Sentences with phrase «ankle flexion»

High Bar requires — greater ankle flexion, shorter relative femur length, longer torso length, wider stance and more quadriceps dominance.

Not exact matches

Try and work on flexion activities such as reaching for her feet and toes, playing with them, placing them in her mouth, rattles on ankles or using her legs to kick at dangling things while on her back (keeping legs in air rather than slamming down to the floor).

By doing this, out are working in direct opposition to the triple extension of the squat by way of loading your hip, ankle, and knee flexion.

(Most athletes will make the mistake of pushing the foot down toward plantar flexion as they are rotating the ankle / foot.)

At the same time, you still get the same — if not more — flexion at the ankle.

Both muscles contract to produce «plantar flexion» at the ankle joint which is the same movement as standing up onto your tip - toes.

As a plus, vibrating calf raises increase ankle plantar flexion.

Ankles become loose from the repetitive flexion and extension of kicking, hips gain greater range of motion from the undulations in butterfly and breastroke, and shoulders hyper - rotate from the repetitive circling of the arm in every stroke.

In this video I will show you how to mobilize your ankles including toe flexion and extension, ankle glides, inversion and eversion and ankle rotations.

Comparing the effects of squats with different stance widths, Escamilla et al. (2001a) did not report actual peak ankle plantar flexion angles, but they did report more heavily - angled shanks in narrow stance squats compared to wide stance squats.

In fact, front and back squats are more similar than they are different — both require massive amounts of strength / stability in the hips and core, as well as requisite «access» to hip flexion, knee extension, and ankle dorsiflexion — so I really see little need to get all territorial about which one is better.

The origins of the gastrocnemius (medial and lateral heads) are such that the two heads cross both the knee and ankle joint and consequently function as both an ankle extensor (plantar - flexion) and as an accessory knee flexor and stabiliser.

Additionally, they noted that the net joint moment was an ankle dorsiflexion moment in the medium and wide stance squats but an ankle plantar flexion moment in narrow stance squats.

During ankle plantar - flexion, relative load, knee joint angle, ankle joint angle and repetition speed all appear to affect both gastrocnemius and soleus muscle activity.

As ankle plantar - flexion angle increased from -15 to 15 degrees, the moment arm length increased linearly.

The exercises with the use of these ankle weights included seated knee flexion and extension and standing knee flexion and extension.

Hip extension, knee extension, and ankle plantar - flexion net joint moments increased markedly as side - step distance increased, while hip abduction net joint moments did not alter much at all.

Running does wonders for the muscles involved in plantar flexion — pointing your toes toward the floor — but leaves a host of other small muscles throughout the foot and ankle weak.

Plantar flexion is the ankle movement of moving the foot down, pointing the toes away from the body.

Restrictions in the superficial front line are seen with forward head posture, anterior pelvic shift and tilt, knee hyperextension, breathing restrictions in the anterior ribs, and ankle plantar flexion limitation (11).

The squat, for instance, is the most notable and probably the best of all glute exercises; it involves flexion and extension at the ankle, knee, and hip joints as well as recruitment of the gluteal (gluteus maximus), quadriceps, and hamstring muscle groups.

The initial goals of physical therapy should be to increase the passive flexion of the foot and improve flexibility in the foot and ankle, eventually leading to a full return to normal function.