Biceps Femoris SA Active Release

Biceps Femoris SA Active Release is an advanced physical therapy technique used to improve flexibility and function in the hamstrings and lower leg. This technique uses pressure, tension, and movement to manually break up adhesions, reduce tightness and tenderness, and stimulate healing of the muscles and tissues in this area. As a result, it can help to reduce inflammation and improve the range of motion of the hip, knee, and ankle joints. Biceps Femoris SA Active Release is an

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This is Brent, President of B2C Fitness, and now we're

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talking about self-administered active

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release of the biceps femoris. So this would be a progression from our static

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release techniques, onto our active release techniques. We already talked

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about how the biceps femoris has a propensity to get short, tight, and

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overactive in those individuals with lower leg dysfunction, that turning out

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of the femur, ducking in of the knees during our overhead squat assessment. I'm

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going to have Laura come out and help me demonstrate this exercise. We're going to

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go ahead and assume Laura has already done the static release for the biceps

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femoris, and now I need to progress her to keep seeing improvements in the

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quality of her movement. The technique starts out the same. I'm going to have her sit on

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something, let her legs dangle. I'm going to have her use this softball to find

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the most tender point. In active release techniques our goal is just a

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little different. Now, we have, after the trigger point goes away, we still have

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some adhesive tissue that might bind or restrict movement. So I'm going to have Laura

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find the most tendered point, and the move just distal to that point.

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So back up just a little bit, just off of it. So if the point was

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right here in the center of the ball, it's now just on the back part of the

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ball, and now what we're going to try to do is pin that adhesive tissue down, and

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pull our muscle tissue through it so that we get good function of this muscle

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back. Now, the protocol is pretty simple, very similar to active stretching, I'm

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going to have her go ahead and kick up, turn in, just turn in

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her foot, good, hold for 2, and back down. So she's going into knee extension with just a

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little bit of tibial internal rotation if I can queue it, just to lengthen that

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biceps femoris against the ball, holding that adhesive tissue in place, and

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she's going to do that 10 to 15 times. Within that 10 to 15 repetitions she

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should feel a reduction in discomfort, and an increase in extensibility. Alright,

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so this is the active, self-administered release technique, of our biceps femoris,

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