Soft Tissue techniques for the Piriformis, External Rotators & Gluteal Muscles

www.johngibbonsbodymaster.co.uk
John Gibbons is a sports Osteopath and a lecturer for the 'Bodymaster Method ®' and in this video he is treating the hip joint using muscle energy techniques (METs) and in particular the Piriformis and gluteal Muscles. The piriformis muscle attaches from the anterior surface of S2-S4 and travels through the greater sciatic foramen to the greater trochanter and is an extensor, abductor and lateral rotator of the hip joint. The piriformis has a relationship to the sciatic nerve and is considered that this nerve can travel through the muscle in 20% of the population and cause a sciatic type of symptoms called a piriformis syndrome, for the majority the nerve will pass underneath this muscle. John also demonstrates the Ely test for the rectus femoris and uses a muscle energy technique to lengthen this hip flexor.
Want to learn how to apply these techniques as well as other Physical Therapy CPD Courses then look on www.johngibbonsbodymaster.co.uk
John also hosts Certified & accredited online courses and these are accessible from your own home. Click the link below for further information and use BMM10 at checkout for a discount!
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2. Vital Nerves - bodymaster-method.mykajabi.co...
3. Cervical Spine - bodymaster-method.mykajabi.co...
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5. K-Taping Techniques - bodymaster-method.mykajabi.co...
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John is the Author of the highly successful book and Amazon No 1 best seller called 'Muscle Energy Techniques, a practical guide for physical therapists'. John has also written many more books and these include:
1. A Practical Guide to Kinesiology Taping and comes with a complimentary DVD.
2. The Vital Glutes, connecting the gait cycle to pain and dysfunction
3. Functional Anatomy of the Pelvis, SI joint & lumbar spine
4. The Vital Shoulder Complex
5. 2nd Edition of Kinesiology Taping
6. The Vital Nerves
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John now offers Advanced Training in all aspects of Sports Medicine to already qualified therapists (athletic trainers, sports massage therapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, physiotherapists, physical therapists, personal trainers, pilates teaches etc) in manual therapy to 'Diploma' Level. You need to have attended all of his ten individual Therapy Courses before the diploma is awarded. His venue is based at the idyllic venue of Oxford University, home of the first four-minute mile by Roger Bannister.
Courses available and all the dates are online www.johngibbonsbodymaster.co.uk:
1. Spinal Manipulation & Mobilisation
2. Advanced Spinal Manipulation
3. Kinesiology Taping
4. Muscle Energy Techniques
5. The Vital Shoulder Complex
6. The Vital Cervical spine
7. The Vital hip & groin
8. The Vital Knee
9. Advanced Soft Tissue techniques
10. The Vital Neurological system
11. Pelvis, SIJ & Lumbar spine
12. The Vital Glutes & Psoas
13. Acupuncture & Dry needling
The Bodymaster Method ® Diploma is now recognised as a training provider and accredited with the STO - Sports Therapy Organisation

[@svitlanadrungis]

Love John's videos, thank you for sharing your knowledge in clear and simple way.

[@JohnGibbons]

Very welcome, regards JG

[@mikedoom7095]

Going through my own back pain issue in the last few years and I've learnt a lot. You've got fantastic knowledge and you explain it well. Really appreciate it mate, thank you

[@JohnGibbons]

You are so welcome!

[@thallymahinay2362]

Thank you Sir! Very clear explanation and a very simple technique but very effective.

[@JohnGibbons]

Glad it was helpful! Regards JG

[@stephenmahney2967]

Love your work. Very helpfull. Thanks John.

[@JohnGibbons]

Thanks for watching! Regards JG

[@Tachyon111]

Awesome! Great to include in LBP treatments. Easy to forget about the hip joint! so Great!

[@JohnGibbons]

Thanks for the message and I always assess the hip with patients that present with back pain. regards JG

[@daithiquinn3709]

Great work as always brother 🤙❤💪

[@JohnGibbons]

Thank you BROTHER....🙌 Regards JG

[@higherandhigher5848]

Thank you for the excellent demonstration.

[@JohnGibbons]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jamieholden9825]

Thanks for this John.

[@JohnGibbons]

Thanks for listening, regards JG

[@aviationbuff78]

Thanks John as always amazing info, insights and explanations make it so easy to understand

[@JohnGibbons]

Glad you think so! regards JG

[@surfcoasttherapeuticmassag9518]

I have told lots of practitioners locally about you. Master you are

thank you for sharing

[@massagewithmike]

Great video!

[@JohnGibbons]

Glad you enjoyed it, regards JG

[@mariafalchetti3182]

Thank you for your demonstration is so useful

[@JohnGibbons]

Glad it was helpful! Regards JG

[@robm1585]

Thanks John am going to use these techniques in my therapy treatments.

[@JohnGibbons]

Brilliant and thanks, regards JG

[@tinamillas2570]

Thank you soo much for your videos! I have implemented these techniques on clients with great results! Learning more in depth about the muscles too! thank you!

[@JohnGibbons]

Thanks Tina for the lovely comments, regards JG

[@carolinetrender2000]

This is great, John, thanks. I have a client this technique will be perfect for and nice that it can be performed with the client fully clothed too.

[@JohnGibbons]

Very welcome! Regards JG

[@baoluo1]

That's great thanks John.

[@JohnGibbons]

Thanks for listening, regards jG

[@sandrahargrave1638]

Thank you!

[@JohnGibbons]

You're welcome! Regards jG

[@ForhadPhysioCare]

You are great!

[@JohnGibbons]

Thats very kind and thanks for the message, regards JG

[@Physionotion]

Thank you sir

[@JohnGibbons]

Welcome, regards jG

[@ranjanadak3958]

Nice & knowledgeable

[@JohnGibbons]

So nice of you, regards JG

[@SonySony-km8pj]

👍Thanks for sharing!

[@JohnGibbons]

Thanks for watching! Regards JG

[@Tachyon111]

John, could you make a video on Treatment Protocol for Iliosacral Dysfunctions ( from your book Pelvis and SI joint) and Symphysis Pubis treatment from the book as well.

[@JohnGibbons]

I have all those videos already and are on my channel, regards jG

[@DrAbdulHannanAzeemi]

loving it, i m coming to Europe in few weeks and where could i meet you country or city. Abdul Hanan senior physical therapist, rehab specialist

[@cinmac3]

John are there any videos we can watch and do ourselves, when we are in pain.

[@JohnGibbons]

Not many - only the self-taping videos - regards JG

[@mariafalchetti3182]

Can you do this movements on a patient that had a total hip replacement?

[@JohnGibbons]

Most of them will be fine - avoid abduction with external rotation for a THR, regards JG

[@alinamarina3761]

Amezing

[@prasenjitsaha6157]

It's very helpful JG. Applied to some cases. Better results. Thank you sir

[@JohnGibbons]

Great 👍 Regards JG

[@sheonaghscott934]

Thanks

[@JohnGibbons]

Thats very kind of you to do that for me - REGARDS JG

[@ATTherapist]

Hey John, you may not offer this in your course or videos, in your practice if you’re dealing with an F.A.I hip pathology, have you used the hip decompaction maneuver to centralize the joint and inhibit the piriformis in this way? I have a 70 year old female, who’ve I’ve been treating this condition in a maintenance mode for about 5 years! I’d like to apply your technique ( and I have) but it doesn’t seem to change gait? She is challenged by not being able to walk past 10 minutes for the past 6 months. She expresses pain emanating from her right gluteal area, and the left hip has the FAI? I’d like to take your course with the hip/ pelvis if it will give me the discernment of what to keep regulated? Before, my hip decompactions did the trick, before the 6 month mark, now not so much? Should we get another MRI,on both hips to see if the arthritic changes have progressed? Or if the right hip has any degenerative changes? Sorry for the long message, but if you recommend that If I take your course, and it will help my patient, then I will! Cheers Mate, Much obliged, Jean LaFleur- Rkin, CAT(c), CSCS

[@JohnGibbons]

Sorry for the delay as only check messages from time to time...try my online hip course as no doubt will help your patient and future patients, regards JG

[@yasayuna9110]

I like ...best Regard from Indonesia

[@JohnGibbons]

Thankyou and greetings from oxford...I have been to Bali and loved it...regards JG

[@tinuskiesling7846]

What do you do if the client resists and you are unable to control the leg?

[@JohnGibbons]

Get them to do the motion actively rather than you do it passively, regards JG

[@aviationbuff78]

John - as a Myotherapist I am struggling to find a soft tissue technique to treat extremely tight mid upper Tx due to so many people sitting at laptops during covid lockdown here (Victoria Australia). Do you have any videos to help with this? 🙌🙌🙌

[@JohnGibbons]

I will add one at some point, regards JG

[@surfcoasttherapeuticmassag9518]

Thank you John I really appreciatebit

[@chadfriel2068]

Try treating the Pec's they often create a tug of war between the upper traps. This allows the scapulas to naturally retract and you will often find hypertonicity in the traps naturally decreases.

[@Tachyon111]

@@chadfriel2068 Amen brother! 100% true! + Subscap+Biceps actually +anything that crosses, passes or attaches to the scapula at some point. Scapula causes upper traps to tense up. Release all that I mentioned. You will be blown! I guarantee!!!

[@fucktheconstitution]

Can you do this technique on a patient with a herniated disc l5 S1 region?

[@JohnGibbons]

This technique I demonstrate in the video is fine for disc pathology, regards JG

[@CeeJai_K]

This was very informative. Last December my piriformis muscle bothered me. The pain was so unbearable I couldn’t even walk and I thought I would never walk again. I was only 39 years old and spent a month in a rehabilitation hospital. I never cried so much in life thinking that I would be in a wheelchair or walker for the rest of my life. Thankfully months later it “healed”. I put quotation marks because I can still feel it but no pain. It scares me that it will happen again. I wish I had this while I was in the hospital. I never received treatment like this.

[@JohnGibbons]

Sorry to hear that and pleased you are better now, regards JG

[@CeeJai_K]

@@JohnGibbons thank you so much. Your kinds words really help me mentally as well. Take care my friend.

[@ThiagoOliveira-iv2nx]

I highly recommend you to search for a Osteopath. Greetings from Brazil.

[@CeeJai_K]

@@ThiagoOliveira-iv2nx thank you.

[@toniprrp]

What do you do if you have a knee injury??

[@JohnGibbons]

This technique doesnt normally cause any knee pain, regards JG

[@alessandraferrara240]

I strongly recomend his curses and books to massage therapists.

[@JohnGibbons]

Very kind - regards JG

[@chrisgonecamping]

Sir, I have a 63 yr/old male in a normal gait, his right knee raises quickly and abruptly. When I inquired. It's a problem my doctors haven't diagnosed. With unknown etiology, denial of injury, denial of any known cause. I'm a licensed nurse and my guess would be hip flexor? In this video you've address if a condition exists while working through your assessment of the gentleman's left hip. A comment made was might be "arthritic hip joint"? I would like to guide my friend back to his orthopedic physician with a "possible cause"? Please. Yes I realize it's similar to me asking you to asses with fragmented symptom of a man's gait. It reminded me as a young boy I'd have a propeller controlled by a rubber band. If the rubber band it too tight? Is the hip flexor that or other etiology that takes place to move right leg forward in his gait, it has been three years since first symptoms. Retired bus driver. However he used to ride bicycle for very long distances in his 30's, 40's and 50's he is 63. Thank you if you can or can't help. Thank you for your videos! You've helped me! Thank you!

[@JohnGibbons]

Sounds like an hip issue rather than a tight hip flexor, refer back and have a scan and take it from there, regards JG

[@freemebaby26]

What about torsion dystonia !

[@yousefrawashdeh_fs3394]

5:06 my manual master trying to be funny Cheeeeers teacher

[@JohnGibbons]

I try my best - regards JG

[@melissapereira6957]

what can inhibit glute contraction? I can't feel one of my glutes, the right one, no matter what I do

[@JohnGibbons]

Lots of things - I suggest you read my Vital Glutes book - regards JG

[@Beamlight7]

Dr, I get tremendous pain when I stand up from laying position, in my right hip, to buttock, the sensation reachs tell leg. It jus cant bear weight, like something is squeezing, grinding or stabbing inside. It subsides if I sit or lay down, but i cant put weight on that right hip/ leg. It starts sometimes i feel from right illiac crest, and upper buttock, hips and down buttocks. This pain is not when I sleep for 8 hours or 2 house and wake up. It's always after I finish chores and lay down, and have to get up in 5 mins or half an hour. Also I get radiating pain in hip and side buttocks when i sleep on my both side. Could u please help me and advise me what to do or what this can be. Orthopedics jus give Nsaids and physiotherapy. Past 2 years I am sufferring

[@JohnGibbons]

Hard to comment without looking at you but doesnt sound to much of an issue to diagnose - see someone like me where you live if you can, regards JG

[@Beamlight7]

@@JohnGibbons I'm from India.😊. Staying in UAE. However would you hve an idea on what it could be. I do have disc buldge wih mild impingement at l4 / l5 level as per MRI. Do u think that could be the reason

[@katbabe14]

It sounds like you could pelvic floor therapy.

[@samithacc]

👍

[@MohammedIbrahim-uv5wv]

When I try to bend back my leg especially while I am laying on my chest.... I feel a very bad pain at the backside of my thighs ( may be on the hamstring), it cause a pain and prevent me from walking for about 3 to 5 minuteseachtime. Any advice please? Thanks Thanks

[@alikijones9314]

Lovely jubberley

[@JohnGibbons]

Thanks for the message - regards JG

[@alikijones9314]

Tried these techniques today on a client and most definitely helped after some thorough warming masage, as was new client. As always, John (Yannakis, Yann, Yannis) is a pleasure and always referring to your 📚 .

[@cragginshred]

I put a towel over their glutes and use my elbow then you can lean into it! 🤙

[@phillip4307]

Anatomy lesson not technique video 0/10

[@marcusyakubu6608]

He talk too much with little demonstration

[@JohnGibbons]

Sometimes I do so i agree with you....regards jG

[@Uk-sd8sd]

Thank you sir

[@JohnGibbons]

Glad it was helpful! Regards JG