Meet Mark Watson and one of his very happy clients!! Mark delivers a brief overview of a knee rehabilitation program executed perfectly. Sometimes patients are quick to jump to the option of surgery when it’s recommended by their Doctor as they believe that it’s their only way forward and often they’re unaware of the recovery […]
How our EP, Mark Watson, helped this fellow avoid surgery and RTW full time Read More »
If, like me, you find yourself sitting for big chunks of the day to write reports, make phone calls, sit in meetings, drive to appointments etc etc etc, then, like me, your hip flexors are going to be firing up and pulling your pelvis into what we call an anterior pelvic tilt. The hip flexors are in an
Hi guys. Brad here from Specialised Health. I wanted to put this quick little video together because I just did an appointment earlier today, where I was working with a fellow on a knee injury and was talking to him a lot about movement patterns and the importance of using a really sound hip movement pattern when doing squatting movements. I wanted to do this quick video because I’ve been talking to insurance case managers lately about what movement patterns are, what the point of optimising these is, and how that can help somebody improve their function.
Looking at the first example now of this fellow in the video above, you can see the knee angle he started with. If you see the line inserted and you can see where the knees are in front of the toes and essentially moving his centre of gravity over the balls of the feet, what that requires is, therefore, a lot of quadricep activation to raise his body and that, therefore, puts a lot of pressure on the knees.
With the second example, you can see that we moved the centre of gravity a bit further back, so it’s more over the centre of the feet or over the heels. What that then causes is the hips, the glutes, the hamstrings to really be the prime movers through the movement.
Through optimising that movement pattern, this guy can stop putting so much pressure on the knees and create, actually, a lot more force by using the hips. That’ll give him a greater lifting capacity, greater squatting capacity. That’s a really good example of using movement patterns or optimising movement patterns to illicit more function.
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When clients have a reduced range of movement as a result of their injury but we need them to stay as active as possible, we need to find ways that they can stay functional and keep their muscles moving without risking flare-ups or re-injuries.
Sometimes you need to get inventive Read More »
We love sharing a big win, especially if it’s in Worker’s Comp. And for those folk that are working within the Worker’s Comp space on a day to day basis you’ll perhaps appreciate this a little more than others as I’d say you’ll relate to the story and could attest to the rarity of it.
This could have been a disaster… Read More »
This week, we take a look at one particular task that we have been using to help a client translate what they have been learning in their exercise program into the performance of one of their key ADL tasks.
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This week, we have a look at how we have been working to reintroduce a squatting movement pattern for a client with a lower back injury.
Low Level Lifting for a Courier with a Lower Back Injury Read More »
Waitress Plate Lift & Carry Hi, this week we are going to look at specifically how we’ve been strengthening a waitress with a lower back injury to carry plates around a busy restaurant.
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