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Calf Vibration Release with Hyperice

Experience freedom from calf pain and soreness with Hyperice's Calf Vibration Release. Designed to relieve tight muscles and improve flexibility, it's the perfect way to let those calf muscles relax and enjoy the benefits of better health and performance.

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00:04 - 00:07This is Brett of the brook Bush Institute in this video. We're going to do vibration
00:07 - 00:10or percussive release techniques with my hypervolt from
00:10 - 00:13hyper ice. I'm gonna have my friend Melissa come out. She's gonna help me demonstrate.
00:13 - 00:16Now if I'm doing gastroc and Soleus
00:16 - 00:19release as I am in this video, we're gonna assume that I already did assessment.
00:19 - 00:22Melissa was complaining about some plantar fasciitis. So we
00:22 - 00:25did our overhead squat assessment. She had excessive forward
00:25 - 00:29lean and then I wanted some way to be able to assess Improvement.
00:28 - 00:31So I did a little goniometry and she actually has
00:31 - 00:34a restriction endorsi flexion. These are great reasons to use
00:34 - 00:37a little bit of vibration release. Now the vibration
00:37 - 00:40release techniques do work a little different than like,
00:40 - 00:43let's say foam rolling or our static manual
00:43 - 00:47release techniques rather than going for deep trigger
00:46 - 00:49points and staying in one place. We're gonna
00:49 - 00:52use a slightly different protocol here. Now, you'll
00:52 - 00:55notice Melissa's body position since I'm working on our calf. I
00:55 - 00:58have her laying face down and I actually have her ankles
00:58 - 01:01off the end of the table and the reason I like
01:01 - 01:04having the ankles off the end of the table like this is because
01:04 - 01:07can now control dorsiflexion with my thigh, which
01:07 - 01:11will control how much tension is
01:10 - 01:13in this tissue, which is kind of a nice benefit to
01:13 - 01:15have as I'm going through this technique.
01:16 - 01:19Oh to start off with I'm going to use the flat round piece
01:19 - 01:22that comes with my hypervolt. And
01:22 - 01:25I find that it works very well for the lower extremity and
01:25 - 01:28a little counterintuitive. I'm actually going
01:28 - 01:30to start on the higher.
01:31 - 01:34Frequency settings. So this is number three and the
01:34 - 01:38reason being is I'm also going to start very superficial.
01:37 - 01:40So when I'm doing these techniques
01:40 - 01:43initially, I'm just using the weight
01:43 - 01:46of the hyper volt itself.
01:46 - 01:49I don't need to push any deeper. I'm just
01:49 - 01:53gonna let the frequency do all
01:52 - 01:53the work.
01:55 - 01:58Now you'll also notice that rather than staying in
01:58 - 02:01one place like I would with a foam roll
02:01 - 02:04or finding like a trigger point and doing my static
02:04 - 02:07manual release techniques and one spot. I'm also going
02:07 - 02:08to glide through.
02:09 - 02:12The entirety of the tissue for the muscle that
02:12 - 02:12I'm working on.
02:15 - 02:18Now I am going to pay intention to areas that
02:18 - 02:21I think are a little bit more dense, or
02:21 - 02:23maybe have a little bit higher tone.
02:24 - 02:27But overall I'm just going to kind of
02:27 - 02:28slowly.
02:29 - 02:30work my way through
02:32 - 02:35her entire calf complex. I kind of
02:35 - 02:37got a mowing the lawn pattern here going right now.
02:41 - 02:42now
02:43 - 02:45as I'm going through and I'm taking note.
02:46 - 02:49A little counterintuitively. The reason
02:49 - 02:52I'm taking note is we then might go back.
02:53 - 02:56With a smaller piece something with less
02:56 - 02:59surface area. So we increase the pressure a little bit. I'm gonna
02:59 - 03:02decrease the frequency and I'm gonna be
03:02 - 03:05able to dig into the tissue a little deeper.
03:06 - 03:09For those more stubborn or denser
03:09 - 03:12areas, and that's definitely a dense area
03:12 - 03:14right here for Melissa.
03:17 - 03:17That's the steps one.
03:18 - 03:21Are kind of just superficially going over the tissue?
03:22 - 03:24on the higher frequency settings
03:25 - 03:29but monitoring some parts
03:28 - 03:31where you think maybe they could use
03:31 - 03:32another pass.
03:33 - 03:37Or maybe a little deeper work with a
03:36 - 03:40lower intensity and a in this
03:40 - 03:41case pointier tool.
03:42 - 03:46You might be thinking to yourself. It doesn't matter whether skin
03:45 - 03:48or clothes because we
03:48 - 03:51Glide over the tissue actually find that thin clothing is
03:51 - 03:54actually better. So Melissa's yoga pants, here
03:54 - 03:57are absolutely perfect because there's some moisture in your skin
03:57 - 04:00you sometimes get a little caught up on the skin
04:00 - 04:03or as you can glide really nicely over like basketball
04:03 - 04:07shorts or yoga pants or even like these these
04:06 - 04:09Prana pants that I'm wearing here which are kind of like that
04:09 - 04:12those gym pants that look a little bit more like
04:13 - 04:14slacks
04:15 - 04:19All right. So next step. I'm going to go to this smaller
04:18 - 04:22piece, which I think hypervolt calls
04:21 - 04:22the bullet here.
04:23 - 04:27And as I mentioned a little counterintuitively I'm
04:26 - 04:28gonna stay on the low setting.
04:29 - 04:32Now the high settings you'll notice that you guys
04:32 - 04:35will be able to try this out your cells the high setting if you even tried to
04:35 - 04:37dig in deeper into the tissue.
04:37 - 04:41The Machine's gonna kick you right back out because that
04:40 - 04:43frequency is so high or if you
04:43 - 04:46really press in you're just gonna cause a lot of pain and obviously
04:46 - 04:49a lot of pain is not going to help us get releases
04:49 - 04:51so I notice Melissa was a little bit more
04:53 - 04:55Tender or a little bit more dense in here.
04:56 - 04:59So I'm gonna apply a little bit more pressure notice. I'm
04:59 - 05:03not like digging in. I'm not using all my muscles to like get through and
05:02 - 05:05like penetrate bone. I'm just
05:05 - 05:08digging a little further into the tissue until I get a little density.
05:09 - 05:13And then again, I'm not necessarily going to stay in one spot, but I'm gonna very slowly
05:12 - 05:15Crawl Through the tissue.
05:16 - 05:17As I feel it release.
05:19 - 05:20now for my manual therapists
05:21 - 05:24The hypervolt is light enough that you
05:24 - 05:27can use one hand and use this other hand to monitor
05:27 - 05:31tissue density. So, for example, I
05:30 - 05:33felt like okay here. I have an increase
05:33 - 05:37in tissue density. Maybe I can even feel some hypertonic fascicles
05:36 - 05:40or some fascicles that are very guitar string
05:39 - 05:40like
05:41 - 05:44I can use my thumb to kind of figure out where they are and
05:44 - 05:47then put the tool over them and work through them and then
05:47 - 05:49of course go back and monitor them again with my thumb.
05:53 - 05:56Not necessarily essential to make this effective. Alright. So
05:56 - 05:59for those of you who are not manual therapists or licensed manual
05:59 - 06:02therapists, hypervolt is still very effective tool.
06:03 - 06:05I'm just going to work through the tissue here.
06:10 - 06:11a little smaller piece
06:15 - 06:18now, of course after I was finished with
06:18 - 06:18this
06:19 - 06:21I could reassess.
06:21 - 06:24See if this technique was effective for what
06:24 - 06:27Melissa has going on with her movement impairment.
06:28 - 06:31And then go on with my other techniques, so
06:31 - 06:34just because I did this technique doesn't mean that I
06:34 - 06:37can't again we talked about maybe foam rolling first maybe
06:37 - 06:40doing some lengthening techniques those of you guys who do
06:40 - 06:43other like Dynamic release or pin and
06:43 - 06:47stretch techniques. You could absolutely follow up with this what probably
06:46 - 06:49is happening with these vibration or
06:49 - 06:52percussive techniques is we're working
06:52 - 06:55a little bit more towards these pasinian core
06:55 - 06:58puzzles and these rufini endings and they're stimulated
06:58 - 07:02by vibration and from what we can tell somehow
07:03 - 07:04neuromuscularly
07:04 - 07:07Some of those endings will help
07:07 - 07:11stimulate that inhibitory response
07:10 - 07:13very similar to the way we expect like the
07:13 - 07:16Golgi tendon, Oregon to act with autogenic inhibition.
07:16 - 07:19Stay tuned for the close-up recap. All right, guys,
07:19 - 07:22I wanted you to see a little bit of what this looks like as
07:22 - 07:25it passes through the tissue. So as I mentioned I'm
07:25 - 07:28gonna go ahead and start on the higher setting. All right,
07:28 - 07:29so we'll start on setting number two.
07:30 - 07:32And I'm just going to slowly work my way.
07:33 - 07:35from the bottom of her calf
07:35 - 07:38Right, not necessarily her kiwis tended. I might
07:38 - 07:42not feel very good. But I'm just gonna slowly work
07:41 - 07:43my way through.
07:44 - 07:46her entire calf complex
07:47 - 07:48Just kind of one row at a time here.
07:50 - 07:53Notice a little extra tissue density. So maybe I slow down
07:53 - 07:56right here a little bit take note for
07:56 - 07:58using that other tool.
08:03 - 08:07Right. We'll go ahead and assume I just went through the entire calf complex.
08:06 - 08:08I'm gonna go ahead and
08:09 - 08:12turn this off real quick just by pressing that
08:12 - 08:15button a couple more times. I'm gonna pop out the
08:15 - 08:16the flat piece.
08:17 - 08:19Go to more of the bulleted piece.
08:21 - 08:24We notice Melissa was a little bit more that the
08:24 - 08:26tissue density was a little higher right here.
08:27 - 08:29So now I'm going to go ahead and just put this on one.
08:30 - 08:33And so it's a little lower frequency so I can get deeper into the
08:33 - 08:36tissue. Alright, so if this is totally superficial, I'm just
08:36 - 08:39gonna dig in maybe an extra quarter to
08:39 - 08:40half inch.
08:41 - 08:44And then really slowly work my way through the tissue as I
08:44 - 08:46feel it kind of let go.
08:47 - 08:50Underneath the hyper bolt, of course my manual therapist. You
08:50 - 08:53guys can come in here and go. Okay. I feel
08:53 - 08:54a little bit more density in here.
08:55 - 08:56I can put this right behind.
08:57 - 09:00A hypervolt's really easy to control with one hand.
09:02 - 09:04And I can kind of work my way through the tissue.
09:06 - 09:07Slowly, but surely.
09:09 - 09:12Go back through Monitor and see if those fascicles of
09:12 - 09:12let go.
09:29 - 09:30There you guys had it.
09:31 - 09:34vibration release using the hypervolt for
09:34 - 09:36the gastroc and Soleus complex

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