Goals: Identify mobility deficits that are severely restricted, different on the painful side, movements that reduce your symptoms
Activate muscle groups that have been not been engaging properly: Can you feel the the muscles engage in the same way that they do on the non-painful side? How does it feel different on the involved side?
Become aware of maintaining spinal stability and not compensating in the back as you attempt to isolate glute activation and hip mobility
Daily Movements: Meant to begin with proper abdominal stabilization and lightly move into restricted directions without increase in symptoms. This initial phase is more of an assessment to find your specific limitations as well as how you respond to certain positions. You need to be able to delineate between what is good and not good for you. As you are doing any of these movements keep the following in mind
It is good to feel tension or pulling as long as it feels the same or easier to do as you do it and you do not have any increase in symptoms afterwards
The first time through any movement do it very lightly, we are going to be stressing some sensitive areas and you will be surprised how this controlled movements can increase pain if done too aggressively, you can always push it a little harder the next time.
If you have soreness try to assess which movement is producing it. Do each very slow and controlled instead of pushing for 20 reps right away
These movements will likely be used as warm up to activity in the future, or an easy sequence to go to when you are in pain to hopefully help reduce pain
