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This is Brent of the Brookbush Institute,
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and in this video we're going over
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static self-administered release of the
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adductor Magnus; a muscle that has a
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propensity towards over activity in
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those with lumbo-pelvic hip complex
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dysfunction. Specifically becoming short
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and overactive in those with either that
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sign knees bow out on an overhead squat,
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or potentially with an asymmetrical
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shift this muscle would be short on the
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side opposite the shift, along with those
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synergists of external rotation, the
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piriformis and biceps femoris. I'm going
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to have my friend Brian come out, he's
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going to help me demonstrate this
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technique. Now this is one of those
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techniques that works a lot better in a
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seated position with the legs dangling,
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similar to the biceps femoris technique
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we showed before, and a softball tends to
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work a lot better than a foam roll,
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because the adductor Magnus lies just
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medial to the hamstrings. And you'll
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see when you put the ball there there
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like a little higher right, so we got to
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get around those hamstring muscles. So
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all Brian's going to do is sit down, he's
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going to place that ball underneath the
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meat of his inner thigh. Let me actually
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have you face that way first so they
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kind of see where your placing this
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ball. If you guys just grab this like
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meat right here, and put the ball right
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up underneath there, you'll feel
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the trigger points of this
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muscle tend to be like right in the
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middle of the femur, or real close to the
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ischium the sits bones, so real close to
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the groin. Alright once he finds the
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most tender spot, I'm just going to have
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him hold it and try to relax. He's just
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going to use the weight of his leg to
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apply pressure, he's going to keep nice
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good upper body posture so that I'm not
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perpetuating further postural
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dysfunction, and he's going to let me
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know when he either feels that release
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sensation, or he feels a significant
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reduction in discomfort. Usually that
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takes 30 to 120 seconds, how does that
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Feels a little tender. Alright let me
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have you show them from another angle
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here. So let's do your right thigh, they
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can kind of see you get in position, you
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can scoop back and forth if you need to,
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pretend like you don't know where your
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spots are. Alright you can see he can
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just kind of scoot back, shift a little
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bit, there you go. You can kind of do one
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of those functional push-ups with his
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hands until he finds the perfect spot. We
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don't want people doing this thing with
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their leg to try to find a spot, like
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where they actually have to actively
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hold it in internal rotation or hold it
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in external rotation. We want them
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totally relaxed, got it. Try not to allow
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people to roll back and forth guys, if we
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are trying to reduce the activity of
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this muscle we're hoping that pressure
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results in a little inhibition, and a
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return to normal tone. Rolling back and
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forth, probably the best thing we're
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going to get out of that is stimulus
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stimulation of nociceptors, and
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potentially an increase in activity,
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which obviously if I'm trying to release
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this muscle is going to do nothing for
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the rehab process, nothing for his
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performance. I want to optimize his
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movement patternsm which kind of brings
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us to our next point. If you're doing
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this technique it should be because you
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saw something that indicated adductor
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Magnus over activity on an assessment,
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and you should of course follow this up
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with reassessment. There's always a
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chance that you thought this was
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involved, did the technique and it had no
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effect on your reassessment, which in
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that case you just wouldn't do this
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technique again. What do you think, you
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think this is going to have a little
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effect on your movement? A little bit, a
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little bit. You tend to tend to be a
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little tender. Brian tends to have a
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little bit of that knees bow out
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dysfunction. So there you guys have it
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static self-administered release of the
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adductor Magnus. Experiment with a few
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different tools. We used a softball, you
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guys can see I have the two different
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size trigger point massage balls there.
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You're going to have to find the right
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technique based on the thickness of the
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individuals thigh, the size of the
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individual. And you might even have to
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adjust a little bit maybe smaller, to
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increase the pressure for those
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individuals who are a little bit more
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advanced. I look forward to seeing your
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comments at the end of this video, please
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feel free to leave any questions you