Avoiding Surgery

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Relieving Runner's IT BAND Pain Pt. 2
Trigger Point Therapy of TFL (Tensor Fasciae Latae)

Welcome back, today we continue taking time to keep our IT band healthy. Our TFL is the tensioner that keeps our IT Band taught, if it gets stiff through sitting, running, driving the tension is translated to the IT band. So grab a tennis ball and keep your knees healthy...ENJOY!

HOLIDAY HIP FLEXOR HELP... Hip Flexors cause back and hip pain!

Hope everyone enjoyed part one of the holidays! After a long weekend of post-gorging sitting and lounging let's get you back to long and lean. We're gonna use this one move to lengthen your spine and hip flexors... Whether you're at work, at home, in the gym, on watching tv make time to keep these guys healthy. Enjoy being taller!!!

WHY: Hip Flexors cause back and hip pain!
WHAT: Lengthen Hip Flexors and turn down neuromuscular stimulation.
HOW: Reciprocal Inhibition to lengthen hip flexors
RX: 3 Intevals (5 Second squeezes followed by 10 relaxed deep breathes) ON BOTH SIDES
ENJOY!

HOLIDAY HIP FLEXOR HELP... Hip Flexors cause back and hip pain!

Hope everyone enjoyed part one of the holidays! After a long weekend of post-gorging sitting and lounging let's get you back to long and lean. We're gonna use this one move to lengthen your spine and hip flexors... Whether you're at work, at home, in the gym, on watching tv make time to keep these guys healthy. Enjoy being taller!!!

WHY: Hip Flexors cause back and hip pain!
WHAT: Lengthen Hip Flexors and turn down neuromuscular stimulation.
HOW: Reciprocal Inhibition to lengthen hip flexors
RX: 3 Intevals (5 Second squeezes followed by 10 relaxed deep breathes) ON BOTH SIDES
ENJOY!

IF YOU YOU WEAR FLIP FLOPS OR HIGH HEELS YOU NEED THIS!

Myofascial Release of Plantar Fascia and Flexor Digitorum Brevis

Show your feet some love, they literally support you through everything you choose to do, so grab a tennis ball, a beer bottle, or a can of corn and keep them healthy. Not to mention it will give you more ankle mobility, reduce stress on the knees, and decrease hip compensation. If that weren't enough this will help avoid bunion and hammer toe formation which are gnarly corrective surgeries involvong pins and screws and metal wedge plates. Keep walking the line... ENJOY.

Technical Jargon:
Calcaneus: Heel Bone
Metatarsals: 5 Bones in foot just behind toes bones
Plantar Fascia: Connective Tissue on bottom of foot
Origin: Tuberacle of Calcaneus
Insertion: Heads of Metatarsals

IF YOU YOU WEAR FLIP FLOPS OR HIGH HEELS YOU NEED THIS!

Myofascial Release of Plantar Fascia and Flexor Digitorum Brevis

Show your feet some love, they literally support you through everything you choose to do, so grab a tennis ball, a beer bottle, or a can of corn and keep them healthy. Not to mention it will give you more ankle mobility, reduce stress on the knees, and decrease hip compensation. If that weren't enough this will help avoid bunion and hammer toe formation which are gnarly corrective surgeries involvong pins and screws and metal wedge plates. Keep walking the line... ENJOY.

Technical Jargon:
Calcaneus: Heel Bone
Metatarsals: 5 Bones in foot just behind toes bones
Plantar Fascia: Connective Tissue on bottom of foot
Origin: Tuberacle of Calcaneus
Insertion: Heads of Metatarsals

NICE GASTROCs BRAH!
START HERE FOR KNEE AND ANKLE PAIN.

Today we look at the main mover in our calves (gastrocnemius). These animals do a bulk of work in running, jumping, skipping well you get the picture, they can cause alot of implications in the ankle and knee as they cross both joints. Let's put some work in and show these guys some LOVIN'... Enjoy!

Technical Jargon:
Muscle Name: GASTROCNEMIUS
Origin: Posterior Medial and Lateral Femoral Condyles
Insertion: Calcanues
Action: Plantar Flexion aides in Knee Flexion

NICE GASTROCs BRAH!
START HERE FOR KNEE AND ANKLE PAIN.

Today we look at the main mover in our calves (gastrocnemius). These animals do a bulk of work in running, jumping, skipping well you get the picture, they can cause alot of implications in the ankle and knee as they cross both joints. Let's put some work in and show these guys some LOVIN'... Enjoy!

Technical Jargon:
Muscle Name: GASTROCNEMIUS
Origin: Posterior Medial and Lateral Femoral Condyles
Insertion: Calcanues
Action: Plantar Flexion aides in Knee Flexion

RUNNING JUMPING and QUAD DOMINANCE.

Happy Sunday, let's take a look at one of the most crucial portions of any running and jumping application, RE**US FEMORIS (RF).

Located on the anterior (front) medial (middle) portion of your thigh. When we sit for long periods of time the RF gets very tight and sticky so that when we stand up it is hard to obtain full hip extension, and limits our ability to get our pelvis underneath us fully. So let's get to work with a Myofascial Release roller and loosen that anterior anchor... Enjoy!

Re**us Femoris:
Origin: Anterior Inferior Iliac Spine (AIIS)
Insertion: Medial Superior Patellar Tendon
Action: Assist in Hip Flexion and Extension of Knee