00:04 - 00:06This is Brent of the Brookbush
00:06 - 00:07Institute bringing you another
00:07 - 00:09kinesiology taping video. In this video
00:09 - 00:12we're going to go after a commonly under
00:12 - 00:15active muscle that's the glute max and
00:15 - 00:17glute medius and I should say muscles. So this
00:17 - 00:19is going to be a technique I use with
00:19 - 00:20those individuals who have lower
00:20 - 00:23extremity as well as lumbo-pelvic hip
00:23 - 00:25complex dysfunction. That could be
00:25 - 00:27anybody from knees cave in, to an
00:27 - 00:29anterior pelvic tilt, an excessive
00:29 - 00:31forward lean. We know that the glute
00:31 - 00:34complex has a propensity to get under
00:34 - 00:36active so this is a technique I'm going
00:36 - 00:38to use to reinforce those activation
00:38 - 00:41techniques during a session, and try to
00:41 - 00:44enhance my carryover from session to
00:44 - 00:46session. I'm gonna have my friend Melissa
00:46 - 00:47come out she's going to help me
00:47 - 00:54demonstrate this technique. Now this is a
00:54 - 00:56technique we want to be a little bit
00:56 - 00:58more sensitive with taping has to be
00:58 - 00:59done on the skin for it to be effective,
00:59 - 01:02and this is not an area that people want
01:02 - 01:06bared very often right. We need to
01:06 - 01:09let them know why we're doing this
01:09 - 01:11technique, we need to let them know that
01:11 - 01:12if they're not comfortable with the
01:12 - 01:15technique we'll find something else for
01:15 - 01:18them to do. We need to let them know what
01:18 - 01:19we expect to gain out of this technique
01:19 - 01:22so that they understand that why we're
01:22 - 01:24doing this, is that it has been proven
01:24 - 01:27effective in some individuals for the
01:27 - 01:29lower extremity a lumbo-pelvic hip
01:29 - 01:30complex dysfunction that they're
01:30 - 01:33exhibiting. So first things first what
01:33 - 01:35we're going to do is we're actually
01:35 - 01:39going to put a little asterisk over the
01:39 - 01:42side of like the glute max, top of the
01:42 - 01:45glute medius. Alright this little technique
01:45 - 01:47is something I learned at the rock tape
01:47 - 01:49workshop, the fascial movement taping
01:49 - 01:51workshop, happens to be one of the very
01:51 - 01:53few techniques that I've found effective
01:53 - 01:56for the glutes. I've tried putting
01:56 - 01:58one piece of tape across the glute max
01:58 - 02:00or one piece of tape across the glute
02:00 - 02:02medius, and it just doesn't work very well.
02:02 - 02:05There are some combination tapings that
02:05 - 02:07work pretty well for the glutes but they
02:07 - 02:08include things like the posterior
02:08 - 02:10oblique subsystem,
02:10 - 02:13or interesting relationships between
02:13 - 02:15like the diaphragm, TVA, thoracolumbar
02:15 - 02:18fascia and glute max. We're going to show
02:18 - 02:20those in future videos but you want to
02:20 - 02:22start with this technique which is
02:22 - 02:23specific to the glute max, is a very
02:23 - 02:26simple technique to learn and something
02:26 - 02:28that you can you can kind of start with,
02:28 - 02:31before you get into the more complex
02:31 - 02:33stuff. So first things first, since I'm
02:33 - 02:35putting an asterisk and not a single
02:35 - 02:36piece of tape, what you're going to want
02:36 - 02:39to do, is you got to cut three little
02:39 - 02:41pieces of tape that are actually going to fit
02:41 - 02:43in this area between the greater
02:43 - 02:47trochanter and posterior ilium. So
02:47 - 02:49probably just two and a half, three boxes
02:49 - 02:53for most individuals. Once you get that
02:53 - 02:55that length down you're just going to
02:55 - 02:59fold it over, so there's two pieces and
02:59 - 03:01then fold it over again, there's my three
03:01 - 03:11pieces. Go ahead and cut that, I'm going
03:11 - 03:13to round my corner so I don't have any
03:13 - 03:18edges that could catch on clothing, and you can
03:18 - 03:21do all three all at once, providing you
03:21 - 03:24got a good pair of fabric scissors.
03:31 - 03:33Notice that the whole time I was cutting
03:33 - 03:35these I didn't have the pants pulled
03:35 - 03:37down. You want to make sure that you're
03:37 - 03:39prepared so that the pants being
03:39 - 03:43pulled down to reveal that skin
03:43 - 03:45is a short a time as possible to keep
03:45 - 03:48this as comfortable as possible. Once i'm
03:48 - 03:49ready i'm going to go ahead and pull
03:49 - 03:52down, not all the way down but just to
03:52 - 03:58the greater trochanter here. I'm then
03:58 - 04:00rather than ripping off a corner like we
04:00 - 04:01have in the past to do one anchor, I'm
04:01 - 04:05going to rip in the middle. What you're
04:05 - 04:07going to do is refer to kind of like a
04:07 - 04:09decompression taping although that's not
04:09 - 04:11why we're using it here. You're going to
04:11 - 04:13pull out a little bit of tension so that
04:13 - 04:14would be a hundred percent tension, I'm
04:14 - 04:16gonna back off a little bit. I'm going to
04:16 - 04:20place my tape, rub my thumb right over
04:20 - 04:22the top so that the middle is stuck, and
04:22 - 04:26then to get my anchors I just pull the
04:26 - 04:30tape off the ends. Now remember I said an
04:30 - 04:33asterisk, so this next piece of tape
04:33 - 04:35isn't going to go perfectly cross, but a
04:35 - 04:37little at an angle to that piece of tape.
04:37 - 04:45And once again hundred percent, fifty
04:45 - 04:49percent, run my finger across the center
04:49 - 04:52so that that tape sticks down, and then
04:52 - 04:53I'm going to go ahead and pull the
04:53 - 04:56corners off. These pieces of tape are a
04:56 - 04:59little short guys but they'll still work
04:59 - 05:02for now.
05:04 - 05:07Last piece of tape, once again folding
05:07 - 05:09those pieces of paper back so that I have
05:09 - 05:12the center open, and then just my anchors
05:12 - 05:13are covered with paper, one hundred
05:13 - 05:16percent, back off a little bit, right in
05:16 - 05:20the middle there, anchor, and I'm going to
05:20 - 05:22pull this down just a little bit here.
05:22 - 05:25Anchor, and what I want to do is make sure
05:25 - 05:27I don't catch the bottom of that tape
05:27 - 05:28because that will rip the tape right off,
05:28 - 05:30and pull that right back up and over, and
05:30 - 05:32you guys don't have to rub this tape in
05:32 - 05:33quite like we rubbed in the other tapes,
05:33 - 05:35because frankly just sitting on her
05:35 - 05:37backside and their pants pulling tight
05:37 - 05:40against the skin is going to help warm
05:40 - 05:42up that adhesive, and keep this tape
05:42 - 05:48stuck. Thank you. Now guys I think the
05:48 - 05:50reason why this particular technique
05:50 - 05:53works, if you think about the shape that
05:53 - 05:56we just put on Melissa's backside there
05:56 - 05:58is that tape get stretched out during
05:58 - 06:01flexion. Alright, so in order to get away
06:01 - 06:04from that skin stretch you're going to
06:04 - 06:06want to extend, if you go into internal
06:06 - 06:09rotation and adduction that tape also
06:09 - 06:11gets stretched right. Because we have
06:11 - 06:14various directions going there. So I
06:14 - 06:16think if we think about this pattern is
06:16 - 06:19that typically bad pattern, what happens
06:19 - 06:21with lumbo-pelvic hip and lower leg this
06:21 - 06:23function right, this whole thing. That
06:23 - 06:26tape is nicely situated to give you a
06:26 - 06:29little stimulus like, hey hey get out of
06:29 - 06:31there, right which hopefully will give us
06:31 - 06:33a little bit more activity to the glutes
06:33 - 06:36since this tape stays on, hopefully
06:36 - 06:37that's a little bit more activity
06:37 - 06:39throughout the days that follow that
06:39 - 06:41session that you just did. So that you
06:41 - 06:43get better carry over for the next
06:43 - 06:46session. A little warning, i know a lot of
06:46 - 06:48personal trainers watch my videos,
06:48 - 06:50obviously if you're a physical therapist,
06:50 - 06:53a chiropractor, a licensed professional ,taking
06:53 - 06:56somebody's pants down as part of your
06:56 - 06:58profession, it is part of our education.
06:58 - 07:00We know that this is something we have
07:00 - 07:03to do for exams and what-not so that we
07:03 - 07:07can see and make assessments of things
07:07 - 07:09like skin integrity. Personal trainers
07:09 - 07:12it's not just about your professionalism
07:12 - 07:16here, please be very careful. The client
07:16 - 07:16that comes into
07:16 - 07:19see you is probably not expecting for
07:19 - 07:22you to even ask for them to pull the
07:22 - 07:24back of their pants down. So you need to
07:24 - 07:27make sure that it's not only you being
07:27 - 07:29professional, but the clients
07:29 - 07:32expectations that match. And if for any
07:32 - 07:35reason, my personal trainers, for any
07:35 - 07:38reason you get the vibe that this is not
07:38 - 07:41a comfortable situation -don't take the
07:41 - 07:44risk. Gluteus medius, gluteus maximus
07:44 - 07:47activation works. Doing those exercises
07:47 - 07:50as part of a home exercise works. I got
07:50 - 07:52results before I started using tape,
07:52 - 07:55that'll all work. Don't put your career,
07:55 - 07:58your job on the line because of a cool
07:58 - 08:01new technique you learned maybe on
08:01 - 08:03youtube, or brentbrookbush.com. I'm
08:03 - 08:06looking out for you guys on this one. So
08:06 - 08:08it is a wonderful technique. If you get
08:08 - 08:10the chance to experiment with it,
08:10 - 08:12probably try it on a few friends first
08:12 - 08:13and get very comfortable with it before
08:13 - 08:15you start trying it with other people.
08:15 - 08:17Once again lower extremity dysfunction,
08:17 - 08:19lower leg this function. From a clinical
08:19 - 08:21perspective that be individuals with
08:21 - 08:24things like knee pain, hip pain, even
08:24 - 08:26lumbar spine pain. I hope you guys
08:26 - 08:27enjoyed this video, I look forward to
08:27 - 08:31bringing you many more in the future.
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