Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, I understand.

OK.

Well, are they normal sized spaces or are they smaller space? No, they'll be smaller. They'll be definitely smaller space.

Mm-hmm.

I would have to internally retain the TVA.

And one thing that I want to confess is that I don't watch your videos before going to bed because that makes me curious. So I just watch things which come without.

One thing I wonder about with that as well is that if you're creating that downward pressure, that could reinforce what wide ISAs experience. Because they're the compressed linky, so they're getting compressed and going laterally.

No.

Okay. So is that an extra step between the inhalation bias strategy that comes with the exhalation bias on the

Did any of that kind of flow together as far as- Yeah, so which would be easier to stand on the basketball or the balloon?

So you have a plantarious compression?

Yeah, absolutely.

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Recent injury is because there's greater pressure on the posterior aspect of the disc under those circumstances. If I magnify that pressure, I reduce the blood flow to the vertebra. The blood flow, the nutrition for a disc, diffuses from the bone to the disc. So it's a bony side supply, right? If I reduce that, then I start to see a breakdown of the disc. So you'll see the proteoglycan content of a disc start to break down. That's the stuff that holds the disc together, right? And so you get the wearing away of that. So that would precede the prolapsing because I have to have a reason to have to create the delay strategy. So if I'm shoving the spine forward first, I'm increasing that posterior compressive strategy, aren't I?

I see. I see.

OK, what happens? You have to think in moments here. Don't think in sustained durations, because this is fast. This is something that happens very, very quickly.

Okay.

Okay, so in that case you might want to maintain like right heavy.

Well, you work up to a training maximum. Every time you come into the gym, you warm up and work up to your training max. Based on that training max, that's how you calculate the percentages for the day. So you're actually creating a representation of how tired they are. Then you monitor that over time. So you need data points over time, but you can do the same thing with a vertical jump. Let's just say your boy comes in and has a 34-inch vertical today, and that's your first measure. Then next time he comes in, he goes 35 inches, meaning he jumped better. Either your training is stellar or he's better recovered. Then he comes in on a Tuesday, having played 17 hours on the blacktop yesterday, and he's at 31 inches. You need some way to track. So his KPI might be his counter movement jump and the differential between the counter movement and the whole jump. That will tell you where you are in this process, but you're looking at it over time.

OK. Yeah. OK, thanks. So one thing I've been struggling to understand is the increase of external rotation at the shoulder. From my research this afternoon, going through videos, I got a clue that it could have been the anterior compressive strategy pulling the sternum down.

That's awesome.

Okay.

Yeah. So it's like they come in and they're lacking relative motions. You do something that you feel recaptures it, but then the activity that you prescribe after that is too advanced for them. And then they start to lose that motion again.

OK.

And this occurs at the very end of this middle propulsive phase where traditional pronation is at a maximum. Where else will we see this? We're going to see this in any rotational sport where we have to stop our turn to create some sort of forward momentum into an implement. So if I'm throwing a baseball, if I'm swinging a golf club, if I'm swinging a tennis racket, all these sports will demonstrate the same element where I will have a maximum propulsion where I actually have to stop motion and I translate that into the implement and that is the point of max propulsion during those activities. So if we think about a baseball pitcher, it's when the lead leg that's stepping towards home plate hits its point of maximum propulsion as they're landing through the heel because they never get towards this end propulsive phase except through follow-through, which is actually an external rotation moment that is actually a re-inhale if you will as they're following through. So again, maximum propulsion is not in this late phase of the propulsive continuum, regardless of what activity that we're talking about, whether we're talking about gait or whether we're talking about sport. It's actually at the point of the maximum pronation that is an IR strategy that is an exhalation bias. You're going to have to get AP expansion, but start driving like true internal rotation from proximal to distal.

It all depends on the rate of loading that's going to determine how connective tissues behave, whether they behave stiff or whether they're more elastic. That's how you break up bone versus sprain an alligament versus tear an attendant. Like whatever becomes the stiffest at that moment in time absorbs most of the energy and then it has a certain tolerance to load where it becomes elastic and then once you hit the plastic phase and you go past this like pow then you get the break.

Absolutely. So now what you can do, like I said, you measure these guys over time and then you sort of get to know them. You say, OK, so whether he's a starter, whether he's not, I'm going to treat him like a star. So let's just say he throws 100 pitches, six innings, something along those lines. And then you have this expectation of what you should see in your table tests. And then you say, OK, I'm going to give you back a bunch today to promote the recovery, you know, that process so we can get that started. But what I'm going to say is like on day two, it's going to be this on day three, it's going to be this on day four, it's going to be this on day five. I'm going to know that you're going to be prepared. It would be like when you work with sprinters, they don't have a lot of interromotation either because their ground contact time is so brief. It's like, well, think about a baseball pitch. So you're like seven to 9000 degrees per second of arm speed. Right. That's faster than sprinters, right. And so this is a really, really, really kind of a fast thing. So the amount of interrotation that they end up with is very, very little. So if I had a sprinter that showed up one day and they have like 40 degrees of internal rotation, I started to get worried because it's like, this guy's not ready to run his best race because that's a lot of, that's going to be a lot of energy that's going to be distributed to managing position. Whereas, you know, it's like, you know, you take your picture and you say, you know, maybe I don't want full internal rotation on game day. Right. But, but by looking at him over a long enough period of time, I can say that, okay, we're in this range where I think you're going to do really, really well. Right. Don't tell him because you're, But again, but you'll know. So you'll know what to monitor and when. And then if you do see some sort of deficit and performance that shows up because it always happens, right? There's so many things that are unpredictable during the execution of the game itself. It's like, but when you see certain things start to show up and then you can, you can like stick your nose in you go, Hey, you might want to monitor the next 10 pitches here. And if it doesn't start to come back, you probably want to think about, you know, pulling this guy or you say he's doing great. Everything is exactly where we want to let him go kind of thing. And then you, then you provide a really useful and powerful influence.

To make people think, yeah.

So I have a perfect example of that. I was working with my dad who had right shoulder pain from racquetball for the last 20 years, with super limited shoulder range of motion on that side. I performed tractioning of the scapula, turned his head towards me, and facilitated big breaths to expand the upper back. His external rotation improved. Then I worked to get his ribcage more flat on the table by bringing it from a posterior orientation. This made his external rotation worse. The old me would have been confused about why it worsened in that moment. Then I realized what you just said—it was a whole reorientation. We didn't actually get the expansion; you have to get the whole orientation first, then get the expansion.