Interesting videos, articles, books etc.

[PeredurJenkins]

Hey Guys,

I thought it might be nice to create a thread where people share cool articles, books, videos etc. and then maybe discuss how these ideas then relate to the system that Dave has created.

I've recently been a little bit obsessed by Rob Gray and the Perception and Action podcast, he puts out a lot of really good free content on motor control and learning through an ecological lens. Here's a really nice video where he talks about the Constraint Led Approach and how we can use it to help athletes explore a new solution space from which new movement solutions can emerge.

Relating this back to Dave's thinking and the content of the mentorship

• Giving people the prescriptive verbal cue of "relaxing their back" or "pushing through the midfoot" reduces their solution space. From this new solution space, new behaviours can emerge loading certain tissues more e.g medial gastroc and hamstring and others less e.g iliocostalis
• We can encourage midfoot/mid-hand pressure through the environmental constraint of placing the midfoot/hand on a raised surface e.g a weight plate/aerobic step and the heel off the raised surface
• We can encourage a "relaxed back" with the environmental constraint of a bean bag under their chin
• From these constraints, we are hoping to create new stable attractors e.g delayed knee extension which will then transfer to a wide variety of movement problems both in daily life and in a sporting context

If people have more thoughts on applying a constraint led approach to physio stuff or if people think I've misunderstood something leave a message, I'd love to start a dialogue.

Peredur

 

[Dave]

Great find mate keep sharing anything else mate you find!!

 

[Duncan McGechie]

The Gait Guys

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This podcast is really interesting. Rambling discussion of running, of running, gait, biomechanics, neurology and research

 

[Liam]

Is there any free online courses at present? If so what are the dates/times etc please.
Kind regards
Liam

 

[PeredurJenkins]

Hey Guys,

More Rob Gray stuff, In this video he reviews an article looking at the effect of pain on motor learning. In this study, it was found that pain didn't affect motor learning performance (dart throwing), but that local pain (elbow pain) and distant pain (knee pain) both caused a decrease in movement variability.

This makes me think of performing the earlier progressions, e.g 3D slouches/lunges, in a return to play program well before returning to more complex tasks with more degrees of freedom e.g running.

Also, I was thinking about the potential of future technology to measure movement variability and perhaps it would be something like before progressing to running you need to demonstrate good movement variability at some earlier progressions e.g 3D slouches/lunges.

Hope you enjoy the video and if any of you have some interesting insights I'd be interested in reading them.

 

[Toni]

Polyvagal theory from the daddy, Dr Steven Porges. I started studying this about 3 years ago and it made a big turn in the quality of my treatment, it takes more readily and sticks better. Facial expression, heart breathing, sound, sight and diaphragm is all directly linked. So the Rib cage and slow breath is the biggest key to helping healing.