Supinated or pronated? Today Melanie Byford-Young talks about the importance of supination and pronation in the forearm and how this can be a clue to unlocking the forearm.
Leslie Braverman
Today’s session features the Mini Stability Ball™ and how to challenge you or your client’s mobility and ankle control.
Toss out the bad eggs. Miscommunicated imagery and cues can lead clients to worse pain patterns and problems. Melanie reminds all movement professionals and therapists to use caution with cues and communicate consistently with clients to facilitate progress and not degression.
Progress your clients through the phases of cognitive, associative, and automatic motor learning theory. Our focus today is on a progression series of leg extensions using the arc barrel.
Assess and then cue. When working with clients, assessment exercises can reveal insightful information on muscle recruitment and movement tendencies. This month, Melanie takes the time to unravel the possibilities of movement patterns in Ab Prep.
Diving toes, beware. It takes a smart and trained eye to catch unhealthy movement patterns, which can either begin proximally or distally in the body. Melanie’s assessment for today looks at the big toe during Single Leg Stretch and how you can identify this movement pattern when working with your client.
Put motor learning theory into practice. April’s Therapeutic Pilates segments highlight the three phases of motor learning and how to identify and progress clients to better movement patterns.
Let’s take a look at the hips. Melanie Byford-Young shows how to stabilize the hips in closed chain and open chain exercises taking into consideration the three stages of motor learning theory.
