Learn how to stretch your quads out safely in this drill from Dr. Riley
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Dr. Riley:
This drill is called half kneeling with rotation. This is another good drill also to work on hip flexor mobility, stretch your quads out as well.
So we’ve got Brie in a half kneeling position. We’ve got an Airex pad under her knee. Take a little pressure off. In this position, I want her tall kneeling and I want her to feel like she’s tucking her butt underneath. From there, hopefully we get a little traction or pull on her right hip flexor.
We’ve got some FMT. FMT are just some tubing attached to the wall. From here, we’re just going to slowly just rotate. Now, this is a really, really good drill that we use in clinic quite a bit. We’re working multiple different things here. Okay? We’re obviously working on hip stability. She has to stay really stable on this hip. My favorite drill, actually, to open up this right-sided hip flexor.
When she turns to the left, it should traction out or she should feel a little pull or tug in that hip flexor. And then also we try to incorporate some form of thoracic mobility or rotation. We’re going to get her working on rotating here, okay? So we’ve got stability, mobility, quite a bit of thoracic mobility as well. This is half kneeling rotation …
