Anatomy In Motion

Tell Me More About The Closed Chain Biomechanics Of The Lower Limb Course!

You are most likely used to observing and learning about biomechanics in an open chain environment, that is to say with the human body neither engaged with nor interacting with the ground. Essentially anatomy lying down.

What we know at AiM is that things can change when we are upright and in motion; and it changes by creating organised movement arrangements of your joints and structures which ultimately help us to make sense of the muscles and the role they play in movement too. This programme highlights the anatomical inter-relationships of your joint structures that your body would ideally have access to in order to explore and enjoy optimal and efficient movement in your lower limb and even create a framework to liberate your whole body. The more efficient your base, the more balanced may be the spine.

In this course Gary introduces you to his five Big Rules of motion, the planes of motion he uses to observe the closed chain biomechanics of the hip and pelvis, before overlaying the muscles so that you can appreciate the role that muscles play in human movement - all is not as it first may seem!

Gary then works his way down to the knee, bringing in the knee muscles before getting down to his favourite subject - the foot, the foot joints and the corresponding soft tissue, which then enables us to work back up the body via the knee, filling in necessary gaps as work our way all the way back up to the pelvis to describe two very distinct structures - a pronating leg & a supinating leg.