Infant Development and Adult Dysfunction

Question:

I have an incredibly athletic client who is 49 years old and easily maintains around 18 percent body fat. She can do clapping push ups for sets of 10 or more reps, quick 24 inch box jumps with ease, has around a 14 second hexagon test and has great posture and symmetry in single leg and split stance. But she cannot squat deep. Once she breaks parallel, she falls backwards. Her knees are aligned, her heels are flat, but her torso just falls backwards. Now, if I put her heels onto one inch pieces of wood, she squats perfectly. Of course, if it's on the toes, she falls. I've put her through what RNT I know with the core board, etc, but I'm missing something.

Also, she complains to me that her golf swing is horrible and that she cannot serve or hit well in tennis. I have been confused as to why for months because I see such amazing things in the gym. Her half and tall kneeling chops, lifts, etc are symmetrical. I do spit stance curl to press and alternating chest presses with herm, and they're all right on. So I find myself asking, “WHY can't she swing a club or hit a tennis ball!?” I recently found out that as an infant, she never learned to crawl. She went straight to walking. After finding this out, I looked closely at her gait and her arms do NOT swing opposite arm and leg. They're distorted (i.e., left arm moves with left leg). If she really concentrates, she can do it right, but then she sometimes confuses her breathing pattern. Could this explain why she has trouble with her golf swing and tennis serve?

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