Name: PNF Carry Away
Uploaded: 2023-04-26T01:02:54.000Z
Duration: 2 min 43 s

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Learn how to properly perform the PNF Carry Away in this comprehensive step-by-step instructional video from the Brookbush Institute. This evidence-based video provides expert coaching on setup, form, and application to enhance shoulder strength, neuromuscular coordination, and functional movement while integrating proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) principles into your rehabilitation or training routine. Perfect for clinicians, rehabilitation specialists, and movement professionals seeking to improve flexibility, restore optimal movement patterns, and enhance treatment effectiveness.

Introduction to Shoulder Resistance Training

Demonstration of PNF Carry Away Exercise

Movement Pattern and Requirements for PNF Carry Away

Progressions for Stability in PNF Exercises

PNF Carry Away

This is Brent, President of B2C Fitness and we're talking about shoulder resistance training progressions. Now the second exercise in our relative flexibility progression is the PNF carry away. I'm going to have Salvina come out and help me demonstrate this exercise. Now, you'll notice that I have a band situated at a lower angle, so we're going to create a diagonal force. This exercise is a little more complicated than the scaption exercise we were doing progressions of earlier, so you might have to go through a little bit more detailed teaching. So I want to tell her what I'm going to do, "We're going to do a PNF carry away,"  we're going to show, so it's going to look like this, and then you may have to lead her through the movement or lead them through the movement. So, that exercise is going to be from here, to here. Once they feel like they have the hang of it, we go ahead and let them move through the movement. Once again, the PNF carry away, just to kind of describe the movement pattern here, it's not just abduction, but it's abduction and external rotation, similar to unsheithing a sword, if you've ever seen an old pirate movie. Now, the reason this movement is the second movement in our relative flexibility progression, is it does require more flexibility, more stability, than the scaption exercise we talked about before. So somebody with a small amount of movement dysfunction will be able to perform this exercise, but if they still have a whole lot of upper body dysfunction, you still have a lot of restriction and work through, they're not going to be able to perform this exercise without compensation. This exercise requires a little bit more glenohumeral external rotation, as well as scapular downward rotation retracttion. There is a benefit to those with a mild amount of movement dysfunction, so we're progressing here, that we strengthen the external rotators. Now, as we're using this for a strength exercise, we do need to progress it. Our progressions for stability are going to be lower body centric because we're already at a unilateral PNF carry away  here. This exercise doesn't work out very well to try to do both arms at once.  So Salvina is going to go from a single arm PNF carry away, to a single arm, single leg PNF carry away. Perfect. Of course, for our more advanced individuals, we could also go two legs unstable, such as putting them on an Airex pad or BOSU and then one leg unstable. Thank you.

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The PNF Carry Away is usually resisted by a band or cable fixed to a low attachment on the opposite side of the target limb and in front of the client or patient.

Start with the client or patient assuming good standing or sitting form/posture.

2nd toe pointing forward and under the ASIS

Pelvis neutral (absence of anterior or posterior pelvic tilt)

Torso, scapula, and head in neutral alignment

The PNF Carry Away is a combination of shoulder flexion, abduction, and external rotation, with scapula upward rotation and retraction. It looks similar to unsheathing and raising a sword in the air. Generally, the goal of the exercise is to achieve 90 degrees of shoulder abduction, horizontal abduction, and external rotation, with the hand finishing in a neutral grip (thumb side of the hand up). Demonstrating this angle for your patient or client prior to the exercise is recommended.

Once you have demonstrated the technique for your patient or client have them initiate the movement.

Note, start with your client or patient trying to mimic your demonstration, and then slowly optimize the movement with one small cue at a time. Multiple cues simultaneously are unlikely to improve outcomes.

Bands and cables are more effective ways to resist PNF carry-aways, but a dumbbell may be used. The following progression assumes enough neuromuscular control has been developed to start with a unilateral PNF carry away.

Once the client or patient has achieved the desired range of motion, cue the client or patient to control a slow descent back to the starting position.

Have your client perform a “form/posture check” and make any necessary adjustments.

Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.

 Unstable environments, single-leg stance, single-leg stance on unstable environments

 Shoulder press, curl to press, inclusion in total body (integrated exercise) progressions.

PNF Carry Away

Shoulder Scaption

Overhead Press

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