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Social Media and FOMO social media

Is how you are consuming social media subtly hampering your potential as a rehab or strength and conditioning professional?  For many, the answer is yes, and the reason that it is might surprise you.

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Developing a Winning Mindset

Chris Pollard with Duke Baseball had a great presentation during the Duke Sports Medicine Baseball Symposium about developing his team’s mindset. He summarized it with this:

  1. Process: Routine, Breath (it resets you and you always have it with you), and Mindfulness
  2. Servant Leadership:...
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Y-Balance Test Upper Quarter Reliability, Procedure and Normative Data y balance test
By Adam Devery, ATC, PTA, CSCS & Phil Plisky, PT, DSc, ATC, OCS, CSCS 

In Upper Extremity Closed Chain Testing Part 1 we discussed a closed-kinetic chain testing series for overhead athletes as well as the general population. In that series, the Y-Balance Test Upper Quarter was...

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ACL Reconstruction Rehabilitation With Non-Athletes acl

[Phil]:  Hey, everyone. I've been having some discussions with Dr. Kyle Matsel, and he's joining me again here. And we've been talking about ACL reconstruction rehabilitation, and we've really talked a lot about return to sport and high level competition.

But what I want to talk about is how...

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What if you and the surgeon have different return to sport timelines after ACL reconstruction? acl rehabilitation

Hey everyone!  I have the pleasure of being joined by Dr. Kyle Matsel. We get tons of questions about our ACL reconstruction rehabilitation courses on MedBridge, where we take a person from early stage rehab all the way through high level performance.

One of the questions that we get...

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How do you navigate limited insurance visits after ACL reconstruction? acl medbridge rehabilitation

Phil:  Hey, everyone.  I have the pleasure of being joined by Dr. Kyle Matsel. We did several courses for MedBridge on returning to full performance after ACL reconstruction, and we get a lot of questions, so I thought we'd take this opportunity to answer one of those questions today....

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Barrier Jump Plyometric Progression plyometrics

One of my favorite plyometric progression is line jumps and barrier jumps because they can be progressed easily. My typical gradual progression would be double leg line jumps, double leg low barrier jumps, double leg cone jumps. Once we are at 8 or 10 inch cone height, I like to go through the...

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Early Plyometrics

Once I have taught good plyometric form, these are my go-to early plyometrics. They work well to teach key concepts: toes not turning in, knee alignment, absorbing force and quickly producing force

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Full Knee Hyperextension and Quad Lag after ACL reconstruction acl knee extension

Full knee hyperextension equal to the contralateral side is essential after ACL reconstruction. or any post-operative knee.

I know most of you are already looking at this post-operatively and are doing this very well, but we still see this missed quite frequently. We find that if there is...

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How to Use the Lower Body Return to Sport Checklist discharge testing fms lower body injury return to sport sfma y balance test

I really think that the lower body return to sport checklist and discharge checklist can accelerate your practice, can really amplify what you're doing because it does a few things.  One, it makes sure that we're being comprehensive in nature.  The guidelines go from simple range of...

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Running with Purpose purpose running

For most of my life, I didn't like running. I didn't find it as enjoyable as some do. It is drudgery. It’s boring. It is monotonous.  It seems to have no purpose. You run and end up right back where you started. Worse than running is running on a treadmill — talk...

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Tips for Using the Return to Sport & Discharge Checklists discharge testing return to sport

I think one of the things I don't do often enough in rehab, especially long term rehab like ACL reconstructions, is revisit the discharge testing checklist. 

I do it at the beginning.  I'll do it pre-operatively to talk about it.  I'll do it post-operatively and describe the...

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