The Vital Glutes: Connecting the Gait Cycle to Pain and Dysfunction

Update to my initial review - Reading this book is like going a great work of art, every time you read it you have a better understanding of the core principles and how they apply to the exercises. I'm reading through it again, and those core principles are reinforced and make more sense. Remember, this is not a read on the beach book, and so requires slow careful reading, especially the beginning when those core principles are laid out. - now back to initial review - I wish I had read this book a long time ago, although it has nothing earth-shaking it has two advantages that are critical: 1 - The sample patient he uses for explaining his therapy matches me and about 80% of most guys, so he has real insights for a common demographic. 2 - His writing is really for the therapist in training, and he makes one point that if I had read would have saved my back: Be very, very careful before letting anyone massage the tendons that release the hip psoas. I let a massage therapist (a guy who saw his job as to "fix" things) do this and it has pretty much ruined my back, as I get a stabbing pain below my ribs that soon reaches around the back. My full-time therapist said never let any massage therapist near your thorax, and another therapist says she does her own since she does not trust anyone else, and they are right.

For those who want to learn some basics about how the glutes contribute to lower back, knee, and foot pain, this is a great reference. Especially for students either considering college for a physical therapy program or PTA position, possibly a massage program.I'd recommend getting the digital version, just in case you need to look up some of the anatomical terms or abbreviations.

Great read! Very directed towards Physical Therapists (which I am a PTA) which I loved, it is also super insightful and was a great review of anatomy for me. If you’re an average lay person it may be a difficult read for you as the terminology would most likely be difficult to understand at times.

About 60 pages in and I get what others have commented. So hard to follow with all the technical terms and descriptions. I cannot glean what he is trying to get across. I thought this book would be enjoyable and enlightening and I am sorely disappointed because I cannot grasp these concepts. I am a Master's in Exercise Science. If you cannot break it down to the simplest, plainest terms and ideas, very few people will benefit from attempting to read it. Gibbons is SO MUCH BETTER in YouTube videos and I recommend them.

Directed to physiotherapists and osteopaths and other professionals. As a patient, I had to struggle to understand it, but I did the exercises in the back and found them very helpful. A key point is that pain occurring in one muscle or trigger point may arise because of excessive tightness in another muscle, so the other muscle has to be stretched before you can fix the place where the pain is.

John Gibbons is an amazing osteopath and this is an amazing book. I didn't really learn alot of this stuff in my clinical practice, this really opened my eyes. Thanks John!

I have been having a lot of SI inflammation, This book is answering all my questions it is so good simple to understand. I would avise this bookfor any athletic issues with lower back, hamstring issues. It’s very helpfulThank yoh

I expected more

It's a great book, but I expected more details in the last chapter ( OKC and CKC exercises).

this could have been condensed in to the sij book. £22 for hlf a book. what a joke how can u possibly think thats ok

Would have liked more examples on what to do(protocol) when you have multiple symptoms.

HelloI have received it, I like it very much.Thanks

Very good