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a sick wife, a toddler and 9 month old baby, Simon was literally doing everything from going to work all day, cooking dinner and getting up through the night to help with the baby.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was clear there was no way I could suggest any kind of gym training or really even any banded resistance work. There needed to be a clear plan of things he could do within these very limiting parameters. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2963\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-06-30-at-08.23.34-1024x764.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-30-at-08-23-34\" width=\"310\" height=\"231\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The full assessment I did on Simon included pelvic, spine and shoulder function screens, knee stability screens, foot function screens and I assessed for subclinical muscle spasm, nerve tension and joint immobility. There was a lot of common dysfunction present but nothing that concerned me, other than how we would fit in what was needed to help him function and move better. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We sat down to discuss the results and I reminded him that I couldn’t promise pain relief BUT could guarantee teach him how to improve his own function and movement. So we started to discuss how his pain influenced his daily routine and quality of life. This gave us an opportunity to explore the real reason for his visit. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>The Real Goal/s</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He simply wanted to be able to get down onto the floor to play with his daughter and to feed his baby girl in the night, without his arm fatiguing. This is what became the goal but it also became a measurement. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I asked Simon to physically show me how he did these tasks at present. His cumbersome way of bending his back and not his knees to get to the floor was telling. His methods to lift his baby girl from her crib and then to hold her and feed her, also spoke volumes to me about his upper body positioning. I had even noticed the way he sat down and got up out of the chair with a huge forward lean, massively folding at the hip. All putting a lot of pressure and strain on his lower back particularly.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So while all of this was based on my subjective judgements, it gave me some ideas on what more we might be able to do with Simon’s very limited time and equipment. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Links Man &amp; Screening Form</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With my links man and screening form, I explained the screening results to Simon, where he was intrinsically dysfunctional was marked in green and what it might all meant to him. Breaking everything down into what it might mean with regards to his daily routine. Simon was very keen and eager to take on board everything I was suggesting. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3014\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sample-case-study-1-738x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"sample-case-study-1\" width=\"306\" height=\"424\" />\n<h3><b>Prescribing Homework</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His homework was just 2 simple pelvic anti spasm techniques Leg Press &amp; 4 Sign </span><b>&lt;&lt;see the 4 Sign muscle energy technique in this article&gt;&gt;</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to practice at least 4 times a day. As we discussed his usual day, I encouraged him to be involved in the decisions around his homework. So he suggested he could do it while sitting at work or at home with his family. I also taught him how to sit down and stand up and how to get down and up from the floor, while putting less pressure on his back. Everything was designed to fit in with HIS lifestyle and to be realistic and achievable, even with his circumstances. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I explained what this could do IF he did his homework and what the next steps might be, Simon nodded looking completely committed to what I was suggesting. We had already agreed his next visit would be in 2 days and so I dropped him back at the train station with his exercise sheet looking very hopeful.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the next 48hours I texted him regularly … “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have you done your homework this morning…</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?”. He would reply…</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> “I have done 3 sets already!</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">” WOWZERS it was only 10am this guy was serious. So serious in fact, that he did his anti spasms 12 times a day!! Now please understand while the dosage we recommend is 4 x daily, they can be performed more which is likely to give a quicker, more effective response. Great start! I thought, excited about the re-screen.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>The Re-Screen </b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just 2 days later and Simon was back. He said he felt he could move a bit better, but the pain was the same. He had done all of his homework, and more, AND was using his body better in general with the sit/stand techniques and lifting of his daughters. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The re-screen showed an incredible different in ares that weren\'t quite moving so well and looked like this on the Links Man screening form..</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3015\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sample-case-study-2-741x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"sample-case-study-2\" width=\"298\" height=\"411\" />\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“WELL DONE!!” </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I said and while he could see the difference on the 2 links men forms and he was pleased, I knew there was still some convincing to do. We added in some lumber mobility work and removed Leg Press as he felt 4 Sign was the one that made the difference. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Off he went and this time for a week. So I continued to text or call regularly to check on how we getting on and feeling. He was still doing everything as prescribed and felt good but still had pain. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His 3rd appointment we met after a workshop I had delivered in London and I was REALLY excited to see the results. Simon showed even more improvement and explained how he could now get down easily to play with his daughter and can hold his baby girl all night with much less fatigue. However his pain/discomfort wasn’t really much different.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3016\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sample-case-study-3-746x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"sample-case-study-3\" width=\"301\" height=\"413\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now I knew Simon trusted me and when I asked him to be patient and persistent I knew he would. This time we integrated thoracic mobility and also some low grade supine core bracing that he could do while lying on the floor with is little girl.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What I also did was teach him some shoulder anti spasms but I asked him not to do them yet, we would talk over skype and I would let him know when he could introduce this technique. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of where we had got to and the vast improvement he had achieved, I explained we didn’t need to meet for 4 weeks now. He had his homework and I felt his schedule was so hectic that now we had built our relationship and I knew he did his homework, we could for now work together via phone or skype etc. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Pain Relief</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the next few weeks he did his homework religiously, committed to generally moving better now that he was more body aware and finally in week number 6 he called. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“MY PAIN HAS GONE!”</span></i></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was so happy and relieved and to be honest, so was I. He explained that he thought it was when he introduced the shoulder anti spasms. We created an action plan for him moving forward and I advised him that this would probably be a long term maintenance programme now. BUT rather than 4 times daily (or 12 in Simon’s case!) he could reduce the dosage to 2 x daily and see how he got on. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Summary</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here I have listed all the messages this ‘perfect’ client experience showed me;</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<ol>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Never promise pain relief</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trust an evidence based system</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The body is an integrated system</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Empower your client to take control of their own body</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Offer MORE than the session for success</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Never promise pain relief</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Include them in their homework design</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Helping clients move better with less pain doesn’t have to be in a gym</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explain in detail only what the client cares about in relation to their goal.</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Convert their goal if necessary to be a more realistic one</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Offer realistic solutions based on the individual\'s lifestyle</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Never promise pain relief</span></li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember had I done this, not only would the goal have been a negative one, Simon may not have returned or listened when his pain wasn’t changing. Had it not, I would have referred him to a colleague for some further tests but nothing gave me a red flag.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe screening system and exercises I used with Simon were from the Biomechanics Coaching Diploma.\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>The benefits;</h3>\nThis evidence based system has been tried and tested over 25 years on over 4.5k subjects.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIt is amazingly easy to perform without any special equipment other than a chair or step.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYou can assess the results immediately!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nEach screen comes with the relevant iMoveFreely exercise techniques like the ones I prescribed to Simon to improve his movement.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIf you are like thousand of other PT\'s out there and you face doubt when trying to work out where your clients movement limitations are actually coming from <a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE</a>.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2759 size-full\" 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;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I WANT TO FIND OUT MORE!</a></span></p>','[CASE STUDY] How Simon Reduced His Low Back And Shoulder Pain','','inherit','closed','closed','','2972-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',2972,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38802',0,'revision','',0),(38803,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<b>...What Is It?</b>\n\n<b>Why Does Everyone Want It?</b>\n\n<b>Should We Even Do It?</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When searching around for definitions of \'core stability\' the internet will come up with many terms like ‘base of support’, ‘central balance’, ‘foundation’ and so on, but I feel it is prudent to define it in a little more detail than that.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mel Siff (2004), gives a definition for \'segmental stability\' as..\"</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Muscles stabilising or supporting </span></i><b><i>a body segment</i></b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> statically or dynamically while other muscles carry out a movement involving other joints</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\".</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore it might be safe to say \'</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Core Stability’ is</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Muscles stabilising or supporting </span></i><b><i>the spine </i></b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">statically or dynamically while other muscles carry out a movement involving other joints</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>BUT</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Why Do Core Stability Training?</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2966\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-10-at-16.21.37.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-07-10-at-16-21-37\" width=\"369\" height=\"259\" /></span>\n\nWhy do so many people feel they need it, or at least feel like they don’t have it, therefore seek out ways to train the core specifically?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For some it is still the idea of having a nice flat washboard stomach that drives them to perform core stability moves, for others it maybe they feel they have \'weaknesses\' around their abdominal, or lower back area and for others, it may well just be habit as part of their daily routine.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now while we, as fit pros, are wiser these days to the notion that a flat stomach comes from the kitchen, not core stability training specifically, the media still tell us it is! Then surely it is up to us to educate our clients and participants with the truth, right!? So we get educated and then pass it on to them.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The biggest challenge being, as always, the fact that we are all different and therefore require a one to one consultation to really get to the nitty gritty of things.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Is The Core Prepared For Core Stability Training?</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a previous article we did, we let you into a cool, core preparation technique called gliding. If you missed it </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/how-to-identify-if-your-quadratus-lumborum-muscle-is-in-spasm-its-effect-on-lower-back-pain-movement-ability/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE FOR THE WALL GLIDES TECHNIQUE</a></strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For those who feel core stability training is necessary due to a \'weakness\', let us consider this question..</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h4><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does the term ‘weak core\' actually mean?</span></i></h4>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my previous training this meant the core required ‘strength’ work as this is the opposite meaning to ‘weak’.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>However since then I have come to realise there are many definitions of the term ‘weakness’ in relation to the core, like the following examples:</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inhibited trunk muscles due to muscle spasm</span></li>\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inhibited trunk joints due to muscle spasm</span></li>\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inhibited trunk joints due to neural tension</span></li>\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inhibited trunk muscles due to neural tension</span></li>\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inhibited trunk muscles due to joint immobility</span></li>\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inhibited trunk muscles due to injury related scar tissue</span></li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">...and I am sure there are other variations of this theme too.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the above is correct then do you think we need to implement ‘core stability’ training to improve core control? Probably not.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is it likely we would be conditioning an asymmetry or at least a dysfunction? Yes.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So surely the ideal initial exercise prescription would be to </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prepare</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the core; for core stability training.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, remove the inhibition with muscle release work, nerve mobilisations, joint mobility work and/or manual therapy? In other words a core stability  ‘preparation’ exercise programme.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once this is in place THEN progressive core stability training it is likely to be far more effective following neuromuscular periodised training methods like those we deliver in Step 1 of our Core Training Pyramid in the Spine Biomechanics Workshop.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>The 3 Step Pyramid Approach</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2963\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-06-30-at-08.23.34-1024x764.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-30-at-08-23-34\" width=\"380\" height=\"284\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the preparation work is in place we follow this with the progressive neuromuscular core training using firstly static, then more dynamic, core training methods.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2962\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-03-at-10.01.47-1024x236.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-07-03-at-10-01-47\" width=\"1024\" height=\"236\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once low level neuromuscular ‘core stability’ skills are achieved, it is probably wise to perform some really simple assessments and exercises to correct and regain the ‘Core Strength Ratios’.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Step 2</strong></span> is based on</span><b> McGill’s (2003)</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> work. He discusses that our asymmetrical lifestyles create these imbalances of strength around the trunk.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Finally, Step 3</strong></span> is what we call ‘Functional Stability’ in which we show you how to assess core control during more gross compound movements. Aberrant Gross Lumbar screen, spinal hinges during kneeling and standing squats and cross pelvic syndromes are all screens we show our learners during the Spine Biomechanics workshop. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>The REAL Question</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\nHowever this then begs the question that is often discussed;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Is performing squats, deadlifts, pushups, sporting activity or likewise, all our core needs!?</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well many would like to think so, however if we continue to choose a life in front of a screen or with 90 degrees of hip flexion maintained for long periods of time, pushing the pelvis into a posterior tilt and the spine into lumbar flexion; there is a good chance we will need to constantly monitor or core’s capacity. This would then enable us as PT’s to decide which exercises is right, for that client, at that time, due to their intrinsic biomechanics rather than utilising generic core stability training exercises for all clients. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I mean, wouldn\'t you like to KNOW which exercise is “good” and which is “bad” for your client?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us keep in mind that everything you do uses your ‘core’! So (once prepared) maybe designing a training programme that considers the whole body, would mean you don’t actually need to spend </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">additional</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> time training the core at the end of a class or training session, because the whole session was functionally training our core throughout!?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2786\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SPINE-Biomechanics-blog-300x150.png\" alt=\"spine-biomechanics-blog\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you find any of this interesting you will find the core training pyramid, along with all of these screens and exercises and more in our 2 day <strong><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/spine-biomechanics-workshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spine Biomechanics Workshop, just click here to find out more.</a></strong></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/spine-biomechanics-workshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spine Biomechanics Workshop</a> is a stand alone workshop, but it does also count as 1/5th towards a <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diploma in Biomechanics Coaching. Click here to find out more about the diploma.</a></span></strong></p>','Could The Core Stability Training Your Prescribing Your Clients, Actually Be Damaging Them?','','inherit','closed','closed','','2959-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',2959,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38803',0,'revision','',0),(38804,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','Todays blog was inspired by a Facebook post ….\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"wp-image-3004 alignleft\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-12-at-15.14.53.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-07-12-at-15-14-53\" width=\"247\" height=\"351\" /><img class=\"wp-image-3003 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-12-at-15.15.42-654x1024.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-07-12-at-15-15-42\" width=\"228\" height=\"357\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Firstly I would like to explain the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic biomechanics. It can be confusing to analyse your clients movement if you are unaware of the difference, so let’s have a lookere..</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extrinsic Biomechanics</span></i></h2>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This can be a very complex analysis of the performance of movements using high level and</span></i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">expensive machinery like isokinetics and kinematics to help us understand forces, loads and levers. In a practical sense this also includes</span></i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what an exercise professional sees when they look at their client move and then correct it with interventions such as verbal and visual cues.</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intrinsic Biomechanics</span></i></h2>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the analysis of what is happening inside the body which</span></i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">creates the extrinsic movements. An understanding of the internal neuro-musculoskeletal system and how this integrated system is the basis for what we see through the extrinsic analysis.</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was clear from the Facebook comment that I had not clarified the difference for those reading it and so I realised that this might be something you and other fitness professionals struggle with too. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>Have You Ever Coached A Client &amp; Wondered WHY They Aren’t Symmetrical? </b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can tell something isn’t level, because their knees aren\'t the same height or one shoulder is a tiny further forwards than that other. Postural assessment kinda stuff.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet they may have pretty good movement ability, they may have no pain or injuries but your thinking ….</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">do I try to correct that? </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">then</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> …if so, how and from where??</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, me too!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3005\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-12-at-15.37.03.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-07-12-at-15-37-03\" width=\"268\" height=\"362\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Something I have found a challenge, having spent over 25yrs in the industry of ‘coaching movement’, is finding the balance between trying to change the lines of symmetry with visual and verbal cues and simply letting the client MOVE the way their body needs to because of how they are stacked up on the inside. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The overhead squat position above is the most comfortable and stable position for me. I know that whenever I have tried to do to become more extrinsically symmetrical, it has felt really awkward, slightly uncomfortable and not at all stable; so I don\'t worry too much about trying to force a position that I know just feels wrong, even if it </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">looks</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> better.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>What Is The Point?</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a friend of mine that challenged me on my statement “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I perfect my lines, I’d likely injure myself”. </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now I LOVE to be challenged and she had every right to challenge me and as her point was important. As it turns out, we actually were agreeing on MY point BUT I hadn’t made clear what I was trying to highlight. What she was pointing out was; for those out there who read posts like mine, it could have been interpreted wrongly. She was absolutely right.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>Out Of Date Education?</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a professional dancer symmetrical arm lines were literally everything on stage in my dance troupe. Then in my fitness industry qualifications I was taught to correct lines of movement so joints were stacked, knees in line etc.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you had similar training then you will recognise it was really about coaching the </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">extrinsic </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">movement you can see. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An example is when you ask your client to squat and their knee drops inwards, you might verbally and/or visually coach them to keep the knee ‘in line’ with the midfoot for example…right?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">…and in some cases that would be correct BUT consider this…</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if your client has been sitting at their desk all day and comes to your session with a ‘functional’ twist at their pelvis? Something neither of you are aware of. This can be caused by their ‘intrinsic biomechanics’ adapting to that sedentary static desk posture, with muscles potentially going into subclinical spasm (a constant contraction). This can in turn limit the movement at the joints these muscles cross, thus creating the ‘impression’ of a longer limb as one side of the pelvis is ‘stuck’ rotated forward and down. This can result in a </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deliberate</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> compensation by the body (a true master of compensation by the way) of requiring the knee to buckle inwards to allow the body to descend into a squat without hurting the lower back; for example.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If this were the case do you think trying to encourage your client to get their knees ‘</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in line’</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would be the best course of action?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">… Well probably not.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So how on earth are we supposed to KNOW what is simply poor technique and requires verbal or visual coaching and what is in fact a result of the way their intrinsic biomechanics are stacked up??</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>Good Question eh!</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3006\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-12-at-15.40.22.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-07-12-at-15-40-22\" width=\"326\" height=\"216\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well ideally we have screening or assessment skills to identify what isn\'t working properly BEFORE we train their movement/s. This then guides us on which exercises are good for them on that day and which might create a problem.  </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note: Doing a movement on dysfunction won’t immediately ‘break’ your client BUT if undetected, overtime if they repeat movements on dysfunctional areas (sometimes with loads too) they could be raising the risk. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>What Can We Do?</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What we really should be doing is educating clients on how to move more freely, by improving and </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">preparing</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> their intrinsic biomechanical set up first. Then train or exercise upon a neuro-musculoskeletal system that has its capacity back which reduces risk and optimises performance for their daily task/s or chosen sport or activity.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This could be as simple as performing a range and symmetry test, then introducing an anti spasm or muscle energy technique like 4 sign. Then redo the range and symmetry test and if it has improved you KNOW they need to do that technique BEFORE they train or even warm up.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We all appreciate the body is a complex series of structures and tissues so it can often be quite overwhelming when you are trying to decide where to start and how to proceed.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So let me give you a simple evidence based pyramid system of approach. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2963\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-06-30-at-08.23.34-1024x764.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-30-at-08-23-34\" width=\"380\" height=\"283\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1) Start with preparation and capacity from the inside, considering all structures and tissues of our integrated system. Anti spasms, MET’S, massage, foam rolling, nerve mobilisations, joint mobilisations etc.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2) Next train stability and control to proprioceptively remind the ‘core’ or trunk what this new position feels like. Remember, core control SHOULD be a reflex NOT something we have to think about. (Note: If someone appears to have a </span><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/do-you-really-have-a-weak-core/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">weak</span></i></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> core remember it COULD be they are in fact not stacked up well intrinsically rather than actually ‘weak’.)</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/do-you-really-have-a-weak-core/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read my post \"Do you really have a weak core?\" here, if you\'re interested in finding out more on this.</a></em></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3). Finally and only once the previous 2 points have been addressed, we train function and performance of the chosen sport or activity.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Matthews &amp; Norris, 2008 &amp; Krabak &amp; Kennedy, 2008)</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3034\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/BIOMECHANICS-COACH-2-300x157.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" /></span></a>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If YOU would like to learn an evidence base system that enables PT’s like YOU to perform a whole series of 42 assessments on your clients, in advance of deciding which exercises to give them ……...weeeeell…... you are reading the right blog because all you need to do is …..</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE</b></a></h2>','Extrinsic Technique V’s Intrinsic Biomechanics','','inherit','closed','closed','','2978-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',2978,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38804',0,'revision','',0),(38805,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feel you deserved a weekend lying on the sofa?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well some of you probably do...</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">...but Stuart McGill suggests for many, particularly those who experience low back pain, this may not be as beneficial as you might hope. In fact... it could be detrimental!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the things you know I feel passionately about is educating and encouraging the world; to move more freely and with less pain. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>The Evidence</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Stuart McGill (also known as Dr Spine at Waterloo University in Canada) has done literally hundreds of studies of the spine evidencing what he has discovered about the biomechanics of the spine.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His ethos, like ours here at the Biomechanics Education Academy and also neuroscientists, Lorimer Moseley and Dave Butler’s, is not to blanket prescribe or to </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">assume,</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> what can be causing an individual\'s back pain or movement problem. In some cases less is more, especially in the scenario of movement repetition and back pain. One example of this might be a factory worker who repeatedly twists or rotates around their spine all day long. The last thing they need to do in an exercise class is twist the spine for reps, don\'t you think?!  </span>\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2877\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-08.54.01-1024x485.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-29-at-08-54-01\" width=\"391\" height=\"185\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While in other situations, more movement is necessary. One example might be the overweight client who comfort eats and prefers to watch TV all evening, every day.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much to the annoyance of the learners who enter our academy and ask </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">generic</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> client questions during their time in the academy, they more often than not hear us say “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it depends…</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.”, because we should never generalise what we do with our clients. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>So This Creates A Problem For PT\'s</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move more?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move less?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How on earth do we find the balance when giving advice to our clients?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well remember, when you read an article it will more often than have not been written with a specific reader or case study in mind. The clarity of this depends upon either the skill or mindframe of the writer. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><b>Move More</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you read \'move more\' articles they are likely to be aimed to those leading a more sedentary lifestyles. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Example One</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; The individual who doesn\'t exercise AND has a relatively sedentary job.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Example Two</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; The individual who trains for 1hr a day 6 x per week, then sits behind a desk or on their sofa the rest of it, they’re overall relatively sedentary. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generally increasing the regularity of moving their body would be advisable in both of these examples</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2879\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-08.57.16-1024x503.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-29-at-08-57-16\" width=\"454\" height=\"223\" />\n<h2><b>Move Less</b></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These kind of articles are for those who do</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> excessive</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reps of the same kind of movement.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Example One</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; The individual who runs for miles and miles every day, would be going through a lot of reps with impact on the knees. Also a cyclist who rides for miles and miles every day, is also putting a lot of reps on the knee joints. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Example Two;</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The individual who plays a \'batting\' or racket sport regularly may experience problems in the arm they are using for that particular sport. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sport is sport and not necessarily the ‘healthiest’ thing for the body\'s structures and tissues but something we choose to do because we enjoy it.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2878\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-08.57.56-1024x554.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-29-at-08-57-56\" width=\"456\" height=\"247\" /></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe your client moves a lot in their job but they don\'t normally do gym type \'exercises\'. Remember that while we are very accustomed to gyms, they have only really been fashionable since the days of Arnie, Gold’s Gym &amp; Muscle Beach. Back then, many people were simply ‘fit’ from their manual labour jobs like working in factories or down mines. </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is a snippet of McGill\'s advice from <a href=\"https://www.theptdc.com/2017/04/back-pain-myths/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THIS ARTICLE</a></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2875\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-08.46.51-955x1024.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-29-at-08-46-51\" width=\"583\" height=\"625\" />\n<h2><strong>SO IN CONCLUSION…...</strong></h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2786\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SPINE-Biomechanics-blog-300x150.png\" alt=\"spine-biomechanics-blog\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" /></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why not check out our<a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/spine-biomechanics-workshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Spine Biomechanics workshop within our diploma</a>? We share with you our Integrated System which is blended with some of the science and evidence based assessments and corrective methods from both McGill’s work and Mosely and Butler’s work. This brilliantly gives you a very extensive series of tools to enhance what you do as a PT.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/spine-biomechanics-workshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST</a></strong></span></p>','Are Your Client\'s Moving Too Much Or Not Enough?','','inherit','closed','closed','','2874-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',2874,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38805',0,'revision','',0),(38806,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','Have you ever had to have surgery?\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luckily I haven’t (in fact I decided against ACL surgery).... But it shocks me more and more every day, when I’m around fit, young people who have had to have surgery because of injuries that have occurred from preventable things like nerve tension.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Median Nerve Tension?</b></h3>\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2871\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-08.07.42-1024x462.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-29-at-08-07-42\" width=\"528\" height=\"238\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is an issue because it can be very uncomfortable, debilitating in some cases, and is most commonly simply a result of our evolving lifestyles. You see nerves don’t like being held in a stretch when they are tethered down somewhere in the body. They also hate fine repetition, like the constant handling of a computer mouse. In this case more likely the median nerve in the arm. Over time these issues can potentially result in more severe problems like Carpel Tunnel Syndrome. Once this diagnosis has been made it is definitely NOT an exercise professional’s remit. However<em> risk reduction</em> definitely is.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Hamstring Injuries</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamstring injuries are also commonly caused by a tight nerve, in this particular case it is more likely to be the sciatic nerve. Nerves also dislike high speed so the muscles often provide a protective spasm during movements, like running for example, in an attempt to limit adding tension to the nerve. However if stretched, or loaded sufficiently, the muscles can spasm enough to cause themselves to tear, or even simply cramp up, which can FEEL like a tear.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If this has happened to you, or your client, you know it really sucks right?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2870\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-08.08.25-681x1024.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-29-at-08-08-25\" width=\"309\" height=\"464\" />\n<h3><b>Tight Calves</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calves are also often one area of the body that are neglected. Whether that be training them, or understanding the role they have on the rest of the bodies movement.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As discussed above when there is nerve tension causing ‘tightness’ in the calves, a whole cascade of problems can occur as a result, if not properly prepared or addressed.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let’s look at what tight calves can lead to...</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They can cause overpronation in the feet.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why? </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This happens because the dorsi-flexion (moving the toes/foot up towards the shin) is not available from the ankle joint, due to the tightness in the calves, so it has to come from the sub talar joint.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This comes as part of the pronation mechanism though and so </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">increases</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the amount of pronation as well.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So overpronation can cause shin related injuries, as well as knee and Achilles problems.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The list can go on..</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BUT there are things WE can to do </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reduce the risk </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of this happening!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>So What CAN We Do About It?</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2869\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-29-at-08.09.23-1024x694.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-06-29-at-08-09-23\" width=\"440\" height=\"298\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As exercise professionals we can prepare the nervous system better and we are perfectly placed to educate our clients on how to improve their intrinsic biomechanics. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now if you’re nervous (s’cuse the pun) about ‘exercising’ your clients nerves, consider this...</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What happens to your nerves when you bend down to put your socks on or perform kicks in martial arts classes for example?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yep you guessed it, you’re stretching your nerves, and if kicking in a class, this is also at relatively high speed!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Nerve Mobilisations</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By mobilising the nerve it can release the tension in the muscles and reduce the risk of more sinister complications as previously mentioned.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now keeping in mind the ‘visco-elastic’ nature of the nervous system (ie; tight nerves don’t like high speed, fine repetition or being </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">held</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a stretch), nerves should be mobilised slowly, with control and taken only just to the point, or beginnings, of tension. This can be done for 2 sets of 8 reps to begin and gradually over time up to 3 sets of 15 reps. NO MORE than 2 x daily.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/AUc5Yq0Y7FU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>This Technique Also Increased Muscle Output By 50% In 10 Days!</b></h3>\n<h3></h3>\n<h3><b>The Evidence</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research performed at Liverpool Hope University College demonstrated astonishing results.  One experiment showed that a muscle can increase its force output by 14% after mobilising the sciatic nerve. Another experiment showed that by following the same concept daily for 10 days increased muscle output by over 50%!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who would like 50% stronger quads?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now remember in most cases we are not even aware we have a problem, but even so you can still achieve these remarkable results. Just imagine what these figures could do for your clients performance in their sport or indeed, on a sedentary level, how the fatigue relief can help after a hard day at the office.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you suspect you have clients who have any of the above mentioned problems?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Would you like to learn how to assess the nerves for tension?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b><i>SIDE NOTE: The Pelvis Can Contribute too...</i></b></h3>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A rotated pelvis can also go unnoticed for many years until the compensations start to cause problems.  Typically a leg length discrepancy (LLD) can result from a twisted pelvis and the leg must compensate for this.  It\'ll either flatten the foot (pronate it), bend the knee more, or drop the hip more.  Pronation will increase the load on the leg (see \'Tight Calves\' paragraph), bending the knee will increase pronation (see \'Tight Calves\' paragraph), and dropping the hip will increase the spasm in the glutes/piriformis.   These muscles have a close relationship with the sciatic nerve and can create nerve tethering resulting in any of the afore mentioned compensations. </span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A vicious circle if ever there was one!  </span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So by reducing the spasm in the piriformis, in other words preventatively, then we can be helping to reduce all of the above. </span></i>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So great place to start is the brilliant </span></i><a href=\"http://bit.ly/2jrj9NK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>4 Sign Anti Spasm Technique</i></b></a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? This improves the function of the piriformis muscle in your hip that can the reduce sciatic nerve tension.</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE</a>\n\n&nbsp;','Want To Increase Muscle Output By 50% In 10 Days?','','inherit','closed','closed','','2866-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',2866,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38806',0,'revision','',0),(38807,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<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. Being the resident Biomechanics Coach</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">™</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in your facility opens so many referral opportunities.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To find out everything you need to know about the diploma, </span><b><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here</a>.</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can register your interest and discuss the opportunities there are for you with a member of the team.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don’t delay, </span><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/biomechanics-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>click here</b></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to find out more.</span>','Why Group Exercise Instructors & PT\'s Are Missing A Huge Referral Market!','','inherit','closed','closed','','2855-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',2855,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38807',0,'revision','',0),(38808,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<b>The Problem</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you ever get anxious about sitting exams?</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe you care so much, your nerves can impede your performance?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well then, you’re pretty much like all the rest of us!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, just like my 11 learners the other weekend at Loughborough University.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I bet on that roasting hot fabulous weekend, some of you took the chance to lie in some grass or go for a bike ride or run, right?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not us!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2847\" 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','','inherit','closed','closed','','2845-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',2845,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38808',0,'revision','',0),(38809,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<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','','inherit','closed','closed','','2808-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',2808,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38809',0,'revision','',0),(38810,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<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','','inherit','closed','closed','','2780-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',2780,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38810',0,'revision','',0),(38811,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<b>What is the Quadratus Lumborum?</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a deep muscle that provides stabilisation and movement of the pelvis and spine.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact we have 2 of them!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Where are they?</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are at the back of the spine close to the midline and attach to the 12th rib and the iliac crest. The medial fibres also insert into the transverse processes of the lumbar spine.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>What do they do?</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Primarily, if there is a bilateral contraction of both QL, the spine will extend. However individually they produce lateral flexion of the spine or hip hitching.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>What problem can arise?</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to our sedentary lifestyles we are spending more time sitting in some degree of lumbar flexion.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">QL is commonly found to be in a state of subclinical spasm </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and can cause limitations in movement. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>How does this affect movement?</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the QL muscle/s are in spasm they can limit the spine’s ability to laterally flex.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, bending over to pick up shopping bags or even things like turning to reverse in your car, could become much more difficult if your QL is in spasm.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine activities like running, or maybe rock climbing, where you need to hitch your hip/leg up. The QL muscle  contributes to the hip hitching up, but when in subclinical spasm, this function and control of it may be inhibited.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also QL spasm could even create a descending mechanical compensation in the body like a functional leg length discrepancy. The subclinical spasm can cause a hitch of the ilium lifting it up on that side, which in turn could then affect your pelvic function and even the load being transferred down into your knee and foot!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>What can we do?</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we laterally flex or side bend we should see a nice smooth curve in the spine. So we can test QL by asking our client to sit (to limit movement from the pelvis) and watch their spines movement and shape as the lean from one side, to the other. If you see what a ‘hinge’ in the lumbar area instead of a smooth curve this would indicate QL spasm.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This video shows a few QL tests in action:</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/xWlGWanUOPE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Solution </b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A wonderful accessory technique called Wall Glides that acts as an anti spasm on the QL muscle and can be a great way to iron out hinges. It is important to recognise this is not a joint mobilisation exercise but is a muscle energy technique. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This specific movement below is a VERY slow subtle gliding action of the vertebrae which \'proprioceptively desensitises\' the subclinical spasm in QL when done super slowly for reps.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\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\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n<ol>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Standing side on to the wall ask your client to measure their foot distance from the wall. Resting the whole upper arm against the wall, fix the ribs to the inside of the arm as if you are holding a newspaper there.</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now bend the elbow to 90 degrees</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at the waist, keeping the body straight.</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keeping the ribs </span><b>fixed </b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">above the elbow, gently glide the hips underneath the elbow, towards the wall, by just an inch or 2 and return to original position.</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Repeat slowly for 8 reps both sides 2 x daily. </span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If it feels tender reduce the range no matter how small.</span></li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyone with any clinical conditions that affect the lower back should consult their Biomechanics Coach&#x2122; first.</span></li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;\n\n<b>Considerations</b>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just as QL spasm can cause descending compensations, as described above, any ascending compensations could result in QL spasm!  </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Body is a Master of Compensation &amp; Works As An Integrated System!</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Would you like to learn more?</b></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">rachel@biomechanicseducation.com</p>','How To Identify If Your Quadratus Lumborum Muscle Is In Spasm','','inherit','closed','closed','','2785-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',2785,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38811',0,'revision','',0),(38812,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<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','','inherit','closed','closed','','2720-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',2720,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38812',0,'revision','',0),(38813,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<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','','inherit','closed','closed','','2671-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',2671,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38813',0,'revision','',0),(38814,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<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?','','inherit','closed','closed','','2668-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',2668,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38814',0,'revision','',0),(38815,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<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. There are many things that can contribute so please keep an open mind. </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You never know what could change by simply giving your clients Pec Minor and Thoracic Spine their capacity back….!!</span>\n<h3>Shoulder Biomechanics</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If this blog has left you eager to find out more, we have a Shoulder Biomechanics module as part of the Shoulder, Knee &amp; Foot Biomechanics Workshop during which we teach you how to </span><b>assess and improve</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the function of Pec Minor along with the Median Nerve, Radial Nerve, Ulna Nerve, Subscapularis, Infraspinatus and the Upper traps.</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We’ve only discussed 1 muscle in basic terms in this blog today, imagine the mind-blowing learning development you could gain by doing your FULL shoulder biomechanics module!</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You should note that this is a very practical and evidence based workshop. So you will be practicing these screens and exercises on your peers and WON’T be brain dead from a lack of stimulation! This is complimented with all of the relevant strength training principles and there are no exams.</span>\n<h3>Click below to find out where you can enrol for the Shoulder, Knee &amp; Foot Biomechanics Workshop...</h3>\n<h1><a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/product/shoulder-knee-foot-biomechanics-workshop-entry-level-3/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>CLICK HERE </b></a></h1>','How Your Pectoralis Minor Can Affect Your Squat Depth','','inherit','closed','closed','','2543-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',2543,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38815',0,'revision','',0),(38816,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Something we often asked about is example case studies of people who have been to see a Biomechanics Coach</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#x2122;, s</span><span style=\"font-weight: 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','','inherit','closed','closed','','2530-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:34','2024-07-16 11:26:34','',2530,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38816',0,'revision','',0),(38817,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','<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\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/aquicon-icon-18718-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"116\" /></a><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/biomechanics_education/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"wp-image-1718 alignnone\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/aquicon-icon-18774-300x287.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"115\" /></a><a href=\"https://twitter.com/biomechanicsedu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"wp-image-1716 alignnone\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/aquicon-icon-18708-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"></p>','The Struggles Being A Personal Trainer','','inherit','closed','closed','','2288-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',2288,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38817',0,'revision','',0),(38818,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','If you are a group exercise fan, instructor or personal trainer the International Fitness Showcase (IFS) at the Blackpool Winter Gardens was where it was ALL happening last weekend!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1699\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_8292-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Friday Was The Boy’s Day</h3>\nFriday was the first day of the Spinning® convention inside IFS. 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. More and more started to join in, less afraid to have a go due to the inclusive environment they realised they were in.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Example 4 - Prone Kneeling Hip Extension.</strong>\n\nA much quicker response BUT they were now correcting and discussing with each other as a group.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFinally;\n<strong>Example 5 - Hip Hitch.</strong>\n\nConfused looks all round as they tried to work out the joints moving and the actions involved…. hip elevation? adduction? femur rotation? So we broke it down again and gradually the group worked out exactly what the actions were.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSo while I’d had initial reservations about the mixed ability group, by the end of the session almost everyone had taken part in some way. 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. Tom Waldron, Chris Kitson and Wendy Arthan.\n\n5) My event staff, the SSSPA Crew, were as always lots of fun including Robbo, Funck, LK, H and Kim.\n\n6) We all get to hang out, talk biomechanics and human movement, meet new people and generally enjoy ourselves while working!\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>So WHAT?</h3>\nWell if you missed it, you missed out!\nIf you were there, you KNOW what I am talking about.\nIf you WISH you were there, it happens every year!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMove Freely,\nRachel\n07976933113\nrachel@biomechanicseducation.com\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Follow Us On Social Media...</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Biomechanics-Education-172683559589454/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"wp-image-1717 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/aquicon-icon-18718-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"98\" /><img class=\"wp-image-1716 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/aquicon-icon-18708-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"97\" height=\"97\" /></a><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/biomechanics_education/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"wp-image-1718 aligncenter\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/aquicon-icon-18774-300x287.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"93\" /></a></p>','A Weekend Presenting At The International Fitness Showcase','','inherit','closed','closed','','1698-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1698,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38818',0,'revision','',0),(38819,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','<h3></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s always healthy to do your research and as you will recall from my previous blog’s, since my school teachers constantly told me ‘</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you’re not an academic</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">’, this can take me longer than most to process the technical information in written form. 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! I now LOVE being able to absorb and learn from various resources. So I now want to encourage YOU, if you feel you are a bit like me and were told, and maybe still believe, you are a ‘non- academic’...</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>Please Do NOT Doubt Your Intelligence!!</h3>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take that first step into a fantastic world exploring human movement in our inclusive, resources filled academy and meet a whole network of professionals…</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">...JUST LIKE </span><b>YOU!</b>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>CLICK HERE</b></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don’t worry if you are nervous about your experience or knowledge level as we will coach you through everything in a way that’s simple to understand. We will re-teach you the anatomy along with reasons to never ever forget it.</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=\"font-weight: 400;\">Become a Biomechanics Coach™ today… Find out more, <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE</a>.</span></p>','Why Doing Your Own Research Could Lead You To Become A Better Coach, Even If You Think You’re A ‘Non-Academic’ Like Me.','','inherit','closed','closed','','1666-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1666,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38819',0,'revision','',0),(38820,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','<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. So remember this, they are paying for your knowledge and skills, so why would you just do the stuff they want or expect?</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https://biomechanicseducation.clickfunnels.com/4-sign-pelvic-release-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">If you want to get some practical techniques to test your client\'s Pelvic function and mobility, download your FREE 4-sign screen &amp; release right now &gt;&gt;</a></span></em></p>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay Happy, Stay Positive Readers!</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<h3>Think Differently!</h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Become a <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biomechanics Coach™</a> today… Find out more, <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here.</a></span>\n\n&nbsp;','How A Simple Switch Of Language Can Foster Greater Results','','inherit','closed','closed','','1649-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1649,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38820',0,'revision','',0),(38821,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','<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?’','','inherit','closed','closed','','2287-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',2287,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38821',0,'revision','',0),(38822,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','<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?','','inherit','closed','closed','','1592-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1592,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38822',0,'revision','',0),(38823,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','<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','','inherit','closed','closed','','2286-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',2286,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38823',0,'revision','',0),(38824,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','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?','','inherit','closed','closed','','1534-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1534,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38824',0,'revision','',0),(38825,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have to be honest, the ‘weak’ core assumption is really quite frustrating for me as a fitness professional and yes I KNOW I have written about this before but hey, it’s been the hot topic like </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">forever!</span></i>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This obsession with doing ‘core stability’ work well is it really necessary? </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OR </span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IF it is then WHEN is it necessary? 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. Since it is a very subjective ‘assessment’ as so many things can be contributing to the way you stand/look.</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<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 test if your client has dysfunction in their pelvis? 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?','','inherit','closed','closed','','1519-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1519,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38825',0,'revision','',0),(38826,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','<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\'','','inherit','closed','closed','','2285-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',2285,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38826',0,'revision','',0),(38827,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','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..?','','inherit','closed','closed','','2284-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',2284,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38827',0,'revision','',0),(38828,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','<h3><b>Accuracy Of Diagnosis Is Only 15-20%</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back pain is as common as a headache, according to researchers in Australia; in fact, up to 80% of us will have back pain at some time in our lives, and rugby players are no exception.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent study also showed that if you see a GP with back pain, who then refers you to a specialist, who in turn sends you for X-rays and MRI scans, the accuracy of diagnosis is still only 15-20%, a frightening fact. Unfortunately, the principles of modern medicine mean that the medical profession cannot treat an injury without an accurate diagnosis, so there is little wonder that the incidence of back pain has doubled every decade for the last 30 years.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Long Term Back Pain</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can imagine, the problem is worse when you have suffered from back pain for some time, since when you have an injury for more than 6 weeks, another part of the body will start to compensate, giving rise to fresh pains as your condition deteriorates. So you can actually end up with more than one injury due to the mechanical compensations, which makes diagnosis even more difficult. Therefore, we need to shift the paradigm and look at back pain quite differently. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Can You Achieve Better Recovery Rates By Looking At The Mechanical Causes?</b></h3>\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1478\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/tulang-ngilu.jpg\" alt=\"tulang-ngilu\" width=\"450\" height=\"329\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biomechanics Coaches&#x2122; look at the mechanical causes of back pain, rather than focusing on the pain itself. They have found that they achieve better results by managing the biomechanical causes, than many in the medical profession achieve by treating the symptoms. In fact, independent research has shown that if you see a physiotherapist over a 6 week period for low grade back pain, the average improvement will be around 39% in functional capacity, which is the ability of your back to perform work (New England Journal 1998). If, however, you were to perform an exercise programme to manage the mechanical causes of your back pain, the average improvement would be around 141%, a profound difference and one that cannot be ignored. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>How Rugby Players Can Actually Help Their Own Back Pain</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This 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. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of 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\'ve 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. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3><b>Time To Get Practical: The 4-Sign Test</b></h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, let us look at one of the most important tests that we use, called the 4-sign test:</span>\n\n1) First, sit on a chair or stool and cross on ankle over the opposite knee.\n\n2) Relax the crossed knee down to a comfortable position\n\n3) To measure, look at 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.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1479\" src=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-13-at-10.57.16-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-01-13 at 10.57.16\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4) Now try the the other leg and see if there is a difference in knee height from the imaginary line, when you compare both sides.</span>\n\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\" />\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There should be symmetry between the two, with the right side’s range of movement the same as the left. If you have asymmetry, where one knee is higher</span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">than the other, there is an associated 4-sign exercise that will help improve this.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The asymmetry is caused because there is a muscle in the hip that is tight or in spasm, which can limit movement in the pelvis and, in turn, put more pressure on the back, causing pain. In addition, spasm in this muscle can increase the load on the hamstring, knee and calves, contributing to more injuries or compensations.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This simple exercise</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to reduce spasm in the pelvis, can help the muscle to move again, thereby taking the pressure off these structures. When trying out this 4-sign exercise, make sure you are gentle and do not work at it too hard, otherwise it can be counter-productive.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As with any new exercise you may experience some discomfort afterwards, although if this is low-grade muscle ache or stiffness that is not usually something to worry about, so keep going. If it is sharper or more severe, you may have overdone the exercise so be more gentle with the contraction next time; if it continues to be painful afterwards, stop the exercise. Should you have pain when you adopt the cross legged position, then simply lift the knee a couple of inches higher and that should take the pressure off. </span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You should find that, as you perform this exercise more frequently over the coming weeks, your knee falls lower as you cross your ankle. That should coincide with a reduction in pain or stiffness in the back or pelvis, both when running and during day-to-day activity. You may also find the 4-sign exercise helps with your playing style and tempo, so try it as part of your warm-up and cool-down regimes too.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move Freely,</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rachel@biomechanicseducation.com</span>','How To Reduce Your Own Back Pain: The Rugby Edition','','inherit','closed','closed','','2283-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',2283,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38828',0,'revision','',0),(38829,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','<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?','','inherit','closed','closed','','2280-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',2280,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38829',0,'revision','',0),(38830,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','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?','','inherit','closed','closed','','2279-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',2279,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38830',0,'revision','',0),(38831,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','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)','','inherit','closed','closed','','2278-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',2278,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38831',0,'revision','',0),(38832,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','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?','','inherit','closed','closed','','2277-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',2277,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38832',0,'revision','',0),(38833,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','<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','','inherit','closed','closed','','2276-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',2276,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38833',0,'revision','',0),(38834,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','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!','','inherit','closed','closed','','2275-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',2275,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38834',0,'revision','',0),(38835,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','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....?','','inherit','closed','closed','','2274-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',2274,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38835',0,'revision','',0),(38836,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','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!','','inherit','closed','closed','','2273-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',2273,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38836',0,'revision','',0),(38837,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','<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...?','','inherit','closed','closed','','1432-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1432,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38837',0,'revision','',0),(38838,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','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. I still have allot of that now to be honest so probably not a secret haha.\n\nStill just thinking about becoming a qualified Biomechanics Coach™?\n\nLet us know you are interested by <a href=\"https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/\">REGISTERING HERE</a> and we will send you an application form with no obligation!','Wanna Join The Cool Kids Table?','','inherit','closed','closed','','1443-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1443,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38838',0,'revision','',0),(38839,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','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?','','inherit','closed','closed','','1442-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1442,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38839',0,'revision','',0),(38840,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','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!?!?!”','','inherit','closed','closed','','1422-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1422,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38840',0,'revision','',0),(38841,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','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','','inherit','closed','closed','','1418-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1418,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38841',0,'revision','',0),(38842,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','<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?','','inherit','closed','closed','','1415-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1415,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38842',0,'revision','',0),(38843,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','<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?','','inherit','closed','closed','','1412-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1412,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38843',0,'revision','',0),(38844,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','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!','','inherit','closed','closed','','1409-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1409,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38844',0,'revision','',0),(38845,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','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!','','inherit','closed','closed','','1405-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1405,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38845',0,'revision','',0),(38846,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','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?','','inherit','closed','closed','','1402-revision-v1','','','2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','',1402,'https://biomechanicseducation.com/?p=38846',0,'revision','',0),(38847,0,'2024-07-16 11:26:35','2024-07-16 11:26:35','<b>What is it?</b>\n\n<b>Describing plantar fasciitis is easy: It\'s simply an inflammation of the fascia on the bottom of the foot.</b>\n\n<b>Getting rid of plantar fasciitis is hard!</b>\n\nCases of plantar fasciitis can linger for months at a time, with pain increasing and decreasing in an unpredictable pattern. 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. 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