Below are some of the major points taken from the Pod Cast, Click on the link at the bottom to hear the entire Pod Cast.

• Spiral and diagonal patterns were first described in Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation-- long term for the conception that the body is aligned and arranged in a spiral and diagonal fashion with muscles, ligaments, and joint surfaces in order to avoid straight plane motion whenever possible.
• The rotation and diagonal effects of movements seem to reinforce or enhance the performance of those movements.
• Although it is important, foot position does not prove to be as much of a concern as the knee’s relative position between the foot/hips, but generally, as the foot turns out, the knee tends to collapse medially.
• In a double leg stance, one foot’s out-turn can compliment the other foot’s out-turn.
• In single leg stance, the foot tends to become straighter as an attempt to center itself.
• “Screw hole mechanism” -- ligaments and muscles complimenting extension with a slight amount of rotation.
• If pain is present, the clinician must decide where it is coming from (underlying cause).
• Pain is not consistent with all types of movement and all types of load.  Pain varies with different movements and loads (thus, implicating that it is just as much the pattern as it is the part).
• For every mobilizing segment, you must have a stabilizing segment.
• Clinicians are generally more comfortable by isolating single muscles or group of muscles.
• Exercises should be systematically oriented to create a change.
• PNF is more neuromuscular as opposed to musculoskeletal.
• If you do not change the pattern, you do not change anything.
• The Functional Movement Screen is imperative for forming a movement baseline.

• Parts vs. Patterns.m4a [Play]

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