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This is Brent of the Brookbush Institute
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at the Independent Training Spot, and in
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this video we're going over external rotator taping, or that is taping to
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reinforce the external rotator activation that we've done within a
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session. Now individuals who may benefit from this technique are those with upper
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body dysfunction. So if we're doing the overhead squat assessment that would be
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arms fall forward, or shoulders elevate. But more specifically this is going to
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relate to glenohumeral dysfunction, and limitations, or an inability to control
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rotation of the glenohumeral joint. I'm going to have my friend Jordan come out,
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he's going help me demonstrate this technique. I think you guys will find
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that this technique is actually fairly simple. I have seen some more complicated
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external rotator tapings on video, and indefinite different educational
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platforms, where they split the tape, if one goes along the
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the spine of the scapula, and the other one goes along the infraspinatus. But all
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in all, one piece of tape like this generally does the trick. So a couple
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little tips, you're going to take your anchor, get about three centimeters there,
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and you're going to put it right over the front of the anterior deltoid. I'm going
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to have Jordan go ahead and assume chest out thumbs out posture, alright so that's
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one of our external rotator activation exercises. I'm going to put him in a
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maximally shortened position here. I'm then going to find the spine of the
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scapula, find that inferior border, and that's where my tapes going to go. The
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only other thing you have to remember, is that you're going to have to put a
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little tension in the tape as you go around the deltoid, because this
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technically speaking here, because his deltoid is round this way, the bottom
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portion of the tape actually has to be longer than the top portion of the tape.
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If you try to use just tape off tension you'll get wrinkles. So you got to put
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just a little tension in the tape on the deltoid, and then once you get to
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the spine of the scapula, you can just go straight across, and that's it, really
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simple taping. Go ahead and put your arms down Jordan, tell me how that feels,
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that feels awesome, good. And you guys can see just by the way this tape is aligned
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it helps keep his arm turned out just a little bit. He keeps out of this static
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posture, and our hope kind of is, is that this aggravation, this little, little bit
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of tension he feels in the skin every time he goes this way, will give him a
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little signal to stimulate his external rotators, which is going to
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increase that activity for days after he's had a session with me, which is great.
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That enhances my carry-over quite a bit. I'm going to show you again on his other
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side, let's go ahead and switch sides here. Once again about three centimeters,
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chest out thumbs out position, thank you Jordan you got this down pat. I'm
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going to go ahead and put my anchor right over his anterior deltoid. No tension
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in that, just right over his anterior deltoid. I'm going to go ahead and put some
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tension in the tape to make sure that I don't have wrinkles. The only reason I'm
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doing that is because as deltoids are a bit spherical, and then as I get back to
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the spine of the scapula I can just use tape off tension. Alright since I'm doing
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both sides and I kind of want equal input, I'd want them a little bit more to
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even-ness than this. Unfortunately I'm kind of coming from the side guys so that
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you guys can see this, and this isn't even. I might redo this side, but Jordan
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can go ahead and put his arms down. I'm going to have him do a bit of a turn
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for you here. So you can see I literally just have it from the anterior deltoid,
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wrapped around in a straight line along the spine of the scapula. This taping
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works wonderfully to keep people out of that
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internally rotated position, which is going to help. You know this position
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facilitates a short and overactive subscapularis, and inhibited external
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rotators. Getting them back here improves stability by getting his external
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rotators in a more optimal length tension relationship. Thank you Jordan
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Guys easy technique, maybe one of the first ones you try, outside of the fact
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that you got to get somebody in at least a tank top to apply that technique. Very
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easy thing to do just about anywhere. Remember I use these techniques, these
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taping techniques to reinforce exercise. I don't anticipate taping alone to have
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that large of an effect. This works a lot better if you'll release, lengthen,
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mobilize when appropriate, activate, integrate, and then follow up with taping
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to improve your carryover from session to session. And of course improved
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carryover means fewer sessions. People get better faster. I look forward to