Lumbar Mobility: How to perform a lumbar front quarter circle
The target for the Lumbar front quarter circle are the segments of the lumbar spine from L-1 to L-5 (low back).
Understanding how to move your lumbar spine (low back) independently of your thoracic spine and your pelvis is essential for the highest quality movement, injury...
What does a session at KRUSE ELITE look like?
In this video, you will see footage from an online private session. Luke, who is also one of our online members, addresses a pain limitation in his hamstrings that he has had for nearly 20 years. The change in his forward bend and the pain level is shocking to those who have not yet experienced...
Why You Might Still Have Pain After Rehab
Today, I'm going to talk to you about pain and why your rehabilitative efforts may not have been successful.
I cover 2 major lessons in this video:
- All sensory information goes to the contralateral cortex (opposite side brain) except smell
- The Primary pathway of voluntary movement is...
If your client has low back pain have you considered a health problem?
I can’t even tell you how many cases of chronic lower back pain we’ve seen with absolutely no injury event to go with it.
When your lower back hurts for no obvious reason there is an underlying health problem causing it. It’s never strictly a back problem.
The unfortunate issue...
Drastically improve skills as a movement expert by targeting inputs
If you are a well practiced personal trainer, coach or therapist it’s likely that you are a proprioception expert! Meaning, you teach people how to move more efficiently!
Movement is an example of an “output.” So you could say that squats, lunges, pull ups or any exercise for...
If you are chronically tight you might have a breathing problem
Sitting here working on our next big project - A beginners guide to improving your breathing! Coming in Jan 2018
Do you feel tight all of the time? Regardless of how active you are? Here’s the thing... Exercise and training should never result in more tightness. If it does, it’s...
Understanding health and performance through a neurological lens
These are the elements of basic BODY OWNERSHIP.
Did you know that there is a part of our brain that is largely responsible for our sense of:
- Body ownership?
- Feeling grounded?
- Our sense of belonging in this life?
Did you know you could train it!? Activities that help and activate this...
Is fascia as important as people say it is?
There seems to be 3 things you never want to talk about at the dinner table - religion, politics and FASCIA!
Why did fascia become part of some people’s personal belief systems? I’ve literally met people making life decisions on what they think their fascia is telling them! ...
Chronic pain is a health problem, not a fitness problem
A person who experiences ongoing pain, is a person with a health problem. Not a fitness problem.
Many people with chronic pain try and fix it by increasing their fitness. They get trapped in this cycle because exercising helps them feel better temporarily. Why? Because it stirs up a bunch of...
Are you using gait to assess your clients results?
One of the number one things you can do as a movement professional or therapist is study the human gait cycle. When it comes to offering your clients long lasting results, gait is the gold standard! If you can improve gait, results are much more likely to transfer into their life.
Why is it...
