Evaluate and Treat Injuries

Injury Treatment

Working Core Training in 360 Degrees

There’s more to core training than sit ups and planks. To truly maximize function, you need to train the core in 360 degrees to stabilize and transmit forces.

September 19, 2016

shoulder immobilization in external rotation

Injury Treatment

Which is the Best Position to Immobilize the Shoulder After a Dislocation?

Basic science research has shown that immobilizing a shoulder in external rotation may be more beneficial to prevent future instability by approximating the labral tissue, but, have clinical studies shown an actual reduction in recurrent instability?

September 12, 2016

How Rehab Differs Between Traumatic and Atraumatic Shoulder Instability

Injury Treatment

How Rehab Differs Between Traumatic and Atraumatic Shoulder Instability

The latest Inner Circle webinar recording on How Rehab Differs Between Traumatic and Atraumatic Shoulder Instability is now available.

August 29, 2016

Injury Treatment

4 Myths of IASTM

Mike Reinold and Erson Religioso discuss some of the myths and misconceptions regarding instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization.

August 24, 2016

Injury Treatment

Why You Need to Learn IASTM

In this video, Erson and I describe how and why they both started using IASTM, how we integrate IASTM with other manual techniques and exercise, the major benefits of IASTM, and then some brief technique demonstrations.

August 23, 2016

Injury Treatment

How to Stabilize the Scapula During Shoulder Elevation

Stabilizing the scapula during range of motion is often recommended to focus your mobility more on the shoulder than the scapula. As with everything else, as simple as this seems, there is right way, a wrong way, and a better way to stabilize the scapula during shoulder elevation.

In this video, I demonstrate the correct way to stabilize the scapula, and show some common errors that I often see.

August 8, 2016

Injury Treatment

Integrating Performance Based Physical Therapy

The latest Inner Circle webinar recording on Integrating Performance Based Physical Therapy is now available.

I wanted to share this with Inner Circle members as I feel the topic is important as performance based therapy is definitely the future of our professions. Performance therapy is something that is performed to help people optimize themselves and improve performance, no matter what performance means to you. You don’t need to be injured to benefit from performance therapy. This is a lot of what we do at Champion and something that I really wanted to share.

July 18, 2016

An Easy Drill to Enhance Thoracic Extension

Injury Treatment

An Easy Drill to Enhance Thoracic Extension

One of my big principles of rehabilitation and corrective exercises is that you follow up mobility drills with some sort of activation or strengthening drill. You want to use the body in this newly gained mobility.

For some reason, I feel like this is often ignored with thoracic mobility.

In the video below I show an extremely easy way to start working on thoracic extension endurance. Certainly not groundbreaking, but an important drill that is often overlooked.

July 11, 2016