Ankle Dorsiflexion Mobilization

Now we're going to show an ankle dorsiflexion mobilization technique.  You can certainly do your traditional one where we're doing  a posterior glide of the talus as that knee comes forward.  So go ahead and bring your knee forward.  And I'm directing my ankle down this way here.  And then come on back.  Where do you feel that you were feeling a pinch in the front.  Where are you feeling that when I do that?  Still, I still get it in the front.  Okay, so, a lot of times we'll need to change that.  I really like a posterior fibular mobilization,  so I'm going to kind of cup around her lateral malleolus here.  And I'm going to direct a posterior glide  a little posterior a little bit inferior  posterior glide there and come on forward.  Where are you feeling that?  I'm still in the front, but it's about half better.  Okay, so it's a little bit.  Let's just try another one. I'm just going to reposition my hand.  Go ahead again. A lot of times  I find that you need repositioning on that fibula will help quite a bit.  All right. Good. How's that feel? Good.  So about the same okay.  So another one that we can go to is  we can go to posterior on the fibula,   anterior.  So I'm pulling anterior on the tibia.  So posterior glide. Anterior glide here.  How's that feel?  Okay.  So about the same. Okay.  So that sometimes works.  I find the posterior glide of the fibula works most frequently.  Probably the second most frequent one that works is gliding  both posterior.  Really? So, again, I'm kind of scooping this way.  Good.  Come on forward.  Where are you feeling that?  In the back. Down here. Perfect.  That's exactly what we want.  So we're just going to go ahead and do ten repetitions of that.  And with each one,  I can get a little bit more pressure  as she goes farther.  Good.  Now go ahead and do a few on your own there.