A weightlifting belt is most often worn to increase the amount of weight you can lift. However, there may be other uses as a teaching tool in some contexts.
The intraabdominal pressure created by the lifting belt can provide cues to promote a concentrically-oriented pelvic diaphragm and create an overcoming contraction to enhance lower extremity strength/force production, improve jump landing mechanics, or restore pelvic floor control.
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Pronation of the ankle/foot has often been expressed as something that may be unfavorable. Shoes to limit pronation have been constructed to attempt to reduce pronation.
The reality is that a pronated foot is a propulsive foot that we require to produce force into the ground to prevent collapse. It is merely excessive pronation that we want to avoid, manage, or control.
Athletes and clients with the perception of weak ankles, ankle instability, or ongoing ankle pain often have difficulty recapturing the position of the propulsive foot. In this video, I’ll show you a “Big Bang” ankle and foot mobilization to improve calcaneal eversion, subtalar pronation, and midtarsal mobility while simultaneously feeding back positional information to the lower extremity and axial skeleton.
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The infrasternal angle is a useful test to determine breathing compensatory strategies that influence movement capabilities. Your ability to measure it effectively will provide understanding and guidance as to the best interventions to impact a client’s movement.
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Thinking in straight planes like shoulder flexion is misguided.
We need to think differently about how movements are achieved.
Shoulder flexion involves a great deal of shoulder rotation. If this rotation is not accounted for in the measurement, you’ll fail to succeed quickly and you may even select the wrong shoulder rehab exercises or strategy that you need to resolve your client’s issues.
Controlling shoulder rotation during your shoulder flexion measure and understanding the relative motions required for shoulder flexion makes all the difference.
If you don’t have a treatment table or someone to measure your shoulder flexion, I’ve included a simple shoulder flexion self-test you can use to gauge your own progress.
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