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I’ve always been complimented by my athletes and patients about how I stretch their forearms. As with everything else, I do put a lot of thought into my technique to stretch the forearm. I wanted to share a quick video demonstrating how I stretch stretch the forearm. Not rocket science, but paying attention to the little details will surely help you stretch the forearm more effectively.
This month’s Inner Circle webinar is on How to Coach and Perform Shoulder Program Exercises. While this seems like a simple topic, the concepts discussed here are key to enhancing shoulder and scapula function. There are many little tweaks you can perform for shoulder exercises to make them more effective. If you perform rotator cuff or scapula exercises poorly, you can be facilitating compensatory patterns.
If you have ever worked with someone with a stiff and painful shoulder, you know how challenging it can be to gain motion. Regardless of if this is a postoperative shoulder or someone with adhesive capsulitis, push too hard or too fast often backfires and causes them to get worse!
One of the more common questions I get from students and new clinicians is – “how do you know when to push range of motion.”
Luckily, there is a pretty simple way to knowing when to push a stiff and painful shoulder and when to back off.
Hip weakness is a common area of focus in both the rehabilitation and fitness fields. Our excessive sitting postures and majority of activities during the day occur in the sagittal plane of motion, and hip weakness in the frontal and transverse planes is common.
There are many exercises designed to address glute medius and glute maximus strength in the transverse plane. But a simple tweak to your posture during one of the most common exercises can have a big impact on your glute activity and balance between your glutes and TFL.
This month’s Inner Circle webinar is on How to Perform and Advance Rhythmic Stabilization Drills. Rhythmic stabilization drills have become very popular since I discussed in my DVD Optimal Shoulder Performance several years ago. These are easy and excellent drills to start working on dynamic stabilization. However, I must say over the years I feel like people are getting pretty sloppy with these drills, which essentially makes them much less effective. Just because an exercise is simple, doesn’t mean that we should be sloppy with how we perform. In this inservice presentation, I discuss how to perform rhythmic stabilization drills and all the ways we advance them from simple to advanced.
Low back pain continues to be one of the most common health complaints that limit people, especially as we age. Rehabilitation of low back pain has transition from simply focusing on reducing the local pain to emphasizing a biomechanical approach of how other areas of the body, such as the hips, impact low back pain. A recent study revealed that people with low back pain do not have proper hip extension mobility. Luckily, there is a simple and easy mobility drill you can perform – the True Hip Flexor Stretch.
Over the years, you tend to pick up on the little things that can make a big difference. I’m always reading the latest research to find simple little tweaks that I can make to an exercise to change the desired result. Maybe I’m trying to optimize the mechanics of the scapula, or trying to enhance EMG activity of a certain muscle, or even change the ratio of activity between two muscles. In this webinar, I discuss 5 tweaks you can use to make shoulder exercises more effective.
It’s pretty obvious that the shoulder is linked to the scapula, which is linked to the trunk. So why do we so often perform isolated arm movement exercises without incorporating the trunk? In this article, I review a recent research report that examined the impact of incorporating trunk rotation with arm exercises. The results were pretty interesting.
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