Name: Calf Vibration Release with Hyperice
Uploaded: 2023-04-26T00:59:37.000Z
Duration: 9 min 46 s
Description: Relieve calf tightness and boost mobility with this massage gun technique for the gastrocnemius and soleus. Learn proper positioning, safety tips, and trigger point targeting.

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Relieve calf tightness and boost mobility with this massage gun technique for the gastrocnemius and soleus. Learn proper positioning, safety tips, and trigger point targeting.

Introduction to Vibration Release Techniques

Assessment of Movement Impairments

Initial Application of Vibration Techniques

Deep Tissue Engagement with Smaller Attachment

Comparing Techniques and Their Effectiveness

Applying Vibration Release Techniques Step-by-Step

Conclusion on Vibration Release for Calf Muscles

Calf Vibration Release with Hyperice

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

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Vibration Release Technique: Lower Body

Pre-exercise local vibration reduces functional signs and chemical markers of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) and may improve performance in subsequent frequent workouts.

Local vibration is effective for reducing acute muscle pain (and can be added to a home program via the devices like the Hypervolt by Hyperice® or similar devices).

Local vibration alone may be sufficient to increase strength in deconditioned muscles/individuals.

Current research implies that adding vibration to self-administered release techniques (SMR) (e.g. foam rolling) enhances benefits for DOMS, pain pressure sensitivity, and increasing proprioception. Further research is needed to refine protocols and determine whether adding vibration to SMR enhances benefits for increasing range of motion and improving power performance when used as a warm-up.

Protocol for Using Percussion Massage Device

Start with a higher setting and superficially (with gentle pressure) trace the entire surface of the muscle.

Setting 3 is likely appropriate for the lower body.

Take a mental note of dense or sensitive points. Manual therapists may use the opposite hand to palpate for taut bands and nodules (trigger points).

Stay away from areas where the bone is superficial. Using percussion massage devices over bone may be uncomfortable, painful, and/or cause bruising. Placing a finger or thumb over bony protuberances will prevent accidental contact.

Using a piece with a smaller surface area and lower setting (setting 1), return to the dense/sensitive points using deeper compression.

It may be helpful to add tension or slack by shortening or lengthening the target tissue

The Brookbush Institute recommends 30 seconds to 2 minutes per muscle group, and 5 minutes as an upper limit even in the case of multiple trigger points.

Prone position with feet and ankles off the end of the table.

 (Block with a thumb or finger when approaching these areas)

 muscles are superficial, extending from the knee down to about 1/3rd the length of the lower leg. Approximately half 

 , but the lateral edges of the proximal half of the muscle can be palpated, as well as the distal half which is not covered by the 

 course vertically to invest in the Achilles tendon.

 trigger points are in the middle of the muscle bellies of the medial and lateral head. 

 trigger points occur just medial the fibular head, and in the middle of the muscle belly, between the distal ends of the heads of the 

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