Straight Leg raise

Authors

Affiliations

Nate Yomogida, B.S., SPT

Doctor of Physical Therapy

B.S. in Kinesiology

Chloë Kerstein, B.S., SPT

Doctor of Physical Therapy

B.A. in Neuroscience

Nerve bias

Sural Nerve

• DF
• Inversion

Tibial Nerve

• DF
• Eversion

Common Fibuular Nerve

• PF
• Inversion

Contract-Relax Technique

contract-relax

Alignment focused

One variation of this technique is to focus on the alignment between the hip, knee, and ankle. Focus on the position the patient naturally moves into, if they are trying to twist their hip and knee into internal or external rotation.

Bring them into the position and watch how their body creates abnormal movement patterns during the movement. If these movements occur, cue them and/or bring them into a less drastic range until they can perform the movement properly, and slowly progress the range after each rep.

Neurodynamic focused

Hip Activation

• Have the patient drive into hip extension
  • “Bring your leg to the ground”
  • Cue them not to overactivate hamstrings and have knee extension

Dosage: 2x10reps of 3-5sec hold at end range.

Ankle activation

• focus more on dorsiflexion at first prior to adding excessive subtalar joint movements.

Exercises

• Wall long sits
• Rear straight leg table stretch
• Split straight leg raise

Strain Counterstrain