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Pain Exploration: Medial Knee

For about two months, I’ve had some chronic discomfort in my left knee.  On a scale of 1-10, with ’10’ being agony and ‘1’ being noticeable/annoying, it oscillates between 1 and 4.  Though this might...

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Hip Internal Rotation – Manipulating Joints Above and Below

Pelvic motion and knee flexion influence hip rotation.   Structures above and below a joint have a direct impact on the way it functions.  For the hip, its surrounding articulations are the knee and...

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Hip Abduction and Lateral Shifting

The vast majority of movements happen going forward.  We reach, walk, look, and move toward what’s in front of us.  Then we sit by pushing our butt backward.  This front-to-back plane of motion (or...

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Challenging Hip Extension

Hip extension is a vital movement to both health and performance.  Wellness wise, hips that can extend, coupled with an unstuck spine and pelvis that can naturally posteriorly tilt, means you likely...

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Dynamic Movement as An Extension of Control

Body control is all the rage.  A popular want is increasing active range of motion.  People want to get there so they can do stuff there.  Functional Range Conditioning uses slow, controlled movement...

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Learning Acrobatics and Developing Elasticity

Movement overlaps. Brain work = joint work = speed, power, strength, and coordination work.  We have structures and we have capacities.  Our practice establishes the abilities of both.  There is a...

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A Purpose and Description of Exploratory Movement

“I’m going to explore the depths of the ocean.” “You’re gonna what?” “I’m going to get into this magical pressure suit, close myself off to the known world, and look for cool stuff.”   “Why would you...

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Repetition and Dysfunction : Minimizing Back Pain

Issues with joints or body parts can almost always be traced back to usage.  When faced with a familiar task in a familiar environment, our habitual patterns of movement follow a particular chain of...

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The World of Fighting Monkey (part 1)

Doing without knowing.  Playing, creating, learning.  Adjusting and adapting.  Describing Fighting Monkey is an act in organizing verbs.  Everything overlaps and intertwines and is a wonder.  The only...

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The World of Fighting Monkey (part 2)

Engaging with your work demands a certain degree of ownership.  There must be a benefit to the challenge presented, beyond just a hard-to-apply confidence.  A task can serve as a test of will, a test...

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Neck Extension and Lateral Flexion

Plagued by forward head posture and phone-down eyes, the act of tilting the head back can become unnerving.  Used to being underutilized, the cervical spine has to be coaxed into believing extension...

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Knees, Hamstrings, and Low Gait

The low gait might be the truest test of healthy knees.  It requires full flexion under full bodyweight while pulling the center of mass.  A single knee is responsible for stabilizing load while the...

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Spinal Fluidity – Influence of Scapula and Load

Movement expression is dependent on on our tadpole-like head and spine to drive and disperse motion.  Any sticking points have a reverberatory effect on the actions of the limbs.  After a decade of...

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(Half ) A Tom Weksler Workshop

  If you’re curious about why only half a workshop I’ll tell that story at the end.    Tom Weksler’s Movement Archery workshop was a lesson in angular momentum.  We rolled, we spun, we bruised our...

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The Heel and the Knee

When assessing the lower leg, it has become common place to examine the foot.  The pliable and separable toes receive much of the attention.  The heel, strange and seemingly uninteresting, gets...

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Tension and Extension

For a long time, I believed that extension was the working opposite of flexion.  They felt as contrary as they looked.  Folding forward was natural and effortless.  Folding back was a resistance to...

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Rotational Organization

The following is a glimpse into the mind of Nicole Uno (IG @unotraining).   Rotational Organization allows for the simultaneous existence between contract and relax.  Thoroughly simplified, consider...

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Exploration & Safety (Part One)

The following is part one of my course notes and findings from Stress, Movement, and Pain.   Linked through the perception of threat and cause to protect,  Seth Oberst generously delivered on the hows,...

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Exploration & Safety (Part Two)

The following is part two of my course notes and findings from Stress, Movement, and Pain.   As practitioners seeking to help bio-psycho-social organisms, we have to be able to read, analyze, and...

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Neck Extension and Lateral Flexion

Plagued by forward head posture and phone-down eyes, the act of tilting the head back can become unnerving.  Used to being underutilized, the cervical spine has to be coaxed into believing extension...

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