"Prone Heel to Butt" is an exercise that involves lying face down (in a prone position) and bringing your heels toward your buttocks. This exercise is often used in physical therapy and fitness training to improve flexibility, strength, and mobility in the lower body, particularly the hamstrings...

Spine Hell to butt are simple leg exercises that involve extending your leg away from your body, bending your knee, and sliding your heel toward your buttocks. You can do heel slides using a bed, floor, or wall. They’re often recommended after having a knee injury or knee or hip surgery....

The Weight-Bearing Lunge Test (WBLT) is a simple and reliable assessment for one of the most important movements of the body, foot, and ankle dorsiflexion. Using the MAT you can quickly and effectively measure this movement as a total distance in centimeters or use an inclinometer application on...

The Weight-Bearing Plantar Flexion Test is a simple test used to assess the strength of the calf muscles. Here are the steps to perform the test:

1. Have the participant stand with their feet shoulder-width apart and their hands resting on a wall or stable surface for balance.
2. Instruct the...

Whilst the hip joint is capable of movement in all three planes of motion some movements tend to be more important for certain movements than others. Most of the time assessment of these movements will occur in unloaded positions such as supine or seated.

One of the most important movements...

The MAT Spinal Assessment looks at common spinal assessment movements in all 3 planes of motion but allows the assessor to add a baselines flexibility measurement so that progression can be tracked over time.

These movements are important to assess for a therapist when managing clients with lower...