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Moreside, Janice M.; McGill, Stuart M.
I was working my way through my May 2012 Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research when I came across this article from Dr. Stuart McGill. Obviously caught my attention so thought I would make it available here. The investigators looked at improvements in hip mobility with myofascial stretching, myofascial stretching + motor control exercises for the hip and trunk, core endurance with motor control exercises, vs. control group. Definitely something to the idea of 'proximal stability' being key to good hip mobility....keep reading

Anthony Renna CSCS, USAW
Some great medicine ball and anti-rotation videos courtesy of Anthony Renna to go along with his interview last week....keep reading

Joe Heiler PT, CSCS
This week's exercise is the Pull Through. A great exercise for reinforcing the hip hinge/dead lift pattern and building hip strength without stressing the knees....keep reading

Joe Heiler PT, CSCS
Instructing your patients and athletes to properly squat and deadlift will go a long way toward resolving their back and knee pain , and prevent future episodes. Here is the PDF from the 2008 Michigan State NSCA conference....keep reading

Joe Heiler PT, CSCS
The 2014 updated version of the Multi-Segmental Rotation pattern corrections is now available to download. These are all of the stability/motor control corrections that I have used within this movement pattern. The corrections are in order only by neurodevelopmental progression. Feel free to download the PDF and use with your patients....keep reading

Joe Heiler PT, CSCS
The subject of this case is a dance student presenting with bilateral posterior knee pain. As in the previous case, I want to show how I've been incorporating Graston Technique, the SFMA, and PRI into my evaluation and treatment processes. I really feel like I'm finding some great mobility and motor control solutions blending these approaches so I wanted to share those here and hopefully give you some ideas.....keep reading

Jon Torine
As I was sitting at my desk reviewing the latest functional movement screen test I couldn't help but be in absolute amazement. But why am I amazed? I have seen this time and time again for the last 5 years. I have seen it with some of the best athletes in the world from future hall of famers, to players no one has heard of, and recently some of the better high school and college athletes around. So why was this one so different? It wasn't, but it does not make it all the less bewildering....keep reading

Eirik Sandvik
A great self pec release technique using a lacrosse ball. We know about the common faults when it comes to shoulder problems and tight pecs, (especially pec minor) are more or less always a troublemaker for athletes and regular people. Stretching this area is always targeted, but if trigger points are present, which is true for most people, this might not work as good as you initially hoped it would....keep reading

Craig Liebenson D.C.
The concepts of stability and instability are integral to modern musculoskeletal care. According to Panjabi, three subsystems work together to maintain spine stability: 1 the central nervous subsystem (control), an osteoligamentous subsystem (passive), and a muscle subsystem (active). He says: "The neural subsystem receives information from the transducers, determines specific requirements for spinal stability, and causes the active subsystem to achieve the stability goal."...keep reading

Greg Rose DC, Co-Founder Titleist Performance Institute
The "S-Posture" is one of the leading causes of back pain in golfers. See how to eliminate this problem for good!...keep reading

Joe Heiler
I got most of these from Charlie Weingroff so I want to be sure to give credit where it is due. The cool thing about the crawling patterns (besides just being challenging for most of us) is that the hips and shoulders are the fixed points while the spine gets to move more freely, as compared to walking when the spine is meant to be more stable while the hips and shoulders are free to move....keep reading

Joe Heiler PT, CSCS
This has been one of my favorite upper body stretches for quite some time, but after taking the PRI courses I now realize how powerful this type of stretch can be....keep reading

Joe Heiler PT, CSCS
This is part III in the series on soft tissue techniques to address the musculature of the hip, and in today's video I'm going to focus on the glute max....keep reading

Joe Heiler PT
This is a great exercise emphasizing early weight bearing for stability plus brings in sagittal plane trunk control. The shoulder position mimics the early developmental position of crawling so reflex stability can be achieved and often times pain is decreased versus weight bearing through the hand....keep reading

Jim Kielbaso MS, CSCS
Core training is obviously a buzz word in the industry. Just about every strength and conditioning professional values a strong core, and over the past few years we have seen hundreds of new exercises and routines created to help make that happen. Most of the emphasis is on training the abdominals and low back musculature (from the ribs to the pelvis on all sides of the spine), and there have been some great new techniques created to develop functional core strength. But, there is a major void in many core training routines. I like to extend my view of the "core" a little farther south to include the hips...keep reading

Joe Heiler PT, CSCS
This is one of my favorite exercises as a lot of good things are happening when it is performed the right way. As clinicians and trainers there are some things that must be addressed prior to attempting this exercise. Those are the items I'll be addressing in this 'Exercise of the Week' installment....keep reading

Mahmoud Zaerian DC, CSCS
The saphenous nerve, one of the longest in the body, although a sensory nerve has huge implications to loss of function and symptomology in several key areas, from ankle arthrokinematic dysfunction to the presentation of knee symptomology. When treating from a functional standpoint, distinguishing peripheral nerve functioning is critical for the discovering hidden contributors to injuries. In this video you see me working on the saphenous nerve in a former professional basketball player with a meniscal tear and pain with deep squat, including loss of range of motion....keep reading

David O'Sullivan PT
One of the big concepts I preach and emphasise in The ProSport Academy Therapist Online Mentorship is understanding what is actually happening when we do things rather than just doing things for the sake of it. This also applies to 'breathing pattern retraining' which has gained enormous popularity over the last few years. However most 'breathing retraining' methods I see been done in an attempt to improve thoracic mobility is mainly focusing on getting a good diaphragmatic breath in....keep reading

Joe Heiler PT, CSCS
This is part IV in our discussion of hip extension motor control corrective exercises. We've progressed through the 4x4 matrix from supine/prone, to quadruped, to tall and half kneeling, and finally to standing corrections. Standing hip extension corrections can be performed in a bilateral (or squat) stance, split stance, or in single leg stance....keep reading