Human Animation

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As a manual therapist, I’m constantly on a quest to treat clients effectively and by conserving energy. I am trying to be as lazy and effective as possible to save my body.

This is a knee mobilization I came up with when treating my friend’s knee. It allows me to use my body and keep my hands free to treat the specific tissue I want and easily manipulate the intended joint.

My friend, who is essentially a baby elephant, is also very good at relaxing, which makes treating his patellar tendon and medial knee joint easy and difficult at the same time.

By pinning his foot/ankle in my knee pit > putting him in tibial external rotation > and pushing his knee medially to create more length in his medial knee joint/tissue (MCL, meniscus etc) > then having him isometrically contract into me at the foot/ankle AND cueing him to use my body to his advantage by driving force from the hips. This allows him to inadvertently drive more force into the foot/ankle and tibial rotation by using compensations to our advantage.

This is an especially great mobilization if you work on large athletes or humans.

Let me know what you think of this if you try it out.