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This is Brent of the Brookbush
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Institute bringing you another
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kinesiology taping video. In this video
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we're going to go after a commonly under
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active muscle that's the glute max and
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glute medius and I should say muscles. So this
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is going to be a technique I use with
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those individuals who have lower
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extremity as well as lumbo-pelvic hip
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complex dysfunction. That could be
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anybody from knees cave in, to an
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anterior pelvic tilt, an excessive
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forward lean. We know that the glute
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complex has a propensity to get under
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active so this is a technique I'm going
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to use to reinforce those activation
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techniques during a session, and try to
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enhance my carryover from session to
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session. I'm gonna have my friend Melissa
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come out she's going to help me
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demonstrate this technique. Now this is a
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technique we want to be a little bit
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more sensitive with taping has to be
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done on the skin for it to be effective,
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and this is not an area that people want
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bared very often right. We need to
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let them know why we're doing this
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technique, we need to let them know that
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if they're not comfortable with the
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technique we'll find something else for
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them to do. We need to let them know what
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we expect to gain out of this technique
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so that they understand that why we're
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doing this, is that it has been proven
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effective in some individuals for the
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lower extremity a lumbo-pelvic hip
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complex dysfunction that they're
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exhibiting. So first things first what
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we're going to do is we're actually
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going to put a little asterisk over the
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side of like the glute max, top of the
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glute medius. Alright this little technique
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is something I learned at the rock tape
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workshop, the fascial movement taping
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workshop, happens to be one of the very
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few techniques that I've found effective
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for the glutes. I've tried putting
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one piece of tape across the glute max
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or one piece of tape across the glute
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medius, and it just doesn't work very well.
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There are some combination tapings that
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work pretty well for the glutes but they
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include things like the posterior
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oblique subsystem,
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or interesting relationships between
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like the diaphragm, TVA, thoracolumbar
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fascia and glute max. We're going to show
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those in future videos but you want to
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start with this technique which is
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specific to the glute max, is a very
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simple technique to learn and something
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that you can you can kind of start with,
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before you get into the more complex
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stuff. So first things first, since I'm
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putting an asterisk and not a single
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piece of tape, what you're going to want
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to do, is you got to cut three little
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pieces of tape that are actually going to fit
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in this area between the greater
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trochanter and posterior ilium. So
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probably just two and a half, three boxes
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for most individuals. Once you get that
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that length down you're just going to
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fold it over, so there's two pieces and
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then fold it over again, there's my three
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pieces. Go ahead and cut that, I'm going
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to round my corner so I don't have any
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edges that could catch on clothing, and you can
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do all three all at once, providing you
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got a good pair of fabric scissors.
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Notice that the whole time I was cutting
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these I didn't have the pants pulled
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down. You want to make sure that you're
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prepared so that the pants being
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pulled down to reveal that skin
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is a short a time as possible to keep
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this as comfortable as possible. Once i'm
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ready i'm going to go ahead and pull
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down, not all the way down but just to
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the greater trochanter here. I'm then
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rather than ripping off a corner like we
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have in the past to do one anchor, I'm
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going to rip in the middle. What you're
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going to do is refer to kind of like a
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decompression taping although that's not
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why we're using it here. You're going to
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pull out a little bit of tension so that
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would be a hundred percent tension, I'm
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gonna back off a little bit. I'm going to
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place my tape, rub my thumb right over
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the top so that the middle is stuck, and
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then to get my anchors I just pull the
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tape off the ends. Now remember I said an
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asterisk, so this next piece of tape
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isn't going to go perfectly cross, but a
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little at an angle to that piece of tape.
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And once again hundred percent, fifty
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percent, run my finger across the center
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so that that tape sticks down, and then
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I'm going to go ahead and pull the
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corners off. These pieces of tape are a
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little short guys but they'll still work
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Last piece of tape, once again folding
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those pieces of paper back so that I have
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the center open, and then just my anchors
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are covered with paper, one hundred
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percent, back off a little bit, right in
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the middle there, anchor, and I'm going to
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pull this down just a little bit here.
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Anchor, and what I want to do is make sure
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I don't catch the bottom of that tape
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because that will rip the tape right off,
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and pull that right back up and over, and
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you guys don't have to rub this tape in
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quite like we rubbed in the other tapes,
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because frankly just sitting on her
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backside and their pants pulling tight
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against the skin is going to help warm
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up that adhesive, and keep this tape
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stuck. Thank you. Now guys I think the
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reason why this particular technique
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works, if you think about the shape that
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we just put on Melissa's backside there
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is that tape get stretched out during
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flexion. Alright, so in order to get away
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from that skin stretch you're going to
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want to extend, if you go into internal
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rotation and adduction that tape also
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gets stretched right. Because we have
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various directions going there. So I
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think if we think about this pattern is
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that typically bad pattern, what happens
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with lumbo-pelvic hip and lower leg this
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function right, this whole thing. That
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tape is nicely situated to give you a
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little stimulus like, hey hey get out of
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there, right which hopefully will give us
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a little bit more activity to the glutes
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since this tape stays on, hopefully
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that's a little bit more activity
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throughout the days that follow that
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session that you just did. So that you
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get better carry over for the next
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session. A little warning, i know a lot of
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personal trainers watch my videos,
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obviously if you're a physical therapist,
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a chiropractor, a licensed professional ,taking
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somebody's pants down as part of your
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profession, it is part of our education.
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We know that this is something we have
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to do for exams and what-not so that we
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can see and make assessments of things
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like skin integrity. Personal trainers
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it's not just about your professionalism
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here, please be very careful. The client
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that comes into
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see you is probably not expecting for
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you to even ask for them to pull the
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back of their pants down. So you need to
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make sure that it's not only you being
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professional, but the clients
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expectations that match. And if for any
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reason, my personal trainers, for any
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reason you get the vibe that this is not
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a comfortable situation -don't take the
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risk. Gluteus medius, gluteus maximus
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activation works. Doing those exercises
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as part of a home exercise works. I got
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results before I started using tape,
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that'll all work. Don't put your career,
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your job on the line because of a cool
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new technique you learned maybe on
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youtube, or brentbrookbush.com. I'm
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looking out for you guys on this one. So
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it is a wonderful technique. If you get
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the chance to experiment with it,
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probably try it on a few friends first
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and get very comfortable with it before
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you start trying it with other people.
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Once again lower extremity dysfunction,
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lower leg this function. From a clinical
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perspective that be individuals with
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things like knee pain, hip pain, even
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lumbar spine pain. I hope you guys
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enjoyed this video, I look forward to
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bringing you many more in the future.