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Advanced Table-Top Supine    5:12

Starting Position: Assume Supine Table-Top position (exercise 5:11).

Movement/Exercise: Pick up one foot and straighten knee until leg is parallel with floor. Hołd. Return and switch legs.

CMJTIOH: DO NOT OVEREXTEND SPINE OR SAG AT HIPS.

Breathing: Do not hołd breath. Breathe comfortably.

Modification:

1.    Clasp hands behind head for support. Walk out until bali is underneath shoulder blades.

2.    Touch hands to bali and then to floor for balance assistance.

3.    Have assistant hołd wrists overhead for balance assistance.

Progression:

1.    Hołd arms out to side.

2.    Write alphabet with non-weight bearing foot. Increase speed and size to add morę difficulty.

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Comments: This exercise is gentle to the spine yet recruits spinał stabilizers to maintain balance. It is a weight bearing kinetic chain exercise for the legs. Writing the alphabet adds random perturbations to challenge balance and proprioception while adding momentum and inertia. This exercise mimics standing on one leg and recovering balance when it is unexpectedly perturbed.

© 1995 by Joannę Posner-Mayer, PT