Daily Maestroism

DM #78

Tuesday, August 9th, 2016

DM #78: This one is straight outta Gray Cook and Mike Boyle's joint by joint approach. As I explained in DM #22, in the absence of prolonged immobilization, decreased mobility in an area is generally secondary to loss of stability in another area. If your nervous system doesn't feel that you own a motion, it will compensate and make you “safe” by taking away motion from another area.
I had an awesome attendee at my last @rocktape course ask me to take a look at her shoulder to see if I could help her figure out why she was experiencing decreased internal rotation that wasn't responding so well to mobility work. One quick look at her demonstrated pretty significant bilateral winging, but a noticeable right scap dyskinesis (aka her shoulder blade and arm weren't moving in sync like they should be). As explained by the joint-by-joint approach, her loss of scap thoracic stability was being compensated for by a loss of glenohumeral mobility.
My recommendation? Address the scap-thoracic stability issues while working on any glenohumeral mobility deficits. Wanna learn more? Join me at one of my RockTape courses and see just what Ida Rolf meant when she said “Where you think it is, it ain't!” Like it? Repost it. Don't understand it? Hit me up and get #Maestrofied.
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