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This is Brent of the Brookbush Institute, bringing
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you another kinesiology taping video. In
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this video we're going to do a diaphragm / low back decompression / glute taping.
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It's going to end up looking like the British flags on your low back, and it's
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going to start all the way up at your xiphoid process. This is a really big
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taping technique that i have used to support my lumbo-pelvic hip complex
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dysfunction interventions, as well as some acute low back pain. I think you
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guys are going to see where when we tie all of this together, we get a little bit
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better recruitment of the intrinsic stabilization subsystem, a little bit
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better recruitment of the glutes, and those are all good things when it comes
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to correcting dysfunction and pain around our core. I'm going to have my friend
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Melissa come out, she's going to help me demonstrate this technique. Now you need
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two pieces of tape, the first piece of tape is going to be quite long between
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26 and 30 boxes here guys. This is a very long piece of tape, and the way we
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measure this is I actually had Melissa go ahead and get into this kind of cat
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position over the table. She went ahead and held the piece of tape for me at her
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xiphoid process, and then I measured the tape out so that I had little flaps that
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went over just the side of her glutes. So hopefully you guys can see how to
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measure that there on the camera. I went ahead and rounded my corners. The next
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thing I would do is fold this piece of tape in half, because my first anchor is
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actually right dead center in the middle of the tape,
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go ahead and rip that right down the middle, pull those flaps back. Then I'm
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going to have Melissa face me, she's going to lift up her shirt up towards
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xiphoid process, maybe the bottom of our sports bra there, and I'm going to go
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ahead and set that anchor right over the middle of her xiphoid process.
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Alright now from here what I'm going to do is I'm going to have Melissa turn
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around, other way, and what I'm going to do is I'm going to start this off by
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following the bottom of her rib cage, you guys got to put just a little bit of
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tension initially so that it follows the curve of her rib cage. Alright because we
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just want, we want to establish a good anchor, so that this tape doesn't start
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falling off as I have her turn around, and I take care of the back portion of
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this taping. Alright same thing with this side, you got to put a little
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tension on otherwise you end up with creasing right around the bottom of her
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rib cage. Melissa you can turn around and face the camera there, kind of show them
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what you got going on there. So you guys can see it starts at her xiphoid process,
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and then follows down her rib cage, follows down her rib cage. Now I'm going
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to have her get back into that cat position right, because I want this part
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of the tape to actually be put on with kind of her rib cage expanded, so the
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tape is nice and long. I almost wanted to be more distracting to her, more
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stimulating to her skin receptors when she exhales, and her ribs are as small as
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they can be, because I want to kind of stimulate that deep diaphragmatic
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breathing. I want the tape to be at its normal less irritating length when she's
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actually expanded a bit here, and I'm hoping that diaphragmatic breathing
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helps then stimulate those intrinsic core muscles, and I get a little bit more
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intrinsic stabilization out of those muscles. So I'm going to keep coming
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around the low back. If I wanted to get really fancy here guys I could ask her
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which segment hurt, or if I've already done my my assessment I know which
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segment hurts, and I could have this cross right over that segment, but I'm
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just going to follow the bottom of the rib cage in her case, and I think we're
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going to end up right over about L4. I'm just going to go right to the
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bottom of her pants there. Now i'm going to try to be as symmetrical as possible,
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try to stay away from asymmetrical patterns here with the tape.
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You guys think this is a lot of awareness they get from their skin over
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a pretty long period of time. I can't imagine it's very hard to set up a
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asymmetrical movement pattern. Alright so now I'm right over to the top of her
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pants, and now we have to change position again. I'm going to have her stand up so
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I'm long tape here, now I want the tape kind of in a shortened position / glutes,
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because I want our glutes as active as possible all the time. So I'm going to
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have her step back into extension, good and then I'm just going to pull down the
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side of her pants as much as I need to to get the tape down. Make sure you've
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explained what you're about to do to your patient or client, don't go moving
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around clothing without asking permission, and you don't have to rub
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that much, because the pants they're wearing will do a lot of the
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heating up of the adhesive and keep that stuck. Alright go ahead and switch legs,
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all right okay, there you go same thing on this side.
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Lay down the tape
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pull that back up, and then the last thing is I figure out which segments hurt, hopefully
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cross my tape over that, and then I'm going to add decompression taping on top
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of this. Now you could probably make a good argument for putting the
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decompression tape on the bottom, Okay so I'm going to go, you guys know with that
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decompression tape you pull off the center, pull to 100, back off to 50, just
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In Melissa's case I probably got a whole lot of stimulus to all those muscles,
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that hook into the thoracolumbar fascia there, and you can see here as I was
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talking about before, if Melissa turns around and faces the camera you have a
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quasi british flag going on. Alright so we got a whole lot of stimulation to the
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diaphragm, and a little bit of stimulation coming from that, those
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anterior core muscles, going down across her glute max on both sides, and then
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decompression tape a little bit in the middle, maybe stimulating some of that
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thoracolumbar fascia, the muscles that are that invested in that thoracolumbar
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fascia. You want to do a little spin for us, and so once again all the way from
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here all the way down, across to each glute. So once again guys i would use
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this in support of the any intervention I had for lumbo-pelvic hip complex
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dysfunction. I might use this for somebody who has some acute low back
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pain, at the very least there's so much stimulus here, you might find it to be a
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little bit of a counter reactant therapy where at least it gives them something
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to think about other than that acute pain that they've had, maybe helped start
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reset some of some of those cognitive processes involved in pain. How do you
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feel, you feel pretty stable. The times I've used this everybody looks
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with just feeling like I totally stabilized them all the way around I've
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got great results. I look forward to hearing how you guys use this taping, and
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how you feel using this taping. So please add your comments to the bottom of this
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video. I'll look forward to hearing from you. Thank you