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MOVEMENT LOGIC

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LOW BACK PAIN TUTORIAL

Are you frustrated by “One Size Fits All” approaches to low back pain, but not sure what else to do for your clients?

In truth, we can recover from injury, or prevent future injury from taking place, with regular care and feeding of our hips and low back. What does that look like? Functional and progressive movements that both challenge us to maintain healthy mobility and stability, and help us to organize our whole body movements.

In this tutorial you will:
  • Learn a movement-based approach to working with clients who have an array of low back pain sources
  • Acquire a progression of exercise techniques for clients either with diagnosed injuries or unspecified pain
  • Review musculoskeletal anatomy to better understand how bodies move, adapt, maladapt, get injured, experience pain, and heal
  • Learn common pathologies to better understand the cascade of your body’s response to tissue injury, as well as how pain is commonly patterned in response to these injuries
  • Study up-to-date, biopsychosocial pain science that breaks down old beliefs in order to paint a more accurate picture of the often complicated and counterintuitive behavior of pain
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What to Expect in our Low Back Pain Tutorial
  • One hour of exercise techniques
  • 45 minutes of pain science, anatomy, biomechanics and kinesiology
  • Watch immediately upon purchase!
  • Fully subtitled
  • Tutorials are available forever
  • 1 hour 45 minute viewing time

1.75 hours Yoga Alliance CEUs

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WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING

“I found the low back pain tutorial to be a great resource! Both in understanding how different ways of movement might affect pain levels (eg flexion vs extension), as well as giving me some real tangible exercises to play around with in my own body and hopefully 11integrate with my patients. I also had so many resounding “YES!” moments in listening to you women speak. The idea of posterior tilt not being a moral failing (I laughed out loud), and the idea of observing/treating someone through movement, and not diagnosis-based (solely). I feel lucky to have crossed paths with you and intend to soak up all that I can!” - Erica Rodas, Occupational Therapist

TUTORIAL OUTLINE

Part 1 Introduction
00:00 Intro
02:41 Kinesiologic Language of the Low Back and Pelvis

Part 2 Low Back Pain Common Sources and Trina’s Story
00:00 Low Back Pain Common Sources
02:50 Trina’s Story
04:25 How Pain and Tissue Damage Don’t Correlate
06:24 Graded Exposure for Pain Relief

Part 3 Mythbusting
00:00 Introduction
01:10 A Strong Core Will Fix Your Back Pain
03:03 Low Back Pain is Purely A Mechanical Issue
04:38 Stretch Your Hamstrings (Or Other Isolated Muscle Groups)
06:37 Active vs Passive Range Control

Part 4 Spinal Anatomy
00:00 Bones and Bony Landmarks
01:57 Intervertebral Discs
02:43 Disc Herniations
03:39 Degenerative Disc Disease
04:19 Bone Spurs and Osteoarthritis

Part 5 Pain with Spinal Extension
00:00 Pain with Extension Possible Sources
02:21 Breathing Mechanics
05:51 Rationale for Breathing Techniques

 

Part 6 Exercises for Pain with Spinal Extension
00:00 Imprint vs bracing
05:36 Leg slides
07:58 Leg slides with external rotation
09:02 Leg slides with internal rotation
09:48 Hip Roll/mini articulated bridge
11:38 Ab curl
14:38 Sidelying Leg Lifts / Sidelying Clams
16:51 Double Clam

Part 7 Exercises for Pain with Spinal Flexion
00:00 Intro
03:55 Spinal Rotation
06:26 Spinal Rotation with Extension
08:09 Spinal Sidebend
11:42 Sliding Low Lunge
13:55 Squatting with the Wall
15:55 Hip Hinge
19:38 Getting up and down from the Floor
21:18 Hollowing and Bracing in Prone Position
22:47 Active Hamstring Stretching

Part 8 Pain in Static Positions
00:00 Introduction
03:37 Deep Abdominal Stabilizers Activation
06:58 Trunk Stability with Leg Marching
09:45 Trunk Stability with Bent Knee Fall Outs
10:58 Stabilizing in Quadruped (Hands and Knees)
12:48 Progressions to Bird Dog
14:59 Trunk Stability in Kneeling

Part 9 Pain With Unspecific Positions
00:00 Pain Upon Waking
01:12 Pain At End of Day
01:37 Pain From Multiple Sources
02:48 Neurologic Red Flags

FAQs

1. How do I access my purchased tutorials?
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  • Click on "My Account" in the upper right corner
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Any issues with these steps, click on the SUPPORT button and we will help you!

2. I'm not a teacher. Is this tutorial for students, too?

Absolutely. This tutorial is for anyone. It is meant for teachers and students alike.

3. Do I need a strong background in anatomy?

Not at all. The tutorial will cover kinesiology and muscle anatomy, but it is presented in a way that is easily accessible to anyone.

4. Are the exercises presented only for private students or would they work in a group class setting?

Both. The topics and exercises are appropriate in groups and one-on-one sessions.

5. How long will I have access to this tutorial?

Forever!

6. Do I need special props?

Props suggested are: yoga blocks, strap, blanket, pillow, chair, resistance band, kettlebell, dowel or similar, and squishy ball. Some or all will help with receiving the maximum benefit of the tutorial.

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ABOUT MOVEMENT LOGIC

The Movement Logic tutorials aim to enhance your problem-solving skills so you can work more effectively with your students and clients who are injured or in pain.
Become Anatomically and Biomechanically Informed
  • Learn musculoskeletal anatomy to better understand how bodies move, adapt, maladapt, get injured, experience pain, and heal
  • Familiarize yourself with common pathologies to better understand the cascade of your body's response to tissue injury, as well as how pain is commonly patterned in response to these injuries
Understand Pain
  • You'll study up-to-date, biopsychosocial pain science that breaks down old beliefs in order to paint a more accurate picture of the often complicated and counterintuitive behavior of pain
  • The biopsychosocial model is a holistic perspective to pain that looks at the relationship between your biology, your mind, and society, and how those elements together influence your whole body experience of pain
Acquire Teaching skills
  • You will acquire corrective exercise techniques for helping private clients who have diagnosed injuries as well as those with unspecified pain
  • You'll learn best practices for presenting these corrective exercises in a group class

COURSE CREATORS

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TRINA ALTMAN

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DR. SARAH COURT

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LAUREL BEVERSDORF

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💪Osteoporosis-safe impact training: heel drops! 💪Osteoporosis-safe impact training: heel drops!
 
I got an excellent question from my post about improving bone density: 
 
🗣️How do you start impact training for people who already have osteoporosis, without running the risk of a fracture?
 
✅The answer: heel drops! 

➡️➡️Note that I’m letting my whole body relax as I land. You could also start with these in sitting, though the amount of impact will be decreased.
 
Questions? Comments? Let’s discuss!
Do you try to keep your elbows neutral? (4 joints) Do you try to keep your elbows neutral? (4 joints)

Your knees? (3 joints)

Your feet? (33 joints)

Your hands? (27 joints)

No?

You move them in all the ways?

Your trunk is made up of well over 300 joints!

The spine has 364 joints alone. Disc joints but also facet joints and rib joints.

Why are we so attached to neutral in core strength or stability exercises?

Asking for a friend. 🧐🤔
A stimulus is a load big enough to make a change. A stimulus is a load big enough to make a change. 

Everything is a load, but it’s the stimulating loads we’re after with exercise.

If the load isn’t stimulating it doesn’t make a change. It doesn’t, in the case of weight-lifting, make us stronger.

For example, ya know how sometimes when women start lifting weights, they choose 2lb dumbbells because unfortunately that image is typically how women lifting weights is represented in the mainstream?

In this case, the person lifting weights, likely won’t build much strength. A gallon of water weighs more than 2lbs.

Strength stimulating loads should feel quite a bit heavier than the typical loads of your everyday life. How much does your kid weigh, for example? Or your dog or your suitcase?

For exercise to induce strength, the magnitude of the load must be sufficient (aka stimulating).

For this reason I often encourage women to pick up heavier weights. 

That’s not the only way to increase load though.

Another way is, within a given exercise, to move the body’s joints through a full range of motion instead of through a partial range of motion.

This is also a way to improve your mobility right alongside your strength!

It’s also a way to target particularly weak joint angles (usually the end range ones) which really comes in handy in the asana practice where we sometimes need to be pretty dang strong is those awkward, end range angles.

Here I’m showing a sit to stand variation of the goblet squat, but instead of starting with the hips at 90 degrees of flexion (like they would be in typically before rising up from sitting in a chair) we start lower and then linger at depth to really hone strength at end range.

Try it! I bet you get more out of your weights.
In this episode, @sarahcourtdpt is joined by Dr. C In this episode, @sarahcourtdpt is joined by Dr. Chris Raynor (@stablekneez), orthopedic surgeon, sports medicine specialist, and founder of Human 2.0, an integrated healthcare and fitness facility in Ottawa that holds a “Movement Is Medicine” philosophy.

Sarah and Chris discuss how he managed to avoid surgeon stereotypes, why avoiding pain at all costs is not the answer, how to determine if surgery is the right approach, PLUS your Instagram questions answered! They also discuss:
 
➡️The difference between discomfort and pain, our tendencies to interpret all pain the same way, and the need to better interpret this “low level language” to make better movement choices

➡️Whether myofascial manual techniques are really making as much difference as we think they are

➡️How and when he steers patients away from surgery and towards strength and mobility work instead

➡️The frustrations he faces with non-musculoskeletal doctors who instill fear of movement in their patients through their own lack of knowledge

➡️How the conservative world of orthopedic surgeons is slowly changing with the newer generations to emphasize mobility and strength for themselves and their patients

🔗 in bio to listen!
Hesitant about a barbell at home? It takes up less Hesitant about a barbell at home? It takes up less space than you think!
 
My office is 8’x12’ – it’s not a big room, but this fits fine. 

💪You can also get a 6’ barbell – mine is 7’ because I wanted the heaviest one.
 
💪Portable rack from amazon (about $70) + the ability to follow IKEA type directions (or taskrabbit if you really don’t want to bother) and VOILA!
 
⬇️Comment if you have questions!
If “bulking up” has stopped you from lifting a If “bulking up” has stopped you from lifting anything over 10 lbs, know this:

➡️ hypertrophy (increasing muscle mass) in the right amounts is good for you
 
➡️ how about we release ourselves from the dominion of the male gaze and build our bodies to look like whatever the f*** we want them to
 
And the one they don’t tell you:

➡️ lifting heavy builds strong bones, and strong bones don’t get osteoporosis
 
💪💪💪Let’s get stronger and HULK SMASH THE PATRIARCHY, shall we?
 

✅Want to lift heavy weights but don’t know where to start? We’ve got something in the works and you’re not gonna wanna miss it!

👉 Get on our mailing list so you make sure to hear about it!
💪Talk about #sneakystrength disguised as a mobi 💪Talk about #sneakystrength disguised as a mobility exercise😮
 
I have done hip dips from a forearm plank before, but from the shoulder is a whole new world (thank you, @stablekneez). 

➡️It highlighted my L shoulder relative weakness – initially I couldn’t get my left hip to the ground, but a little practice and they’re a lot more similar (funny how that works).
 
😉Yes, sometimes bodyweight IS enough to be a strength exercise

➡️⬇️Give this one a go and let me know what you think in the comments!
 
✅Also: there’s still time to sign up for a fr*e 15 minute check in with me
 
We can go over anything – a nagging pain, a client you need help with, a nudge of inspiration to keep going – it’s up to you!
 
BUT it’s only available to my mailing list – so click the link in bio or go to www.sarahcourtdpt.com
 
You’ll also receive an easy-to-follow series that takes you safely from bodyweight to using weights for squats, deadlifts and chest press.
 
🔗Link in bio or go to my site to sign up!
We’re delighted to share @sarahcourtdpt’s new We’re delighted to share @sarahcourtdpt’s new Cancer Resiliency Program for people going through treatment. Read more below! 
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My Cancer Resiliency Program is here!

This has been a labor of love, and I’m thrilled to finally share it with you.
 
My goal is for as many people as possible to benefit from this program!
 
🔗Learn more at the link in bio

🗣️Share with anyone you think would be interested

📌Save for future use

📫DM me with any questions!
 
 
#breastcancersupport #cancerresearch #yogiswholift #strengthtrainingforcancer #yogaforcancer #pilatesforcancer 
[Video ID: photos of Sarah going through cancer treatment, followed by video clips from her Cancer Resiliency Program. Video is fully captioned.]
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