Hip Lift
The Hip Lift Exercise is a common at-home exercise given to patients. The goal of this exercise is to focus on improving hamstring strength. Most people are quadricep dominant, the quads oppose the hamstrings and both connect and affect the pelvis. This exercise will help remove the imbalance from the front and back side of the pelvis and help strengthen the muscles that support the lower back.
Supraspinous Treatment
We use this tool to treat adhesions that are close to the skin. This tool allows us to be very precise and also gives us tissue feedback as we work through the area of complaint. Patients describe areas of superficial adhesions as "gritty" that become smooth after multiple treatments.
Psoas Work
Adhesion work of the psoas muscle by Dr. Lytle. The psoas is the main anterior stabilizer of the low back. We use depth and tension to remove adhesion as the clinical assistant helps move the patient to stretch the tissue being treated.
LvsC
Load vs Capacity. A concept used in the PHG office. Each body has a certain capacity which may be decreased by a diagnosis. If load exceeds capacity, symptoms will be present. At PHG we communicate load management to each patient and slowly build load back in to give the patient as much freedom as possible.
Low Back Treatment
Low back treatment by Dr. Lytle. Depth, tension, and patient motion bringing the low back adhesion to Dr. Lytle's thumb contact.
Tension
Compression may feel good, but tension creates lasting relief. Watch Dr. Lytle run over (compress) a rubber band with his truck. No change is made to the rubber band unless it is put under tension and snapped.