Name: Tibialis Anterior Reactive Activation Progressions
Uploaded: 2023-04-26T01:01:30.000Z
Duration: 3 min 14 s

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Learn how to properly perform tibialis anterior reactive activation progressions in this comprehensive step-by-step instructional video from the Brookbush Institute. This evidence-based video provides expert coaching on setup, positioning, alignment, and technique (including progressions and regressions). Safely enhance tibialis anterior activation, improve dorsiflexion control and reactive neuromuscular function, and support optimal lower-extremity alignment and movement mechanics. Suitable for all fitness levels. Perfect for athletes, fitness enthusiasts, and rehabilitation clients seeking to reduce pain, improve performance, and restore optimal movement mechanics while reducing injury risk.

Introduction to Tibialis Anterior Reactive Integration

Progression from Heel Walks to High Velocity Movements

Bilateral Hops with Soft Landings for Stabilization

Advancing to Single Leg Balance Techniques

Transverse Plane Hops and Final Integration Steps

Tibialis Anterior Reactive Activation Progressions

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

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Tibialis Anterior

Hops to "Heel-to-toe" Landing to Stabilization:

Have your client or patient assume a semi-squat position.

Set a conservative distance as a "target" or "goal".

Have your client or patient visualize landing on the heels and rolling to full foot on the floor, as softly as possible, maintaining the bottom position of the semi-squat after landing.

Ask your client or patient to hop to the target softly.

Land on the heels as softly as possible allowing your legs and the rolling motion of heel-to-toe to absorb the force.

Hold the semi-squat position until you feel stable:

This exercise may be progressed by hopping a greater distance, landing on a single leg, or hopping from one leg to another in the transverse plane.

The challenge is landing soft: Do not allow your patient/client to perform this exercise on a yoga mat, abmat, with soft-soled shoes etc., and ask them to remove headphones while performing the technique

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