I'm thinking like a right knee forward split squat. I'm creating a very specific circumstance for explanation.

You can. But here again, the issue that you're going to run into is you don't want them to separate their knees. It's not about the squeeze, right? It's not about squeezing it. It's about not separating the knees. You've seen me do the heel salivated squat with the band around your knees.

Like a low oblique or a high oblique sit.

Top down on the right, bottom up on the left, correct?

Yeah. It doesn't work that way.

Okay. Your head is free to move separately. So let's make sure that we, there you go.

Yeah. You've got to think about this, dude. You've got a combination of factors there. You've got people that are going to do whatever it takes to assume a position that puts the weight in a space that they can hold it overhead, right? And so, but again, this is where you get to be the great coach and you go, okay, I'm willing to accept that technique under these circumstances. And then I'm willing to do so otherwise, right? You're gonna do everything that you can to make sure that obviously people are doing things in a safe and effective manner because I know that you're a good coach. But yeah, you're gonna see stuff like that. Especially think about this. somebody misses their groove by whatever degree and they're gonna move wherever they have to go underneath the weight to make sure that they capture it so they get their score, right? Otherwise, miss lift.

I feel like with a lot of my athletes, I see it's even more exaggerated than we talked about, just the shoulder measures, the weight of the extremity. One more, but like a lot and they just, their left shoulder, I just flopped straight down to 90.

Down to the grounded foot. So the left foot was up on a box and then the right foot was grounded, correct? That one.

I see. And typically you'll be able to capture the full foot.

Right.

Yeah, it's like, thank you everybody for my public unpacking of my own mind type of thing.

So it's in the front?

It shouldn't be. You're absolutely right. Because the minute you search for easy, okay. What's your educational background?

Do you have a patient with a stroke right now?

All right, like after a precise session she said that she had a depressed malleolus, the medial malleolus kind of depressed or collapsed. And when you look at her feet, it's kind of like you almost feel like you're ready to see the balloon pop with the fluid just dripping immediately. So now I'm like, okay, cool. And when she walks, it's really like she's walking like she has, I don't know, like you see a cooked chicken walk. You know what I mean? Just like this is one big bone. So now I'm like, all right. I venture to say she's a wide stance, she does perfectly fine with deadlifting, but I'm just trying to figure out what are we trying to restore at the foot?

I'm not chopping like this. I'm going to chop like that. So it's a little bit more horizontal oblique axis. Remember?

Yeah.

Right. So, you know, concepts like scapular retraction and things like that.

So she's using an oblique orientation in the pelvis to orient the leg over top. So to get her mass to go down through the leg. And then she has to create an IR strategy that she can't produce in the hip. So the IR that she's producing is gonna be more spine. It's gonna be more pelvis orientation. So that's the strategy that she's using. So that's what you wanna recognize first is what are they doing under the circumstances.

No?

Yes.

I was watching one of your Simple Solutions videos for medial knee pain. In part one, when you're in half kneeling with your right knee forward and using two cables to untwist the knee, the right cable pulls you forward and you're letting it pull you further forward into hip lateral rotation while elevating your toes to achieve dorsiflexion to untwist the knee. I have a question: How would you construct that exercise for a case of left medial knee pain? Would you still let the right cable pull you forward, or would you have the left cable pull you while putting your left leg into lateral rotation?

Well, again, Matt, just start to look at the muscle activity that got you there. If you're in a late representation in either circumstance, it doesn't matter who you are, you have pressure against the sacral base that is pushing it forward. That doesn't stop. It continues. You just start to add more compensatory strategies on top of that.

Okay, so if I increase complexity, if I'm unfamiliar with an activity, if I add load to an activity, all of those are influences that reduce, if we use like an old biomechanical term, it reduces the degrees of freedom. So you have less access to relative motion under all of those circumstances, okay?

Yeah, he said lordosis. Yeah, it's okay. Sorry, I'm just picking on you, man. No, so if you were to continue to exaggerate the nutation of the sacrum, so that's based tilting forward apex moving relatively in the opposite direction. Okay, you understand? OK, so I'm exaggerating that. The spine would move relative to the base going forward. So the spine would go in the other direction, which would magnify the internal rotation representation, which would be lordosis. I get the willies there when I say that. Yeah, I just want to make sure that you're clear on that because if they had a normal inhale, a normal inhale, they would have a reduction in that representation of the spine, right? It would be less IR because they're breathing in. They're using a compensatory strategy, so it doesn't move.

You can send a pick through their legs.

So for him, probably start from the bottom and go towards the lats on that side, like in the posterior lower area. I'd be okay with that.

Okay. All right. Now go back to even. Stop. Where are you? Early, middle or late?

Right.