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Post-Pitching Arm Care arm care baseball development overhead athlete recovery restoration softball tennis volleyball

What does a post pitching arm care plan look like? 

We want to certainly do our recovery.  We want to do our restoration, but it's also our prime opportunity for development.  And what does development mean?  We want to improve capacity, so we are going to improve...

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Capacity and Load Management in Overhead Athletes baseball overhead athlete recovery restoring tennis volleyball

In all sports, but particularly with overhead athletes. We have to consider load management, and we have to consider performance readiness.

What does it look like for a specific warm up? And does a pitcher need something additional or different? And then what does recovery, what does restoration...

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Illinois Agility Test Procedure and Normative Data agility

By Carlos Reyes PT, DPT, SCS, MS, CSCS

Field tests are widely used to determine performance characteristics of athletes in many different sports. The Illinois Agility Test was designed to test motor ability such as running and dodging agility in athletes. Distinct characteristics of the Illinois...

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Performance Talk with Dr. Robert Butler performance

This episode of the Performance Talk podcast is a must listen!  Here are some of the many pearls in the podcast:

  •  It's easy to make things sexy and complicated. It's really hard to make things foundational, accurate and efficient.
  • Consistency with intensity and intent in...
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Group Testing Buy-In group testing

One of the most difficult things to do is get buy-in into your pre-participation physical testing or your group testing or performance testing. I think it's probably what we face the most, and particularly getting coaches to buy in.

One of the things that I heard this spring training that I...

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Full Knee Hyperextension After ACL Reconstruction acl hypermobility knee extension

The most common question we get after our ACL reconstruction rehabilitation course on MedBridge is why do you emphasize that you need to achieve full knee hyperextension after ACL reconstruction?

So I thought I would dive in deep into this topic.  And I think it comes with some natural...

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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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