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  • 10/09/2014 at 4:15 pm in reply to: Hip – Internal rotation #75361
    AvatarJim Hoffman
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    I’d like to echo what Ryan Saplan and Christian Mcervale have said and I believe what Kelly has shown in a couple of MWOD episodes and Daily RXes. My right foot has a tendency to turn out and I lack hip IR on my right leg. From a structural standpoint my right pelvis is tipped forward (anterior pelvic tilt) and also medially. So if you think about it my femur starts out internally rotated because the pelvis isn’t in the right place. From my experience the pelvis position is influenced by a tight psoas, QL, and adductor on my right side. However, I’ve been stuck in this position for so long I lack the proper motor control to do most normal movements. Instead of my glutes helping to control hip extension and also stabalize my hip during normal gait my hip extension comes from my adductor, erectors, and QL. 


    So my plan has been to hammer my high adductor and then the glute med and TFL as Kelly said in one Daily RX when you work on the high adductor there seems to be a lot of value in working the TFL area (and I agree). Once I do that I work on glute activation. As Christian Mcervale said I’ve also been working on lateral trunk stability especially on the LEFT side because my QL is over active on my right side.   
    12/05/2013 at 1:56 pm in reply to: hockey specific mobility #73370
    AvatarJim Hoffman
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    In addition you might want to check out Kevin Neeld he does hockey specific training and mobility stuff on his website.

    12/02/2013 at 2:56 pm in reply to: Working on knots #73341
    AvatarJim Hoffman
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    I probably didn’t explain my question very well. I know what a trigger point is and I know of the techniques generally used to get rid of them. My question is if you find a large trigger point (or knot, or whatever) do you just keep hammering at it every day or is going to see a specialist a better option? 

     

     
    11/06/2013 at 10:59 pm in reply to: Uneven Hips #73138
    AvatarJim Hoffman
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    I also have been dealing with this same issue for a long time. I went to see a sports doctor and had some x-rays done the conclusion was that I had a FUNCTIONAL leg length difference. Which means when they measured my bones they didn’t find a significant difference between them but somehow my body was creating a leg length difference. When I looked at myself standing I could see one hip bone was higher and also more anteriorly tilted. It frustrated me for a long time because after getting diagnosed and getting treatment from a physio, osteo, and chiro they all concluded the same thing but didn’t really get to the bottom of it.

    After checking out a lot of mobilityWOD videos I got to understand a lot more about movement and ways to treat yourself. I now have a far less noticeable difference in hip unevenness by just hammering away everyday at what was tight. For me my right hip was higher and more anteriorly tilted, my left was lower and more posteriorly tilted. So based on this the front of my right hip was tight so I hammered the couch stretch and rolled on the psoas and used the kettlebell on the illiacus, I also worked a lot on my right QL because I found out uneven hips can be caused by QL tightness. For my left side I worked on rolling the glute, high glute going into the erectors and QL then lots of flexion in external rotation stuff (pigeon pose on top of a box).
    It’s not perfect and I doubt it will ever be 100% symmetrical but I can see a difference and feel a difference by doing this (albeit a very slow change). 
    07/31/2013 at 10:52 pm in reply to: Sleeping on my Back #72535
    AvatarJim Hoffman
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    Interesting, I never knew! Thank you Kaitlin I will try to get an appointment with a Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor ASAP. 

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