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bridge crunch with medicine ball on swiss ball - beginner Trunk exercise
  • Trunk
  • beginner

bridge crunch with medicine ball on swiss ball

supine on swiss ball, hold medicine ball, lift head and shoulders, lower with control and repeat.

Starting position
supine, sitting
Joints
hip, lumbar spine, thoracic spine
Muscles
hip flexors, rectus abdominis, transverse abdominis
Equipment
swiss ball, medicine ball
Goal
postural correction, coordination, stability
Type
isotonic concentric, resisted, isotonic eccentric

How it is done

Sit on the swiss ball with feet on the floor. Roll forward on the ball so that upper body on the ball, hands holding the medicine ball in the front. With maintaing the position lift the head, shoulders and upper chest off the ball. lower upper body, shoulders followed by head to starting position and repeat.

Nothing here is a prescription. Your physiotherapist decides which of these are yours, and when.

The plan starts with an assessment.