Name: Biceps Femoris Vibration Release
Uploaded: 2023-04-26T01:01:54.000Z
Duration: 5 min 59 s
Description: Learn how to use a massage gun on the biceps femoris to relieve hamstring tightness, release trigger points, and enhance flexibility. This step-by-step guide covers proper prone positioning, safe handling around bony landmarks, and targeted techniques for both the long and short heads of the muscle.

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Learn how to use a massage gun on the biceps femoris to relieve hamstring tightness, release trigger points, and enhance flexibility. This step-by-step guide covers proper prone positioning, safe handling around bony landmarks, and targeted techniques for both the long and short heads of the muscle.

Introduction to Vibration Techniques for Hamstrings

Demonstration of Percussive Release on the Lateral Hamstring

Identifying and Addressing Trigger Points

Refinement Techniques with More Focused Tools

Alternative Positions for Hamstring Release

Assessment and Reassessment Post-Release Techniques

Biceps Femoris Vibration Release

This is Brother The brookbush Institute in this video. We're gonna go over vibration or percussive release for the hamstrings. I'm gonna have my friend a vet come out. She's gonna help me demonstrate. I'm gonna have a vet go ahead and just lie belly down just gonna be in prone. This is a really easy technique to guys. So you guys will notice I have the the flat piece on here the flat stiffer piece. I tend to like this piece more because of how consistent feel it gives. As I've mentioned in a few other videos a little counterintuitive we start on the highest settings and stay superficial to start and then we're gonna work our way back on the lower settings, but go deeper. I'm gonna go ahead and just control a vets ankle here and the amount of knee flushing. She has to control the amount of tension in the hamstrings and I'm gonna go ahead and start on the lateral hamstring because we kind of know from research and some of the common dysfunctions that we see that the biceps femoris the lateral hamstring tends to be the more overactive of the hamstring group. So you guys can see here. I'm just kind of kind of move my way through the entirety of the muscle nice and slow trying to get the whole thing to calm down a little bit get all that tissue melting underneath the hypervolt here. But I am taking note of any tissue that I think gives me a little Kickback where I feel a vet. Maybe trying to guard on me. That might be a little bit more sensitive. Or maybe I see some fascicles pop out. Get that twitch response because I hit a trigger point those little points. I'm Gonna Keep in the back of my head and I'm gonna go back and Tackle them a little deeper with a more pointed piece. using this hyperbolt How's that feel of it good? Be careful. Sometimes it takes a couple seconds for people to desensitize. So if you you go right at them with it, they'll either feel pain or they'll feel ticklish. Sometimes it takes a couple seconds to desensitize. So don't just dig in real hard. You guys will notice I'm basically using the weight of the hypervolt which weighs almost nothing the frequency and amplitude are gonna do most of the work for you. All right. So now that I've gone through the whole muscle I'm gonna go ahead and turn this off. I'm going to take the flat piece out. I'm going to use the bullet piece. You could probably also use this forked piece if you wanted to but we're gonna use this bullet piece and I noticed just a couple of trigger points. Now your common trigger points in the biceps femoris happened to be About two-thirds the way up the thigh. Right in the kind of center of the biceps Morse long head and then the other one tends to be about a third of the way. Up from the knee and that's the trigger point for the short head of the bicep Summers. So we'll go back just on setting one. Right put a little slack in that tissue so you can get a little deeper. I'm just gonna try to get that. denser area to melt underneath the snow smaller piece, which means more pressure per square inch. Alright, so we got that little area done and then I'm gonna come back. I felt something right up in here. There we go. So we get all this to calm down. You guys are gonna see pretty quick. and inside of just under a couple minutes here I'm done. I've got a nice release from her biceps femoris. Now if you wanted to could you follow up with static manual release techniques or do your pin and stretch techniques or maybe even instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization? Absolutely the effect that we get from this technique is a little different. I will show you guys one other technique you could do for the hamstrings go ahead and flip over if you don't mind of it. We could do this in the position of a hamstring stretch. So go ahead and lay all the way back. I could have a vet. Just like I was going to do like some sort of biceps femoris stretch, right? And I could try. To go over hamstring this way. Just a warning. If somebody is larger than you are. If they're really tight not that I like to use that word that they have an overactive biceps for more. So you're getting a lot of Kick Back. This is going to be a tough position for you to stay in for a very long time. It's not that this is a bad position for your client. It's more of one of those things. It's probably not a great position for you. So you can use this technique. It does work very well. Obviously I can put now tension in the biceps for Morris from both the knee and the hip side. But I would use it sparingly. So that you don't wear yourself out. How does that feel? And of course after I would do this technique, I would reassess. Because obviously with all of these vibration release techniques, we're not just doing a cool technique with a cool tool we want to be trying to affect. The outcomes of an assessment that we're using that address the specific issue that your patient or client came in with. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. I hope you guys enjoyed these hypervolts from hyper ice total game changer.

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Vibration Release Technique: Lower Body

Pre-exercise local vibration reduces functional signs and chemical markers of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) and may improve performance in subsequent frequent workouts.

Local vibration is effective for reducing acute muscle pain (and can be added to a home program via the devices like the Hypervolt by Hyperice® or similar devices).

Local vibration alone may be sufficient to increase strength in deconditioned muscles/individuals.

Current research implies that adding vibration to self-administered release techniques (SMR) (e.g. foam rolling) enhances benefits for DOMS, pain pressure sensitivity, and increasing proprioception. Further research is needed to refine protocols and determine whether adding vibration to SMR enhances benefits for increasing range of motion and improving power performance when used as a warm-up.

Protocol for Using Percussion Massage Device

Start with a higher setting and superficially (with gentle pressure) trace the entire surface of the muscle.

Setting 3 is likely appropriate for the lower body.

Take a mental note of dense or sensitive points. Manual therapists may use the opposite hand to palpate for taut bands and nodules (trigger points).

Stay away from areas where the bone is superficial. Using percussion massage devices over bone may be uncomfortable, painful, and/or cause bruising. Placing a finger or thumb over bony protuberances will prevent accidental contact.

Using a piece with a smaller surface area and lower setting (setting 1), return to the dense/sensitive points using deeper compression.

It may be helpful to add tension or slack by shortening or lengthening the target tissue

The Brookbush Institute recommends 30 seconds to 2 minutes per muscle group, and 5 minutes as an upper limit even in the case of multiple trigger points.

 (Block with a thumb or finger when approaching these areas)

 - The long head and the short head are superficial, tube-shaped muscles on the lateral aspect of the posterior thigh. Resisted tibial external rotation can be used to differentiate between the 

 flexion can be used to differentiate between these two muscles.

Common trigger points - The long and short heads of the 

 are in the middle of the muscle bellies. The middle of the short head of the 

 is roughly halfway between the mid-point of the femur and the knee, and the middle of the long head of the 

 is roughly the mid-point of the length of the thigh.

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