RVA Physical Therapy

I want to think about doing the front's as if you're going for a wee, and you're going to stop mid-flow what you've got to try and think about it slowly. If you're going to the toilet slowly stopping that flow and what you'll feel as you breathe out not as you breathe it as you breathe out you'll feel that transverse abdominus for up and kick in now these physios.  We always talk about getting up to about 30% so not your maximum okay there's definitely not a brace position. If you feel that tummy's popping up you're doing a brace position you're doing your obliques and your regular sizing you're trying to get an intradermal pressure and that's not what we want because they tend to arch your back and whatever overwork your extensions. So we've got to think about during up and end so don't think too much about hollowing out and dropping the belly button down. We tend to be able to lift up through here, so we've got to try an

Today we start talking about getting your pelvic floor working getting your transverse abdominis working and getting a multifidus working. So we'll start off with getting your understanding of what you need to do as far as getting that power floor switched on what position your spine is to bend. We always talk about the neutral spine and getting your abs on or your core on this. Try and break it down a little bit and get you to understand what we're actually talking about. As far as bringing on powerful activation the abdominals run just bracing and working the lower back too much, and then we'll work on trying to get that switched on, and then trying to get your lower back switched on and give those little muscles with cool. Multifidus which you might have heard of which are the stabilizers for the spine trying to get them switched on run the extensors switch time. So the first thing I want you to work on following me down here is when you're doing this pelvic floor tr