Episode 1608 - Spine isometrics #PTonICE Daily Show

Dr. Jordan Berry // #ClinicalTuesday // www.ptonice.com 


In today's episode of the PT on ICE Daily Show, Spine Division lead faculty member Jordan Berry discusses the top 5 reasons to begin to utilize more isometric exercises for the spine: they can be scaled based on any level of irritability, they produce a lot of natural pain-killing chemical, allow for the "stress-relaxation" phenomenon, allow for specific targeting of weaknesses, and are easy for patients to replicate outside of the clinic.
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EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION
INTRODUCTION
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JORDAN BERRY
What is up PT on ICE Daily Show? Good morning this is Jordan Berry lead faculty for cervical management and lumbar spine management courses. Today is clinical Tuesday and we are talking about isometrics for the spine specifically the lumbar spine but really any area we're talking about isometrics for the spine. Now before we dive into that, I just wanted to mention a couple of the courses that we've got coming up to end the year. We've got, let's see, we've got one more cervical management course that is going to be in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and that's this coming weekend, December 2 through 3. We also have two options for, well, one option left for lumbar management. We've got Charlotte, North Carolina this weekend as well, December 2nd through 3rd is sold out, And then we also have Helena Montana has just a few spots left, also December 2nd and 3rd. So we've got three courses for the spine division coming up this next weekend. And then the first chance to catch cervical management in 2024 is out in Wichita, Kansas. That is February 3rd through 4th. And then lastly, the first chance to catch lumbar management in the new year of 2024 is January 27th through 28th in Rome, Georgia.

ISOMETRICS FOR THE SPINE
All right. So let's dive into our topic today. We're talking isometrics for the spine and why I believe that this type of exercise for the spine is underutilized across the board for a bunch of different presentations and, a bunch of different levels of irritability. I want to chat just for a few minutes about how we can use this effectively in the clinic. So just to make sure we're all on the same page, when we're talking isometrics, we're talking about a hard, prolonged, sustained muscle contraction. with no movement of the joint. And when we think about using this type of exercise, we're pretty comfortable overall using it in the extremities. You know, we've got tons of research now showing the benefits of isometrics in patellar tendons and Achilles and glute med glute men and rotator cuff. So a lot of those main, you know, tendons and tendinopathies that we're seeing every