Bill Hartman’s Weekly Q & A for The 16% – December 29,2019 00:12 This week on BillHartmanPT.com: What words are meaningful to your client: https://billhartmanpt.com/question-what-words-are-meaningful-to-your-clients/ This week on YouTube: Bill Hartman’s Weekly Q & A for The 16% – December 22, 2019: https://youtu.be/IE0mjTb1z7g Why you should individualize exercise prescription: https://youtu.be/WOvkZ36Fmys This week on Instagram (@billhartmanpt): […]
concentric orientation
Concentric vs. Eccentric Orientation and Yielding vs. Overcoming Muscle Action
Thinking differently about muscle contraction. Traditionally, we think of muscle contractions as concentric, eccentric, and isometrics. Isometrics as they are described probably don’t exist. If we look at muscle contraction as a moment in time, we can determine their orientation as well as the direction of the action. From my perspective, this is a more […]
Manual Therapy to Increase Shoulder Flexion and Cervical Rotation
In the heterarchy of treatment, I rarely do manual therapies as my first line of intervention. Patients and clients always achieve more when they can create changes themselves and learn self-management. When a local influence is needed that the client cannot produce themselves, then manual therapy may be useful to create an opportunity to make […]
Bill Hartman’s Weekly Q & A for The 16% – December 8, 2019
Links to this week on YouTube: Bill Hartman’s Weekly Q & A for the 16% – December 1, 2019: https://youtu.be/U_qdZevvS9U The IFAST Podcast #5 with Mike Robertson and Bill Hartman – How we train the pros: https://youtu.be/Onnpa5gsfa8 A Simple Self-Test to Assess Your Breathing: https://youtu.be/djkJmqL1di0 Simplifying Lower Cervical Mechanics: https://youtu.be/jGzj__fcYn8 Power Output from The Inside-Out: […]
Power Training from the Inside-out
Power training is often measured or expressed as a product of our extremity movement. The reality is that if we are unable to move or control the forces produced internally, then our power production in any movement is compromised. We can manipulate exercises to emphasize different aspects of internal force management, but we need to […]