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Old 02-18-2009, 03:02 PM   #96 (permalink)
I. Kay
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Originally Posted by Carl Chia View Post
Like touching their ass to check glute activation for one.
You're joking, right?

In case you're not, the only places I touch are the back muscles, maybe the neck. Areas they cannot touch themselves very well.

And the main reason I touch those places is so that the client can be aware of where the muscles are... and occasionally, if things don't look right (extreme forward-head posture, etc), to see if things are actually contracting.

I have had people cup their own butt, put fingers on their hip muscles and abdominals. V-med, etc. They can feel whether or not they are squeezing.

I leave the hands-on stuff primarily to the manual therapists.
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