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Using the Turkish get-up is a great screening tool. Primitive patterns such as rolling and quadruped diagonals are tools that health care professionals can use to gather more information. We can ascertain information by watching a person get up off the floor. Developing babies, an elderly person, or an injured athlete will each forecast movement deficiency in a matter of seconds on the way up off the ground.
This is why the Turkish get-up is a fundamental exercise that should precede other exercises. The Turkish get up is a progression to maintain and build basic movement skills across ones lifespan. I love this old school exercise and use it with all of my patients. Everyone begins with performing the movement with no weight, and then progress to performing the exercise with weight as they begin to master the movement.
The Benefits (Posture & Coordination)
-Promotes cross lateralization
-Promotes upper body stability
-Promotes lower body stability
-Promotes reflexive stability of the trunk & extremeties
-Ties right arm with to left leg, left arm to right leg
-Upper body working reciprocally
-Stimulates vestibular (balance 1 of 3)
-Stimulates visual system (balance 1 of 3)
-Stimulates proprioception (balance 1 of 3)
- Promotes spatial awareness
-Develops front-back weight shift
-Develops upper body strength, trunk, & hip strength
This is why the Turkish get-up is a fundamental exercise that should precede other exercises. The Turkish get up is a progression to maintain and build basic movement skills across ones lifespan. I love this old school exercise and use it with all of my patients. Everyone begins with performing the movement with no weight, and then progress to performing the exercise with weight as they begin to master the movement.
The Benefits (Posture & Coordination)
-Promotes cross lateralization
-Promotes upper body stability
-Promotes lower body stability
-Promotes reflexive stability of the trunk & extremeties
-Ties right arm with to left leg, left arm to right leg
-Upper body working reciprocally
-Stimulates vestibular (balance 1 of 3)
-Stimulates visual system (balance 1 of 3)
-Stimulates proprioception (balance 1 of 3)
- Promotes spatial awareness
-Develops front-back weight shift
-Develops upper body strength, trunk, & hip strength