<p>The Movement Revolution Podcast is proud to bring you a 2 part series on Blood Flow Restriction. Our guest is no other than Chris Gaviglio, PhD. He has experience with Blood Flow Restriction or BFR for 15 years, using it with athletes of different disciplines such as Rugby Players and Olympian Decathletes. BFR has been accumulating growing evidence in performance and rehabilitation. Coach Chris talks about the 5 mechanisms of BFR, as well as an EXCLUSIVE of how BFR helped an Olympian in the Tokyo Olympics.</p>
<p>Dr. Chris Gaviglio has been involved with elite sport for over 20 years working across multiple Winter and Summer Olympic sports and professional football codes in both the northern (Bath Rugby) and southern hemisphere (Queensland "Maroons" Rugby League team, Wallabies – Australian National Rugby Union team and Gold Coast SUNS AFL).</p>
<p>More recently, during the recent 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Chris was the S&C coach for Beach Volleyball Silver medalists (Taliqua Clancy & Mariafe ArtachoDelSolar), Decathlon (Cedric Dubler and Ashley Moloney - Bronze medal), 200m sprinter Riley Day, and double silver Paralympic medalist Isis Holt (100m, 200m T35).</p>
<p>Topics in the Episode: </p>
<p><strong>2nd min. Start of Dr. Chris Gaviglio’s career</strong></p>
<p><strong>5th min. Bath Rugby</strong></p>
<p><strong>7th min. 20s First time to use an Occlusion Cuff</strong></p>
<p><strong>7th min 50s BFR with Andrew David Butch’ James former South African Rugby Player </strong></p>
<p><strong>10th min 45s Car Park Chronicles</strong></p>
<p><strong>15th min BFR vs Flossing</strong></p>
<p><strong>17th min. BFR creating a localized hypoxic environment</strong></p>
<p><strong>19th min. Increase in Hormonal responses</strong></p>
<p><strong>19th min. 30s Stimulation of</strong></p>
<p><strong>Intermuscular signaling pathways ( motor pathways)</strong></p>
<p><strong>20min. 45s Muscle Fiber Recruitment</strong></p>
<p><strong>22min. 30s The Key to BFR is Exercise selection</strong></p>
<p><strong>23min. 20s Low Resistance in BFR 20% of Repetition Maximum</strong></p>
<p><strong>25min. Passive BFR or Ischemic Conditioning</strong></p>
<p><strong>27min. 35s Post-Op Rehab with BFR</strong></p>
<p><strong>30min. 30s Using BFR with an Olympian Decathlete, Cedric Dubler, who tore a hamstring Before the Tokyo Olympics, Cedric Dubler. </strong></p>
