Yeah.

I remember when we were talking about the exercise similarity between a rack split squat and a rack split squat and a suitline cross-connect. When we were talking about the rack split squat, we were talking about an ipsilateral load rack split squat. And that's corresponding to if we're using that right foot supine cross connect, this would be the right foot forward rack. And this just by its very nature of the right foot being forward, that would be a progression of the supine cross connect.

All right. So it would be the width and the curvature. It would be wider.

Yes.

Okay.

Yeah, more load.

And then I start to push you forward on the right. It may look like you're turning left because you're compressing that side relative to some imaginary starting point. You're not really twisting back to the left. You're just going forward as you go forward and to the right, so you're going to the right. The right side is pushing forward. So everything's moving to the same place. So if this side was forward and this side was back initially, and as you go to the left, this side goes forward. It looks like you're turning this way.

No. No, they're just gonna, so they're gonna, did you say left side to ER? Yeah, left side into ER.

If someone's stuck in a conditioning representative of a certain phase of the gait cycle, would it be possible that there's more fluid and part of it affecting visually what I would see? And would I, is it like visually obvious?

Okay, so what you want is the ability to distribute this yield, and then change muscle orientation in the middle and then use the lay. So I still got to go early, middle, lay. Okay. She's already got a late representation that you know that she's probably going to be able to capture. I just don't want her to get so biased in one direction that that's all she does. So you've captured early. Now you got to teach her how to change muscle orientation, restore normal connective tissue behaviors in that middle representation where the higher force is going to be applied, right? Okay. So you always want to make sure that she can recapture her earlys and then you got to start moving her towards middle. Now she's narrow, I say, correct?

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

Yes. Thank you.

Yeah. Cool.

Hang on. So let's follow his shirt. Let's just keep shoving him to the right.

Excellent. What would happen to the space below it? It would expand. Okay, so relatively speaking, it would expand. So this is an IR representation, correct? So let's look at this for a second. Look at the pelvis for a second in its IR representation, okay?

Yeah, I was just wondering. So I'm guessing first you need AP expansion and then.

Okay, so how do you do manual therapy? I don't. Okay, but you can, if you understand the principles associated with, okay, how do I need to change shape, what shapes do I need, and then you can actually select a rolling behavior because, again, all manual therapy is an applied sensory input. And so in many cases, many of the strategies that would use from a manual therapy perspective are just compressive or expansive. And so there you go, guess what? Now you have a way that you can actually influence the shape of somebody to allow them to move more effectively. Again, understanding how these strategies are applied, use the ground and use gravity and you use the mushy stuff that people are made out of that allows them to change shapes. So now you do have a way to influence this. So again, it's an adjunct to what I already do. So if I'm applying a manual therapy to someone that is useful and successful and buys us a window of opportunity for us to change their movement behaviors in a favorable way, I can't follow them home. I suppose I could, but it'd be kind of weird. But so I need a way for them to produce this input that they would have maybe difficulty with on their own. And I can use a rolling behavior to influence that favorably, have them create their own window of opportunity, and then maybe make another activity or exercise even more effective in this process. And so we can accelerate this thing. So again, it alleviates me of some of the limitations that are associated with this isolated treatment that I might do in the treatment room, and then they can take this home. And then, like I said, they have a similar strategy. What we're going to do then is we're going to have to identify what this behavior needs to be. And this is going to determine what type of rolling we're going to do. And so this could be like forward rolls, shoulder rolls, backward rolls, partial rolls, movements from middle propulsion outward, movements from early, movements from late. And so again, each one of these strategies can be applied based on the patient or the client's needs under those circumstances. So you want to distinguish between upper and lower?

But as far as conceptually, you're promoting positions that are similar. That may allow you to transfer the access to relative motion to another activity. Which, again, I'm fine with, but you do have to understand that when there's another element of force such as magnitude or velocity that you're adding, you are affecting the differences in connected tissues. Because you've altered rate of loading. That's a biggie. You've altered the magnitude and then you've also altered the frequency of loading. But you have to take all of those things into consideration. You say, oh, this is the same. Well, it's not the same, but it's similar.

And I think she's losing that would also be a safe statement.

Yeah, yeah. And those people who usually just come below their knees and stop, if I think about it now, those are the people that have zero posterior weight shift. I usually see that and it makes sense now.

Okay, okay. Now I see it.

Yes, that totally makes sense. I've been thinking a lot about the gradient aspect over the last couple of weeks, but that's a whole topic in itself.

Well, so here's the thing from a learning perspective. When you think you understand something and you're looking through a very specific lens, a viewpoint, understand that it's one viewpoint. And the more ways that you can see it, the more solutions you can create and the greater your understanding of all of those influences. Because it's never one of them. It's never one.

Then theoretically, if all these things are ready to place up, we just discussed before, restoring better adaptability and restoring that universal expansion, would you expect the spaces between the joints to increase at least a little bit to get a bit more fluids in it?

I'm just wondering what you described when setting up someone, let's say in a split squat position.

Yeah.

I create a structure that allows me to do that. For example, I have a physical structure to my two-week schedule. This is my easy weekend, a recovery weekend where I do planning and organization and have more time for things I enjoy. I do some of these calls, which are fun, and work on the creative side of things, like drawing and thinking through enjoyable concepts. I have blocks for clinic time, other business time, writing time, and reading time. Then there are blocks for personal activities with my wife or my dog or whatever I like to do. The key is to plan and adjust when energy is low. That's how you know to make changes—when the structure no longer fits. The mistake many people make is feeling they have no choices. We actually have choices that influence outcomes; we just need to pay attention. Most people reach the end of the week exhausted without reflecting on how they could have saved energy along the way.