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- OA is driven by low-grade chronic inflammation – not wear and tear. Pain does not correlate with structural severity, so treat the impairments, not the image.
- Exercise is the #1 first-line intervention for OA at every joint. Progressive strengthening, aerobic conditioning, walking, ...
What does dry needling do?
Mechanistically, dry needling induces a local twitch response that physically and biochemically alters the environment of tissue. Research confirms it locally normalizes electrical activity and modulates biomarkers, including increasing endogenous opioids (like beta-endor...
Most rehab programs don’t fail because of a lack of exercises – they fail because of a lack of load.
We underdose intensity. We stop short of meaningful effort. And as a result, we never build the capacity our patients actually need.
In this episode of the Rehab and Performance Lab Podcast, I sit ...
Rehab doesn’t fail because we don’t know enough – it fails because we stop too early.
We restore movement. We reduce pain. We rebuild some strength.
But we don’t always take the final step – preparing patients for the actual demands of performance.
In this episode of the Rehab and Performance Lab...
In this episode of the Rehab and Performance Lab podcast, I sat down with Dr. Don Goss to discuss one of the most debated topics in sports rehab – running gait. We talked about cadence, footwear, foot strike, and most importantly, how to make this actionable in the clinic.
If you treat runners and ...
Diagnostic imaging isn’t overused because it’s ineffective. It’s overused because it’s often ordered without clear clinical reasoning, referred without context, and explained to patients poorly. In this episode of the Rehab & Performance Lab Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Lance Mabry to clarify how re...
In this episode of the Rehab & Performance Lab Podcast, we’re discussing something that affects every clinician, every day: patient compliance. Or, more accurately, patient engagement.
I sat down with Anang Chokshi, PT, DPT, OCS, SCS and Jon Ide-Don, PT, DPTÂ to talk about improving our patient comp...
Shoulder rehab is often treated delicately—using yellow therabands like they are caution tape. Certainly in the beginning of rehab, we have to respect tissue healing and physiology, but are we actually slowing down recovery by playing it too safe? In this special live episode of the Rehab & Performa...
In this episode of the Rehab & Performance Lab Podcast, we tackled the complex, and sometimes messy, world of nutrition – specifically, creatine, protein timing, and what we think are energy drinks. I was honored to be joined by Leslie Bonci and Roberta Anding, co-founders of Performance 365, who ha...
Quad Recovery at Risk: Can You Afford to Skip NMES and Strength Testing?
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If You Are Not Measuring This, Does It Say You Don't Care About Your Patient's Functional Outcomes?       Â
How does an old-time business principle relate to ACL reconstruction rehabilitation? Well, the old-time business p...
Is there more to lateral epicondyalgia than eccentrics, IASTYM, & TPDN?
I have always felt there was more than meets the eye when it comes to lateral epicondylagia. Frequently, it is a tendinosis (degeneration of the tendon). I hypothesized that compression in the cervical spine would be a mechanis...
Cupping therapy is hot topic that's everywhere from social media to the clinic and in the athletic training room. We recently tackled this on the Rehab and Performance Lab podcast in What Is Evidence-Based in Cupping and Fascial Science? I was joined by Dr. Chris DePrato, who has spent a significant...
