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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:
- Process: Routine, Breath (it resets you and you always have it with you), and Mindfulness
- Servant Leadership:...
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...
[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...
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...
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....
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
I know there's a lot of controversy in rehabilitation about using post-op protocols, and I get it. It's not supposed to be cookie cutter. It's not supposed to be cookbook type of thing, what we're doing. It should be based on the individual.
But here's why I really like rehab...
