0:02 This is Brent Brookbush, President of B2C Fitness, and we're doing tibialis anterior 0:07 reactive integration, or progressions of. Now, at this point I'm assuming we've 0:12 already done our release, stretching, mobilizations when possible, and isolated 0:18 activation. I'm assuming that we're working with somebody with lower leg 0:21 dysfunction. In the previous video of tibialis anterior reactive integration, 0:26 we did that first step of a heel walk, with toes curled, and you saw my friend 0:32 Laura laughing at me as we walked around like ducks. We're now going to progress 0:36 from that, onto a more high velocity movement. My friend, Salvi, is going to 0:42 come out and help us demonstrate. So what's Salvi's going to do now, is she's 0:47 going to work on something that our tibialis anterior has to do all of the time, 0:52 every step we take, which is eccentrically decelerate our foot after heel 0:58 strike. It's your tibialis anterior that keeps your foot up, so that you have a 1:04 nice, smooth, glide when you walk, as opposed to doing a foot flop. What I'm 1:10 going to have Salvi do, is a bilateral hop, to two foot landing, starting with her 1:16 feet up, landing on her heels, and she's going to try to land as quietly as 1:20 possible. So, hands on hips, and I want you to just do a bilateral hop, queue 1:26 landing, nice and soft. That was pretty good. This time what I want you to 1:29 do with those, instead of getting right back up, let's make that tibialis anterior 1:32 work to stabilize you. I want you to land soft, and stay in that position, good. 1:40 Let's try that one more time, but a little quieter. A queue I like to use is, 1:43 "pretend you're a little ninja". Good. So you can see there that the tibialis 1:54 anterior has to work against your body weight at a higher velocity, to 1:59 slowly let those feet down so you'll land softly. The progression from a two-leg 2:03 bilateral hop, is simply a bilateral hop to single leg balance. We're still landing 2:11 on the heel, and we make her stabilize for as long as it takes to make her feel 2:15 stable, usually 3 seconds. Good. Let's go ahead and try that one more time. 2:22 She's been landing very softly, she's able to stabilize her foot and 2:27 maintain that arch. Then the last progression, I'm actually going to make 2:31 her do a transverse plane hop, to single leg balance, landing heel to toe. 2:45 Hold, two, three. So there you go, tibialis 2:49 anterior reactive integration progressions. So we started with our heel 2:55 walks, then we went bilateral hop, heel to toe landing with stabilization. 3:00 Bilateral hop to single leg balance, heel to toe landing. Then transverse plane 3:05 hop, to single leg balance, heel to toe landing. Thank you.
