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Tibialis Anterior Activation Taping

Improve your running performance with Tibialis Anterior Activation Taping. Learn easy step-by-step instructions from an experienced expert to help activate and fire your muscles during sports and running.

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00:05 - 00:08This is Brent of the Brookbush Institute at the Independent Training
00:08 - 00:13Spot, bringing you our first taping video. Now I prefer to use kinesiological
00:13 - 00:18taping to reinforce the activation techniques that I've used during that
00:18 - 00:23session, that implies that I have taping techniques for muscles with a propensity
00:23 - 00:28towards under activity. Today we're bringing you tibialis anterior taping.
00:28 - 00:32Now the tibialis anterior has a propensity towards under activity as an
00:32 - 00:37inverter of the ankle. So for those of you guys using the overhead squat
00:37 - 00:42assessment, this is all those individuals who's feet flatten, feet turnout, or have an
00:42 - 00:47excessive forward lean. I tend to use this a lot with individuals who have
00:47 - 00:54ankle, knee, hip, and even low back pathologies. Anybody who has a
00:54 - 01:00restriction in dorsiflexion that may be improved by tibialis anterior activation.
01:00 - 01:02So I'm going to have my friend Melissa come out, she's going to help me demonstrate
01:02 - 01:07this technique. It is a tricky little technique I'll tell you guys that. I went
01:07 - 01:15ahead and pre-cut my tape here, but so you guys see how I measured this out,
01:15 - 01:22this tape should, with Melissa's foot dorsiflexed and inverted, go all the way
01:22 - 01:27from the top of her tibialis anterior, all the way around the bottom of her
01:27 - 01:33foot, and then all the way hook on the edge of her lateral foot over here. So
01:33 - 01:38the path is going to be down this way, of course over the tibialis anterior tendon.
01:38 - 01:43It then, and this is just because the tape tends to unstick if we were to stop
01:43 - 01:47it there, which I know is the insertion of the tibialis anterior. We
01:47 - 01:52need to go all the way across the bottom of the foot, and hook it around here. So
01:52 - 01:57it will stay for a couple days, and give us that that improvement in carryover
01:57 - 02:02that we're looking for. Now I did round the edges of my tape right, we don't want
02:02 - 02:10any sharp corners that may tend to roll off and and and shorten the lifespan of
02:10 - 02:13the taping. The next thing we need to do is create
02:13 - 02:18an anchor, so I'll add about three centimeters. I'm just going to go ahead
02:18 - 02:25and pull the paper apart and then fold the paper back here. Now this is the
02:25 - 02:30trickiest part of tibialis anterior taping, its keeping a hold of your
02:30 - 02:37anchors and getting this first anchor at the right angle, because the tape is so
02:37 - 02:44long. So what I suggest you do is go ahead and place the tape over the
02:44 - 02:48tendon there, at the insertion of the tibialis anterior. Once you know you have
02:48 - 02:56the angle right, then set down your anchor, make sure there's no stretch on
02:56 - 03:01that anchor, we don't want it pulling it off. You're then going to keep them
03:01 - 03:04dorsiflexed, and sometimes I'll go ahead and put their foot up against my chest,
03:04 - 03:11or my thigh if I'm standing. I'm going to pull off over her tibialis anterior
03:11 - 03:22tendon, come across the bottom of her foot, try not to get too distal there
03:22 - 03:28like to come right up over the cuboid. It might be wishful thinking, but I like to
03:28 - 03:32consider that the arthrokinematic dyskinesis of the cuboid is usually
03:32 - 03:36toward medial rotation, this would be a little lateral force. Alright and then
03:36 - 03:41I'm just going to go ahead and lay the tape down
03:45 - 03:52and give it a good rub here. This is heat activated adhesive, so we want to make
03:52 - 03:56sure that it's all the way flattened down, and give a little bit of friction,
03:56 - 04:06warm it up a little bit, and then once Melissa goes into plantar flexion she
04:06 - 04:09should feel a little tug that wants her to pull back up into dorsiflexion.
04:09 - 04:14Good, and so it's just that little reminder after we've done all that
04:14 - 04:19tibialis anterior activation, that hey I want your foot here, even while she's
04:19 - 04:22sleeping, I want your foot here right, hopefully
04:22 - 04:28that keeps her out of ending up here and feeling like that's comfortable, which
04:28 - 04:32isn't going to help us get her range of motion back to normal. Now I want to show
04:32 - 04:37you guys the other leg so that you have both views.
04:41 - 04:45Be very careful where you put those scissors you guys use on this, if you
04:45 - 04:49guys are using fabric scissors they do have a tendency to be extremely sharp.
04:49 - 04:54Once again I'm going to go ahead and put her in a shortened position. Now the
04:54 - 04:58reason I put her in a shortened position guys is you notice I didn't put any
04:58 - 05:03tension in the tape, and part of that is I feel like it's a little hard to be
05:03 - 05:11consistent. I see these videos with 30%, 50%, 80% tension; how about we just put
05:11 - 05:16them in the shortest range possible and use tape off tension if our goal is
05:16 - 05:21facilitation. I think it works out very well. I have very few problems with the
05:21 - 05:27tape pulling itself off because I've applied too much tension, seem to get
05:27 - 05:32very consistent outcomes this way, good. Once again I'm going to go ahead and
05:32 - 05:39measure that angle out, put my anchor down,
05:41 - 05:48every once while your paper gets stuck back on which is a drag, but not the end
05:48 - 05:55of the world. Go ahead keep that dorsiflexed tape off tension here, all
05:55 - 06:00the way over her tibialis anterior tendon, underneath her foot. Making sure I
06:00 - 06:06don't get too distal so that I end up right over the top of her cuboid. Lay the
06:06 - 06:09tape down.
06:15 - 06:22Alright you have a little bit of friction there, make sure the adhesive
06:22 - 06:25warms up a little bit.
06:32 - 06:36Make sure it's very solid over the bottom of the foot in the edge of the
06:36 - 06:41cuboid, and if Melissa goes into plantarflexion she should notice a nice
06:41 - 06:48little pull. Guys I keep it simple when it comes to taping, you know,
06:48 - 06:53do I know everything that goes on with tape, no. I know it's fairly effective
06:53 - 06:59though. I think for the most part these facility techniques work by stretching
06:59 - 07:04the skin a little bit, activating those stretch receptors in the skin, that kind
07:04 - 07:07of give us that signal of I don't really like to be stretched that way, and
07:07 - 07:13hopefully her tibialis anterior will get a little bit of an increase in signal,
07:13 - 07:18over the course of the couple of days I'm not going to see that person after
07:18 - 07:26our session to stay active. Now safety considerations guys, this is a very
07:26 - 07:31strong adhesive on this tape, some people's skin is sensitive. If you think
07:31 - 07:37somebody has sensitive skin please be careful with taping, maybe try a test
07:37 - 07:45patch first. You know if you notice psoriasis, or dry skin, or a wound or
07:45 - 07:50maybe older brittle skin, just don't do it. And then of course when you're taking
07:50 - 07:54the tape off, please don't rip it off. If this did happen to make Melissa itch, and
07:54 - 07:58she's like I don't really like it, what I'm going to do is I'm going to brace
07:58 - 08:05the skin, I'm going to roll the corner back, I'm going to, since Melissa has shaved
08:05 - 08:08her legs here, I'm going to have to imagine the direction that her hair goes,
08:08 - 08:13right, and her hair kind of goes in this direction here. So I want to go with the
08:13 - 08:18direction of her hair, peel a little segment, come back, brace the skin again,
08:18 - 08:23peel a little segment, brace the skin again, peel a little segment, brace the
08:23 - 08:29skin, and of course this barely hurts at all. And you guys should love me for this
08:29 - 08:31little cue, because this also works for band-aids.
08:31 - 08:36There's no reasons to lose hair, all right and we can peel it all the way off.
08:36 - 08:41So there you guys go, tibialis anterior activation taping.
08:41 - 08:43Once again I do tend to use taping to
08:43 - 08:48reinforce activation techniques. I can tell you quite honestly the carryover
08:48 - 08:58I've had since using taping has been far improved, for example if I kept 50% of
08:58 - 09:04the dorsiflexion I got somebody from session to session before taping, now I'm
09:04 - 09:09keeping like 70%. Those are just made-up numbers, don't quote me on those, but you
09:09 - 09:12guys get what I'm saying. Like the carryover has been really really great,
09:12 - 09:16which has led to much faster improvements from session to session. I
09:16 - 09:20have been enjoying it very much. I will talk with you guys soon, and bring you
09:20 - 09:24guys more taping techniques.
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