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.

09/18/2026

Did you catch the last episode of the Unreal Results for PTs and ATs a podcast by Anna Hartman?

Sciatica comes from the sciatic nerve, right… Right?

This episode was inspired by a recent conversation with a friend of mine who had self-diagnosed herself with sciatica. And while sciatica is often given as a diagnosis, it’s actually more of a description of symptoms than anything else.

In this episode, you’ll hear how I actually think through sciatica and why those symptoms can have very different drivers beyond the lumbar spine or piriformis syndrome.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• How to differentiate between several potential drivers of sciatica-like symptoms
• Where visceral, peripheral neurovascular, and CNS influences fit into your assessment
• How I use the symptom presentation and the LTAP® to narrow down the potential driver

Odds are high that someone with sciatica symptoms is going to walk into your practice. This episode will give you a more connected framework for thinking through what to assess and ultimately, what to treat.

Ready to learn how to determine if an injury or pain has a visceral or nervous system driver? Comment “change” and join me for The Missing Link in Orthopedic Rehab: 2-part training series! Starts Tuesday Sept 22nd!

09/17/2026

Today, marks 13 years since we lost our Mom. It was her diagnosis that opened my eyes to more than the musculoskeletal system.

For years, she had shoulder and upper back pain. It was treated like rotator cuff tendinitis.

The practitioners blamed:
Bad posture.
Weight.
Compliance.

She did the rehab.
She did the massage.
She did the exercises.
She didn’t get better.

And instead of questioning the model... the system doubled down.

What they missed was devastating.

Her body was adapting to a lung slowly being overtaken by cancer.

Her musculoskeletal pain wasn’t random.

It wasn’t weakness.
It wasn’t poor posture.
It was intelligent.
It was protective.
It was a referral.

That moment changed everything for me. Because sometimes failure to improve is not an orthopedic rehab problem.

It’s a whole organism problem.

This is why visceral assessment is not optional.

This is why “not improving” is sometimes the loudest red flag in the room.

The system failed my mom.

That’s why I built The Missing Link in Orthopedic Rehab.

It’s a 2-part live training. I walk through how to screen for visceral referral before you spend another session on a shoulder, a hip, a back that isn’t actually orthopedic.

Comment “MISSING LINK” and I’ll send you the link.

Live Sept 22 and 24, 12-1:30pm PT. $97. You get the recording either way.

It’s the first step before LTAP® Level 1.

09/16/2026

Honestly, I’ve always gotten good results with my athletes.

Early on a lot of that was because I had the luxury of unlimited treatment time and a lot of techniques to choose from.

I knew it would take about 2 weeks of treatment, 4–5x per week, to really get things to stick.

But about 8 years ago that started to change.

While flying across the country to work with NFL athletes only 1–2 sessions at a time… and then leaving.

And something surprising happened.

They started telling me:

“Anna, the weeks you come out I feel good all the way through the game. I don’t feel like I need extra massage or chiro that week.”

I noticed it too.

When I came back a week or two later, the improvements from the previous session were often still there.

Which meant we could peel back another layer or address lower-priority issues.

So what changed?

My assessment.

I started using an osteopathic-style assessment that listened to the body and directed where treatment should begin, instead of starting based on my bias or favorite technique.

And often it meant taking a long list of objective dysfunctions… and improving 80–90% of them by treating an area that seemed completely unrelated. 🤯

It was incredible to witness.

Both my athletes and I quickly realized:

This was the key to faster, longer-lasting results.

And the coolest part?

An assessment like this works with any treatment tool.

Manual therapy.
Exercise.
Dry needling.
Cupping.

When you treat where the body asks you to start, the tool matters far less.

That’s why I want to share this with you.

In my upcoming 2-part training “The Missing Link in Orthopedic Rehab” I’ll show you how one change to your assessment can dramatically improve outcomes for your PT and AT clients.

Comment “CHANGE” and I’ll send you the details.

09/15/2026

Pain that reads as neurally driven down the leg can come from four completely different places:

→ SI joint
→ Viscera
→ Central nervous system (this includes discogenic, since the irritation is happening at the nerve root, before it ever leaves the spine)
→ Peripheral neurovascular entrapment

Treat them the same way and you’ll get partial results at best. Figure out which one you’re actually dealing with, and treatment gets a lot more direct.

Sciatica is just one example. The same question, where is this actually coming from, applies to almost everything you see in the clinic. That’s what the first LTAP® assessment is built to answer, and it’s what I teach in The Missing Link, a 2 part live training on September 22nd and 24th.

$97 right now instead of $197. Doors close September 22nd at 12pm PDT. Link in bio. (Includes recordings and lifetime access.)

Clip from episode 163 of the Unreal Results for PTs and ATs a podcast by Anna Hartman

I posted a reel about how I rarely release hip flexors manually anymore. Barely ever, honestly.Someone commented that I ...
09/15/2026

I posted a reel about how I rarely release hip flexors manually anymore. Barely ever, honestly.

Someone commented that I should just release the nerve directly with Active Release Techniques.

Fair. If it’s a true nerve entrapment issue, ART could be helpful, in fact it was in an ART course early in my career that I first learned about the adductor hiatus a very common fascial slip that can be a spot for neurovascular entrapments.

But that’s my whole point. It’s not the treatment tool or technique that’s the problem. It’s not knowing where to start, or why that tissue is guarding in the first place.

You can feel a nerve is stuck. You can feel a hip flexor is tight. And in fact much of the lumbar plexus travels through the psoas. What you can’t feel, without the right assessment, is why it keeps happening in the same spot no matter what you release.

Not only does finding the deeper driver save time. It saves your hands too.

You can keep releasing the same tight hip flexor every day. Or you can figure out why it’s always tight in the first place, and treat that.

That’s exactly what the LTAP® assessment is built to find, viscera, nervous system, and periphery, together, so you know where to start before you ever put your hands down.

Comment “change” and I’ll send you the link, plus $100 off The Missing Link In Orthopedic Rehab.

In this 2-part live virtual training you will learn the first test of the LTAP®️ and discover what a whole organism paradigm is and why considering the viscera and the nervous system is key in getting better outcomes that last for your patients.

You’re not crazy for feeling like your results are inconsistent.It’s not your treatment skills. It’s not more technique....
09/14/2026

You’re not crazy for feeling like your results are inconsistent.

It’s not your treatment skills. It’s not more technique.

It’s your starting point.

If your assessment doesn’t consider the viscera, the nervous system, and the body’s protection patterns, you’re guessing where to start. That’s the gap the LTAP® closes.

➡️ Comment “change” and I’ll send you the link to join the 2-part live virtual training- The Missing Link in Orthopedic Rehab.

Sept 22nd + 24th! Recordings + lifetime access.
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