How I Use The Joint by Joint Approach To Improve Exercise Selection

This is a video that is really a quick summary of the more detailed article I wrote recently about how I use the Joint by Joint approach that was invented by Gray Cook and Mike Boyle.
When working with people with injuries or chronic pain it can be very difficult to know where to start, what to look for, and more importantly what to do to restore pain free movement.
In many of my videos I regularly refer to the joint by joint method but never really explained what it is exactly. I was never taught this concept at any point in my first 5-6 years of personal training and I completed many advanced courses in rehabilitation and worked with many experienced therapists and specialists. I used to rely on postural corrections based around muscle imbalances and would drill down to specific areas with isolated exercises and stretches. While I had some success doing this I regularly would get very frustrated with poor results with transferring isolated exercises to full body movement.
Then one day I read the book Movement by Gray Cook and came across the joint by joint approach something clicked in my mind that helped me join the dots together with what I had been doing. Everything seemed to make a lot of sense looking at the body in this way and enabled me to make some big changes that worked much better than anything I had been using previously.
The main thing to remember about this is this
"When a mobile joint becomes immobile, the stable joint above or below will give up its stability and move as compensation"
While it is not an entirely correct and flawless approach it does give some very valuable clues that enable you to find a good outcome. I hope you enjoy the video and find it as useful as I do.
Extra articles with exercise examples and resources for each joint are shown below.
Foot Stability
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Ankle Mobility
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Knee Stability
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Hip Mobility
Mobility - www.noregretsp...
Stability www.noregretsp...
Lumbar Spine Stability
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Thoracic Mobility
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Scapula Stability
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Shoulder Mobility/Stability
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Cervical Spine Stability
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