So then the varying degrees of limitation in the pistol test would tell you how much of a prop someone's probably going to need beneath their hand to actually get the internal rotation without an orientation of the whole hand.

Maybe. I mean, there's a lot of ways. I don't care how you approach it as long as you understand the representation that you're dealing with.

100%.

I'm sure they do.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, on chicken drumstick, do you see what I mean? Just like, you just have like one lung.

Okay. What direction is the energy going? When I step forward, I land on my right foot. There's a force that's being applied. What direction is the energy going to go in me?

Okay. So would that make something look more expanded on one side than the other?

Right. Again, if you look at the entire universe, we follow the rules of entropy. But in a closed system like this, we have to look at ourselves as a closed system, not an open system. And like I said, we appear to defy this. And so this is why you have the difference, like what entropy greater than 0, less performance or negative.

So what a great way to do a top down loading strategy. She's got to catch a ball that's coming off of a rebounder. Ball hits her when she catches it. That force has to go down into the ground, right?

Definitely.

No.

I think it was.

Yeah.

Yeah. So it's a very useful measure. So here's what we have to be clear about: when we're talking about reducing the anterior orientation, what we want to see is a restoration of relative motion. Because if you're anteriorly oriented, the pelvis is moving as one big piece. So instead of having these segmental representations, it's moving as an entire unit. And that's why you start to see the measures that you do. So when I say, you know, using your ER as a KPI, what we want to see is an improvement in the ER, that's a reduction in the orientation. But I also want to see the superimposition of internal rotation at the same time, because if I don't, then I know I'm back to square one with what you were observing initially in the squat, which was the compensation in the lower back.

A tiny space.

So how much internal rotation and downward force are you capable of under those circumstances?

Yes, sir. Yep.

The big thing that stands out to me is that right hip external rotation being at 30 degrees. I'm thinking as he's making the turn to get the load, he's running out of space as he's turning right.

Outcomes are just outcomes. They're just telling you what happened under the circumstance. You try to take the emotion out of it, so to speak, where you get to pat yourself on the back for being successful and just understand it's like, okay, I didn't get relative motion to pelvis, but maybe I expanded it in the lumbar spine. Well, how would you know? Well, that's why you measure your measures and just like you said, you get a lot of ER and OIR, you know, you get the spinal compensatory strategy still in play.

So again, the mat table is a lot less scary than getting down on the floor. Again, it would be rare that you'd put a nursing home client on the floor. But one of the things I want those people to be able to do, if it's possible—we're talking about depending on age and such and what their actual mobility—is I want them to be able to crawl. Right? So they can, if they do fall, get to a quadruped position and then get to something that can help them get up. And sometimes if you can just get them rolling, great. If you can't, then you got to get limbs to move if you can create cross-connective representations, there's some of your turns. That will give them some measure of power output. So when you look at the people that like to take a dive in the nursing home, it's like they know they're falling. They just can't move fast enough to protect themselves anymore. And so that's what you're going to try to recreate.

Yeah, at the end.

Absolutely.

Okay. All right. Thank you for falling on your sword. I appreciate that.

Yeah. So you take the force that's pushing down this way and I turn her like that. Right. And now maybe I can teach her how to create the internal force. So she's a roller. She's an arm bar person. Right. I'm going to teach her how to do that kind of stuff. So she learns how to create the pressure and turn. Right? So basically you're taking gravity away for a while. Teacher how to manage it, right? And then you slowly bring her back up. So her progressive resistance starts at less than body weight.

That makes sense. And then moving down to the hip. So still staying in that imaginary sagittal plane, so your hip flexion measure. For someone that has really, really limited hip flexion, you can't authentically get them to the desired testing position to do internal and external rotation. How would your interpretation of their rotation measures change or does it change at all? Do you kind of get them up to like 90 degrees? I put air quotes around that. How would you try to get them as close as you can to that position and then still do your measures, or what are you considering there?

I was okay, so you're talking about a band that's trying to pull the knee outward that you're trying to resist.

I think part of, like just kind of looking for an affirmation and like a heuristic out of all that, would you say it's almost like you're using your coach's eye to see when they demonstrate competency of a certain thing and then you move on to the next goal and kind of start attacking that?

Everything that's not an internal organ or the contractile muscle tissue, everything outside of that counts. All of that matters.

Okay. You ready? So here's what I want you to do. You just start running. Okay. And then I'll tell you when you're done. Feels good. Yeah.

So I have to create a delay to allow the other side to keep moving forward. One side will be yielding, one side will be overcoming. Otherwise, there would be no differential between the two sides, and both sides would either have to move together or not move.