Kyler Brown
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first heard May 2025
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And that's where you start looking at someone kicking or running or throwing. That needs to be a dynamic system, not just a stiff system. And I think a lot of people, they don't have the first one. So they see a ton of these exercises like the DNS three month or dead bugs or whatever else we want to call them that create deep core stabilization.
But they don't see the next step after that, which is, okay, now how do I maintain that pillar and that strength? And then I get a free shoulder blade or a free hip to move. And one of our shared clients, he had a lot of radicular nerve pain from a disc issue. And he was convinced he had some of that.
But one of the most fascinating cases for me in recent memory, because with him, we were able to actually find a trigger point that referred pain that mimicked that radicular nerve pain. So when we literally pressed on his glute minimus, he got a referral that he thought was a tribute to his back. So that was a window towards, okay, that's a muscular issue. That's not your spine causing trouble.
And then we gave him these stabilization drills, which helped that glute just relax for once. What we see all the time in the clinic setting is muscles are meant to be a muscle. My bicep is meant to contract and relax. It's not meant to be a shoulder stabilizer. But if my stabilization isn't doing its thing, then that bicep and the trap and all these other muscles try to help.
And that's where we lose freedom of movement because your body is essentially perceiving a little threat, a little instability, and so it tightens other structures up. So then I see people coming into our office saying, will you dry needle this or work on me or do soft tissue work? They go to the stretch place. That's going to be a six hour benefit.
But if we activate this deep stabilization system and get all the parts moving in unison and in sync, all of a sudden those movement problems go away and you're much more robust and strong.
Dynamic stability. Absolutely. And there's a ton of analogies I've heard over the years. I'm not a car expert like you, but one of the ones I've used a lot in my practice is for a while, I had this really old truck that we were working on and it was like a mid eighties Chevy kind of thing.
And when you turn the wheel from my hands are at, let's say nine and three, it wouldn't turn until my hands got to like 12. The steering on that thing was sluggish. So that dynamic stability, it wasn't very good. Whereas like an F1 car or go-kart, that thing moves with micro movement.
So if you translate that to the human body, anybody listening, if I said, hey, do a skater hop where you leap laterally from one side to the other, how you land, can you stick that landing or are you falling over as you go? And there's a million variables involved there, but the big ones, of course, are your rate of force. Can you absorb that?
Can all your tissues, the arch, the Achilles, the IT band, the hip, your core, can all those tissues kick on at the same time to create stiffness, number one? And a precursor to that is where's your balance? To generate that first force, were you organized or did you have to like throw your head and hands a weird way to generate the force, but now I'm not in an optimum landing position.
So what a lot of times you see in youth athletes is people rush to put strength on them, but a really good strength coach can put strength on a college athlete, you know, in eight weeks. But do they have speed? Do they have organized movement? Are they quick in all planes of motion? Is their balance really good? Because now my nervous system, my software is ready to absorb all these things.
And then you put strength on top of that. That's a great athlete. And a lot of these genetic people that are just naturally really good, they have some of that underlying ability to where they can land and organize well. And then later they put strength on.
Pick a sport and you can show me somebody who was really athletic and they weren't really big and strong, but you can put the strength on later. And that's one of my biggest personal passions is these 14 and 15 year olds who just get berated in the gym and then they tweak their back.
I had one local team where it was a golf team and about 30% of their athletes had a stress fracture in their lumbar spine. Oh my, what? Yeah, it was absurd. How is the strength coach not getting fired? So I reached out to the head coach and the strength coach and to give all these people a little bit of a pass, they're not really equipped because they're managing 200 kids.
I think it's just a bad setup. You have 200 athletes that you're supposedly managing a program for and you're not watching technique. Whether or not you know what you're talking about, it's a whole nother argument. But like the idea of, okay, we're going to do a high performance on a 14 year old and put strength on them, but no one's watching technique or teaching them the foundations of lifting.
While at the same time, they're 14, we should be making them quick, athletic, and coordinated first. Because that's a platform you want to build an athlete on. You don't want to make a kid really slow, but really strong when they're 15. It's really hard to train speed as you get older.
We did a ton of work. The literature and the science is out there to a degree for you stack things on top of themselves. So you start with isometrics, you progress people to more explosive or compound movements. So let's assume that I don't have any injury risks at all. And you would determine that based on just my history? No, and testing. History, testing, demographic risk.
There's a lot of variables we look into for having concern about musculoskeletal injury. That's number one. But yeah, every person is different that way. And we've had people come in who've had multiple surgeries and injuries, and then we've had other people come in who they're high risk for injury, but overall, they're a pretty good package to work with.
There's not a lot of medical concern, if you will. So ignoring all the medical side of it, I really like following the principle that the exercise is the test because we basically look at everything about four to five different ways. But if I watch someone do, let's say a wall squat.
It's isometric. isometric load. It's what we all used to do in like high school practices where it burns your quads and your patellar tendons. And we can even set you up to where you're in the right position. So that's going to tell us a comfort with the position.
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