Neurological Tightness: When to Intervene
Brian Fox Neurological tightness is a common finding in the clinical setting. Depending on the circumstances, I, as a practitioner, have to make a clinical decision as to what treatment strategy is prudent: go at it and completely overhaul the nervous system, open up just a little, or leave it be. I’m not quite […]
Mitigating Neck Tightness
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Training Torque
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Joint Specific Band Work
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Neck Flexion Assessment
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Length Loading Progression
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Passive to Active Tissue Lengthening
Brian Fox [Description below.] Affect connective tissue architecture by training at length for 2+ minutes. Intent: Passively acquire length then actively try to maintain that length and internally load the bioflow. Straining the connective tissue at length. A two minute stretch specifically intended for the anterior knee and thigh in hip extension and […]
Cross-Contextual Spine Training
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Lumbar Segmentation
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Treatment & Tissue Quality
Brian Fox View this post on Instagram Keep an eye on these two in treatments and in training, they’ve been know to cause mischief. . 🪁🪁🪁 Remember there are only two things we can actually feel and manage in treatment from a tissue quality perspective: neurological and mechanical tension. We cannot rub, […]
Injury, Fatigue, & Fast Twitch Fibers
Brian Fox View this post on Instagram 🦵🏼Research has shown that when a tissue or tissues get injured, the slow twitch (ST) muscle fibers decrease in the affected tissue and surrounding area(s) , thus leaving behind mostly fast twitch muscle fibers (FT). . 🦵🏼This is valuable information when in treatment, since ST […]
Countering Doctor’s Advice
Brian Fox View this post on Instagram ?A doctor’s course of action for “self care” of drop foot may entail clearing the house of clutter and using florescent tape to mark hazards. I’m not a doctor, but I can sure try to help out a lot more than that. If we can […]
Neck Feedback
Brian Fox View this post on Instagram I don’t always use a foam roller, but when I do it’s to practice fundamental neck articulations. This piece of equipment turned out to be quite advantageous in providing external feedback as to what flexion and extension of the neck should feel like (external cue). […]
Neurological Tension & Expanding Range
Brian Fox View this post on Instagram On our journey to increase physical capacities, my client and I aimed our treatment plan on: . ▶️Gaining control of specific joints and tissues to decrease neurological splinting in the lumbar spine by doing a blocked flexion and extension drill (not pictured) in very low […]
Functional Range Systems – Hip Internal Rotation
Brian Fox ASSESS View this post on Instagram #Repost @jquintnmt with @get_repost ・・・ This is first of several videos between myself and friend/fellow FRS practitioner @briangfox; treating one another by applying Functional Range System (FRA/FR/FRC) with the objective to: Cultivate New Physical Capacities via: . 1️⃣”Create” > Acquire new articular (joint) space by […]
Blocked ‘Karate’ CARs
Brian Fox View this post on Instagram ☝?Get really good at controlled articular ranges of motion (CARs) of individual joints. Become more aware of your “stuff” and get really good at moving it. These are low level tension and something you can do literally hundreds of times. ✌?Once you can achieve […]
FR Systems Movement Coaching
Brian Fox FR Systems & Kettlebell coaching. ➡FRA (Spine): Low back pain. Kyphotic, hinge points at cervical level 5/6, T12/L1 and sacroiliac joint & L5. Zero segmental control in cervical, thoracic and lumbar. C-spine and hips do all of the work for lumbar (Flexion & extension), thoracic (flexion, rotation & extension). ➡FRA Hips: […]
Training Overhead Shoulder ER
Brian Fox “We don’t treat end ranges, we train them.” -#functionalrangerelease Isometrically loading two different end ranges then eccentrically grooving that full range w a lighter load. I found a lot of tension when assessing my own clavicular head of the pectoralis major. So after treating it manually, this was my external load […]