Pelvic Floor Lesson

The Pelvic floor lesson usually starts and stops with the kegel exercises, so it was so cool to see how that relates to the origin of movement and moves up through the core stabilizers into dynamic action.  The physical therapist had an exterior way to check each level of engagement from the pelvic floor north into dynamic, integrative engagement.  The “drawing in maneuver” or “sucking in of the stomach” is a very uninformed version of correct inner engagement that stabilized movement instead of blocking it.  The band technique I learned from Max via Hans for dancing was the action in motion and now to understand the root of the movement. I found out one of my legs is slightly longer at the tibia and this may or may not have contributed to my rightward rotation, but I could experience the difference right and left of my pelvic floor-upward activation.  One side was easy and symmetrical and the other side I compensated by rotating as I engaged the leg.

The next step was lifting and lowering the legs and engaging the higher muscles which made it easier for me.  The PT said it would make it harder for most people with tight hip flexors.  I could feel the shift from an isolated strengthening exercise to a dynamic series and how easy it was to override the underlying weakness with other muscles–synergistic dominance is the result.  Once we have established the pattern for synergistic dominance, we have moved away form the correct design of the human movement system which can lead to postural distortion and injury.

Ok, I have to be a bit of a geek to get so excited about understanding the origin of movement, but it so totally motivates me to help people with their movement design–the ones who are interested.

The below post includes videos of my exercises.  The PT takes a video and sends it to me via an encrypted site.  Sounds perfect for the evolution of  Selfseeds Virtual Riding!!!  You can follow the progression of my rehabilitation and try the exercises too.

(Click on the link below to see the corrective exercise videos–Thank you Dave!)

• Stable march. Slow. Pelvic floor and TA contraction. 20x each side.

  This is amazing in conjunction with what I learned in the Corrective Exercises Training, NASM.  Discovering a way to work with the two-leggeds using my observation abilities from riding, dancing, and exercising.