Name: Quadriceps and Rectus Femoris Vibration Release
Uploaded: 2023-04-26T01:02:42.000Z
Duration: 9 min 4 s
Description: This video demonstrates massage gun techniques for the quadriceps, including rectus femoris and sartorius, to relieve tension, target common trigger points, and enhance lower body flexibility and mobility. Learn proper supine positioning, how to safely navigate bony landmarks like the patella and femoral condyles and apply effective tension control for optimal results.

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This video demonstrates massage gun techniques for the quadriceps, including rectus femoris and sartorius, to relieve tension, target common trigger points, and enhance lower body flexibility and mobility. Learn proper supine positioning, how to safely navigate bony landmarks like the patella and femoral condyles and apply effective tension control for optimal results.

Introduction to Vibration Release Techniques

Assessment and Initial Techniques for Quad and Rectus Femoris

Superficial Release Technique with Hypervolt

Deepening the Release: Adjusting Techniques and Tool Selection

Post-Treatment Assessment and Follow-Up Techniques

Quadriceps and Rectus Femoris Vibration Release

This is Brett of The brookbush Institute in this video. We're gonna go over rectus for Morris and quadriceps vibration or percussive release using the hypervolt from hyper ice. I'm gonna have my friend Melissa come out. She's gonna help me demonstrate. Now. This is a Release Technique. So I'm gonna assume we're trying to increase mobility and that that is based on assessment. So if we're doing the quad and rectus femoris, I'm going to assume that maybe she either has a hip extension or knee flexion restriction, maybe on the overhead squat assessment. She had excessive forward lean or knees bow out or an interior pelvic tilt but we had a good reason to do this and something to reassess to see how effective this technique was. Now you'll notice that Melissa is in Sue Pine on a table that does have some advantages because I can actually have Melissa scoot over just a little bit and then hang her leg off the table and by bending her knee like this. I can actually put my knee against her shin and control the amount of tension in her quad and rectus for more. So this is going to come in handy because with my Release Technique, so I want the tissue to push back against the Change just a little bit and putting a little stretch on the tissue might actually help us get a release right like you guys have noticed like when you stretch you get that release of tissue. So a little counter of intuitive with our vibration release techniques is we actually start on the higher settings. But we are going to start very superficial. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to start down by Melissa's knee here and you guys got to be careful because some people are a little ticklish down here, right? And I'm just gonna slowly glide through the tissue. A little different than our static manual release techniques or a foam rolling where we're going after a specific trigger point. In this case. I'm going to actually kind of go through all of the muscle. Think you'll find that you get a good release throughout the entirety of the muscle tissue. It's a little less specific than that trigger point release techniques. however As you're going through. Try to make note of where the tissue feels a little denser, right? It's a little harder to push through. Maybe where you're getting some twitch responses, like every once in a while, you will hit a trigger point. You'll see fibers are fascicles actually twitch. places where the the patient or client says that they're more tender All of those are going to be good places to go back to when I show you guys how to use this technique. Or modify this technique to get a little deeper in the tissue and Melissa's kind of kicking back against me here. So I'm guessing that this is a tender spot. We'll kind of make mental note of that for later. And as I'm going through you guys all notice I'm staying away from her kneecap. I'm also staying away from her Asis. This thing does not feel good over bony protuberances. If you're a little unsure of somebody's Anatomy, you could always put a thumb there right or put a thumb there and make sure you know, you don't go past your own thumb. You guys will notice I'm just using the weight of the machine here. I don't need a lot of pressure. And nice the hypervolt is light enough that I can use one hand. I could even be like monitoring or trying to palpate tissue and see where she has maybe the most restriction like isn't mostly in her rectus femoris as opposed to like more of like the top of her vastus lateralis. All right, so we'll say that we've gone through her whole muscle here. Right now maybe I want to get a little deeper into the tissue. Well, I can try with this piece. Although this piece is pretty wide and flat. I might want to go with something that has a little smaller surface area. The hypervolt comes with these two pieces. This one's kind of forked like so you could I guess essentially go after two trigger points at once. It does come in handy. This piece is what we're gonna start with here, which I think hypervolt calls the bullet. And since I'm going to try to get a little deeper in the tissue. I might also do this. Take some tension out. Right now I can get a little deeper. Without getting kick back from that tissue. I'm also going to start at a lower setting. So maybe I use two. See if Melissa can stand this not so well, let's see if she stands the lower setting a little bit better. And so let's try this. Is that better? Okay, so we're just going to use that lower setting and as I mentioned I kind of kept track that like she had a tender Point here. So maybe I'm going to slowly glide through that that tender point. Right wait for that tissue to give way you get notice that where I was really superficial with that flat piece. I'm kind of digging in a little bit. don't press as hard as you possibly can. We're not we're not trying to strike her femur. Like that's definitely not the goal. You're just digging in a little bit. And then slowly working your way through the tissue. Twitch response there has that trigger point let go. and as we get higher into our quad and her we're getting into like thicker more dense muscle tissue. We could have Melissa sit up. Right. So now we're shortening the rectus for Morris even more. And maybe that allows us to get even deeper into the tissue if we feel like we have a really deep trigger point. And of course the nice thing is since this is a very safe technique guys. You can't really do much damage. If you do have an athlete who's coming in often and you feel confident in Their ability and want to do this effectively. Let's say I wanted to go grab a couple pieces of equipment to set her up with like maybe her isolated activation techniques. I can go. Here you go. Make sure you work on that area where you have those tender trigger points. And of course she can feel those trigger points probably better than I can. All right. She was a really. Advanced athlete a lead athlete competition and Recovery was really really important to her. I might even suggest that she purchases one of these for home because the quads are definitely an area that somebody can get to on their own. I know personally I use this after every basketball game. Definitely convenient to kind of just be doing in the on the ride home just be like going through my quads and making sure I get a little bit of that help on the recovery side of things. How's that feel? ticklish Yeah, this is one area that Melissa is quite ticklish on. I know some people are a little bit more ticklish to the vibration. And in a little different areas than others. Good. How does that feel? Good. All right. So go ahead and turn this off. All right. And then I would follow up with reassessment. So if we're doing the quad maybe I want to retest knee flexion. If we were doing this for hip extension. Maybe I want to retest her hip extension. Maybe I want to look back at her overhead squat. Remember guys, we're not just using a cool tool to do a cool technique. We're trying to get some sort of effective outcome. So to quickly go through all of the progressions we went through. Can you lay down real quick? We had several positions. we had knee bent off the table. And of course I could control how much knee Bend. I then went a little deeper or got a little less tension in the tissue but putting her leg straight but notice she's still in a hip extended position or at least a hip neutral position. I could then have her. Sit all the way up. I have different. Heads that I can use for the hypervolt, right? I told you guys that I like the flat round piece. for lower extremity in particular I think I think it gives a very consistent feel being that it's it's a solid piece and it has a good surface area to it. And then once I was going after more like trigger points and specific points of tissue density, I switched to the bullet, although you could probably also get away with using this tool which is kind of like this this Fork shaped tool. Start with assessment follow up with assessment. I hope you guys really enjoy this hyper volt from hyper ice. It's definitely a 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.

Supine near the side of the table. Allow the lower leg to hang off the side of the table for added control over the amount of tension in these 

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

 are superficial muscles that comprise nearly the entire girth of the anterior thigh. The only muscle superficial to the 

 , which runs obliquely from ASIS to wrap posteriorly around the 

 trigger points are usually found just distal mid-length of the thigh.

 are superficial muscles that course vertically down the anterior thigh from the anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS) and anterior inferior iliac spine (AIIS) to the 

 trigger points are either a few inches distal the ASIS or close to the middle of the length of the thigh.

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