They are there for protection, treatment, workups, and as a first line of treatment in an emergency. This year more than at any other time in history, it has been shown that ATs make a difference. They save lives, speed recovery, win super bowls, change protocols and care. They care man!
Category: Injury
Better Understanding of classic injuries, what’s in vs what’s out in treatment, new terminology etc.
Elbow pain- A Learning Lab
Elbow pain is mind-numbing. Especially when it is sabotaging your ability to have fun and play.
High Ankle Sprain/Syndesmosis
Classically these are healed and fully recovered in 2 weeks and continue treatment with your sports med. team.
AC Joint Sprain/Separation Explained.
See, the thing is, what we say as practitioners, matters. You can take the same injury and make it something that the patient is going to recover from or you can be scary
Hip Pain (Bursa, IT, hip flexor issues) and Why it’s so Tricky to Treat.
in LIFE, get better information. Test what works and what doesn’t work in your life. Try multiple approaches at the same time. Take expert advice and opinions and make decisions based on how those opinions and advice work for you… or…. don’t work for you. Lame stretches got you Nowhere.
Glutes, They’re really that Big of a deal.
Constant hip flexor tightness and/or back pain despite all your stretching? You’re doing rehab in the wrong order. Get up to date. This isn’t the “piriformis issue” of 1999 baby!
Low Back Pain, a Learning Lab
A humorous but insightful way to understand 95% of back pain and why you are doing the wrong stuff to try to fix it.
How to Stabilize the Neck area
I’d wager you have weak stabilizers CAUSING tight muscles. This why doing the same thing over and over isn’t working. You don’t need more “relax, release and loosen.” You need a different approach.
Road To Recovery
We’re so quick in the rehab world to dive immediately into exercises for strength or flexibility. Often that is a poor order of execution. Put the fire out first, fix the imbalance. Move correctly before you start on strength etc.
Frozen Shoulder/Adhesive Capsulitis
We’ve come a long way on treatment options in modern sports medicine and the sling has gone the way of the dinosaur for most shoulder injuries.
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