Human Animation

How to “strengthen” your low back:

Old way
* Plank
* Bird dogs
* Clamshells
* Piriformis stretch

How to improve your lumbar spine:

New Way
* Improve joint/capsular workspace
* Improve connective tissue architecture
* Improve CT load-bearing capacity
* Train slow + fast-twitch muscles

NEW > OLD

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3 Week Wave of Heavy Effort Strategy

Neurological Inputs

Using the heavy effort method and the sub-maximal effort method.

Week 1: Pin 4 > 3 types of resistance > 4 rep max

Week 2: Pin 3 > 3 types of resistance > 3 rep max

Week 3: Pin 3 > 2 types of resistance > 2 rep max

training

Compensations as a treatment strategy

At first glance, the word compensation may have a negative connotation to it. However, it doesn’t always have to be so. In my experience, compensations are beneficial and can help clients understand their bodies more, which in turn helps them heal and improve.

My strategy with him has been to teach him to compensate on purpose and use it to our advantage. Because he has such poor control and awareness of his body, we chose to focus on the lumbopelvic-hip complex as an entire system versus learning to control the individual bits. I thought this would make it easier for him and his nervous system to learn and control these compensational patterns.

Force-Posture Curve + Connective Tissue Load-Bearing Capacity

In a recent case, the relationship of forces at different angles revealed the shortcomings of connective tissue architecture.

1. As the angle of the knee regresses, ie, more flexion, the ability to produce force decreases and is below the threshold of the CT architecture to bear a load. FLBC

3. As knee flexion increases (more extension) force output decreases again and knee pain goes away. F