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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
