AACL Video Brief

"trying to find that that fine line of getting enough work in to continue to see improvement and get things moving well but also not you know push too far on the other side of it"

"Try to get a little higher. Keep squeezing. There you go. That last little bit makes all the difference. Keep on fighting it. Don't let it drop down."

"our main goal today right we're trying to get just enough of a stimulus we want just something good in the body to make sure it's feeling as best as possible as you walk in the office this morning"

"the first few days it's completely passive like you're not actually moving you're not doing anything you're literally just throwing the machine on and letting that current do what it needs to do to kind of help speed up that recovery process"

"I mean, he said I made from a three-ligament injury to a one."

"obviously, it's hard to say for sure, you know, if that would have just happened naturally on its own, or if it's all the hard work you've been doing the last week or so. But, you know, part of me wants to say that it's at least something to do with that."

"So, I mean, like you're pretty much living on the Volta for the next week."

"Cause when he had looked at my knee, he was like, it was like, oh, have I, have I have therapy on it yet? And then I was like, yeah. I was like, yeah, it looks like it. Like, and he told me that how it healed and all that."

"Just making sure you're staying hydrated, eating some protein today, carbs, all the good stuff you know you need. Just, you know, once again, just trying to give the body everything it needs to go into surgery tomorrow and have the best possible outcome."

"that's kind of the that's the whole idea here is i want to be here to help you through this so if you have questions concerns thoughts anything at all just send me a text uh and i'll kind of walk you through whatever we need to"

"I did the full workout today with sprints and everything. And then the full lift and got to four or five on squat. It was the most weight I've done since surgery."

"Zero through 10 there."

"You may be tapping into some things here compensation-wise, Luke, that are a part of this pattern and why it's been so challenging."

"i know the the instinct there is to get out of it right the the brain triggers that and everything in you says get out right but um we want to fight against that and say okay hold on a second i'm going to let that muscle cramp i'm going to let it subside and then i'm going to maintain position if do…"

"it's a lot easier said than done right because you have to go through that sensation of like a who wants to sit there in a cramp like that's terrible right"

"because post-op, believe it or not, uh, you would be able to crank up your ACL leg, like probably double what you could do your opposite leg... Cause there's so much inhibition and that's, that's what we're trying to get, get back over time."

"we want to just, if we can get as many objective numbers across the board to be a hundred percent, like that's one of them."

"it's very rare that someone will scan at 37 on themselves let alone the first time... the confidence level Lucy of like for me it is dramatically higher than if you're say scanning at 20 because everything is going to kind of feel the same and sometimes we're not working deep enough to get to the re…"

"step one for me most important piece is where is your body guarding and protecting the most"

"the idea is to desensitize that reduce the threat and then that means our functionality"

"I just remember sitting there and thinking like, man, this is like, this is it. This is what the entire medical field needs to see."

"over the workshop, we had some of the just categorized as the kind of craziest types of conditions coming in, you know, from undiagnosed paralysis to, I mean, it's, you know, some wild stuff... one common theme with everyone was that they came there because of what Dr. Burton was able to do with the…"

"No. Everything that we do is body weight. The resistance at all of like the tension needed comes from the electricity."

"I want you to go into this scan, Lucy, with no bias from yesterday... you may present the same, you may not"

"We want to create the chaos and then find order."

"That's why we're here, right? This is what you're feeling right now, Lucy. Like this chaos that you're feeling. ... And compensation is exactly what we want. We want to draw out as much compensation as possible. We want to re-educate the muscles on how to work properly."

"Just like in the weight room, Lucy, if you can't squat 200 pounds, don't throw 500 on there."

"In theory, we should be able to do this exact exercise with no help."

"once they understand once they learn once they feel it once they go through it once they can wrap their mind around it they're all in"

"So, there's never a time, just to be clear, never a time when we're clearing anyone to do anything ever. That's the PT. That's the doctor. That's their family decision. We're here to help educate."

"One reason in particular is that we can kind of measure in real time what inhibition is, electrically speaking. where typically post-operatively, we can drive sometimes like double the amount of amperage into the leg of the surgical leg because of how much inhibition there is."

"sometimes that can, you know, kind of like we see that kind of leak or bleed into the daughter or the son. And they, it kind of creates this like mental jail of stress and like anxiety and, and maybe more prone to like not walk or not put weight on the leg."

"there seems to be a lot of excitement about all of the exercises you can do, but if they're not being done well, it can really take away from what we're trying to accomplish. And we just see that happens so much in, in the world of ACL that we're then having to like rewind and kind of like pull, lik…"

"very normal for your nervous system to revert back to its protective patterns"

"We're going to keep working here, Lucy, until we can have a fluid pattern. We're going to break through all that chaos and find order. Full range of motion, no compensation, every level."

"So your body's adjusting, right? And it kind of, it interprets it as a threat, right? And as you stand there and start to move, that threat decreases, which is what we want. Because we don't want threat when we're putting a signal into your muscles. We want the muscles to be able to function without…"

"No, you shouldn't feel it at five. Um, I want it to be subsensory, meaning you don't feel it, but it's, it's going into your system, right? We're pushing electricity. We're pushing, um, increased blood flow through your leg."

"You've done, you've done the hard work. We need your body to just recover from it now."

"there's so much neural activity happening in your leg from what we just did... It's like going to a concert and your ears ring afterwards. Same thing."

"Any of the things we're doing today, we want to keep the discomfort no more than a 3 out of 10 from the device."

"once the intensity gets higher, it's obviously going to be a harder cause the, the machine's actively going to be trying to straighten your leg. It's trying to contract your quad and you got to use the hamstrings on the other side to basically pull back on it and get more control of the knee."

"Yeah, I feel like most clinics, they're trying to get you in and out as quick as they can. But it sounds like they're actually putting a lot of time into it. That's good."

"so a lot of times if someone were not using the device it could be well over a year or more to be able to kind of start to balance back out uh usually with the device i would guess by six months or so we're probably pretty close"

"If we did a regular calf raise, no problem. But if you did enough of them, it might shift into a symptomatic category. Then obviously there's, there's a capacity issue down there that we would want to spend some time on."

"Um, I kinda, I kinda think about it like mowing the grass. Like you want to just go in patches, like straight up and down, slowly working your way around. So that we're not missing areas."

"I went back up the knee and it really hurt my top of the shin... And then I let go and I hit my thumb and it shocked me. Yeah, that happens sometimes... Part of the fun here."

"you'll realize pretty much immediately when you start your calf raises, the first rep is going to feel impossible. The next rep will be easier. And then by like the third or fourth rep, it's fine. So, totally normal."

"the main idea with the, with the scan was we were using the device to try to figure out where there's some sort of inefficiency in the system. So, we're trying to identify some sort of area that is having a hard time allowing that electrical signal to go through and causing that threat response. And…"

"The whole neuro aspect is just such a missing piece and especially return to play... why is the number one risk of injury a previous injury?... We're not focused on the brain and the sensory system whatsoever. It's all physical."

"the technology that I use specifically, um, helped me to get back on the field. Um, you know, should have been, you know, maybe four to eight weeks potentially depending on the ham, like the rehab and how that goes to, I was back in four days."

"Like without that experience, I was done. I would have, I would have, my senior year most likely and probably wouldn't have gotten any playing time and, you know, I worked my entire life for that point. So, um, this, all of this is very, very personal to me."

"the companies that exist are completely okay with just kind of like sending the devices out, even if you don't have the proper training. And then what we see is the results are okay, but they're not necessarily repeatable. And then they start to kind of not get used as much. And then they kind of co…"

"We got together for our first session, which was virtual. And after 20 minutes of work, he was doing things that he couldn't do before, since before, since before the injury, uh, specifically jumping up onto a box. Like he couldn't do a single leg hop onto a box. I think it was maybe 18 or 20 inches…"

"with just, just sports science in general, pisses me off. Um, cause everything is about output metrics and I'm like big fucking whoop. But did you see the movement quality of how this was achieved? Like, is anybody looking at actual movement?"

"my goal was always to make the most portable, um, powerful, um, and affordable direct current modality that exists."

"and also it not costs, you know, um, you know, having make a decision between like a down payment on a house or, you know, that's all modality has never sat well with me."

"But we're not, we're not in a position where we're just selling devices to sell devices. Everyone else essentially is."

"you have to get to a hundred on the device before you can move on to level three. Like, that's just one thing that we have to do because if you're asking your clients or patients to do it, you better be able to do it yourself because you're not going to know how to relate to them."

"you can swing and miss and still upregulate the nervous system, say 10 to 20% and have great results, but that's not what we're looking for. We're looking for phenomenal results every single time."

"just the process of continuously moving the nervous system in the direction of comfort and trust and order versus, you know, chaos, distrust, threat."

"Just like shock absorbers in the car. Right. If the muscles stop taking on force. If the shock absorbers in the car stop taking on force, you're going to have some issues with the car. You're going to have to take it in the shop. Same thing with the body. That first line of stabilization is not ther…"

"Statistically. Like. It's very significant. But. I want zeros every time."

"What can you do. With the least amount of time. In the most efficient way. To make somebody go from. Weak to strong. Pain to pain free. Limited range. The front range."

"Eight to a four. Could feel like a failure. ... But it's not at all. Because that's 50%. That's. That's a wild outcome. ... In the grand scheme. That's a. That's a win."

"It can definitely help with lengthening. I mean, it all comes down to the neuroreceptors, in my opinion, of does the muscle feel safe to lengthen?"

"And your objective here, Lucy, is to think about putting your face on your groin. Down. So up and in. Not down to your feet, but up and in. Up and in. Up and in. Like an egg. Like creating an egg shape with your upper body."

"i'd say what we learned today is that you gain i don't know if i necessarily call it you gain strength because i don't necessarily like to think that we lose strength it's just like we lose it's almost like there's a lid um on our strength and we can't access it"

"i just find it interesting because it's this this injury is like the more you push yourself the less injured i feel and i don't necessarily i need to stop saying injured because i don't think it's an injury"

"things that would make my knee loose like they don't anymore like the copenhagen plank if i would rotate or move a little bit i could feel my tibia move... i won't feel it anymore"

"So you have the functional scores right now of someone, if you're looking at the research on ACO post-op reconstruction. Functional scores of somebody who's maybe like week five post-op."

"for what we're looking for, we're looking for essentially like where from a sensory standpoint, like where is your body threatened by tension or load? And like, what muscles are then not taking on the force that you're asking it to?"

"eliciting those compensation patterns in the session are important because you're ultimately preparing your body to take on more tension. And so that's what we need as, you know, humans in general or elite pickleball players or whatever it is."

"I'm thinking though, based off of that, very limited, I mean, limited data points, but we just did 10 repetitions and it decreased almost instantly."

"i want you to just look up like you're trying to see your forehead and then nasal inhale so look up and then sniff but you gotta do at the same time so look up and sniff"

"we're just trying to get some blood flow and movement through the elbow joint because i think it is the bicep that's just angry uh it probably probably is a minor tear or something like not anything that's not anything that would require you know any medical help just uh something that caused a lot …"

"so is that bolster thing kind of like a like a cattle shocker cattle prod thing"

"maybe if i'm having any residual problem in september you can zap me yeah definitely do my knee again anyway because it definitely felt better with my knee"

"you have the right mindset and and the mindset that not a lot of people can can have and i'm sure you fluctuate between that mindset and kind of being in there maybe even moments of despair and and devastation and uh maybe even far as like you know depression type of uh emotions but that's all very …"

"unlike a lot of first-time aclers obviously you you um you know both good and bad that you've been through this before right because it's like okay you know what you're up against um which is um can kind of feel like mount everest in some ways but at the same time you know what you're up against"

"you learned a very valuable lesson about you know proper progressions and you know running and just because you're clear for running doesn't mean you should be running like six miles every day"

"you being built for just something so much bigger than than all of this because of the the hardship that that can cause and and the type of person that's going to continue to mold you into being so you've already proven to yourself your resiliency factor coming through one i mean you're just going t…"

"although probably pretty devastating in terms of your athletic career in high school you know there'll be tremendous silver linings and blessings that comes from this"

"It wasn't easy. But I said I'm not going to try and fix myself... I'm going to follow Evan's plan."

"Most times. What I typically see. Is that. The localized spots. Around the neck. And the traps. Have like. An okay response. And it's not always the solution. We typically end up having to. Go into scans. And things."

"For me, it's about eliciting the threat response."

"well I can open my hand now"

"keep it within nothing above a two out of ten"

"honestly before I couldn't even make it a minute without knee pain"

"did anyone ever pass out because they put it too high"

"I always try to make it a point to say that on day one so that there's no alarm going off and like catastrophizing about what the soreness could represent."

"the first session is how high can I go to get a result that also potentially won't destroy them the next day?"

"you have to give up something here if we're going to get better. It's not going to be easy, right?"

"if it is a session that has like little to no talking, that's a complete fail."

"surgeons will say like yeah you'll just you'll never get that back yeah that's not true at all like we see that come back all the time."

"Relax muscles, a muscle that's ready to perform. So that's what we want. Get it to relax and we can open up range."

"how you know that it, quote unquote, it worked is if how you feel after the session... Then keep leaning into it."

"peeling the layers of the onion back. Sometimes we're right on it. We're like in the onion."

"you tell them only go to five, they may push it to 20."

"We don't want to work in a compensated position and reinforce the poor movement pattern."

"one of the best parts about bringing somebody to the state of fatigue is you get to see kind of just like the chaos and all those patterns."

"the more you're in anything right the more you're exposed to the more you're going to adapt."

"doing three sessions a day and turning a four to eight week injury into less than a week."

"it's not months it's weeks right it's not weeks it's it's potentially days."

"20 questions, instant score, clinically validated snapshot of where your lower body is right now and how far to go."

"at 12 weeks, somebody's typically not reporting that until 23, 24 weeks."

"skeptics end up making the best clients. So you can flip them, you know, those are the best."

"if we don't need to do it and we can get the same result with less work, that's where I like to live."

"The stimulus isn't great enough to create change, it's not going to create change."

"You'll start to feel more and more electricity like seeping into other areas... and then the sensation between the two legs starts to balance out."

"we test out exactly the thing that you want to be doing the best time to do that is immediately after you're done with the volta."

"if you review that vocabulary later that day you're going to be able to retain it at a much better pace... here we are training our nervous system how to respond appropriately to specific signals."

"just try to erase all and say it doesn't matter this is just the new baseline."

"even though you've shifted slightly away from that right now, your nervous system may revert back to that old pattern."

"a relaxed muscle is a muscle that's ready to perform. If it's not relaxed, we're not going to be able to load as much."

"regardless of how high you get to on the amps, we really just want to get you to make that mind muscle connection."

"check frequency and stimulus level retest. Did it pass? Same frequency increase amp level. Did we pass?"

"for me, it's always like minimal effective doses."

"When you're able to adapt to the point of making 73 look easy—your resiliency factor, you've created so much adaptation."

"If you don't have enough of a stimulus to break that compensation, what are we doing everything else for?"

"your brain potentially looking at that as like a is this okay to move like is this a threat is it not and then you try to move and it's like nope compensate."

"no one likes to just hold in a bottom position but that is oftentimes the most valuable thing we can do."

"It's so easy. It's crazy, you know, how we think we're so engaged, and it's that little, like, one or two percent difference... it looks like it's engaged until it's really engaged."

"you can do the simplest thing in the world and just stand there, and it can be the hardest 20 minutes of your life."

"Go to the simplest form possible and see if we can just maintain there and then build from that."

"the mental exhaustion from simplifying the pattern but engaging and constantly trying to think and make that connection... is somewhat almost more exhausting than like in the actual work itself."

"whether it's the 83-year-old who is looking to prepare for his hip replacement and wants to get back out and playing golf... to any of the pro clients that I work with. Like that's the standard that I'm coming from."

"it's human nature for all of us to just want to push, push, push, push, push. And so until it comes back to kind of bite us at times."

"I immediately went down like the, you know, the rabbit hole of direct current technology when I was in college, competing as a division one football player and had an experience that led me to a whole world of something that I had no idea existed."

"What we wanted to do was create the most portable, powerful and affordable direct current modality in the world."

"Our business model comes back to my original experience of being an athlete in college and having zero money to do anything."

"that's such an interesting conversation in terms of weight room strength versus being able to really master your own body weight... those things sometimes don't correlate at all."

"Two successful deep breaths, we hit fatigue. So two successful deep breaths, then go back into it."

"if i can't get to a hundred on my charge points i'm not going to load weight in because i haven't proven to myself yet i can work through an entire range of motion without compensation."

"do you spend all the time in the shop fixing the car or do you pull it out and let it run a little bit."

"the only way you will know is by doing it yourself right the more you incorporate the more you just throw it on and see what happens."

"But if you're scared, quote unquote, to go beyond that, that's where I want to more so lean into."

"if you don't give yourself maybe like that hard goal or line in the sand, the odds are you're probably not going to get there."

"they don't try to increase the capacity of those tissues. So when shit blows up, then everybody's surprised."

"This is when everybody wants to quit. So being able to be in that position and continue pushing through it, that makes all the difference in the world. You got to keep on fighting. That's what's going to get you back on the field."

"it's not that often that people can make that jump from the one minute intervals straight into a five minute. So really, really good work there."

"when you get back in your sport you're going to be putting forces on your body that you can't replicate in practice."

"we're human and we tend to respond to things only when there's a threat."

"If you're starting your ISOs at a hundred every time, that's like the gold standard of where we would want to try to get someone to."

"The best sessions for anyone that I'm working with are so intense internally, but externally no one can really tell anything's happening."

"We can just be really efficient at becoming inefficient, or building strength on top of dysfunction."

"in the ACL world, for example... we want to make sure that all of our people can hit full flexion and full extension and isometrics towards that."

"What's kind of lowest hanging fruit? It's overhead extension trying to work out that compensation. Cause if that's not addressed, does the back stuff even matter?"

"everything is in comparison to the five minute iso lunge um like everything's easy uh when you compare it to that."

"I don't know. I kind of feel like today's the day. We might hit 100 on the ISOs."

"once you get up there, it's not nearly as bad getting back to it. It's that first time getting there. It's a pain."

"when I'm in position, I want to feel the same way I would feel as if I was about to jump off that leg."

"Either the pain goes down or we get into a deeper range of motion before you feel the pain. Or both. But, you know, I'm happy with one or the other."

"It's kind of like take take two steps forward, one step back, two forward, one back, because your body is going to adapt to that stress."

"I refuse to do that... you build up such a trust and relationship with someone... It's impossible for someone else to just pick up where they left off regardless of how good the notes are."

"This is the mental. Like I say that the work is easy. It's the standards that are the worst part."

"any sort of healing in the body always stems from an electrical input... in order for it to heal your brain has to send signals to that area that essentially recruit specialized cells to come to that area."

"you almost feel like you have to like out muscle the current."

"we're trying to draw out compensations. We want to see stuff like that happen because that means we're pushing past a certain threshold."

"we didn't prepare the body as well as we could have for what the throwing was asking him to do."

"it's like what puzzle piece did I not find, you know, like how did I not, what am I missing?"

"we did what? Almost maybe like 10 times 5, 50 times 2, 100 pogos, maybe like 100 low squat foot jumps, maybe close to 50 swings. That's a good amount of volume."

"Want to have some type of daily exposure to just those really simple plyo patterns so you can continue to build a good foundation."

"there's no reason why you can't come back and and do and enjoy all the same things that you were before even at the same level and even greater we see that happen all the time."

"once you go under that knife that that quad shuts down the brain shuts it down as a means to protect it... but we can go around that through the use of the technology."

"one percent two percent off from day one may not look like much but you know three four six months down the road that adds up in a pretty big way."

"at the three month mark our clients are reporting functional scores that typically aren't happening until month six... it just means you're going to be that much better prepared."

"if i'm doing something and all of a sudden my swelling goes through the roof i have a lot of pain... it's probably because the muscles aren't ready to take on the load that you're asking it to."

"there's actually a lot of research on that just showing that training the the good side actually has some some carryover has some benefit to the to the injured side."

"where the damage happens like we're just going directly there and kind of cleaning things up... it's just very easy and simple but a lot of times we can see a lot of benefit."

"clients patients will definitely lie in terms of uh spots that are most intense because they may not want to put it there."

"i love to ask the question which one would you rather not put the button and if they don't know why i'm asking that question they're going to tell me right away."

"it's like mowing the grass. So just trying to not miss any patches."

"most people at 40 would be screaming, would be screaming at me if I was doing that to their lower leg."

"to easily extract or elicit those protective patterns in a way that we don't have to like one rep max it to find out exactly what that pattern could be."

"it's one thing to have the device. It's another thing to know how to use the device. It's another to then go to that next level of reading the person in front of you."

"perfect isn't always expressed through straight lines and right angles... does that look the same or not?"

"Hey, listen, you got to do maintenance on your vehicle. You know, you can't keep running your vehicle without doing maintenance on it."

"just think of it as like that gradual exposure. Every time you're in that position during a session, that's another data point telling you, okay, I pulled this hard."

"Just knowing if it's feeling good and it's getting better every time. To me, that just means keep on going, keep on pushing. That's what you need in this, this phase."

"We're just going to calm everything down first so that I can get a more accurate scan."

"you get a newbie tomorrow and instantly market it as if somebody's been using it for 10 years."

"I tend to always have people start slower and then gradually build up as long as you can maintain that same quality, then I like fast. Fast is good."

"if you sit here long enough, your body will start to get used to it. And it might feel like it's too high to start, but then it will end up being okay."

"we will increase to the point where compensation comes out... maybe involuntarily, you're starting to curl your feet."

"the quantity of water plays a big factor... it's going to be a totally different experience."

"let's work on the left hip and do exercises like almost like you're rehabbing the left hip and oftentimes their shoulder pain disappears."

"I like forgot how uncomfortable it is to scan. So I scanned myself. It's a good reminder."

"It has to do with the inhibition in your brain not wanting you to access the strength of your left quad. It's not that you don't have the strength. It's that your brain is protecting you from getting there."

"that's bound to happen. And then that'll go away. And then you can just continue to get the work in."

"One of the most important things to get back post-operatively... is triple extension. So working on pushing the big toe into the ground... Extend the knee. Extend the hip. Stay tall."

"Don't let the heels touch. As high as we can. End range strength. We want to work where we are our weakest, which is end range."

"Try to bulletproof your strength at end range as much as you possibly can."

"The more time you spend there, the more your brain is going to trust your ability to get there."

"the fear of failure is going to be there no matter what um but the opportunity the opportunities typically only come as you allow them to to surface through your own actions."

"it's so unpredictable how someone's nervous system is operating from an electrical standpoint. So I'm never going into any scan with any expectation."

"I can't believe that she hung in. Like, you were just, like, laying it on her... how is she still, like, just even getting up and functioning at this point?"

"Your brain's going to shut down the quad and say nope. Not going to let you load. But then the issue is we need to work out, we need to train. And then you're on it anyways and your brain's still like nope, you can't use the quad."

"there's really not a lot of people in a traditional conventional system that's going to put somebody with a 30%, 40% strength difference in asymmetries on a treadmill and tell them to run."

"stopping because of fatigue for me is always the main goal, not pain or asymmetry."

"how soon can I put them back into exactly the thing that they want to do... there's nothing that a runner loves to do more than run."

"who can spot the compensation first and correct it? If you can spot it in 0.2 seconds versus 2.2 seconds... You've just given yourself two seconds of compensation to keep reiterating as the right pattern."

"typically how we run is how we lunge and how we lunge is how we run."

"Find order through the chaos."

"Just like you driving, you know, 100 miles an hour down the highway, you got to still keep your composure, right?"

"Now that you got to 100, anybody can get there once. Can you get there now every single time?"

"Maybe we throw on one plate and we can do that fine. Then we add in two. It's like 'oh my goodness, I can't negotiate the end range of motion at all.'"

"Best case scenario, most bulletproof that we can make someone is, can we get to a hundred on those charge points, get full range of motion, no compensation, and just sustain that position."

"We need to really focus on squeezing hard, trying to really push into that end range. That's how we're going to earn it back."

"I always try to almost be annoying where I'm just telling you over and over and over the same cue, that's really what matters."

"The quality of what you're doing is more important than anything."

"if you can get to 85, you can get to 100."

"every single time I work with someone day one, they say, that's impossible. It's like, well, it's not. And you're going to get there."

"the general population, they just can't handle that type of mentality. So there has to be a bridge somewhere between the two."

"if you're a pitcher and the one thing that makes your shoulder hurt is pitching we probably shouldn't be pitching all day right."

"let's break down those protective mechanisms... let's get good work in now when that pain alarm is not going off."

"one of the best things about being able to work on yourself is you can just explore you know and build up your toolbox."

"it's not gonna fix anything or anyone it's gonna help kind of just the the you know some of the nagging stuff we might have and just help performance overall."

"I'm trying to put the tools in their hands because it's like I'm not going to always be around, you know? So, like, what can I put in your hands?"

"They think that I have all the answers. And I'm like, yeah, we'll see, right?"

"We want to push power. But push to compensation. And to the level which your body can handle in this moment. Like that's the win."

"If you hop on the car and you hit brake or gas. Or you hit gas and brake at the same time. You're not going to go anywhere... if we can get one muscle to relax and one muscle to contract... we just hit the gas."

"Not uncommon for clients to almost like miraculously be able to do more in a given session... oh you just like you just doubled your time."

"You're just returning order to like a chaotic internal electrical grid. That's how I'm imagining that."

"we respected the soreness allowed the body to adjust and then we started to climb again."

"it's too simple and boring that our brains say well what if we add this in or what if we just go here."

"fail as much as possible as quickly as possible and learn from."

"We never go in there with a transaction in mind. We go in there with like building relationships."

"What's the least amount of stimulus I can provide for the right adaptation or minimal effective dosing, if you will, to get what we want."

"Every minute that ticked off that device was extremely important. And it made me really force myself to figure it out as quickly as possible."

"If you have done that and then you found order through that pattern, you've accomplished the goal for the session."

"something in your brain says no I don't need that or want that today, I'm maxed out."

"we're able to do those types of things when we're babies—drop down into a phenomenal position—over time we lose that ability."

"The purpose for me isn't for you to do something you can do well—it's where can we find the weak link and make you just a strong, resilient human."

"Really just trying to arm you with as many different ways to attack something based off of the 14 years of experience that that I have."

"This is where we can all be extremely vulnerable and come from a place of everybody leaves their ego at the door."

"we're not starting your lunges until you get a pr from last time so every time they start the lunges it's a pr."

"Your ability to internalize things and not scream, yell, you know, and do crazy chaotic things. To an outsider, it looks like you're really not doing much at all."

"Try to squeeze your quad harder than it's squeezing it for you... That way, your contraction is greater than the contraction of the device, and maybe it's less of a threat response."

"You know that you have one side that's super hypersensitive. Then why would you try to lean into that and try to balance it out instead, right?"

"It's like, well, no, that's something wrong. Right. It's just that your brain's communicating something. You just need to figure it out."

"You just build so much trust that you can, you know, be that, you know, beacon of light or hope for them."

"I don't want to like steal the opportunity away from them to go higher and higher because, you know, I never know what that adaptation is going to be."

"we're looking for those hot spots remember the areas that just feel significantly more intense than everywhere else."

"in a best case scenario, you could, in 10 or 15 minutes, be able to fully self-scan the leg. But that comes with a lot of practice."

"i like to do it like you're mowing the grass so vertical hip to hip to knee up and down and just working all the way around 360 degrees around the thigh."

"we try to keep the the max uh max discomfort at about three out of ten so anything that is less than that it's fair game to keep trying to pull into end range."

"We did what you know less than 10 minutes of work with the knee flow specifically and increased range of motion and took the pain from a two to a zero in the end range."

"If it were me I'd probably be doing knee flow three maybe four times a day because it doesn't take much time at all... and every single time you've done it we've seen improvement."

"Just in three days, I feel like you've made a whole lot of progress... get even closer to that ideal spot when you go into surgery."

"Sometimes when I bring the Volta to a patient, people look at me so funny. And I'm like, if you motherfuckers only knew what this does."

"you're building strength on top of dysfunction rather than strength on top of function. So the more you can kind of fix the foundation, everything else follows."

"I'd rather you hold one second, 30 times than 30 seconds in a really bad position."

"You have the strength to do it. It's just your nervous system is protecting you from doing it."

"longer we hold stronger we get"

"A relaxed muscle is a muscle that's ready to perform. So the more that you can get those muscles to relax and move through that full range, the more you're going to be able to get the muscle to activate when you're on the field."

"Hey, anybody can get to 100. The question is, can you get to 100 every time now?"

"It'd be like getting in your car and hitting gas and brake at the same time. You're not going to go anywhere. But if you can hit the gas without hitting the brake, you're going to be able to go much further—like if your muscles can just contract and the other ones can relax. That's perfect. That's w…"

"Be quick, but don't rush."

"if you hit the ground and then kind of sink into it, we have, um, we could say is like some energy leakage where that energy that of course doesn't stay in the muscle, it'll start to go other areas. um, he's looking at, um, how much actually can kind of like go to different areas if you don't actual…"

"You'll get it back. Don't you worry."

"it's all comes down to, does your body trust your ability? Does your brain trust your ability to actually get the knee over the toe?"

"if you were to go one level deeper underneath the neuromuscular system, you have the neuro electrical system. Right. And if your electrical grid, right. If any actual real electrical grid is thrown off, um, that's going to disrupt how the entire grid functions. So same thing here, electrically speak…"

"If anything, I want 51% on the surgical leg."

"just like the lights in your house, we want to make sure that they're turned on."

"The best type of work on here that's done is when it looks like you're doing absolutely nothing."

"working the left side helps the right side of the body as well. The left side is a little hypersensitive in some areas so we need to get those muscles to relax a little bit so it can continue to take on force. And then symmetry from left to right—the more we can just find symmetry in everything we'r…"

"your body can handle it Dave. Nice job. You always have more, more in the tank than you think. Don't let your brain talk you out of it"

"That might be the single most greatest range of motion increase in assisted squat history."

"Your brain's going to tell you you're already there but it's lying. It's just trying to protect you from going there. But we need to go there because you need to get strong because you utilize your end range when you're in games."

"Well, that all starts now. You know, all those things, that's what you need to be channeling and thinking about, um, every day. Right. You know, uh, every set, every rep, like that's what we're working towards. Don't, don't give yourself the opportunity to look back, you know, uh, six months from no…"

"Did great. Impressive work with the lunges yet again. Being able to progress there. Super, super impressive. That was just what, we were working 30 seconds beginning of October. So to be able to increase that much, you know, just in a couple weeks is great."

"Ultimately, what controls how much you can lengthen or your nervous system's trust in its ability to lengthen would come from the neuroreceptors in the muscle. These little things called muscle spindles which monitor how much a muscle can lengthen. So if there's threat, those neuroreceptors are gear…"

"How can you continue to build trust? How can you allow your nervous system to build trust in your ability to absorb that force without spiking those protective mechanisms? So allow yourself just gradually to work back into it."

"I don't think anyone would actually understand the difficulty of what you're just doing and how easy you made that look."

"What changed the game is your mentals. That's what changed the game."

"it means so much more now going back out there and playing having having been removed from something you've done for since like you're in diapers basically you know... battling through all the adversity getting like all that kind of stuff has to like it just amplifies that like the meaning and the p…"

"So with you at 74, 10 weeks post-op, your scores are better than people who don't even have a surgery."

"so many guys they talk but it's not real...there's like 1% actually who actually do that...And I'm looking at one of them specifically"

"Your brain's going to tell you you're at end range. Okay, don't listen to it. Or it's going to feel like you're at end range. Don't listen to it. Keep pushing it back."

"It's like learning a pass block for the first time—you do your hands exactly how you want and then the next rep it's like why can't I do it the right way every single time? It's because you haven't re-educated that pattern yet. Same thing that's happening here you're just seeing that exposed in diff…"

"if you don't have that foundation, you're just building strength on top of dysfunction."

"our ACL reinjury statistics, like industry norm is like 25 percent. It's outrageous. But clients we work with less than two percent."

"we want to make sure that we're not doing it in a sense that provokes any discomfort so only work a range of motion that you feel comfortable and nothing above a two out of ten. If you feel any of that work less range of motion your body will eventually adapt. We want to work alongside the nervous s…"

"we don't want to reinforce those protective patterns...those protective mechanisms are what is actively preventing us from getting into deeper ranges and it's because of the surgery you just went through so we've tried to just pull away those governors pull away those protective mechanisms"

"Just like in all your lovely relationships that you have, right? Over time, you build trust with all of them. You don't ask them to marry them day one. Coming out of surgery, you can't just go right into a speed lunge and land it. You have to build the trust over time."

"The brain doesn't know the difference between equipment. What it knows is tension. And so whether it's tension through weight or tension through electricity, we're putting tension on the muscle."

"Longer you hold, stronger you get."

"You're creating a new you—a better version of you as compared to 20 minutes ago. Adaptation is everything."

"If everybody had the same level of work ethic and discipline and all that kind of stuff that you did, the world of ACL statistics wouldn't be what it is today because it's pretty terrible. It's 50% of competitive athletes get back to their sports. Retail rates, 25%."

"We get injured for a couple of different reasons. But one in particular is that there's an inability to absorb the force that you're asking your body to absorb."

"We don't want to have any energy or force leakage to anywhere else. We want to stick it and we want to land specifically in that moment so we can absorb as much force in the targeted position."

"Of course, it's 50%, you know, back to competitive sports. Of course, you know, one in four are going to re-tier the ACL. It's like, yeah, because it's in a horrible system."

"You can't go sit on a couch for nine months and expect to ever use that arm again. Like, it's going to hurt your little bit of work. But if you do it, like, you might be better than you ever were."

"Based off the research on lower extremity functional scale scores, the average ACL-er is reporting functional scores at week 14, that is a 61, and you're week 6, and you're at that level. So that's quite the difference there."

"Relax the quads. Breathe. Load through the hamstring."

"you started to break down those protective mechanisms. In that moment by being able to move. And now they can kind of say, okay, this is safe. And I don't have to guard and protect."

"The higher the stimulus, the greater the response, the greater the change. The more activation we get, so every time that we're going up, that just means we're getting more activation more activation more activation."

"way ahead of schedule in terms of functional scores that being said you know like i'd say to any of our clients that are in this type of situation just make sure we're not taking our foot off the gas and we're just being smart"

"the brain doesn't know the difference between tension from weights and tension from electricity. So then we can load and load and load and load and make sure that we're bulletproofing ourselves"

"We don't need to ever feel like you need to force that in the beginning. It will open up as you, your body starts to trust it more."

"There's no rush on getting there. If you do rush that, it provokes discomfort in the knee and that's not what we're going to do. We want to work to range a motion we feel comfortable without compensation or provoking symptoms. If you do that, the nervous system will open up and we'll be able to get …"

"You got some shakes going on. Excellent. Great sign there. Forcing adaptation. Getting the muscle to respond. Putting tension on the system. And then we get the muscle to respond appropriately."

"This is the same pattern that exists in your body if you're working out. You don't feel it because your body is a master of compensating. But now we get to elicit that response and correct it."

"I shouldn't be able to know the device is on. That's how relaxed I want you to look."

"If you don't attack it, it's going to be so hard to get through that movement. And it won't release. You're increasing the threat so high in those areas that are already guarding and protecting."

"When you attack it, that helps the stimulus not to be so heightened. And then that also allows us to increase on the next round."

"we want to reeducate those muscles so that they're not in that threatened state or they don't respond that way to tension. That way, when you come across tension or force or some type of stimulus in the real world, whether you're running, going up, down the steps, doing RDLs, the muscles are going t…"

"The thing that we tell our guys with our exercises is if you suck at it, it's probably the right exercise for you."

"the quads are, um, that's going to be where the body shuts down at the highest level, right after surgery. Um, and so think of that as like a, um, a car accident, if you will. Um, we need to make sure the rescue team gets there and right to the spot of the car accident, the police, the ambulance, ev…"

"Your brain's going to tell you you're at full extension. Don't listen to it. It's lying."

"the neuromuscular gunk that exists in the hose, right? it's like, okay, turn the hose on the water comes out, but it gets stopped halfway through because there's some type of blockage. You don't go into the end of the hose and try to fix it. You go to the, to the point in the actual hose and fix it,…"

"We're starting to just continue to allow the CNS to trust that we can go into this end range and it can be safe. If it's interpreting it as not safe, that's when those pain alarms go off, right? That's what we want to try to try to build more trust."

"I'm always for minimal effective stimulus for the greatest payout."

"whether you're 12 months, 5 years, or 30 years, any time that you're feeling any type of imbalance between the left and the right, this is always a good thing to check. Okay? Electrically speaking, what's the difference here?"