Thank you, thank you, thank you for this! I have mild CP, and well-meaning adults, doctors, therapists, swimming instructors, gym teachers, etc., never told me anything about activating something called an anterior Tibialis. Sadly, all most people do is get patronizing, uncomfortable, and/or dismissive when they see that a CP kid cannot do something, so children may not be given the specific information or the encouragement to take control of their own healing and fix even normal tightness in their own bodies. So I am finally figuring all this out many decades later thanks to KZfaq. This is another piece of the puzzle. I can walk five miles and do hours a week on a stair master, but I cannot curl my toes under like this, so I am exploring alternate ways to activate the anterior tib. If I am stretching my gastrocnemius-soleus muscles by standing on the bottom rung of a three-rung household stepladder, I seem to feel the anterior tib in front. If I stand a few feet from the stove with my hands on the oven door and bend over at the waist, stretching my hamstring muscles, I seem to be able to move a leg around until I’m feeling the anterior tib in front. Same with stretching my leg out straight on a step and working to pull my toes back-I believe I can feel the anterior tib working around my shin. But here’s something interesting. I have never been able to sit on the floor with my legs absolutely straight in front of me, which I always attributed to weak stomach muscles. But I just read that the inability to sit like this is due to tight hamstrings-again, no one ever bothered to tell a CP kid. So I’m stretching my hamstrings to the point where I can just about sit upright with my legs stretched out straight, and I’m trying to bring my torso forward and squeezing my stomach muscles with a power I never knew they had. Total joy. But when I do this, I’m also trying to pull my feet back towards me as hard as I can, and it seems to me that I can feel the anterior tib working. It makes sense that the anterior tib would help you to sit upright on the floor with your legs out straight, but maybe able-bodied people just take this for granted? Hope this helps someone and here’s to an activated anterior tib!

My focus 100 % at explanation

Your videos are fantastic.

very good instructions, I really liked it Helpful to do do at home myself., Thank you.

I think it's easier to ask them to grab and hold something with their toes, rather than just curling their toes.

Hey brand loving your videos. Ive got hard problem with foot external rotation and knee inwards, dorsiflexion is nearly totally blooked. heel bone is strait but my foot more and more collapsing if i try to use your tibialis exercises. I dont know maybe my forefoot supinates...cant find some therapist/trainer to help me.

Brent thanks nice videos.

Great work

Very informative video!!! Could I also incorporate exercises like towel scrunches to address pes planus issues? Any benefit to address posterior tibialis as well? And do you have any corrective exercise videos that address pes anserine issues??

Brent, is this helpful for tendinosis of the anterior tibialis tendon? I've had pain and swelling for seven months. Diagnosis was made by MRI. Previously unresponsive to PT. Icing helps the pain but only short term. Thanks

It seems easy exercise but I found this exercise difficult !! does that means that my Tibialis is weak ?. Thank you really I appreciate this video

Thanks so much

How soon after initial diagnosis of Tibialis Anterior should activation begin. Should swelling decrease first or can you begin activation techniques straight away. Some say Rest, Ice, Compression and possibly Elevation. Are these necessary?

Nice work

Hey, does this help for osgood schlatter?

What's good a amount of reps and sets for beginners?

Can someone try this exercise who recently got tibia shaft fracture and treated with Intramedullary Nail Rod?

Does it help with mobility?

So many words, I need an ELI5

Sexy shins? 😮😕😑😂 I'm flat footed with childhood bunions and pronate- thanks for another helpful video and one I can do at home independently.

Maybe I misheard, but if the EDL "contributes" to ankle dorsiflexion (what the anterior tibialis's primary function is), then WHY would we want to shut it off by curling the toes?!

My grandson is 20 years old. He had a fast growing tumor around his right knee removed. Soon after he had emergency surgery to remove the anterior tibialis muscle due to a ruptured artery. The surgeon did some sort of connecting of remaining areas. Looks like permanent damage. Going to be a lawsuit bc hospital was negligent. Can physical therapy help to offset the lack of function. As of now he can't raise his foot. Only downward and side to side. Surgeon said reconstructive surgeries are needed. The staff ignored my grandson's cries for help. Are there graphs? Please help with some insight.

Brent, when I teach my friend to do this exercise, it is very very hard for him to flex his toes. Do you have any advice for improvement?

When i do the toe curls my toes knuckles hurt. I can’t do it 😫 idk why it hurt

I cannot curl my toes under like this at all, but I seem to be achieving the same effect with shoes on by standing on the bottom rung of a three-rung household stepladder that is against my kitchen window and my fingers are curled over the edge of the middle sill to hang on. I’m stretching my gastrocnemius-soleus muscles, but if I actively squeeze the foot as I’m doing so, I seem to feel the anterior tib in front of my shin. Hope that helps someone (I have mild CP, see comment below.)

Please move the dialogue box away from her feet. It is blocking the view you are instructing. Good video but please make tweet.

1:42 I got scared that I had forgotten the English language

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I’m not very good with technical terms lol

Why don't you talk in English terms nobody knows all that technical jargon you're talking way too much I think what you've got is good but you're killing it with all the talk

I guess this is for people who rarely workout? Because this isn't doing anything for anyone that goes to a gym.