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This is Brent of the Brookbush Institute and
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in this video we're doing more exercises for
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forearm dysfunction.
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That's individuals with issues of the wrist, forearm or elbow.
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We know that this postural dysfunction generally presents as excessive pronation, extension and ulnar deviation
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Which makes these muscles right here, our wrist and finger extensors, as well as one
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of them being an ulnar deviator, get really over active and tend to have a fair amount
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of trigger points, or get trigger point laden.
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I'm going to have my friend Crystal come out, she is going to help me demonstrate how to
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release this over active muscle.
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Of all the techniques we've tried, and we've tried a bunch of different stuff, with lacrosse
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balls and various devices and trying to sit down and lean into a table, and trying to
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lay down.
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The easiest thing we've found is to use this same FlexBar we've been using for all of our
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forearm exercises, so that radial deviation exercise we were doing, and the flexion exercise
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we were doing and the reverse Tyler twist, it's the same piece of equipment, a FlexBar
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from Theraband, only we're going to use it like a foam roll against the wall.
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Alright so Crystal is going to put that against the wall, she is then going to put her forearm
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against the FlexBar, and then she is going to lean into her arm so that she doesn't have
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to hold her arm up.
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And that will also give her the pressure she needs, and then she's just going to roll along
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the whole length of her forearm looking for the most tender point.
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When she finds it she'll just lean and hold still, probably for 30 seconds to 2 minutes
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until she feels a significant decrease in discomfort or sometimes you'll actually get
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a release feeling where everything lets go and then there's no more pain.
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How's that?
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Not too bad right?
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Now you guys can imagine if I'm using the same piece of equipment that I've been using
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for all of my exercises, it's very portable and the only additional thing I need is a wall
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this becomes really easy to implement in home exercise programs.
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We created the office exercise program, we were talking about before.
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We know that a lot of people with this forearm dysfunction end up like they're typing too
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much, and then some of them type all week and then they go try to be weekend warriors
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in various recreational leagues and they end up with some elbow pain or wrist pain.
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This is something they could do at the office.
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They can do their release work, do their forearm exercises, it takes them 10 minutes, they
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can do it a couple times a day.
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You want to try the other side?
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Alright so again she is going to put the FlexBar against the wall vertical.
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She's going to try to smash her forearm into her side here so that, I don't want her using
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her bicep or even some of these flexor muscles to hold her forearm in place because that's
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going to make it harder to get a release.
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I want the friction between her body and the FlexBar to be holding her arm up.
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You can step out just a little bit so that you get a little bit better of a lean in there.
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This can be really tender guys, so people can adjust how far their feet are away.
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If they want more pressure they can bring their feet out a little bit, if they want
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very little pressure because of how tender these points are, they can start pretty close
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to straight up and just lightly push into the FlexBar.
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So there you guys have it, by releasing these mucles, we're taking our first step towards
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optimizing recruitment patterns and motion of the joints in our elbow, forearm and wrist.
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And hopefully, starting to turn the tide towards not being in pain, or not exhibiting any of
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this dysfunction.
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I hope you guys enjoy this technique, I hope it's easy for you to get client's to do this
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technique or a regular basis, obviously that whole compliance thing, is a big struggle that
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we all have to face.