In each section I will highlight potential issues and tightnesses you may have if you fail the test assessment for each articulation. You may want to do the assessment first completely cold (not warmed up or stretched) to see what your everyday mobility is, then once again after doing a full body stretching routine, just to compare. Too much flexibility with no mobility leads also to increased risk of injury! If you don’t know the difference check out this tutorial. You want to have good flexibility AND good mobility. There is a key difference and it’s good to know both. In each section there will be a flexibility assessment and/or a mobility assessment. How to give yourself a Mobility Assessment Excluding circumstances where there is something other than joint or muscle tightness leading to your immobility, this should give you 90% (made up figure) of what you need to know, for your average person. However, for people that can’t afford physio/osteo/any other kind of treatment, or are just curious, doing this assessment is the best way to take the first step towards learning where their imbalances lie. Even if I was a physical therapist, a self assessment will never be as accurate or effective as an expert having a look at you. This assessment is not intended to a be replacement for getting proper treatment. Being able to give yourself a mobility assessment is a great way of telling what your focus areas are, so you can get to work and prevent injury!ĭISCLAIMER: One important thing to note is that I am not a physical therapist or licensed physiotherapist. Having balanced and good mobility, whether or not you are an athlete or train regularly, is important to prevent injury and make sure you are happy, healthy and pain free. However, people seem to get a lot of value out of the original even so many years later, and in its current form can still be very useful for individuals within the fields of dance, gymnastics, circus and contortion, so I will leave it up in the meantime! If you have highlighted any areas of mobility you want to learn how exactly to improve mobility, sign up to my Mobility Library for £5/month and come say Hi in the Member’s Discord Server! Mobility Assessment: Intro ![]() I am planning to come back to this assessment at some point and update it to reflect my current professional opinion and practice. I’ve learned a lot since then and no longer necessarily agree with many of the mobility tests/standards I put forth in this guide as a standard baseline for the general population. Important Note: This guide was written way back in mid-2016 and hasn’t been updated since then, yet still gets quite a bit of traffic.
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