But how, then how can I manipulate that?

And so the last strategy that you will have is some way to just try to stay inside your base of support on the right side. Yeah. And again, this is like how far forward are you? How hard do you have to screw yourself back into the ground so you don't tip over to the right? So again, from a timing standpoint, you'll be hard pressed to be later on the right than you would be alive because that's where the space is closing from that side, right? Yeah.

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What do we call the posterior lower compressive strategy they're younger?

Yeah.

Would that be of any benefit?

No, I'm with you. That's why we draw flat pictures because it does make it simple. So go ahead.

OK.

Yes.

Oh, okay. So here's what I want you to do, Matt. I want you to carry weight. I want you to walk up an incline and lean backwards and then tell me how great this goes.

Okay. But, but, but you brought, you brought the IR back to, to something that's a little bit closer to the average. Did you also reacquire the ER on that side?

Awesome. So if the distal tibia was slightly ER'd with the proximal tibia, move into ER. Yeah. Awesome. So now you know where you are relative, right? So you can see it coming up again. So I'm landing in the more ER representation. I'm about to go into a lot more IR, but okay.

Okay.

When you look at the back of the shoe, right? If you're looking at the shoe, oh, here we go. I'm looking at the side. I want to see this being vertical, right? Like the running shoe that has the big curve on the back. You know what I'm talking about? It looks like it's chopped off at an angle on the back. Those are the shoes they hit on the ground and it throws them forward very quickly. That's a late, that's a late propulsive shoe. Very useful under certain circumstances, right? But if I want to slow them down, I want a heel that's kind of squared off to the back because they land on that. And now this has to compress, that slows it down. That creates a yield right in the connector tissues, which is why what I wanted in the first place. Then I can worry about having an arch. It's not about feeling the arch. They already have one. I want the behavior to be represented.

Okay.

I won't disagree with you. We wanted to get her foot representation first. So she might have to actually put the right foot out in front of her first, but then I want to move that foot back. So I want to flip flop it. So she pushes down because where does the wide I say need to go first if she's over to the right?

Gotcha. What you're seeing is a progressive increase in the amount of internal rotation strategy. He's got to push harder. Okay. He doesn't have. So as you increase the load, okay. The amount of extra rotation that he has available is slowly disappearing. So he's got to shift more and more to the left. And then he's got to anteriorly orient more to create the downforce to push the weight up. So you're just seeing the increase in internal rotation strategy.

Yeah.

No.

Sometimes. So let me break up the foot. Let's do it this way. So when you think about where the expansions and compressions have to occur, as you go from an early representation through middle, so you've got a transition of expansion. So as you land in an early representation, the expansion is in that anterior compartment dorsum of the foot. And then as you translate across, I have to compress that space, and therefore the expansion would be towards the plantar aspect and posterior. So when you think about what is moving the slowest in this entire circumstance, it's like the tippy starts translating over the foot. So it's got to be going faster than the foot. So this is the slowest place that you're going to see, which means that two cool things. Volume of expansion is going to go in this direction. Turbulence is going to go in that direction as well. So when you think about fluid shifting and stuff like that, it's getting smushed back towards the heel because I have to slow that down the most. Turbulence will slow it down. Say again turbulence will slow it down absolutely it does right yeah because laminar flow would be would be a little easier a little bit smoother and so it does become turbulent and it's a little harder to picture because we're dealing with a lot of solids what appears to be solid stuff right but but that that is the reality is that when we talk about the the fluid within the tissues themselves. So they're getting squeezed back in that direction to slow the heel down.

Correct.

And then you measure hip internal rotation with the hip at what would be traditional zero degrees of extension.

I'm going to weigh in on that. So I think when I was previously considering range of motion, I was thinking of, let's say, if hip internal and external rotation were at 90 degrees as like a hallway, and I was gradually making each end of that hallway longer, as if I were literally creating more space or just repositioning the position where the limitation exists. Now I'm starting to think of it more as changing how much the platform moves side to side in a video game—if that makes sense. It's about how much we can move, or if it's like an elastic that can be pulled further and further in one direction and then the other. I'm just trying to figure out how much of a fixed thing it is versus how much it's adaptable. As I'm trying to understand, I'm wondering if that's what you mean when you say when we take measures, I'm not just measuring a hip, I'm measuring like the spine, I'm measuring other stuff. It's about how much the whole system can allow movement toward that direction, and it's more about capabilities than about an architectural—what I want to say is a physical fact that is present at all times.

There you go. And so now it's just a matter of queuing the knee orientation. In this case, it would be the elbow orientation. So you construct it the same way. You start with your foot, right? Your foot, and then your knee, and then your hip. Get it? I'm working on it. Do you understand that if you lock that elbow straight, you have constrained it into a position?

Okay. So depending on how you're executing this, you might just get pure scapular retraction, which is actually an anterior posterior compression, which will elevate the scapula on the thorax. Do you notice that when somebody kind of collapses in quadruped that they kind of look shruggy? That's because the scap is going superiorly relative to the axon skeleton. Okay. So that's the anterior, that's an anterior posterior compressive strategy.

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Very enlightening. Thank you.

So that's kind of what I was thinking. Like if he's continuing to go up into the right, like eventually he needs to get that foot back and that leg back to the ground just to put force into the ground.

Yeah.

So Relye, are you measuring the shoulder? Yes. So rely on your test to guide what you need. Chances are you're going to have external rotation orientation approximately here. Chances are. So you're probably right that you're going to need both anterior-posterior expansion. But again, trust your measurements. Don't guess. If you're measuring directly, you should be able to determine what you need to do first. Because if you reorient this to allow the anterior-posterior expansion and you get your external rotations and internal rotations back approximately, this might be gone.