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Recovering vs restoring after pitching – does the word we use matter? When players become more serious about the game, they understand the importance of preparing their mind and body to compete. Unfortunately, our focus really needs to shift from not only preparing for competition but also restoring...
I want to tell you how to use the discharge testing checklist. It's organized in such a way that it goes from simple activities all the way down to complex. So it starts off at range of motion and strengthening and goes all the way through hop testing, agility testing and that type of of higher le...
I use this exercise all the time to improve multisegemental rotation and rotary stability. I frequently use it after segmental rolling or if someone uses lumbar extension to perform the upper extremity segmental flexion rolling. I know it has been called “hard rolling” but I prefer to call it connec...
I think one of my favorite return to sport checklists that we have is the Spine Return to Sport Checklist. It's probably the least utilized and admittedly so in my practice, it was the least utilized. We think of lower extremity return to sport checklists and what are we going to do to test all th...
Being a performance rehabilitation provider coach is like spinning seven different plates at once. You remember that, from the circus, where a guy would start spinning one plate and go down the line and spin the plates on a stick? And by the time he got to the last one, the first one was starting ...
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.Â
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 steps. But I don't do ...
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 motion and stren...
I want to tell you about using the upper body return to sport checklist. This is a little bit different. We don't typically see or use return to sport tests as frequently as the lower body. The lower body is a lot more common, but the upper body is just as important. The problem is we don't have ...
I want to talk to you about the Group Testing Calculator and how you can use it. You can use it any time you are going to do testing of a group. That could be a pre- participation physical of a sports team or performance testing of a group or even in industry or the military we've used it a lot. A...
In this Q&A video, I address the following questions:
- How do you handle knee pain in the 6-9 month timeframe post ACLR?
- Do you have any suggestions on improving quad strength at 10 months post op?
- FIFA 11+ is helpful for soccer injury reduction. Are there other programs for other sports like b ...
