Join Kelly Starrett, owner of San Francisco CrossFit and creator of MobilityWOD, as he teaches coaches and their athletes how to diagnose dysfunction at CrossFit South Bay.
In Part 7, Starrett makes a plan of action. First, he looks for motor-control issues expressed in positioning faults.
“Let’s fix the movement pattern first,” he says. “When you correct mechanics, things stop hurting.”
Next, he looks for connective-tissue or sliding-surface problems that can arise from dehydration, stiffness and matted-down tissues.
“What we need to do is shear and restore motion through those tissues,” he says.
After evaluating connective tissue, Starrett looks for a joint issue. For athletes and coaches to improve joint mobility, he suggests using a band “to encourage the joint to be going in the right direction.”
Finally, Starrett looks for muscle-length issues causing dysfunction. To address these issues, he suggests muscle manipulation such as PNF stretching.
“You can see that it’s working, and any time there’s a nice positive feedback loop, we tend to see behavior changes,” he says. “This whole project is observable, measureable and repeatable.”
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Additional reading: Hamstrung by Kelly Starrett, published July 1, 2007.