Joint by Joint Training

Michael Boyle
  

• Introduction
• Ankle mobility and flexibility
• Difference between tissue and bone
• Stacking up mobile and stable joints up the body
• Body part training – movement not muscles
• New paradigm movement based on different needs of different joints
• Poor ankle mobility – stress rises -> patella femoral pain
• Basketball – bracing ankle to support ankles – huge secondary problems with knees
• Soccer players almost never sprain ankles
• Basketball players often sprain ankles
• Knee – stability
• Hip – two types of mobility
• Bad hip mobility – stress the lumbar spine (which is a stability joint)
• Main reason for glute activation – stop stress in lumbar spine
• Lumbar spine training for mobility vs. the need for stability
• Thoracic spine mobility vs. lumbar stability
• Recruitment patterns of hip and psoas
• Cervical spine (stability) – often compromised by lack of thoracic mobility
• Feed instability into joints to help create stability
• Mobility work as warm up – different than flexibility work
• Injury to a muscle – look to weak synergist
• Injury joint- look to compromise in joints above or below
• Injured knee – what’s ankle and hip mobility?
• Hip needs mobility and stability
• Low back pain – are there hip mobility issues?
• Sense problem below – sense problem
• Nothing is ever what it seems
• Problems are results
• “As above so below”
• Nothing is what the books say anymore
• "Painting over the water stain vs. fixing the roof”
• Conclusion