SPEAKER_02 27:32–30:09
That's right. So two strategies to move: one plane, two strategies—expansion, compression—in the transverse plane. Because it's all rotations. The reason I eliminate these other straight planes is because, for instance, if I'm reaching forward, people say that movement is in the imaginary sagittal plane, that it's a straight plane. The only way you move through that space is to create rotations, and the resultant of my hand or arm being stable in a straight line is the production or cancellation of rotations that allows me to stay in that line. That's why that plane doesn't exist. There is no plane. We use those terms for conversation, but the reality is not that those straight planes are there. The problem is that people express these ideas as if those straight planes are reality and we are somehow fixed in them. Because we talk about humans being three-dimensional or four—I prefer four-dimensional because we have to include the time factor, the space-time continuum. But the point is, we are never moving in a straight plane. So let's not talk about them. Let's speak closer to reality: everything is a turn. Everything has a compressive or expansive element to produce the resultant. What we see is that resultant. If we need to give it a name to have a conversation, I'm okay with that. But let's not express ideas as if that's what's really happening, because that's what screws up the math when they try to calculate forces, and it screws up interventions when people think they have to push you into that straight line. It's like, well, how did that person push themselves into that straight line? Did they use external rotation or internal rotation? Then people get confused and say, 'Well, that's an internal rotation position.' And it's like, 'No, it's not. You're using external rotation or internal rotation to get there.' Then we are concerned about how you did it, because under some circumstances, if you do it a certain way, it works really well; if you do it another way, it hurts.
biomechanicsrotational movementsagittal planetransverse planeinternal/external rotation