Dr. Danny Shapiro
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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But this was what he was told as someone in his 20s. Like in what world is this okay? And in what world is this not malpractice?
Yeah, I love talking about it because you're right. Like we as humans, we tend to move in a unilateral, like just a very forward and back manner. Every lift is forward and back. Right. You push or pull. Right. Squat. I mean, listen, it's up or down. Right. But it's still very one dimensional. And.
we are multi-dimensional humans i i describe it to my patients as such like we we can do one dimensional movements we can do two dimensional movements and three dimensional movements through our spine right one dimension is just forward back two dimensions is forward and let's say to the side and three dimensions forward side with rotation and we our bodies need to be acclimated to that and that is something that i took over from the dancing world
Because in dancing, your spine is twisting and bending and flexing and extending. Through all imaginable possible ranges of motion that your spine can do, ballroom dancing gets done, all of it. And when I entered the rehab space, I was like, why is nobody doing it? Why are people doing clamshells, glute bridges? and like hamstring stretches. And that is the recipe for pain relief in most offices.
I was like, what is this nonsense? Their spine is supposed to bend. It's supposed to do stuff. What is this craziness? Your erector muscle groups, I mean, your... All these muscles that come from your tail, like right above your tailbone, line of spine. Some of them go up into your neck. Some of them go into your mid-back, thoracic spine.
Some of them go underneath your shoulder blades, along your rib cage. These muscles that support us, that literally support every spinal segment, extends, rotates, and side bends. Right? Either some or all of those motions, but at least two or three out of them. And we don't do that. Yep. And if our body is designed to do X, we must do X. Anything short of X will lead to problems. Yep.
A thousand percent. Same as the knee, right? Same as the shoulder. The shoulder is the most mobile joint in the entire body. Nothing can do what the shoulder can do. And yet, all we do is we live in this 90-degree realm where we don't really reach over our head unless we're reaching for something in an upper cupboard, right?
But when's the last time someone actually rotated their shoulder around and behind them and rotated their, you know, again, this is very dancey motions, right? But this is all things that the shoulder can do, but nobody does it. Yeah, and that's why people who have shoulder pain can't lift their arms past 90 degrees for the past three years because of tremendous pain.
They don't include that rotation in. They don't activate the rotation. All those muscles, the rotator cuff and other ones that are outside the rotator cuff clamp it all down. Right. But that's why I love lateral flexion and rotation because it opens things up beautifully. It is one of the biggest pain like immediate pain eliminators.
When people come to me, even I had someone who had 30 years of low back pain. We dropped it by 75 percent within 45 minutes just by including side flexion and rotation.
There we go.
Oh, my God. Couldn't be farther from the truth. And, you know, in addition to that, and you've probably noticed this as well from pretty much, I think, 100% of the moves I've ever shown online is that not only does it include all these ranges of motion that the body is designed to do, but there's also no passive stretching. Even when you feel a stretch, it's actually active.
Because even if you're side bending to the side, you're not leaning on something and reaching for it. Your muscles are stretching and actively contracting to hold that position and expand like that. I don't believe much in passive. There's very few instances when I will have a patient passively stretch, like lean on something and reach for something or grab their knee and pull it towards them.
Everything that I typically give my patients, I'd say 99.9% of the time is all active stretching or active activation.
because those two again that's that goes hand in hand with using the body forcing the body to use its own leverage and fight against itself because that's how strength is built right if you want to build strength you gotta struggle through some weight you gotta struggle through some load you gotta struggle through the the actual contraction the body is the same way even if you're just using your own body weight there's so many ways to leverage your own body weight
I've had guys, huge muscle, like bodybuilders come in and I'll have them do something seemingly simple, like a rotated side bend. Oh, that's one of my favorites. And then once they go down, I'll put my finger on their upper elbow and I'll say, okay, my little finger, okay? I'll put my pinky against me. They can't.
They can't come out of it. Pinky pressure. I'm a big boy, but pinky pressure. Right. Can't do it. Right. Body can't produce enough force to go that way. It's not used to doing that. Right. So we've got to build all this stuff up. And the way to do is all through mostly, again, active. You can do some passive. If you're super sensitive, some passive movements might be good.
But all those juicy, active stretch activations are so good.
Yeah. Oh, gosh. I mean, what would save my back when I had my disc herniation? I got to say, like, when I went down and I couldn't sit, I couldn't sleep, I couldn't walk. Like, everything was misery. And in my mind, it didn't compute of, like, I went from this top-tier athlete. Like, how can I be at the top of my game at 22 years old Like, I've never been injured before.
Like, my father was a podiatrist and a very functional, you know, medicine health kind of guy. So, like, from the age of when I could walk, you know, checking my lineups, making sure I'm strong, making sure I'm well balanced. And, like, this is the real first pain episode of my life.
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