How long ago was the Tommy John?

You see it? Yeah.

All right. I got a yield.

Yeah. And that's the time that's passed out over months and months and months. So you can make a guess.

Which space?

I had one person recently who I did use that for success. I want to know when you say for success defined, like, like I was able to get some appreciable changes on the table and like, what changes though? It's like, that's what I need to know. Internal. He, he had internal. He was a narrow who had, I mean, it was likely orientation, but had significant amounts of ER, limited IR, total arc was close to 100, I would say. And everything else was problematic anytime I was trying to do things that weren't in that range. I want to know what your thought process is when you would program that type of early to mid split squat for someone.

No, you're right. So my question relates to something I observed in one of the intensive group calls while reviewing them again. I saw you talking to Max Ford about a high oblique sit. The thing that threw me a little bit was when we were talking about lengthening and how the straight leg—which was, for those that didn't see the call, obviously in a right oblique sit with the right leg extended—was referred to as a light OIR. Is that simply because, as he's pulling the cable, he's pushing away from there?

Well, not in person. So yeah.

So you do it and then you go, 'I like it. I don't like it.' Because you understand the principle of what you're trying to accomplish. And you say, 'Well, what's the most dynamic thing that I could do under the circumstance?' Controlling the situation from the ground up. So this is again, you're going after an early representation. If I put the foot there, if I truly capture that early representation of the foot, you've immediately changed the systemic access to relative motions. You don't know how much hip motion they have now when you put them on the platform until you execute. And so you execute and then say, 'Am I seeing a bunch of compensatory strategies that I still don't want?' And then you go, 'Okay, wrong exercise or I coached it poorly or they didn't understand what I meant.' Try it again. Still sucks? Move on. Do something else. Or it gets better as you coach them up. Like give them an opportunity to try to make a change with a certain reasonable time frame. But again, it's like you're changing the conditions immediately. Their access to space changes immediately.

The foot I'm pushing off is getting taller.

Yeah. Yeah. Everybody has their own representation of their helical orientation, and that's where you best move. You always move best on your helical angle.

Don't worry about it. All right. You understand how the relative motion would occur between the ilium and the sacrum if I was moving the ilium into its ER representation? Yeah. Okay. You understand that there is a ligamentous structure on the anterior aspect of that sacroiliac joint.

So once you get that and they just still lack it, and then say once they get a little bit better at that, but they're still lacking any measurement or shape or you don't really see that dorsal rostral expansion. So if they're narrow, like they're already sort of over to that right side. So I guess, like, I just keep patient if I do like a dorsal rostral expansion, scapular mobilization on the right, like that would probably just be loading them up more to the right where they're at already. Like, can I do that? Or does that like?

Absolutely.

I wanted to talk about the water balloon concept and how that relates to a joint position and how that relates to center of gravity. A water balloon, if you press one side, fluid shifts to the other side, right?

Yeah, you're gonna get a re-ER of the femur, and again, there's relative motions that are taking place, but if you look at it from the perspective of a re-ER. So think about the counter-neutated representation of the sacrum. That's an expanded sacrum. So look at the sacrum like a parachute. It's got to expand into that counter-neutated position. Follow me so far. Okay. The lumbar spine is actually attached to the base of the sacrum. It's got to follow. So that's going, so the lumbar spine in the deepest of deep squats would have to follow the sacrum. So if the sacrum is moving towards a counter-neutated representation, expanded ER representation, the spine is going to follow. And so that would mean that the iterative representations are going to follow that too, which means that I will have a re-ER at the bottom.

Okay, I gotcha.

Yeah.

All right. So she was on like a term magnification of the left IRs. Her pain complaints are more like specific in the sense that when she goes back or leans backwards, not going to catch myself saying extension again. She was initially getting like right, ridiculous pain, like shooting down the leg, like to the knee. The other thing that really bug her is that she's a field hockey coach. Whenever she was doing like the sweeping or shooting motion, if she's like, they all do it righty. When she would like transfer her weight to the lead leg, the left leg, it wasn't the actual swing, but then coming up from that. Like even like with no weight on the right side, always on the left, but just.

Yeah.

Yeah. Closing restriction. So that, is that a Mulligan thing? The closed restriction. Is that Mulligan? Yes, I guess more like let's talk about it. Yeah.

I have to get a weight back. And I still need an arch because I have to come to earlier.

Yeah.

I sometimes, yeah.

Yeah. That was awesome. Thank you for the clarification. Appreciate it.

Okay, so if I squeeze the left side first, that creates a bias of volume to the right. I have AP expansion, but now I have to push. My center of gravity is still going to push forward, which means I'm going to get even more AP expansion on the right side. So I squeeze the left, bias the expansion to the right. Now I'm squeezing A to P on the right. The left is already squeezed, so I can't go back that way. As I squeeze A to P, it's going to move from left to right across the pelvis, and it's going to move me to the right. Take a water balloon, look down upon it from the superior view, squeeze the left side, and you will see that it creates a round bulge to the right. Hold onto that squeeze and then gradually squeeze across the balloon, and the bulge of the balloon stays to the right, and that's the direction that I will move. That's what's happening.

So they're moving into a late representation. From proximal to distal, right? Their proximal is that if we talk about the lumbar spine, the proximal is that the T11-12.

I'd say so, yeah.

Awesome. Okay. So, you restored the relative motion, correct? And she got better really fast. Okay. So what did you change the initial representation from? So allowed the muscle to turn the area to the opportunity center to orient.

Yeah, like away from midline.