Joint Pumping Tip

For those that utilize joint pumping in their manual therapy arsenal, one strategy that may resonate more with your athlete/client/patient may be to ask them to "make it a little difficult for me to _____."

There are times where you ask them to resist you and they give you a 100% MVC. This is unwanted. We need light resistance and no matter how many times we remind them, they give us all they got.

​So next time ask them to "make it a little difficult for me to _______."