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Tibial Rotation Assessment

 

Let's go ahead and bring your right foot out to the side. Slide it out. Keep that knee nice and still. Good. And let's see the left foot. Let's do both feet at the same time. And let's do internal rotation on the right and keep that foot, nice and flat. So that's really limited....

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Hands & Knees to 3 Point Transition - Phase 1

For the hands and knees to three point transition phase one,  start by bringing your foot up next to your hand, and then come up nice and tall with your arms overhead, getting into a nice tall posture. Come on back down and repeat. 

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Shoulder Extension Range of Motion rom shoulder

 

All right. Now we're going to measure shoulder extension range of motion. Our athlete’s going to be in the prone position with the head in neutral. And we're going to still use our same seize grip stabilizing position. This time I'm going to have my thumb on the backside of the...

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A Skip Triple Exchange acceleration speed

Hey everyone, in this video, we're going to be discussing A Skip with a triple exchange for maximum speed and acceleration development. This will be very similar to our regular A Skip and our A Skip with our double exchange. So we're going to instruct our athlete to get into the starting...

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Upper Body Flexion Rolling upper body

For upper body rolling both arms overhead and then bring your one arm so it's at a 90 degree angle and you're going to roll, keeping your legs perfectly still. So you are not moving from the waist down. Turn your neck and rotate slowly coming over. And come back. What you can see is how the legs...

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Lean, Lock, Lift with Weight laq


For the lean, lock, lift exercise with weight, you will bend the left knee up. Hug your arms around it. Bring your knee all the way up to your chest. Lean toward that right side. Straighten your knee all the way out and bring your toes up toward your nose. And then go ahead and lift the leg up,...

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Transverse Abdominis Assessment & Facilitation

 

Now we're going to teach the transverse abdominis contraction. So what we're going to do here is I'm going to get the person to feel it first. So is it okay if I put my hands on your hips? All right. So I’m going to put my hands on her hips. I'm going to go from the ASIS and then...

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A March acceleration dorsiflexion speed

Hey, everyone! Today we're going to be discussing A March for linear speed development and acceleration development. So we're going to instruct our athlete to get in the starting position and the big emphasis for this drill is achieving maximum dorsiflexion or toe up and then driving through the...

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Discharge Testing: Why I Didnā€™t Do It discharge testing medbridge return to sport

I remember him vividly.

He was a cantankerous old farmer. You know the type. Rough and rugged exterior but would do anything for anyone at the drop of a hat. At 72, he was still working on the farm daily.

He’d had a total hip replacement and was resistant to physical therapy from the...

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How do you manage anterior knee pain after ACL reconstruction? acl knee extension physical therapy rehabilitation

Hey, everyone. I had a reader submitted question here about ACL reconstruction.

“Hello, I'm a PT and I've been really enjoying going through your med bridge courses. They've been super insightful, particularly with ACL reconstruction."

Thank you so much. I appreciate it. I love doing them....

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Why should athletic trainers use MedBridge for CEUs? athletic training ceu medbridge nata boc

My wife and I are athletic trainers, so we understand what a challenge it can be to get your CEUs completed in each reporting period. Fifty is a lot of CEUs and my wife does all of her continuing education through MedBridge. While getting the required CEUs is important, if I have to go through...

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