No.

As the scapula is moving through its traditionally referred to upward rotation, and if I have constant orientation of the dorsal rostral, where am I promoting expansion to allow that arm to move through internal rotation? So as you're raising the arm, the scapula, okay. Like I said, traditionally they'll say that the scapula upwardly rotates. That creates concentric orientation of dorsal rostral. You'd agree with that. OK, cool. So where would the expansion be occurring that allows me to move through this part of the reach where the scapula is actually moving? Where would I expand? Interiorly. Perfect. Okay, so that would be kind of like if I was in that quadruped position, so now I got posterior lower expansion I've got anterior expansion on the front side that gets me through that middle range, would you agree? Yeah, awesome. Okay. So to go higher. Right, to go up higher, so above this level, okay, what do I need to expand? The dorsal rostrum. Okay. If I'm going to do it in external rotation, that is correct. Okay. If I'm not able to access external rotation at the top of the overhead reach, that is what I would need. Okay. How do I get that?

And just as I was watching also your video on the elbow valgus presentation, is this the same as the ulnar nerve hypermobility presentation?

It's really interesting how similar it is to walking. It is walking.

So look at the concept of dynamic correspondence. This concept comes from way back before you were born. What it does is it's kind of talking about this: here's what we don't want to do. We don't want to necessarily try to duplicate an activity in another environment because then it doesn't really work. But there are certain similarities. There are positions where you would apply a higher magnitude of force. There are positions where the location would be the same. There are positions where the duration would be the same. Each time you match up some of those elements, then there is something that is useful that will transfer from one activity to another. Just because it looks the same doesn't guarantee that it's going to work.

Where are you seeing that?

Okay.

So basically, when I do a supine arm bar, I would be going from early to middle at the shoulder joint. Let's say potentially. And then the sideline equivalent, let's say, would be going from middle to late at the hip.

Bill, so I got some questions about posterior expansion. I've seen you use exercises like the dorsal rostral and the band pull apart to get some like dorsal rostral expansion.

ER goes up and out. IR goes down and in. If I see something go down and in, that is somebody that is trying to produce force. And so it's under the circumstances that you're describing where it's a position that we tend to not like. That's probably a compensatory strategy to produce the IR. So you'll see the arch of the foot get closer to the ground, you'll see the knee track in, you'll see that side of the pelvis anteriorly orient, and you'll see the spine turn in the direction that the knee is going. That's IR, that's a systemic representation of IR. Like you got a lot of stuff in play there. But it's somebody that is trying to produce force into the ground under those circumstances.

You see I'm getting that. But what if that's what it takes and just people aren't willing to do it? Like, you're giving them the best program, the best strategy. And you say, and they go, how long is this going to take? It's going to take you six years, three hours a day. They go, screw that. I'll just live with it. Good morning. Happy Tuesday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. Okay, well, Tuesday, big clinic day. We're gonna dig straight into today's Q&A. This is a question from Borey, and she's working with someone that was diagnosed with an inguinal hernia. But based on the signs and symptoms and the findings, I'm not too concerned that that is necessarily the case. And so I think what we have in this Q&A is more of a positional pressure and tension related problem. But the equinole area tends to be one of those areas that gets confusing for people because I think they're looking at it differently. And I got a pseudo equinole ligament here. that I've constructed. And this thing is going to have tension on it. It's going to get compressed and it's going to twist along with the shape change that's associated with the pelvis. And if we look at what's attached to it, now we say, oh, we have eccentric orientation under certain circumstances for this muscle. We have concentric orientation for another. So we've got this interplay of the obliques under those circumstances. And again, based on the shape change, so if we widen that space, we're going to put more tension in the inguinal ligament. As we get compression and expansion in the anterior aspect of the pelvis, we're gonna see a twisting of it. So we make a reference to like twisting a towel so you can sort of unsee the twisting and the untwisting under those circumstances. So this will be a really good Q&A for those of you that have questions in regards to things like inguinal hernias, sports hernias, groin issues, pubalgias and things like that. So thank you, Bori, for the question. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhardtman at gmail.com, askbillhardtman at gmail.com, put 15-minute consultation in the subject line so I don't delete it. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Tuesday and we'll see you tomorrow.

Yeah, when determining the position of the foot, I should help myself with the helical angle. So maybe a narrow has more space front to back while the wide has more from side to side.

Yeah, I understand. I just didn't know how to differently describe the presentations.

My question is, sort of an open-ended question. So I work with a lot of middle school athletes and one in particular, which I've been working with for over a year now. Some things have kind of caught my attention. When I watch them train, when I watch them move, I see a lot of compression strategies across the structure. So a lot of internal rotation, pronation at the feet and the hips and the knees and the lumbar spine, et cetera. That doesn't worry me at all. He's a pretty athletic little kid, but he's small for his age. He hasn't hit puberty or anything like that. And we just do very basic strength training, pushes, pulls, and obviously a lot of like jumping and med ball throwing and sprinting and everything that a kid's going to need for athletic development at that age. But my question comes in as when I see a lot of these strategies taking place, I just wonder how much his structure is adapting to do that at that young of an age and like how important is giving him the opposite end of the spectrum like variability from an expansion standpoint because there's no hormones in that body to produce muscle yet or at least not enough and increase force production and things like that that we use training for. So I wonder if over the long term I could be having some negative effects over time. I'm not saying that like doing the strength training is bad, right? But everything has a cost. So I just wonder how, you know, going about training middle schoolers in that sense, like, what is training the opposite end of the spectrum look like? And is it even necessary?

So when we go to middle, you're going to have to have a lot of bend in the hip, aren't you? All right. What if I bend the hip too soon before she has access to that motion?

No.

You're not old enough to own your own refrigerator.

Yeah. What, well, what was that? You gave me a peace sign or is that a two? No, because he did. Oh, he did double. Yeah, he did double. He paid the price for that one. But aside from that point. But again, it's like he was very, very wide as as a human being, but and again had enough structure that didn't really matter where he was capable of producing that type of pressure. Right. So again, you're looking at this from a multifactorial standpoint. But the rules are pretty straightforward. It's like he who produces most pressure wins as far as force production goes. So again, if I have a skeletal structure that allows higher force production, I can superimpose a ton of muscle mass on top of that. I can squeeze the bejesus out of it. I'm going to produce more force. Right. So the basic rule, even in the literature, you know, we go into the scientific literature and you look at the influence of cross-sectional area and force production, it stands to reason that the more cross-sectional area that I do have, my force production is higher.

mechanics to deal with here as to how you're going to load the Achilles. So obviously loading it in a bent knee versus a straight knee orientation is not going to be the same. Is that kind of what we're getting at?

Right. I can't bring it back all the way. So I'm not, because I already know I'm not going to have that hip extension. It's normal that they don't because of the anterior tilt, but at that certain point, if I started to bring down to test adduction, their knees are going forward.

Okay, so in its simplest representation, what are we trying to move to create that space? Like where do I need expansion to create that space?

Next, I have to create a distributed yielding action, which would be early propulsion.

Can you visualize the delivery stride?

You think you're pushing?

Thank you.

Yes. So can we talk about where the delay strategies would happen, like upper or lower? So let's just say I'm on my side.

Got you. So, the pitching coach has been trying a couple of things here and there and hasn't been so successful. I've been working with these players a little bit here and there. So I kind of have an idea of what's going on, but want to see if this makes sense as to why they're jumping.

So the first step would be to bring that back.

Awesome. Well, I appreciate it.

Thank you Kyle. I got to run to my next call. I appreciate you man.