It is absolutely a loss of relative motion because, again, you have segments that are moving together. Relative motion is when segments move relative to one another instead of moving together as a single unit.

It'll look that way. It's a little less painful than taking away the imaginary sagittal planes and frontal planes. The one thing you have to recognize is our human structure is all based on helical angles. It's a spiral, okay? We are just a series of spirals. If you go all the way down to the smallest collagen fiber, it is a spiral helical orientation. On the larger scale, you are a spiral helical orientation, okay? So under those circumstances, there would be no front, back, side, side, okay? There's only, which is why I only talk about one plane. And I can take that one away too, if you really wanted to, I could take that one off the plate, okay? But I won't do that, because I know it's really painful, okay? But the way that Hela sees work is when they compress, they turn inward on themselves, and so the spirals will overlap and they will compress and they will push down. They will result in a downward force. That's intro rotation. So intro rotation is down. Okay, extra notation then by opposition is as this spiral expands it goes up and so it moves away from earth. So what we have is if I'm turning inward I'm going down if I'm turning outward I'm going up so when we talk about propulsion. So propulsion. The way we move through space, we only go forward, right? So that's propulsion, okay? But we also have to apply forces into the ground. And so that's why the IR bias is always inexistent through the propulsive phase of anything that we're doing because we have to push, we have to push down because everything else is pushing up to meet us, right? That was Newton's third law, right? So equal and opposite. So that's the true definition for me for intro rotation is a force application downward. And then for the extra rotation, it is the expansion upward. So it's down, compress, up, expand.

Yeah, it's, I mean, I've never, being in the athletic space, dealt with it to this severity. I don't, I mean, she's obviously able to play and all of that without too many issues. So it's obviously not super severe, but it's very apparent just even to the naked eye. Yeah. I mean, I have a bunch of pictures and videos.

Well, okay, but you've played sports.

And so, again, do you see how all of these parameters come into play now? It's not one. You can't just say, 'Oh, medicine balls are for this.' It's like, no, you have to say what kind of medicine ball throw, what direction am I throwing it in, how am I absorbing that momentum? Right. All of those things come into play.

A deadlift would be very, very useful or jumping activities would be very, very useful with a symmetrical stance because this is where I need the highest force production. Good morning. Happy Wednesday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Well, It is Wednesday, and that means that tomorrow morning is the Coffee and Coaches Conference Call Thursday, 6 a.m. Please join us. These calls have been great. We're getting a bunch of regular showing up, so the questions are getting deeper and deeper and deeper. More situational as to how we're applying the model. So these have been really, really good. So please join us for that. IFSU folks, we got the SplitSquad practical up last night. So please check that out. I am digging through the applications for the Intensive 12. Definitely not my favorite thing to do. I want everybody to be able to come. But unfortunately, we gotta keep it small. Otherwise, it would be the intensive, right? So, hanging there, I already got a couple of people already pulled out that I'm gonna be inviting. So, be on the lookout for that. I'm gonna hopefully get that done this week. All right, today's Q&A is with Nick. Nick is a cricket bowler, so we're breaking down throwing mechanics. So even if you don't play cricket, You're going to see a lot of things that are very similar to most of the other throwing sports where we're breaking down phases of propulsion. We're actually looking at a couple of things that may affect your velocity in regards to throwing. So if you work with throwers on any level, whether you're a sport coach or whether you're on the strength and conditioning side, I think you'll find this interesting. So, enjoy that. Make sure you go to the YouTube channel and subscribe so you can get all of the videos. And it's searchable, obviously, so you can look for things very specifically. Have a great Wednesday. I will see you all tomorrow morning, 6 a.m., on the Coffee and Coaches Conference call. Have a great day. We are recording and the timer has started. What is your question, Nick?

You get those short-term wins.

Yeah, I'm sure.

Excellent. I'll see you on the coffee call.

Okay.

I've got a client that presents quite similarly to a photo that you put up in one of the IFAS university calls. It was a photo from Ireland. I don't know if you remember it. It was a guy who had quite a lot of concentric orientation in his left hamstring and quite a late propulsive left foot. And I've got a client with a similar presentation. My goal is trying to reduce the stiffness and tightness in the left hamstring. They're really struggling to get around that and move on from that problem at the moment. So I wonder if there's anything you could help with.

Oh, interesting. Okay.

Yeah. Because then you're not interfering. You don't want to create interference. You want to help them. Right. That's why you're doing this. I'm assuming that's what you're doing.

Okay. So now we know the proximity. Now, who do you need to talk to that's going to make the decision whether a kid trains with you or not?

We can use supported activities to help promote and maintain expansion as they're learning how to lower their center of gravity. So we talk about level changes with our athletes. We've got the same situation with our elderly population. So we'll start with extremities supported type activities. We'll move to single-leg supported activities as well to eventually where we go to an unsupported situation and then we're going to play with stances or we're going to put them in staggered stance and we'll put them in a side split or whatever we may want to do and just work on that, working from static positions towards dynamic. You know I'm gonna talk about a box squat here. So when we talk about level changes, box squats are the best thing going because we can actually start to manage some of these internal pressures that we always talk about. And we just started from a higher box and we slowly bring them down to the lower box to eventually this becomes just the old school get up and go. So they're gonna come up from the box, they're gonna get up and they're gonna try to move as quickly as they can across the room. Now, one of the things that we do with athletes is we want to teach them how to use an oscillatory impulse. So they have to learn how to create the compression expansion compression strategies as well, because that's how they're going to produce force. So this doesn't change. So we would use something a little bit more high velocity, a little bit more load, a little bit more challenging stance. What we're going to do with our elderly folks is we're going to start them in these static positions with variations in stance, but we're still going to use the release move. So they're going from compression to expansion to compression again. So this is a great way to introduce this. It does challenge their balance. They have to bring themselves back to a controlled center of gravity. So again, very, very valuable here. Once they've demonstrated all of these things, now we're just going to take away as many constraints as we can. And we want to start to build some speed. And so the easiest way to do this is to unweight them just a little bit. So we're gonna use like a banded step up here and we're gonna work on some of the velocity. So a quick step, the step up makes it a little bit easier, reduces some of the forces that they'll have to absorb. The band pull down reduces some of the gravity as well, allows them to expand a little bit more effectively, which will allow them to demonstrate this velocity. And then like I said, we just move them to the ground and we start to throw like a multi-directional stepping or multi-directional lunging progression at them.

So under these circumstances, I actually have the same orientation in the thorax as I do in the pelvis. And so when we look at the shoulder measures now, so if we look at the chess board, we've got a lot of internal rotation deficit on the left side, and most likely, we're going to have an external rotation deficit on that right side. Now, why doesn't it measure that way on the table? So as he lays back on the table, because of the orientation, he's going to fall back into the right. And so what that does is it magnifies our external rotation measure. So we always have to be aware of what the constraint is that we're measuring against. So pay attention to that. So how are we going to undo this thing? So we have a right oblique axis. So we know we've got to be pushing back on this left oblique. We might need a place to go here because if we look at, again, the pelvis as a representation, I'm going to have some concentric orientation here that's going to hang on to this ilium of the sacrum as I tip on that axis. So I've got to be careful here and I might need to address that first. So what we may have to do is go into a hook lying position to address that and sort of build this from the ground up. So I'm going to create a yielding strategy on the left side and I'm going to push that right side forward potentially in hook lying. If I can move to other positions that are going to keep the shoulder in a non provocative position. So I want to be below that 90 degrees where I'm typically in a field of discomfort. Then maybe I can use some form of posterior lower expansion activities. I can use my supine cross connect which I just love because that actually uses the compensatory strategy on the right side to create us some expansion on the left side and recapture the position of this ischial tuberosity. So I've got to pull this ischial tuberosity back down and so that supine cross connect allows us to do this. As I work on this person, I want to make sure that I'm maintaining this left posterior expansion and starting to drive the right side forward. One of the easier ways for me to do this actually is to roll them to their left side and create a middle propulsive activity. I can throw a right reaching activity on top of that and that's going to help me create this actually posterior left diagonal that I'm going to need to offset the right oblique axis tilt. This can eventually become a right arm bar activity. But again, I want to start in these non-provocative positions to start.

So you want to move on.

From an impact standpoint, obviously we've been around for 11 years. You don't pull that off by accident. And so I think it has fallen to you to evolve that. Where did we do the right thing that we're here having this conversation 11 years after the fact when we both kind of suck at business?

The worst thing you could do would be to drive anything effortful. If you ask them to move, they're going to use every muscle that they have at the same time. So think about this. We talked about this with Dante with the orientation where you just get this progressive reduction of relative motions like this is one of those people that's at the end of all of their relative motions. You have nothing to work with; you have to create the gradient. And so that's what you're going to have to do. This is boring, slow, methodical, annoying type of therapy, right? Because you can't pull them out of it. You can't stretch them out of it. Like you don't want to yank and pull on things. All they do is feel miserable. And so everything you're doing is about getting the reduction of constant orientation. So these are your soft tissue techniques. But if you go back to neuro in school and they talk about the rotational oscillations to reduce the neurologically driven muscle tone, guess what? It works under all circumstances of increased muscle activity. And so that's basically what you're going to try to do, but you're going to have to do it in small doses in segments, because if you try to do a global lazy roll with these people, they are just going to lock everything together. And they don't have any of that segmental capabilities. And then hopefully you get to the point where they do start to sense this tension, and then you can actually teach them something to follow up with at home. But you're probably going to be spending more manual time here, just teaching them how to down-regulate the muscle activity.

Both of them are in E-R.

They might have a compressive strategy on the medial ankle under that circumstance. Yes. And then depending on how much compression you have, you have your medial plantar nerve that's right there. So that can get compressed. It gets misdiagnosed a lot as plantar fasciitis because again, it's kind of in the general vicinity. And then people always talk about heel sensitivity and things like that. But it turns out to be medial plantar nerve. And you can create a straight leg bias for that.

Yes. Okay. All right.

I've drawn it many times. You probably watched my video, haven't you?

Right.

They move, but it's eight hours where the subconscious is doing what it is used to do. So I thought maybe there is a way.

Okay, so here's what you did. You bent her knee that doesn't bend and she's trying to bend a toe that doesn't bend. You get the same orientation in the foot as you got through the lower extremity. Now, you got a favorable response when you went posterior lower on the hip. Did you do the foot? So that's why I'm stuck. Where do you have to go on the foot to allow the femur to move towards internal rotation? Femur to move towards internal rotation. Yes, so you're free to post to your lower center of gravity move back. She got a little bit of expansion on the anterior side of the pelvis and the hip turned in. So I need a foot that can do that too, because what's happening is I have an ear foot and then I'm seeing literally the breakdown of a joint that is in a position where it shouldn't bend at all. And I am twisting the knee. So you have a leg that's trying to be a stick in the ground and you're making it bend. She's making her foot bend. That's why she's got a bunion. You made her knee bend, which is why she felt that horrible stretch on her quad. So you have proximal internal rotation in the hip. That's favorable to promote a measure of change that gives you some freedom of motion at the knee, but you still can't force it because you probably don't have the knee orientation right yet. Now, if we go to the foot, we have to do the same thing that you did at the hip to the foot. What part of the foot is not moving relative to another part of the foot? So here's where she's trying to move.

Good morning. Greetings.

Absolutely. So for that sloshing, how would you recommend, is that like a plyo step kind of idea where you're creating some eccentric orientation in the lower posterior outlet kind of deal?

Yes. Yeah. When we do like, like kettlebell squat cleans, like the drop, you know, drop that. Is that in the same vein?

Well, I'm not on the ground for rolling as far as like learning how to roll. Would you start somebody like that on the ground with that much muscle?