Mike, that was a good observation. However, if you look closer Dennis flexed and rotated his foot only while his knee hardly moved passed 0 degrees. Remember, we are looking for the internal rotation of the femur only.
Sashned, myofascial pain is not a very descriptive term, it basically means that the tight muscles are causing you pain. The origin of your pain may stem from many sources. I always suggest to my MAT clients to see a doctor so that he/she can determine if the pain is cause by something that would need medical attention (like a labrum tear...etc). If a doctor determines that there is nothing medical wrong with your shoulder than muscle activation techniques can be of great help. Muscle activation technique specialist can determine if you have a mechanical imbalance and when identified, that imbalanced can be fixed. Once you restore mechanical imbalance tight muscle will no longer have to be tight and I assume you will gain pain relief. good luck! you can find more information on the process of muscle activation techniques here on my website: www.healthyprogresstraining.com/content/mat/muscle-activation-technique.html
Do you have any ideas about Quad activation failure post surgery. I just started Whole body vibration specifically addressing my left quad (center). I hope it works. My Glute has taken over most of the movements that the quad should be doing and I get knee pain when I load up that knee.
Steve, within muscle activation techniques we do have tests and specific treatments for all the quad muscle. However, your failure to activate your quads might not be necessarily due to quad muscles. A MAT specialist would have to assess you to see if there are other joints that are not functioning optimally and determine if their limitations may in fact cause the failure of activation you are experiencing. The muscle are very much codependent. For example, limitation in the foot can cause weakness (failure of activation) further up in the kinetic chain like the quad muscles. Additionally, surgeries are traumatic to the muscles so that in its self could keep the muscle weak for a while. In such case, an MAT specialist would likely work distally from your knee to ensure better balance in other joints and overall better mechanical integrity. Such mechanical integrity can help the healing process. In sum, you are best to find a muscle activation technique specialist in your area and I am certain that they would help in your recovery. If you are in Chicago look me www.healthyprogresstraining.com/content/mat/muscle-activation-technique.html
I'm confused. The left leg only went to neutral when you checked for internal rotation, then immediately after while muscle testing you placed the same leg into roughly 30 degrees of internal rotation.
The L leg initially couldn't fully IR the same as the right side, yes; it could only get to essentially neutral. Ralph didn't show the new ROM exam at the end, he only showed the squat. Had he, the L leg would of now had a more symmetrical ROM as the R leg, which is the whole goal. Stability is vital.
The squat assessment is not very informative in terms of displaying details of an imbalance. Therefore, I would not go "further into depth of a squat" assessment but rather look for limitations in ROM. Squat basically tells you that something is off. To determine the imbalances you need look for asymmetrical ROMs.
jordan shallow Now I see where you are going with your original question. I don't need to have the subject go any further into squat because I already see that something is off early in the ROM. Going further into squat is not going to give me any additional information other than he is not balanced. Once again, when performing a squat assessment, all we are looking for is weather the mechanics are clean or off. If something is off, as it was in this case, we can move on to more accurate mechanical assessments. Remember, a squat assessment can not tell you where you have an imbalance but only that an imbalance exists. Muscle Activation Techniques give us an entire battery of individual joint ROM assessments. So, If we see a subject performing a poor squat, we can make an assumption that he may have trouble with pronation. We can than assess individual joint movements that pertain to pronation, like foot dorsi flexion, tibial and hip internal rotation and so on. The subject in the video I was showing a limitation in internal hip rotation. Once assessed, I would then use muscle activation techniques to treat all the muscle that act as internal hip rotators.
Ralph Klisiewicz I guess the point I'm trying to get at is ,what do you consider full depth? Im curious as I am looking MAT as a possible certification. But am skeptical as I don't see many practitioners around nor can I differentiate it from something like FMS- Also I disagree with your statement regarding going further into the squat not going to yield anymore information. You cannot account for hamstring weakness (general posterior chain imbalance) and possible plantar flexor tightness inhibiting ROM(just to name a few) at the depth that your patient presented.
jordan shallow Jordan, first what I am trying to say is that squat assessment is not an accurate test to account for hamstring weakness or plantar tightness inhibition, regardless of the depth. To get an accurate ROM you need to look at the joints individually. During a squat you have many joints working in concert and the mechanical behavior of one could be dependent on another joint. The advantage of muscle activation techniques is that we have tests for individual joints. For example, a tight hamstring during a (full depth) squat might may be due to a limitation in ROM of hip flexion, trunk flexion, and/or internal hip rotation and so on. If you see hamstring tightness in a swaut you need to then evaluate those joint ROMs individually. I think if you are considering MAT you should try to find a MAT specialist and get a treatment. It is hard to describe MAT via video, eventually you have to experience it. That is how I got into it. I am not vary familiar with FMS so I cannot comment on how those techniques compare. Thanks for good questions. Cheers.
Hi Fernando, the Muscle Activation Technique IS test of Range of Motion (2:31), muscle test(2:54), and muscle treatment (3:06 ) and finally muscle re-test (3:36). Of course, you would then do this for every muscle responsible for that range of motion, but that is not the scope of this video. The video is meant to give you understanding of the technique but not teach you the technique. If you want to actually learn the technique go to muscleactivation.com to learn how to take the course. Its a lengthy process but its worth it!
let me get this straight. if a muscle is activated more that means it works harder, right? so, logically, if you are to deadlift with your arms wide apart, then obviously theres going to be a greater load on your arms and back and therefore they will work harder, and therefore make you pull more weight. well if that was the case, then the biggest deadlifts should all have arms reachjing at the end of the bar and feet the widest apart so that muscles get to work harder, right? wrong. maximal strength is ideal only under a certain range of motion which might not produce the highest muscle contration
Hi Giovanni. Muscle activation specialists are now world wide. You can find a muscle activation technique specialists in your area on www.muscleactivation.com
Spondylitis is fusion of your vertebrates, so in this case the structure will dictate function. The fusion of the lumbar and thoracic vertebrates will limit the motion not the muscles. However, Muscle Activation Technique could activate supporting muscles and this could improve overall mechanical functioning.
+Ralph Klisiewicz Spondylitis is not fusion of the vertebrae. Idk where you got that from. "Itis" means inflammation. Therefore, it is inflammation of the vertebral joints
www.google.com/#q=Spondylitis I assumed Alimental was talking about Ankylosing Spondylitis which is believed to be an inflammation of vertebral joints due to fused vertebrates. If I was wrong I apologize.
You both are correct. Spondylitis by definition is inflammation of the spine and vertebrae. However the end result of the inflammatory process is fusion of the vertebrae. I should know since I'm a Physical Therapist Assistant but ironically am also diagnosed Ankylosing Spondylitis .
Şu dil olarak değiştir: Türkçe Can you help me? I have a Piriformis syndrome injury for 4 years. I still play football. But the strong and balanced change is my right foot. Do you write your Instagram address or anything I can contact you?
Do you mean, after routinely training your triceps? After constant training, are they not developing? If that's what you mean, that's a classic example of a muscle(s) that are not 100% contracting properly, and thus not growing. MAT can definitely assist with such an example.
Thank you for the information
Mike, that was a good observation. However, if you look closer Dennis flexed and rotated his foot only while his knee hardly moved passed 0 degrees. Remember, we are looking for the internal rotation of the femur only.
Does this work for suspected chronic myofascial shoulder pain?
Sashned, myofascial pain is not a very descriptive term, it basically means that the tight muscles are causing you pain. The origin of your pain may stem from many sources. I always suggest to my MAT clients to see a doctor so that he/she can determine if the pain is cause by something that would need medical attention (like a labrum tear...etc). If a doctor determines that there is nothing medical wrong with your shoulder than muscle activation techniques can be of great help. Muscle activation technique specialist can determine if you have a mechanical imbalance and when identified, that imbalanced can be fixed. Once you restore mechanical imbalance tight muscle will no longer have to be tight and I assume you will gain pain relief. good luck! you can find more information on the process of muscle activation techniques here on my website: www.healthyprogresstraining.com/content/mat/muscle-activation-technique.html
Do you have any ideas about Quad activation failure post surgery. I just started Whole body vibration specifically addressing my left quad (center). I hope it works. My Glute has taken over most of the movements that the quad should be doing and I get knee pain when I load up that knee.
Steve, within muscle activation techniques we do have tests and specific treatments for all the quad muscle. However, your failure to activate your quads might not be necessarily due to quad muscles. A MAT specialist would have to assess you to see if there are other joints that are not functioning optimally and determine if their limitations may in fact cause the failure of activation you are experiencing. The muscle are very much codependent. For example, limitation in the foot can cause weakness (failure of activation) further up in the kinetic chain like the quad muscles. Additionally, surgeries are traumatic to the muscles so that in its self could keep the muscle weak for a while. In such case, an MAT specialist would likely work distally from your knee to ensure better balance in other joints and overall better mechanical integrity. Such mechanical integrity can help the healing process. In sum, you are best to find a muscle activation technique specialist in your area and I am certain that they would help in your recovery. If you are in Chicago look me www.healthyprogresstraining.com/content/mat/muscle-activation-technique.html
I'm confused. The left leg only went to neutral when you checked for internal rotation, then immediately after while muscle testing you placed the same leg into roughly 30 degrees of internal rotation.
The L leg initially couldn't fully IR the same as the right side, yes; it could only get to essentially neutral.
Ralph didn't show the new ROM exam at the end, he only showed the squat. Had he, the L leg would of now had a more symmetrical ROM as the R leg, which is the whole goal. Stability is vital.
Would you then go further into depth of a squat to asses other imbalances?
The squat assessment is not very informative in terms of displaying details of an imbalance. Therefore, I would not go "further into depth of a squat" assessment but rather look for limitations in ROM. Squat basically tells you that something is off. To determine the imbalances you need look for asymmetrical ROMs.
Ralph Klisiewicz in order to look for limitations in ROM, wouldn't you have to achieve full ROM ? aka go further into depth of the squat?
jordan shallow Now I see where you are going with your original question. I don't need to have the subject go any further into squat because I already see that something is off early in the ROM. Going further into squat is not going to give me any additional information other than he is not balanced. Once again, when performing a squat assessment, all we are looking for is weather the mechanics are clean or off. If something is off, as it was in this case, we can move on to more accurate mechanical assessments. Remember, a squat assessment can not tell you where you have an imbalance but only that an imbalance exists. Muscle Activation Techniques give us an entire battery of individual joint ROM assessments. So, If we see a subject performing a poor squat, we can make an assumption that he may have trouble with pronation. We can than assess individual joint movements that pertain to pronation, like foot dorsi flexion, tibial and hip internal rotation and so on. The subject in the video I was showing a limitation in internal hip rotation. Once assessed, I would then use muscle activation techniques to treat all the muscle that act as internal hip rotators.
Ralph Klisiewicz I guess the point I'm trying to get at is ,what do you consider full depth? Im curious as I am looking MAT as a possible certification. But am skeptical as I don't see many practitioners around nor can I differentiate it from something like FMS- Also I disagree with your statement regarding going further into the squat not going to yield anymore information. You cannot account for hamstring weakness (general posterior chain imbalance) and possible plantar flexor tightness inhibiting ROM(just to name a few) at the depth that your patient presented.
jordan shallow Jordan, first what I am trying to say is that squat assessment is not an accurate test to account for hamstring weakness or plantar tightness inhibition, regardless of the depth. To get an accurate ROM you need to look at the joints individually. During a squat you have many joints working in concert and the mechanical behavior of one could be dependent on another joint. The advantage of muscle activation techniques is that we have tests for individual joints. For example, a tight hamstring during a (full depth) squat might may be due to a limitation in ROM of hip flexion, trunk flexion, and/or internal hip rotation and so on. If you see hamstring tightness in a swaut you need to then evaluate those joint ROMs individually.
I think if you are considering MAT you should try to find a MAT specialist and get a treatment. It is hard to describe MAT via video, eventually you have to experience it. That is how I got into it. I am not vary familiar with FMS so I cannot comment on how those techniques compare.
Thanks for good questions. Cheers.
It's funny that you never show the technique in the videos like if it was a magical mysterious thing. Good marketing strategy
Hi Fernando, the Muscle Activation Technique IS test of Range of Motion (2:31), muscle test(2:54), and muscle treatment (3:06 ) and finally muscle re-test (3:36). Of course, you would then do this for every muscle responsible for that range of motion, but that is not the scope of this video. The video is meant to give you understanding of the technique but not teach you the technique. If you want to actually learn the technique go to muscleactivation.com to learn how to take the course. Its a lengthy process but its worth it!
let me get this straight. if a muscle is activated more that means it works harder, right? so, logically, if you are to deadlift with your arms wide apart, then obviously theres going to be a greater load on your arms and back and therefore they will work harder, and therefore make you pull more weight. well if that was the case, then the biggest deadlifts should all have arms reachjing at the end of the bar and feet the widest apart so that muscles get to work harder, right? wrong. maximal strength is ideal only under a certain range of motion which might not produce the highest muscle contration
Wrong
Is there sombody in Italy that do this?
Hi Giovanni. Muscle activation specialists are now world wide. You can find a muscle activation technique specialists in your area on www.muscleactivation.com
Can it work for Spondylitis?
Spondylitis is fusion of your vertebrates, so in this case the structure will dictate function. The fusion of the lumbar and thoracic vertebrates will limit the motion not the muscles. However, Muscle Activation Technique could activate supporting muscles and this could improve overall mechanical functioning.
Many thanks for the reply :-)
+Ralph Klisiewicz Spondylitis is not fusion of the vertebrae. Idk where you got that from. "Itis" means inflammation. Therefore, it is inflammation of the vertebral joints
www.google.com/#q=Spondylitis
I assumed Alimental was talking about Ankylosing Spondylitis which is believed to be an inflammation of vertebral joints due to fused vertebrates. If I was wrong I apologize.
You both are correct. Spondylitis by definition is inflammation of the spine and vertebrae. However the end result of the inflammatory process is fusion of the vertebrae. I should know since I'm a Physical Therapist Assistant but ironically am also diagnosed Ankylosing Spondylitis .
Şu dil olarak değiştir: Türkçe
Can you help me? I have a Piriformis syndrome injury for 4 years. I still play football. But the strong and balanced change is my right foot. Do you write your Instagram address or anything I can contact you?
Try looking for a certified MAT Specialist in your area:
muscleactivation.com/clients/find-a-specialist/
I find ir hard to activate my triceps.
Single arm overhead dumbell
Do you mean, after routinely training your triceps? After constant training, are they not developing?
If that's what you mean, that's a classic example of a muscle(s) that are not 100% contracting properly, and thus not growing. MAT can definitely assist with such an example.
Dips