Okay. Yeah.

So after you create the yield, you bring it back to the middle, right? So you, yes.

Okay, so what is the representation of the foot in regards to effectively blocking?

Gotcha.

Okay, yeah. Cause I was actually using myself as an example before I do this to people. And that's what I was feeling.

No relative motion is available because of the orientation of the sacrum. The sacrum is nutated, and the innominate bones are internally rotated. There is no turn there. But immediately on either side of that dead center middle is where I start to increase the relative motions. You remember the cones that I always draw—there's the golden cone that comes to the center where there's no motion. That's what's happening. So at a dead center middle, the external rotation and internal rotation are right on top of each other, creating the compressive strategy. Therefore, there is no motion there. But immediately on either side of that point, I have expansion and therefore relative motions. However, it's not full relative motion—it increases as I expand in either direction. Does that make sense?

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Yes, yes.

Well, if they're oriented anteriorly, yes. But I think that in the case of the first athlete, where you have more of the turning, now you're going to have to determine, it's like, do I need to bring them back first and then turn them? Or can I just turn them? So again, that's going to be your determination. My best guess would be the fact that the, because the first athlete's straight leg raise is limited on both sides, you're going to have to bring him straight back first. Most like, most like. OK. Just simply because it's like that's indicative of the fact. So, you know, they've got a lot of spinal orientation that's allowing them to access the internal rotation, but you don't have a straight leg raise. So that means you've got the posterior lower compressive strategy that you're going to have to resolve as well. OK. So posteriorly orient, reduce the posterior lower compressive strategy, and then you can probably make the turn.

I got to fire an intern.

70?

All right.

Oh, okay. That makes sense. Yes.

It is because, yes, but the reason it's compressed is because you've got a lot of concentric muscle activity in that posterior lower aspect of the pelvis that is basically taking away those spaces where those measures would naturally occur.

Simple mechanics, my friend.

I appreciate you. Oh my gosh. All right, man.

Yeah, sounds good. All right, man. All right. Have a great day. Yeah, you too.

Here's how I would use this. Let's just say that you sprained your right ankle and you're making your comeback in training. We want to start to induce changes of direction, but I want to protect and distribute the force rather than putting a really strong impulse through the ankle. I want to kind of distribute it a little bit. The fake throw allows me to distribute that force going into that internally rotated position where I would have the highest force production. So as I get closer and closer to maximum under those circumstances where the internal rotation is at its maximum and the force is at its maximum, I'm able to distribute that load. Does that make sense? I'm reducing the amount of stress in one place and I'm spreading it out over a bunch of area. It's like, you've seen parkour, right? Okay. So they jump off of something really, really high. They hit and they roll. If they would try to stick the landing under those circumstances, their legs would explode because the force would go to zero so fast. The tissues would get so stiff and they would literally just explode. So what they do is they dampen. They land, they bend their knees, they bend their ankles, and then they hit, and then they roll, and then they're distributing the load over a longer period of time. The entire system absorbs the stress, and they distribute it more evenly throughout the body rather than putting it in one spot, which would cause destruction. So a fake throw is the same concept. It's like, I know I'm going to slow down as I go into it so I can dampen those forces and spread them out.

Let's see what happens when you do two feet on the ground and test them. Determine if that's either a good thing or a bad thing. If you find that a bilateral symmetrical activity is not painful while a split stance activity is painful, reducing the amount of rotation may help. Making the stance symmetrical reduces the amount of rotation available. You can still fulfill the goal of creating relative motion. Alternatively, you can induce movement from the top down to create rotation without offsetting the feet as in a split squat. You can perform bilateral symmetrical activities with turning movements like cable chops, lifts, presses, or turns. This approach allows you to create relative motion while protecting someone from aggravating their original constraint.

Yeah, I think like, I appreciate it. It's nice to like hear that because I guess it's just like a perspective shift and something like I've definitely gotten better at and just kind of like what you're saying, like accepting that like there's just things that are out of our control. But like it's still, it's a tough pill to swallow sometimes. It's like, you know, you get into this field like to help and then it's tough. It's tough when you can't or it's, you're not getting the desired outcome that you want.

Yeah. So that's like, you need the external rotation somewhere. So you got it with the grip. Sure. You could, it's part of it.

So assuming that you can capture the shoulder range of motion and the hip range of motion that is required, you're going to want to slowly move into positions that will favorably influence the up pump handle. You want to make sure that you're maintaining that. Quadruped activities are really good for that, especially arms-supported activities, and then working towards the inverted position. This will be a situation where your hips are higher than your shoulders and you're propped through the arms. The great thing about that is it flip-flops the airflow. The lungs fill from the bottom up when you're standing upright, like a glass of water. But if I turn you upside down, gravity helps us fill the upper part. That's going to be one of those things that will be a staple for you in some of your movement activities. Eventually, when you start to recapture this stuff consistently, you want to turn this into dynamic activity. Old school gym class stuff is going to be your long-term friend—bear crawls, things like that. Again, where your hips are a little higher than your shoulders, you're loading through the extremities and you're capturing that early propulsive position through the shoulder girdle and through the upper thorax. Does that make sense?

Okay.

Makes perfect sense. I have since the beginning of the year, gravitated away from doing the tests frequently. There's no perfect process, but I think it's really useful. It seems to me that it's very useful when you start working with somebody or just every once in a while, especially if they're somebody in pain, to do the full battery of tests as long as they appear to be on board with that direction. But I have noticed that the more you do them with a specific person, the more you start to see what's going on. And it just relates across context. So that's good to have that confirmation.

How would you progress somebody who is to compress both A to P to be able to do something like that?

Well again, I'm just using the shoulder as an example. It could be anything. It doesn't matter what diagnosis that you're talking about. We could talk about sprained ankles, and you could say, when you have swelling in the sinus tarsal, what you have now is a foot that is biased towards external rotation, which is why you see the electromechanical delay in the lateral compartment of the lower leg. You have eccentric orientation of musculature based on the position. This is why we can't reacquire dorsiflexion.

Okay. At what level? Early in the high school, late in the high school.

What you want to do is you want to understand that you have to struggle for this stuff. It's like, yeah, I can lay out a cookbook for you, but it's going to fail.

Damn straight. Okay. Do you think you can spot that one from across the room?

That's because you can't stop putting pressure. It's a hard curve.