Skin is supposed to be mobile?

Skin is supposed to be mobile?
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Yup. Sure is. When people think about joint pain or movement dysfunction they rarely think about the dermal layer of the skin potentially being the problem.
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Skin should move in 8 different directions. Similar to the directions on a compass. Normal tissue generally moves smoothly. Abnormal tissue with typically have a “sticker” quality.
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Once skin is stretched it should also “spring” back to its normal position in each direction.
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If the tissue is sticky or doesn’t spring back, then that could be taken as threatening to the nervous system, which can cause outputs like pain of poor movement quality.
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Here, I am moving around the clients skin below his knee in a specific direction for him that then allows him to do a stationary squat with zero pain.
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The entire body is connected. Don’t overlook anything!

Dustin Williams

Dustin has been in the fitness industry for over a decade. In 2012 he realized that he needed to look deeper and have a better understand of how the nervous system played into movement, pain, and performance. He spends his life helping clients look at performance through a neurological lens and to work smarter, not harder.