Climb Down Stairs Correctly | How to Descend Stairs | Physical Therapy

While walking up stairs requires activation of the glutes and hamstrings, descending stairs is all about the core! Dr. Lin explains how using your obliques and lengthening your core is key to your graceful descent down stairs!


Not all exercises, suggestions, and recommendations presented here are suitable for everyone and are in no way substitute for medical counseling.

These exercises can result in injury. Any user of this program assumes the risk of injury and holds harmless and releases Dr. Justin Lin and Rehab and Revive Physical Therapy, Inc. from any and all liability in connection with the program and advice herein.

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[MoCsomeone]

Schools should teach children to do basic human movements properly! I would have benefited from that. I'm all kinds of messed up from various issues that can probably be linked to my gait and stuff. Thank you for your help, I appreciate it

[americangirlballet]

I love this! I’m a “toe walker” and am learning to walk on my legs and not my toes. This made stairs so much easier! I’ve been trying to teach myself how to do things with my heels down and stairs are my nightmare. This is awesome! It works.

[cherria]

Could you also demonstrate the wrong way that a lot of people do, to see the difference. Thx😊

[douglasquinn]

Excellent demonstration of walking down stairs without using a railing. I can watch this and practice this in my mind in addition to physically doing it. It will speed up the progress using neuroplasticity to rewire the brain.

[allisonalvarez]

Thank you for these stairs videos...I'm staying in the upstairs of my sister's house...I however live in a single story house...I can go up and down now without feeling like I'm climbing a mountain.

[WeatherMoon]

Rock on! I can climb up no problem. Going down, very unstable

[charcar]

Amazing!!! I'm taking Pilates now which focuses on the core and working on regaining ability to walk up and down stairs.

[rahulpagaria]

I just discovered this & can now double my stair workout

[MelaniesPassion]

Should I look at my feet while walking down the stairs or should I look straight ahead?

[code]

Thanks so much omg, now i finally know how to get down of stairs with legs. I used to use hands to get down 🎉🎉😊❤❤❤

[karoltoporek]

like your video.
I've got ms. struggle to walk down the stairs and downhills.
feel good overall.
again thanks

[DanielScanlon]

Right on! I use the same (royalty-free) music in my podcast. awesome

[responsiblecitizen]

Thanks a lot for this video..believe it will mmake a kot of difference in my life

[diegosandoval]

Me when I was in school: Slide down and then jump from the 5th step.

[HowToBuildAGameInRoblox]

OMG THANK U THIS HELPED well i tried to but i just went to a waterslide with playground in it and i got hurt and with your help THANK YOU!!!

[billsemenoff]

Good idea, I get it, just that stair climbing is not challenging enough for my control system to pick up on it...

[ChitoWorld]

I injured a tendon in my foot. Hulesis flexor lungys. Been a year of walking weird now that it don’t hurt no more I can’t walk fast or run or walk down the stairs it’s crazy! All my tendons feel stiff n muscles . When I warm I feel better but once I cool down I get back being diff n pain . Walking flat foot n stuff

[suyashgupta]

Can going down stairs help strengthen VMO Muscle ? {I have PFPS}

[doritoz]

Hey I really enjoyed this video and the other on walking up stairs. I have recently acquired a job that entails me walking up and down stairs very often; I'm a barback and need to get things from a storage area up to the bar when they run out. Recently I've felt a strain on my knees and I'm wondering if trying these therapeutic methods will decrease that sensation, because I often feel my knees hinging backward when I step up the stairs. Any advice would be appreciated, furthermore thank you for sharing this great advice.

[holly]

Do you lean back a little when you go downstairs?