Kinesiology Thursday – The ankle jam

You SHOULD be able to pull your toes up towards your shin, stretch your calves and squat without feeling anything in the front of the ankle. Tightness in muscles like the posterior tibialis, anterior tibialis and flexor hallucis longus can alter the mechanics of your ankle joint, causing this jam. What these muscles have in common is they are all supinators. 

Why does this matter?

An ankle jam alters stride length, causes knee deviations with squatting and can even result in (or be the result of) a pelvis that is rotated. I treat knee, shoulder, low back and hip pain daily from people with a rotated pelvis. I feel so strongly about this motion being restored in people with aches and pains that I put together a seminar to teach others what to look for and how to treat it. 

If you want to learn one quick fix now, watch this video and share it with someone you think it might help. Get rid of an ankle jam.

Because nobody has time to be in pain. 

Until next time…

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MoveWell Academy
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