Movement REV

Movement REV I teach sports healthcare pros how to get better outcomes & unreal results even for complex cases.

MovementREV is a company founded by Anna Hartman AT, MS, LAT, ATC, CSCS, PMA-CPT. Anna is passionate about improving athletes' performance and assimilating all the current movement science information into tangible take home pieces for both the athlete and sports rehabilitation or reconditioning clinician. The focus is intelligent movement through awareness and application of blending foundational science and current manual / therapeutic approaches.

12/23/2025

Festivus for the rest of us! Let the annual airing of grievances commence:

Hate, hate, hate:

• treatment consisting only of or primarily of modalities- it is sad but true this is still often the standard in the athletic training room and many PT clinics.

Hate, hate, hate:

• treatment that forces the body out of its protective pattern without honoring why the protection is there. There is often a better way to decrease pain and improve function utilizing the body’s wisdom.

Double hate:
• made up rules about movement and posture. Shoulder blades should move, spines should move, knees can go over toes, anterior tilt is not bad, thoracic spines should be curved, trunk rotation should also occur with a weight shift and hip rotation, coupled movement is helpful dissociative movement is not often helpful, pronation is natural, breathing can be apical, and on and on.

Loathe entirely:
• the evidence based practice police. Also see: clinical internet trolls. Let us remember that randomized control trials give us evidence for a very specific context and technically should not be extrapolated outside of that context. Also, that research is typically 20yrs behind practice. And evidence based practice actually includes clinician and patient EXPERIENCE as well as research and foundational science.

Any grievances you would like to air? Drop em in the comments! 👇🏽

12/22/2025

EBP

Does not mean-

Only practicing things supported by RCT studies and official practice guidelines.

At the first International Fascia Research Congress attended in 2015 I remember texting my two best friends and coworkers at the time “wow, I’m at the FRC poster presentations and people are raving about the recent case studies on tool assisted scar mobilization manual therapy. It is literally blowing people’s mind 🤯! We’ve been doing that and getting results for 12+ yrs!”

It reminded me that we know it takes about 17-20yrs for the evidence from research studies to become mainstream in practice. Not to mention how long it takes for things we do in practice to be researched.

And ideally research should not be extrapolated, which means to provide evidence for your work it needs to be shown in multiple populations, environments, and circumstances. There are soooooooo many variables!

For example if your read a research paper that has shown the glute medius has shown to be neurologically inhibited after a lateral ankle sprains in female volley ball players in the collegiate and high school settings.

That means if you sprain your ankle on a hike, there is not evidence to support that your glute med may need addressed.

Obviously we know that is likely safe to extrapolate but technically that is not how research works.

Which is WHY when we talk about EBP (evidence based practice) it includes:

🫀Patient preferences, beliefs, and experiences
🧠 Clinician experience
🤓 Well designed research studies

The best evidence is ALWAYS a mix of the three with the person in front of you N=1.

So excuse me, I’ll be over here getting results, feeling joy from every assessment and treatment session, listening to the patients body, guaranteeing results in 1-3 sessions, and strengthening the first 2 cornerstones of EBP waiting for the researchers and RCT to catch up.

Don’t be an angry elf, it is possible to just scroll on by, when you don’t resonate with what I have to say.

12/21/2025

You’d be shocked how often a patient comes to me with a diagnosis that was clearly given without any hands-on assessment.

Sometimes not even a, “show me where it hurts.”

I’ll have them point or touch the painful area…
Then I palpate, test, assess—and guess what?

It’s often not the anatomy related to the diagnosis at all. 😳

👉🏽 This tells me a few things:
• Many clinicians lack detailed surface anatomy and palpation skills.
• We often over-rely on verbal descriptions instead of sensory ones.
• And we miss big, obvious clues that change everything about treatment direction.

Example?
The “bottom of the foot” gets labeled plantar fasciitis all the time…
But when the athlete points to the spot, it’s not the fascia.
It’s the medial/lateral plantar nerve → which leads you to a completely different assessment strategy (hello, neural tension + proximal drivers).

Or the classic “ITB syndrome” that turns out to be PFJ or lateral meniscus once you actually palpate.

Or low back pain is assumed to be a lumbar spine issue and the default is endless core exercises when in fact their pain is on their sacrum, which always has a visceral driver.

👎🏽 These misses waste time, delay recovery, and frustrate both patient and clinician.

That’s why every LTAP™ course starts with anatomy, surface anatomy, and a system that finds the real, deeper driver.

So even if the diagnosis is wrong, you can still get results that stick.

📍2026 in-person LTAP™ Level 1 courses are open: Eugene, OR- March 15-16, Washington DC- April 18-19, and San Diego June 5-6!

Comment “2026” and I’ll send you the link!

12/20/2025

You are not alone.

Most clinicians are trying to solve a complex case by zooming in on each symptom and chasing every orthopedic finding one by one.

But here’s the truth ↓
When you assess through a musculoskeletal lens alone, everything looks disconnected, chaotic, and overwhelming.
When you assess through a whole-organism lens, patterns appear.

LTAP® gives you:
→ 5 objective tests to locate the driver in minutes
→ a repeatable system to confirm what you feel
→ treatment direction you can trust
→ results in fewer sessions
→ clarity and confidence instead of self-doubt

Imagine walking into those “where the heck do I start?” evals with a roadmap instead of hope and guessing.

That’s what LTAP® was built for.
And it will change your practice forever.

👇🏽If you want to learn the system:
Enrollment for LTAP®️ Level 1 2026 courses are open now.

Become the clinician who knows exactly where to start.

12/19/2025

Most “standard” home exercise programs don’t fail because patients are lazy they fail because the body doesn’t change. No shift in pain. No change in tone. No new access to more mobility. So of course they won’t keep doing it.

When you work with the viscera and the nervous system first, exercises stop feeling like generic homework and start feeling like strategy. Patients can feel the difference in their hip, their breath, their shoulder mechanics, their gait, and suddenly the HEP becomes exciting instead of optional.

This is exactly why I built the Go-To Treatments for the Viscera & Nervous System mini-course.

You’ll learn treatments that create immediate, noticeable change, so the HEP and treatment actually lands.

If your exercise plan feel ignored → it’s not you.
It’s the system you’re treating.

Ready to turn HEP compliance into HEP obsession?

Comment “GO-TO” and I’ll send you the link.

12/17/2025

After three years (almost) and more than 140 episodes, a pattern has become impossible to ignore: better outcomes don’t come from doing more, they come from seeing more clearly.

In this episode of the , I zoom out and reflect on the themes that shaped this year of conversations, teaching, and clinical work. We explore why the body’s wisdom consistently points us toward simplicity, how assessment precision creates clarity instead of overwhelm, and why confidence grows when you trust what the body is already telling you.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

👉🏽 Why assessment should create freedom, not complexity, in clinical decision-making
👉🏽 How better specificity makes treatment lighter, faster, and more effective
👉🏽 What happens when you stop chasing tools and start trusting the body’s direction
👉🏽 How a whole-organism assessment changes both outcomes and clinician confidence

This episode is a reminder that you don’t need to do more to get better results — you need to listen better and let assessment lead the way.

Listen now on your favorite podcast player or watch on the MovementREV YouTube channel!

12/17/2025

I realized the other day that I have not prescribed the classic scapular stability exercises in well over a decade.

Turns out when you have an assessment like the LTAP®️ that clearly indicates where to start and if there is an underlying visceral or neural driver (spoiler alert, with the shoulder, there ALWAYS is), the altered scapular biomechanics and strength are not really a thing.

It’s a protection pattern.

Most often it is a lack of full upward rotation and control of the scupulothoracic “joint” which really is the clavicle not functioning properly at the SC and AC joint.

If anything once movement and stability is restored from treating the deeper visceral and neural drivers most people can just stand to strengthen full range of motion into overhead pushing. No need for YTWL “eye wash” exercises unless you like to waste time, can just use a dumbbell, rings/TRX, or CKC exercise and get more bag for your buck.

Don’t believe me that the shoulder and scapula is never where to start? I have an entire course called “Never Treat the Shoulder 1st” that looks at the anatomy of why this is true! Check it out on the education page of my website!

12/16/2025

Everyone who works with me gets gifts, at anytime of year not just the holidays!

Non negotiable tools because the right tools make all the difference.

1-2 Coregous balls
1-2 Franklin Smooth balls
1 pair of Therapy balls
1 pair of Therapy Plus balls
1 pair of alpha balls

I will often tell them the science behind the reasoning, I start with the old P= F/A and explain high pressure feeling and pain does not equal doing more “breaking down of scar tissue or adhesions”, yep that is completely wrong 🙅🏻‍♀️.

Then we talk about how we are stimulating the proprioceptors, the muscles spindles and free nerve endings, and speaking to the love language of the visceral fascial containers with pressure changes directly impacting our interoception.

The shearing and compression is improving fluid flow and stimulating cells to attract more fluid and the skin stimulation and skin stretch are eliciting Hilton’s law to the deeper tissues.

Since we are one whole [organism] and not parts we are influencing many variables as we map our body and speak to it through feels and fluid dynamics.

But the best way to teach is for them to feel it themselves. Which is why I just give it to them instead of recommending they buy it for themselves.

It removes the obstacle and the excuse that they already have a lacrosse ball they can use or a pso-rite tool 😩.

Great for and for having such great products and educating the world on why harder and painful is not better!

12/16/2025

One of the biggest frustrations I see in hands-on clinicians isn’t lack of skill.

It’s lack of clarity in trusting what they feel during assessment and treatment.

And that trust?

It’s what either builds or breaks confidence… regardless of outcomes.

When I dig deeper, this uncertainty almost always shows up:
→ at the end of the day
→ at the end of the week
→ after a busy weekend of learning or treating / working events

Which tells me this isn’t a technical problem.

It’s a nervous system + recovery problem.

We work in an industry that rewards volume
and ignores the energetic, physical, and emotional cost of working 1-on-1 with humans in pain.

Yes, “put your own oxygen mask on first” matters for your health.

But here’s the part no one talks about:

Your ability to be a calm, confident, go-to provider
who gets unreal results in fewer sessions
depends on your regulation, resilience, and recovery.

More ease isn’t laziness.
It’s precision.
And in 2026, I’m choosing that ✨

Who’s with me? 🙋🏻‍♀️ “I’m booked!”

12/12/2025

I very common pattern I see with athletes who have CNS tension patterns is contralateral piriformis tightness.

This can create a sacral torsion, hip hike, and limit mobility throughout the whole leg effecting the entire gait pattern and any loading and unloading mechanisms.

This is why I also assess for CNS tension patterns in the LTAP®️ as well as assessment of long leg axis hip internal rotation and hip adduction.

Though the symptoms and objective orthopedic dysfunctions appear in the leg the “problem” is often in the cranium.

Check out this episode on the this week to hear about two meniscus tear cases that symptoms improved in with treatment to the CNS.

12/11/2025

This week’s episode is all about the clinical link between CNS tension patterns and meniscus tears!

Clinicians often zoom in on the knee with an acute meniscus tear, but the body usually has other plans. In this episode, I walk through two client cases who arrived with classic meniscal presentations: pain, swelling, and loss of flexion. But the real driver of their pain at that assessment revealed itself only when I followed LTAP® findings back to the central nervous system.

I break down how CNS tension alters dynamic alignment, hip mechanics, and tibiofemoral arthrokinematics, and why this pattern shows up so often in clients with knee pain. You’ll hear exactly how I used the LTAP® to identify the true restriction and why the CNS initially mattered more than local knee work.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How CNS tension alters gait, hip rotation, and knee loading during daily movement

• Why addressing cranial containers can transform lower-extremity biomechanics

• How simple sensory-driven treatments can reduce symptoms in structurally injured knees

• When to treat locally, when to treat globally, and how to make that call with confidence

This episode Is a practical reminder that system-level clarity leads to better outcomes, whethers it’s in acute or chronic client cases.

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My artistic and creative approach to movement will teach you to listen to the body and move mindfully so you can get your athlete on the field quickly and feel fulfilled and creative within your practice.