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Cable Pull Through – A Great Hip Hinge Exercise
Cable Pull Through - A Great Hip Hinge Exercise The cable pull through exercise is a great hip hinge exercise because the set up of the cable pulley relative to the individual encourages the individual to perform movement of the hip in the horizontal plane. Often...
Overhead Instability With The Walking Lunge
Overhead Instability With The Walking Lunge In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams using the Yoak Bar with load either side to challenge upper body and torso stability whilst performing a same side forwards lunge. This adds an additional challenge...
Are You Undertaking Regular Active Approaches To Managing Your Musculoskeletal Complaints?
Are You Undertaking Regular Active Approaches To Managing Your Musculoskeletal Complaints? In the images below you will see two different examples of home based exercise programs that have been prescribed for Principle Four Osteopathy clients. Both clients have...
Static to Dynamic Lateral Trunk Stretch
Static to Dynamic Lateral Trunk Stretch In the image and video below you will see Baseball Player Matt Blackshaw performing a sidelying QL trunk stretch over the swiss ball (static stretch) and then we have progressed this into a dynamic wall supported lateral trunk...
Overhead Press With Alternating Step Foot Placement
Overhead Press With Alternating Step Foot Placement In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams performing a bilateral stance overhead dumbbell press and then perform an alternating step placement whilst maintaining an overhead hold of the load. This...
Multiplane Calf Stretch
Multiplane Calf Stretch In the video below you will Marcus performing a multiplane calf stretch. The aim is to maintain tension through the back leg and then step side to side in the frontal plane to create a top down movement through the lower limb. This is one way...
The Wall Plank Exercise
The Wall Plank Exercise In the image below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients performing a wall plank. This is a regressed version of the floor plank (due to reduced effort against gravity). The focus here is on trunk alignment, hands in line with...
Training Your Core – A Different Approach
Training Your Core - A Different Approach In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams performing a wall supported hinge whilst pushing a med ball in front overhead and then performing a rotatory trunk movement. This concept was borrowed from Frans Bosch...
Are You Addressing Mobility Of The Big 3 Areas – Foot/Ankle, Hip, Thoracic Spine/Shoulder Girdle?
Are You Addressing Mobility Of The Big 3 Areas - Foot/Ankle, Hip, Thoracic Spine/Shoulder Girdle? For all of you out there that are regularly exercising i.e. in the gym, running or playing sports. If I was to encourage you to perform stretching and mobility of three...
McGill Big 3 Exercises – An Osteopaths Perspective
McGill Big 3 Exercises - An Osteopaths Perspective In the image below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients demonstrating regressed versions of the birddog, plank, side plank and deadbug. These are all exercises focusing on bracing the spine and...
Train Around Your Injuries and Keep Moving – An Osteopaths Perspective
Train Around Your Injuries and Keep Moving - An Osteopaths Perspective All too often I see clients present to the clinic for the treatment of an injury and whilst this process occurs, they have stopped training. This results in an overall deconditioning of the body as...
Stability Challenged Push Exercises – An Osteopaths Perspective
Stability Challenged Push Exercises - An Osteopaths Perspective In the videos below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy and Matt Harris of Everythings Connected demonstrating a few variations on the traditional horizontal press (barbell...