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- Hi everybody, it's Dr. Blake
from Kalkstein Chiropractic,
your Baltimore are chiropractor,
and we're back with Shelley in the office.
I just like filming this technique
'cause it's so powerful with back pain,
and Shelley gives me great facial responses
when we work on here.
- And you say I'm ticklish.
- We're working on the psoas muscle
which is a really important muscle for back pain.
If you're having trouble or pain when you sit
and get out of a chair,
the process of getting up out of the chair,
often times your psoas is involved,
and this is one way that we treat the psoas muscle,
using active release technique.
Bend this knee a little bit more for me.
What we're gonna do is we're gonna move
the viscera out of the way.
Breathe in and out,
and then we come down and we get right on the psoas.
- And pick something up my arm up some point.
- Sh, you're not supposed to talk, careful.
So I've got an assistant moving her leg
so I can put all my energy into treating this muscle.
Now reach your arm over your head,
and she drops the knee to the floor a little bit,
and we get a nice, long, pin and release
stretch technique on the psoas muscle.
Go ahead down, arm down.
So we start with the muscle short,
knee bent, arm down, 'cause the muscle does this.
So if we shorten it by laterally flexing
and lifting the leg up, and then we're gonna elongate it,
and we find where it's tight.
I know where it's tight 'cause I can feel it,
but also Shelley really gives me a good audible.
- [Shelley] Like that's enough.
- [Dr. Blake] Good.
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- And knee down, arm over head,
and we change the line of our drive,
we push through into the muscle, good.
So if you guys are dealing with back pain when you sit,
and it's hard to stand up straight
when you get up out of the chair,
this is an awesome technique for you.
- [Shelley] Hold the knee up just a little bit more.
- [Dr Blake] Hold the knee up just a little bit more.
- [Shelley] Yeah, there you go.
- Shelley's got a complicated knee,
and a complicated life.
All right.
Good.
Knee down, arm over head, good.
Perfect.
That's actually doing okay.
A little tight, a little tight, but better.
- [Shelley] But better, yeah I think so.
- Yeah, good.
- [Shelley] Thank you.
- You're welcome, thank you.
- You're welcome.
You wanna roll on your side, face me.
- Do I?
- Yes, I don't know, do you?
So I think a great one two punch
when it comes to back pain,
a little one two three here we go.
- [Shelley] Thank you.
- Is the chiropractic adjustment.
So when we're looking at back pain,
we wanna work on the muscles that are tight, the psoas.
The muscles that are weak, the core, or the glutes,
right, the abdominals or the glutes,
and the joints, we wanna make sure the spine health,
the spine flexibility is there.
So we do a chiropractic adjustment,
get your joints moving well.
You did exercises already for your back,
and we just did some soft tissue release
on that tight muscle.
Now we're gonna adjust you.
- [Shelley] Relax.
- Relax, I'm gonna drop you again.
- [Shelley] Yeah, it's kind of, I'm a little...
- You're a little far off?
Here let's scooch your butt back a little bit more.
There you go.
- [Shelley] Thank you. - You're welcome.
There you go, nice and easy
If you stretch the muscles that are tight,
using your hands, a foam roller,
stretches that you do yourself,
a massage therapist, if you exercise the muscles
using good core strength in the exercises,
your abdominals, your glutes, your legs,
your diaphragm, when you get adjusted,
you can get back under control.
It's pretty effective.
If you have any question on how important the psoas is
for back pain, leave a comment below.
As always, thanks for watching.
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