Can Posturology improve your Klatt Test?

Pain-free movements as well as sports performance hinge on a well-balanced physique. One of the test used at Posturepro to determine lower body imbalances is the Klatt Test. The Klatt test is an assessment tool that can be used to determine weakness in the muscles of the knee, hip, pelvis and lower back. 

One key component of this is the vastus medialis oblique, or VMO.  This muscle is part of the quadriceps and act as the controller your patella’s tracking.  Although his role is central in having healthy knees, it is one of the most problematic muscle.

The Klatt test was designed by Lois Klatt, PhD, the director of the Physical Performance Laboratory at Concordia College, River Forest, Illinois.

Most healthcare professionals and biomechanics expert uses is the Klatt test, which is simple, reliable and can be done virtually everywhere.  It consist of the one-legged dropdown test where caving in of the knee indicates a weakness of the VMO.

So here’s how it’s done:

• The test is to be done barefoot.
• Start by standing on a platform. The platform can be as low as 2 centimeters for rehabilitation purposes, or if testing the elderly.
• Extend both arms out in front of you and lock your hands together.
• Extend one foot out in front of you on a 15 degree angle.
• Hop off the platform (about 3-4 inches in front of the platform).
• The evaluator should be monitoring how the knee, hips, and trunk react to the landing.
• Only one rep is to be performed.
• Raise the height of the platform until, and repeat the test until at least two imbalances are detected.

Here’s a summary of possible outcomes:

If the subject hops:

• Medially – adductors may be weak
• Laterally – abductors may be weak
• Forward – hamstrings may be weak
• Knee buckles – VMO may be weak
• Leans forward – glute max may be weak
• Bends to the side – quadratus lumborum may be weak

Under regular basis, Testing too frequently is not a good idea because it takes time to see results, and solving a weakness of the VMO usually involves weeks of training.

Posturology offers a quicker solution.

In this short video, we’ll see experienced coach Luke Watson see for himself the results of wearing the posturology insoles for four days, with no training during this time. Testing him is UK structural balance specialist Terry Hughes.

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CONCLUSION

Through Posturology, a VMO weakness can improve in just four days without any training.

Those results are easy to achieve for any trained posturologists and are standard for such a treatment. Our postural  insoles are just one of the many modalities by which Posturology can reset your posture by acting on your nervous system and re-wiring all of your body’s neural pathways and sensors, thus changing your strength.

 

Look up posturepro.net to learn more about how you can bring help your clients achieve total alignment.

 

The Posturepro Team
Superior Performance

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