Tibialis Anterior Reactive Activation Progressions

Tibialis Anterior Reactive Activation Progressions (TARP) is an evidence-based exercise program designed to target and strengthen the tibialis anterior muscle while improving lower limb proprioception, core stability, postural control, and dynamic balance. This comprehensive program encompasses specific exercises and movement patterns specifically chosen to target and activate the tibialis anterior muscle. By engaging in this progressive program, individuals can expect to improve their static and dynamic balance, stability, coordination

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This is Brent Brookbush, President of B2C Fitness,
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and we're doing tibialis anterior
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reactive integration, or progressions of. Now, at this point I'm assuming we've
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already done our release, stretching, mobilizations when possible, and isolated
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activation. I'm assuming that we're working with somebody with lower leg
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dysfunction. In the previous video of tibialis anterior reactive integration,
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we did that first step of a heel walk, with toes curled, and you saw my friend
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Laura laughing at me as we walked around like ducks. We're now going to progress
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from that, onto a more high velocity movement. My friend, Salvi, is going to
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come out and help us demonstrate. So what's Salvi's going to do now, is she's
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going to work on something that our tibialis anterior has to do all of the time,
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every step we take, which is eccentrically decelerate our foot after heel
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strike. It's your tibialis anterior that keeps your foot up, so that you have a
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nice, smooth, glide when you walk, as opposed to doing a foot flop. What I'm
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going to have Salvi do, is a bilateral hop, to two foot landing, starting with her
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feet up, landing on her heels, and she's going to try to land as quietly as
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possible. So, hands on hips, and I want you to just do a bilateral hop, queue
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landing, nice and soft. That was pretty good. This time what I want you to
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do with those, instead of getting right back up, let's make that tibialis anterior
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work to stabilize you. I want you to land soft, and stay in that position, good.
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Let's try that one more time, but a little quieter. A queue I like to use is,
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"pretend you're a little ninja". Good. So you can see there that the tibialis
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anterior has to work against your body weight at a higher velocity, to
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slowly let those feet down so you'll land softly. The progression from a two-leg
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bilateral hop, is simply a bilateral hop to single leg balance. We're still landing
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on the heel, and we make her stabilize for as long as it takes to make her feel
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stable, usually 3 seconds. Good. Let's go ahead and try that one more time.
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She's been landing very softly, she's able to stabilize her foot and
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maintain that arch. Then the last progression, I'm actually going to make
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her do a transverse plane hop, to single leg balance, landing heel to toe.
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Hold, two, three. So there you go, tibialis
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anterior reactive integration progressions. So we started with our heel
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walks, then we went bilateral hop, heel to toe landing with stabilization.
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Bilateral hop to single leg balance, heel to toe landing. Then transverse plane