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Glute Activation Taping

Take your glute activation training to the next level with this video tutorial on glute activation taping! Learn how to tape your glutes properly, which helps reduce pain, increase strength, and more.

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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.
08:37 - 08:39

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