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046: Dr. Emily Splichal: Training The Feet, Ankles, Barefoot Training and More

The PJF Podcast: Elite Sports Performance

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Are You Having Tight Calves?

Tight calves is the number one complaint that i've heard in most baskball players. I will always look at calves quads, so posterior lower leg, anterior upper leg because there's a strong correlation between tight there and tight top. And then, like you were kind of alluding to, that the pelvis is probably rotating forward. And then when it's rotating forward, you are pulling and stretching the posterior line. That all the calf stretching in the world is not going to make your calves relax or more flexible if your pelvis is in anter tilt. So lite would be more like an anterior leg hypertonicity, cause they're trying to pull the tibia flex

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