In this video, we're going to break down pest planas syndrome, what it is, and what to look for inside of your static postural assessment.
So when it comes to the pest planas syndrome,
what we're talking about is this collapsing of the arches and this knock need or this knee valgus effect.
So know it's not natural for just to do it, but just if you don't mind kind of collapsing those feet in.
Now, when we're doing our static postural assessment, this ends up being the first place that we look.
And one of our three most common postural distortion syndromes inside the NASM textbook and terminology is this pest planus syndrome.
And the pest planus, kind of a weird, funny term, but just refers to the collapsing of this arch.
that rolled in effect, that impacts the stability at the foot and obviously is going to impact everything else up the kinetic chain.
So normally what we're going to see is we're going to see collapsing of the arches.
You'll also see this adduction, right?
Knee valgus, which is the knees adducting in and even internally rotating a little bit, all right?
So those will be the primary things that we're looking for.
Now, this is going to have an impact as we move into exercises like squats and also single
leg moves like lunges because the alignment of this foot and knee and hip is really important for us to be engaging the right muscles.
So as for our potential overactive areas,
these muscles that may have too much signal going to them that we're going to want to calm down and work on better mobility.
Well, we a couple of areas, first are calves as gastroc and soleus.
If we have overactivity in those muscles and makes it more challenging for us,
that can potentially pull us into this unstable position and collapsing inside the foot.
Same thing with our AD ductors, our adductor complex, that inner thigh.
Right, we have attachment here on this internal body.
border, the medial border of our femur, and then up into our pelvic and our pubic bones, that can pull us in as well.
On top of that, also potentially our hip flexors, any three of these areas could be an overactive muscle group.
We're not going to know just from the static postural assessment, but it's something that we can look for with some of our movement assessments.
And then similar, right, if we see these areas.
These things show up in some of our other assessments like our overhead squat solutions table with the overhead squat and knees caving in.
Similar muscles may also be underactive if we have overactivity and the gastroc and solis that may mean underactivity in our shin muscles,
our anterior tibialis and posterior tibialis as the coordination, right, the activation of these muscles.
in our calves, that's going to help us control foot physicians.
We may have underactivity in those muscles.
We also might have underactivity in our glute medius and glute max.
So the easy solution for these things is we figure,
what do we do with this once we find out this information and we see it inside of our overhead squat and our other movement assessments,
is we simply say, how can we figure out what muscles may be a little bit overactive and let's try to down regulate that signal.
It be a little bit of myofascial release,
maybe some dynamic mobility exercises like those calf muscles and the AD doctors and then the opposite side we say how can we
turn on and get more signals going to those underactive muscles like the shins and the glutes.
