From the show notes:
Join Industry Veteran Anthony Carey and Jason Stella Discuss…
1. Why he has spent the majority of your career working on how to help people decrease their pain.
2. Discuss his PRACTICAL book called: “The Pain-Free Program: A Proven Method to Relieve Back, Neck, Shoulder and Joint Pain.
3. WHAT have you found to be the best ways to help, staying within the scope of being a trainer?
4. Explain the following concepts in his book
1. The Body’s Interrelatedness
2. Our Self-Healing Bodies
3. The need to take responsibility
4. Anthony’s unique way of putting exercises is specific groups called Form & Category
– What’s the differences between them
– Show some of the exercises within each area and how they may be able to help specific people?
5. Explain and show your invention, The CORE-TEX.
a. Why and how did you come up with this?
b. Can you show us some of the common ways you use this to help clients improve
3. Explain the course that you put together called the “Pain Free Movement specialist
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Corrective Exercise Programming and Readiness
Monday, November 30th, 2020What does readiness mean to you?
When designing the corrective exercise program for the chronic pain client, it means many things.
As you decide on your exercise selection, does a strategic sequence advance your objectives and build your client’s movement confidence?
The readiness in this case is based on many things, but at the top of the list is trust. Trust of their own capabilities without provoking pain.
This is precisely why we have created a framework for corrective exercise progressions.
Enjoy this clip and consider joining us on our mission to help those in pain live more comfortable and productive lives.
Corrective Exercise Kneeling Aztec
Thursday, May 28th, 2020Any exercise that requires you to match a force with a counter force to maintain stability, will be self regulating. In other words, you can only push or pull to a level that can be stabilized by your own internal force generation.
The opposite of this would be ground reaction forces (GRF). The limitations on force production would be strength issue because you can push through the ground. This is the case with most exercises when the force is moved vertically against gravity. But when the force applied is horizontally or perpendicular to the field of gravity, we don’t get the same benefits from the GRF that we get with a vertical load.
Instead, we must turn to our own internal stability from which to create an anchor point for force generation.
As such, this corrective exercise is an excellent core exercise predominantly for the sagittal plane that does just that. It’s also happens to have some great foot benefits too.
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Corrective Exercise Ankle Rocking with Stability Ball
Monday, February 24th, 2020Limited dorsi flexion isn’t always a “tightness” issue. Sometimes the ability for the talus to pass through the mortise of the true ankle joint can be compromised. As the joint approaches the individual’s current limit of dorsi flexion, often the nervous system will up-regulate increased tone of the surrounding musculature, which can approximate the joint surfaces and further restrict the gliding route the talus needs to take. This can often be experienced as a “pinching” or “bunching” sensation in the front of the ankle.
Using the principle of rhythmical motion and passive self-assistance, improved joint motion can be achieved. Anybody can do this for themselves with a stability ball. An excellent option to send your clients home with!
Corrective Exercise A-P Cat and Dog Rewind
Friday, October 4th, 2019In one of our past newsletters where we talked about myofascial mobility with rhythm, timing and amplitude, we revisited the Anterior Posterior Cat and Dog as one of the examples of applying those principles.
In this exercise, we take the A-P Cat and Dog and progress it into a surprisingly challenging core exercise. We call it the A-P Cat and Dog Rewind.
You’ll see as the clients center of mass moves forward with the change and limits of base of support, the core has to switch on in a very novel way.
The beauty of this is that the response is reflexive with no feedforward response necessary by the client or patient.
This helps us move beyond the bracing and “keep your core tight” cues that are not part of our long term goals and authentic movement.
Try it, feel it and let us know what you think.
Corrective Exercise Wall Glute Bridge
Thursday, August 8th, 2019This version of the glute bridge is a great corrective exercise for teaching the body the sequencing and synchronization from the ankle to the lumbar spine that is associated with triple flexion and squatting.
It will certainly challenge dorsi flexion in a pseudo closed chain environment as the knee moves over the toes. There is feedback from the wall and load placed into the wall, but no vertical forces acting on the joint.
The body gets comfortable with relative lumbar flexion in an unload position because it has to go through that motion to get the buttocks of the floor. The beauty is both the novelty and very limited load placed on the spine. So even those with lower back pain will find this a helpful exercise as it reduces the threat.
Additionally, it helps create some separation and distraction of the tissue at the thoraco-lumbar junction. The upper part of the body is fixed on the floor as the lower part moves away, creating the distraction.
Put it to good use and tell us how you did!