How does " pressing the small of your back into the bed, allowing your
pelvis to rotate towards your chin" sound?
Jason
Jason Steffe, MS, PT, MTC
Physiotherapy Associates
1089 Red Bud Rd, NE
Calhoun, GA. 30701
706-602-0027:W
706-625-3910:F
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From: Barbara McNair <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: teaching pelvic tilting
Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 5:28 PM
Can any list members help settle this one?
My colleague and I, both physios in Womens' Health, are producing a leaflet
for antenatal mothers about ways of avoiding back pain. In describing the
exercise 'pelvic tilting' (pelvic rocking /pelvic thrust) we are struggling
to describe the movement of the pelvis in such a way as to be easily
comprehensible to the lay person.
We say: ' Lie with knees bent. Pull in your tummy muscles and press the
small of your back into the bed, allowing your pelvis to tilt [which
way?]as you do so (your pubic bone moves towards your chin).
question: does tilting the pelvis forward describe it, or is it upward?
Of course it depends upon which bit of the pelvis you are thinking of, as
to which direction it moves in, but what would make sense to most ordinary
people?
Has anyone solved this, and found a really succinct, foolproof way to
describe it?
We also have a diagram, which I can't reproduce here. Arrows show the
direction of movement. With the person in crook lying, which way would you
point the arrows to give the best impression of the direction of movement?
Any suggestions, wild guesses, tried and tested methods and lateral
thinking would be most welcome
Bardy
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