Clarify that, clarify that.

That's, then that's your responsibility. And so nothing, you have nothing to do. You have nothing. So, okay. So here you go, Johnny. Patient comes to you and you do something with them and then they feel better afterwards. Patient comes to you, you do something with them and they feel worse afterwards. Which one do you have responsibility for?

Yeah, you're gonna take them through the whole thing. What you're also gonna have to do most likely though is you're gonna have to drive the delay strategy in the upper thorax as well. Because chances are you're gonna have to get ankle, pelvis, thorax, at least, at least. Because if he's still driving himself forward in the thorax, you get too much weight bearing too quickly through the foot. So you basically just need to create the delay all the way up. Or yielding strategy first, and then moving through in a less weighted representation.

Now, do you think there is an equivalent for the squat and deadlifts of this example?

Right, they need, some people need, it kind of works the same way with squat suits where you need to like a certain amount of weight to create like a yield.

The last activity I gave her yesterday, just this one little thing, felt good to her. I propped her knees up and it was a rock back with elevated breathing. She said it felt like the neck wasn't kicking in at all. I was trying to expand her posteriorly.

And that's internal rotation and it is maximum internal rotation. Again, we have to look at this thing distributed through the entire movement system. We can't just say hip internal rotation. We have to say internal rotation because anterior orientation is internal rotation, forward head is internal rotation, thorax tilted forward is internal rotation. You see it?

So it's turning me into external rotation.

Cool.

I've always been tilted to my right, and I've been doing kettlebell carries on my right. I've been trying to understand what I need to do with my foot, but I don't have as much dorsiflexion on my right side as I do on my left. I don't have as much hamstring leg extension on my right side, and I do have it on my left side more. I did suffer some pain on my left adductor, and on my right side, I cannot yield back as much as I count on my left side. I've had this tilt for a long time.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

So let's make the comparison between what we do and MMA. When you go way back to the first UFCs, when Gracie won three out of the first four and nobody knew how to defend Brazilian jiu-jitsu, all you had to do was get your hands on someone to eventually choke them out. It's the same thing. So after someone got their butt handed to them by Gracie, they would ask, 'I'm a boxer, but show me how to get out of this position or how to avoid it.' That's how mixed martial arts evolved. Then everyone latched onto Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Then the standup fighters came back, and now you see tie-ups and fighters throwing elbows and knees. It's just this evolution of techniques being superimposed, eventually creating a mixed version. We're the same way. You'll notice hot topics in training that everyone gravitates toward, then gets overemphasized, and then people move away from them saying, 'I don't need to do that.' But these things are important and useful when understood properly. Now we're going back to a model perspective. It's like having different models and figuring out how to integrate all that. Some integration comes through trial and error, some through experience, and some through recognizing how all our stuff works together—what's the commonality, how are things produced, how do we actually behave, and where does each piece fit? Rather than just doing a rehab-ish exercise without understanding its purpose, you have to know how it integrates into everything else. That's why I emphasize having a framework to work from—a model. We don't understand the full complexity of everything, so we need a model. But you must always ask: is there another way? Keep asking the right questions. For example, when you put someone on the ground, why are you doing it? Do you have a reason, or are you just doing what everyone else does? That usually happens. I think it's part of the evolution. But if we ask more questions about how we do things from the start, rather than just adopting systems, we can figure out what works. I can say this fits into that category, this fits into another category, and now I have a big bowl of mixed tools rather than just boom, boom, boom—which is what everyone does. Everyone gets excited about the latest thing, but it's not different. Every time you do something, you need a reason. Every time you get an outcome, try to rationalize why it happened or why it didn't. What did I do wrong? Did I pick the wrong exercise? Did I give a bad cue? This makes it process-oriented. But you must recognize that no matter what you do, you don't have the ultimate answer—you have an answer, but there's probably something better. That keeps it exciting and interesting. I'm more interested in what I do now than ever before, even after 30 years as a PT. You just have to accumulate knowledge and recognize it's a process.

Hey, do you play a musical instrument? Yes. What do you play?

That would bend the bone.

Are you needing an unweighted representation?

Because I still have to get the IR that's directly below my center of gravity, which you can't.

Yeah, OK, yeah.

So you do like a whole shoe lift.

Yes.

So there's my expansion. There's my compression that comes after it. And then there's the new delay right there. You see it? All we're doing is pushing this volume, the expansion that way. See, this is the IR going down.

I think you have some options. I think the question mark is like, what's the potential?

Okay.

Pretty darn quick.

Just twisting, twisting on the table, spawn.

And then so it does this, right? You see the orientation? The orientation, I say it's underneath the compensatory strategy because those are the forces that are driving this forward. The orientation we would see associated with the pelvic position for a wide ISA is going to start there. As we start to push it forward, this segment goes, then this segment, then this segment, then this segment. The way you alleviate the compensatory strategies is reverse engineering the sequence in which they were layered upon. If you're just talking orientation, it's going to be reverse engineered. So as I'm working on the pelvis, like my head is here thinking, 'I got to reduce these strategies.' I'm reducing the orientation into reverse sequence.

Well, they're hiding their assigning bonus. Good morning. Happy Thursday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect.

So I started thinking this week because we talk about the hip and the shoulder being the same thing. Basically, right? Yes. So I'm sure there are activities we would do to realign the shoulder, the elbow, and the wrist. Right. And I understand closed chain and working with the hip, the femur, and the tibia, but I was a little confused about how I would address that with the shoulder, the elbow, and the wrist. What type of movements or exercises would we do to address that? I was trying to understand that.

Yeah, good call.

Well, it redirects. I mean, it helps the wave move up and down the leg and it helps the knee rotate in a certain way.