Carl,
Interesting take. I noticed a while ago you posted a video of a kneeling ankle mobility drill you use that more or less looks like closed chain ankle circles. Have you dropped these from your repertoire or is the circle into pronation at the furthers point of dorsiflexion and circling back around supposed to help align the articular cartilage?
I believe your first picture demonstrates something that we don’t appreciate nearly enough. We all talk about hammering dorsiflexion ROM, but rarely does anyone suggest that in order to get the most out of our joints and our GRFs we need to be sure we aren’t locked in inversion.
You said, “short term self mobilization exercises have been researched to cause problems to joint capsules.” I don’t doubt it one bit.
Can you point me in the direction of this research?
I know there is a great deal of NAGS, SNAGS, and MWM stuff that is simply a “knee drive” over the toes with a therapist applied glide from Mulligan that has been demonstrated to be highly therapeutic to FAI patients. I also *believe* that I’ve seen a handful of positive results using the “knee drive” exercise without the glide. Where we run into trouble is trying to hammer past the elastic barrier or if it is being performed without stabilizing the talus.
Just a few thoughts…
Best regards,
Carson Boddicker