It is logical. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I try to be as logical as I can be. Sometimes it doesn't work. I'm not that bright. So, you know, sometimes it doesn't make sense.

So, there's either an increase. So here's the thing about humans. And this is a misunderstanding. So humans appear to defy entropy. Because you have to look at the universe as the entire system and then there's the given the tape, right?

Like I said, at some point, it's about the loading tolerance, where her healing is at this point, and how much muscle mass she has in deficit.

Okay. Yeah. I thought I would just like put a band around the knees and that would fix it. Sometimes it does because you keep the eccentric orientation of the internal rotators or the external rotators.

Good morning. Greetings. So I was hoping you could discuss how with the insertion of muscles onto the capsule helps shift fluid to allow.

Yeah, yeah, makes sense.

Uh, why? Oh, yes.

So, and that's why, when you say clean up a squat pattern, it's like that's a cloudy representation because you probably understand exactly what you meant to say. Because you knew what your intention was. And then I have to sit way over here on the other side of the hemisphere and have to go, okay, what did Matt mean by that? And then figure that out. And so that's why we have to be a little bit more clear as to what our intentions are at the beginning.

It doesn't lengthen.

I would look for like the ER, straight leg raise.

And yesterday I was going for a walk and I was thinking about walking downhill as if you were like, if you were like hiking coming down like a fairly steep grade.

Yes, sir. And so watch your depth as well because again, you don't want to, this is where the excursion matters as well. So this would not be somebody that you would put on an incline board and say sit all the way down into your deep squat because that would be eccentric orientation if you're trying to teach them to maintain the concentrically oriented outlet.

I see it. I see it.

All I have to do is make sure that I capture the concentric orientations. And then that takes care of the twisting.

Like anything you would like to add to the questions I asked?

Yes, you can. Because they move.

So again, the important thing to understand is, number one, I need to have an intent. And then you can construct the activity to meet those specific needs. So we could look at variability in regards to direction. So if I'm training a 100 meter sprinter, the amount of lateral agility activities that he needs to perform is slim, right? Because we want to keep him on a straight line. And so compare him to a soccer player. And so again, you look at constructing variability from direction. I get variability of force. I have variability of load, right? And so again, it's looking at the behavior that you want as the outcome, understanding enough about the person that you're looking at. And like I said, then you can kind of construct the activities. Now, let me caution you that some of these activities are rather intensive. And so you still need to construct an adaptation to get them to wherever their end result or ideal outcome would be. So don't rush the process because connective tissues will rebel.

That would look like a varus knee.

So we're all going to try to end up in the same place. It's just about how you get there. We have different starting conditions. So if we look at my wide ISA archetype versus my narrow ISA archetype, those are just different starting conditions. The forces being the same, they're going to behave a little bit differently. But ultimately, because it's the same force, they're going to manage it very similarly as they start to lose capabilities. They all start with different strategies, but they're going to end with the same one because everything gets narrower and narrower as far as what's available to you. So if I start with this big of a space to move in, and then I start to battle whatever it is internally and externally from a four standpoint, slowly squeeze everything in. Now my movement capabilities are here. And that's going to happen to both archetypes, but because the starting conditions are different, things drop off at a little bit different sequence, but ultimately at end game, they're going to measure very similarly.

Sometimes, I mean, it depends on what grade you're in and what you've already done in the past. But ideally, we still have August till January.

Yeah, makes total sense. And I'm picturing in my head the people who are exactly like that now, because there are some high level power lifters who represent that pretty strongly.

I have a question about a client. She is in her fifties, three weeks post-surgical left shoulder where they removed bone spurs and addressed an impingement. She presented with limited range of motion everywhere, pain-related. After three weeks, I provided manual therapy to help her feel and move better. Yesterday, she reported training again and doing a shoulder bridge, which she described as putting her hands behind her back and pressing her whole body up—essentially a back bend. I was surprised she could do this three weeks post-surgically. Upon re-measuring, she had good external rotation, though I recall she's a narrow ISA. Her flexion stops or turns slightly above 90 degrees during testing. She has a very flat thoracic spine and an overly flexed cervicothoracic junction. I suspect she's creating space to perform the movement and that her limited shoulder flexion measurement is due to her turning away from the restriction. This allows her to perform the back bend three weeks post-surgically by creating space. My questions are: could her spinal presentation and space creation have contributed to her original problem? What are the steps that lead people to this presentation? I'm seeing many with flat thoracic spines, some narrow and some wide.

So here's what's going to happen if you allow that, if you see somebody pulling their scapula towards the spine, here's what's going to happen. You get posterior compression, which immediately takes away your ER space, right? It orients the glenohumeral joint into ER, but you're going to get an anterior and a posterior compressive strategy at the same time. Because as I pull the scapula back into retraction, the whole shoulder girdle is moving closer and closer to the spine. For that to happen, I have to compress here and compress here at the same time. You just gave them a superficial compressive strategy. You oriented them into ER. They get no glenohumeral motion, which means I get no relative motion to the scapula and you just wasted 30 minutes of physical therapy.

There you go. So right away, you're starting to write a program in your head. So what do you need to teach her? Like give me two things from a strategy standpoint that are currently interfering that we can manage by taking load away. What are you going to do?

So you capture some real life experience before they say, oh, now you can actually touch people without anybody else in the room. It's like, okay. Right. You're still going to suck.

Okay, so essentially what you're doing is you're creating a late propulsive representation in the lead leg when you're pulling with the band inward on the knee. So what happens is that you're creating a concentric orientation of the musculature below the level of the trochanter as you descend into the split squat. So there's a misrepresentation of this. So people say, oh, you're pulling on the, in fact, you think you asked me about this, is that you say, is it the gluteus medius that is holding that position? So as you descend into the split squat, the gluteus medius actually changes its direction of pull from external rotation to internal rotation. Okay. And the reason it does that is it's helping to secure the femur in the acetabulum. So its direction of pull pulls the femur straight into that hip socket. Okay. The musculature below that is maintaining its orientation into extra rotation. So what this becomes then is a late propulsive representation. Let me grab it. Let me grab my pelvis for a second. Okay, so what we're talking about then is we're talking about, we're talking about musculature in this general vicinity that is maintaining its external rotation position. So, so as I push out into the, so if this is the lead leg on the split squat, if I push out into the band, this musculature right here is going to maintain external rotation. So you're actually reducing your ability to capture the internal rotation position in the bottom of the split squat under those circumstances, because if this musculature is maintained in constant orientation, I don't get my normal mutation of the sacrum. There's reasons to do this and there's reasons not to do this. You just have to decide what your intention is. Again, if I'm trying to maintain some measure of extra rotation, orientation of this musculature throughout, then of course you want to have the band that's pulling inward under those circumstances. But it's not glute mede that's doing it. In this position, like I said, glute medius, it would be the same thing as orienting the pelvis forward. If I bent the hip this way, the glute medius changes its direction of pull. So when you're standing like this, it's an external rotator on this back half. As I go this way, it becomes an internal rotator.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, man. I'll see you.

My dog got stuck, got stuck the other day.

So if that's how it works, how do we do that? You're the only one who's had the presence of mind to say let's maybe try to do something radical. It's not radical. It's not radical, Paul. It's just it's just looking at it as as that's the representation and identifying the foundational principles and then following those principles. That's all. That's all it is. But how many people are— I mean, radical by I don't know— I don't— You see this little corner.

Thank you. Have a great day. Happy Thursday. I have my coffee in hand and it is perfect. By the way, strong batch today. Very strong. So I'm ready.