Pulling Vs Pushing-Essential Understanding for Proper Walking and Posture

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The hip muscles can create power by either pulling or pushing. Using the correct form of power can determine if you are walking with proper technique or not. Learn how to feel the difference between pulling and pushing and which you should be using to create fluid, confident, and low impact walking. I talk a lot about how to use the hips to pull the body forward, not push. In this video I will help you to feel this movement more clearly. You will see many RU-vid videos telling you to push with your glutes when you walk, which is not correct. The glutes activate to briefly after your heel contacts the ground and then should deactivate after your foot hits the flat position. This is demonstrated in EMG studies of walking. The swing phase of gait up until the next heel placement is powered by eccentric contraction of the hip flexors, not the hip extensors. Doing it the wrong way will lead to forward leaning, over-striding, anterior pelvic tilt, and a host of other problems.
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@ToddMartinMD 7 месяцев назад

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@BlueValentin 8 месяцев назад

Even after watching so many of your videos on proper walking, they still give me new insight and I slowly embody these principles in my walking. Thank you for being such an awesome and reliable teacher.

@ToddMartinMD 8 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for the comment. I am glad you have found the videos helpful.

@muratatlantis8472 7 месяцев назад

Detailed explanation of walking cycles❤thank you

@TanverUlhassan-ty3dn 8 месяцев назад

Dr.Todd Martin, Amazing video really.....Much appreciated!!!🍁May God bless you and yours (Aamin)!!!🌱

@ToddMartinMD 8 месяцев назад

Thank you.

@seancidy6008 8 месяцев назад

I did not understand what you meant by "pull" until I watched this. Very informative.

@ToddMartinMD 8 месяцев назад

Great. I was hoping this would make it more clear.

@furqanhameed5701 8 месяцев назад

Very helpful, thank you doc!

@ToddMartinMD 8 месяцев назад

My pleasure. Glad it was helpful.

@barbarawarner4645 8 месяцев назад

I’ll need to be conscious of this and practice. I’ve been walking incorrectly all my life and have had trouble with gait since an otherwise very successful knee replacement.

@ToddMartinMD 8 месяцев назад

I hope the videos help. Knowledge is power.

@user-ig9ey9ze2w 7 месяцев назад

Good video

@ToddMartinMD 7 месяцев назад

Thanks

@jossyitoyah8825 7 месяцев назад

Hi Dr Todd could you do a video on steppage gait,waddling gait and spastic gait

@fifthavenuegirl 5 месяцев назад

i had a stroke and foot drop. been using lokomat but bought a treadmill. the cane made me lean too far to right. i was very good walker before stroke very very strong before / horses ranch work will be 63 in june 17 months post stroke i want to run again ditched cane and brace. told need to strengthen hamstrings/quads just want to be normal

@ToddMartinMD 5 месяцев назад

You can do it.

@jerryg2757 8 месяцев назад

What about running or sprinting? Do you always pull even during “explosive” athletic movements or is there every a scenario where pushing is advantageous?

@ToddMartinMD 8 месяцев назад

Pulling is done on level ground walking. When walking uphill, we pull into midstance (like standing up) and then push to move forward. You can see this in my hill walking videos. You also push with any type of running. Getting off the ground requires a Push and what I call a Pulse which happens after the push, which you can see described in my running videos.

@jerryg2757 8 месяцев назад

@@ToddMartinMD hey thanks for the reply. You videos have helped me correct and improve my walking and posture. I find in interesting how not many people seem to realize the root cause of incorrect walking technique. Thanks a bunch for sharing you knowledge

@ToddMartinMD 8 месяцев назад

Thanks. It is incredible how few MD doctors recognize this issue, like the centuries before we knew the consequences of high blood pressure. I am also amazed at how many PTs misunderstand the mechanics.

@TheAndyshan Месяц назад

I've watched quite a few of your videos and (as a layperson) I'm genuinely struggling to understand. Sorry if I'm being dumb. The demonstration of "normal" walking takes the leading foot well forward of the centre of mass, so this will, I guess require using extensors. Your demonstration of the alternative ways of walking doesn't seem to be a fair representation. Walking with more mid/fore foot landing close to the centre of mass with big toe push-off by engaging the larger muscle groups and tendons at the back of the leg seems to make much more sense to me. Assuming you are right, I'm left wondering why we have such big, glutes, hams, calves and Achilles yet they only have a secondary role in the fundamental activity of walking. Can you explain what they are for and why they are so large?

@ToddMartinMD Месяц назад

Normal walking has the center of mass directly between the two feet at the moment of heel contact, not over the forward foot. You can check this out by simply Googling a picture of the human gait cycle. We need powerful glutes to run, jump, and walk uphill, all which are just as fundamental activities as walking. We could not run without big glutes. Sorry if the explanations have been tough for you to understand. My representations of different walking patterns are correct.