Evaluate and Treat Injuries

Neurocognitive Training for ACL Rehabilitation and Return to Play Testing

Injury Treatment

Neurocognitive Training for ACL Rehabilitation and Return to Play Testing

Return to play after ACL reconstruction surgery is often a complicated decision-making process. As we have written in the past, numerous studies have shown that return to play testing after ACL reconstruction is not straightforward. With ACL re-tear rates so high, our physical therapy research is still lacking definitive guidelines on the best return-to-play criteria. However, recent trends may support a combination or neuromuscular and neurocognitive approaches to improve outcomes.

May 11, 2021

Clinical Examination

Assessing and Treating Loss of Knee Extension Range of Motion

Assessing and treating loss of knee extension range of motion is an important component of rehabilitation following any knee surgery.

May 10, 2021

Injury Treatment

Returning to Exercise After COVID-19

The purpose of this post is to synthesize the currently available literature regarding the return to exercise and activity after a mild (non-hospitalized) case of COVID-19 in an otherwise healthy population.

December 23, 2020

Volitional muscle contraction with biofeedback

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How to Restore Volitional Muscle Control

Biofeedback provides a method of restoring volitional muscle control following and injury or surgery.

August 3, 2020

Injury Treatment

How to Get Back to Golf After an Injury

A common mistakes we see golfers make when trying to gelt back to golf after an injury is simply jumping right back in like flipping a light switch. Here’s our approach to building a return to golf program.

May 11, 2020

Ankle Mobility Exercises to Improve Dorsiflexion

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Ankle Mobility Exercises to Improve Dorsiflexion

The ultimate guide to improving ankle dorsiflexion with a combined approach of self-myofascial exercises, stretching, and ankle mobility exercises

April 22, 2020

Injury Treatment

6 Keys to Shoulder Instability Rehabilitation

Shoulder instability is a common injury encountered in physical therapy. But there are many different types of shoulder instability.

Would you treat a high school baseball player that feels like their shoulder is loose when throwing the same as a 35 year old that fell on ice onto an outstretched arm and dislocated their shoulder? They’re both “shoulder instability,” right?

There exists a wide range of symptomatic shoulder instabilities from subtle recurrent subluxations to traumatic dislocations. Nonoperative rehabilitation is commonly utilized for shoulder instability to regain previous functional activities through specific strengthening exercises, dynamic stabilization drills, neuromuscular training, proprioception drills, scapular muscle strengthening program and a gradual return to their desired activities.

But to truly understand how to successfully treat shoulder instability, there are several key factors that you must consider.

October 14, 2019

Performance based physical therapy mike reinold

Injury Treatment

Performance Physical Therapy: Why Our Profession Needs to Progress

Physical therapy can span a wide spectrum, ranging from injury rehabilitation, to injury prevention, and even performance enhancement. To truly help people get the most out of their bodies, we need to focus on all three of those. But many of us don’t, and if you’re one of them, I think you may be really missing the boat. It’s not enough to simply try to restore someone to their previous baseline. That’s “traditional” physical therapy if you ask me. Performance physical therapy not only restores function, but also works on optimizing and enhancing performance. That’s the key difference to me.

August 12, 2019