Evaluate and Treat Injuries

Injury Treatment

Enhancing Thoracic Mobility

Limited mobility of the thoracic spine is a common finding and something that tends to get worse over time. To me, it’s one of those “use it or lose it” types of mobility in the body. Several issues can occur from limited thoracic mobility, such as shoulder, neck, and even low back pain.

Thoracic mobility drills are common, but only part of the puzzle. I have a new presentation where I’ll be reviewing some of the self mobility, manual therapy techniques, and corrective exercises I use to enhance thoracic mobility.

June 27, 2016

Thoracic Mobility Muscle Energy Technique

Injury Treatment

Thoracic Mobility Muscle Energy Technique

Sometimes people don’t respond to common thoracic mobility drills. In this video I’ll demonstrate how I use muscle energy techniques to enhance thoracic rotation. This is a great drill that anyone can perform on their own.

June 20, 2016

how neural tension influences hamstring flexibility

Clinical Examination

How Neural Tension Influences Hamstring Flexibility

Many people think they have tight hamstrings. This may be the case for some but there are often times that people feel “tight” but aren’t really tight.

I’ve been playing around with how neural tension influences hamstring flexibility and have been having great results.

Watch this video to learn more about what I mean.

June 13, 2016

Enhance Performance

What Exactly is Optimal Movement Quality?

I usually think of optimal movement as simply two things: 1) Do the right joints move (and the wrong ones don’t)? And 2) Do the right muscles work (and the wrong ones don’t)?

Simple. Watch this video to learn more about what I mean.

June 8, 2016

Enhance Performance

The Use of Non Motorized Treadmills to Facilitate Gait and The Posterior Chain

We’ve recently started playing more with non motorized treadmills at Champion and have been very happy with the results. They are great at facilitating a normal gait pattern and engaging the posterior chain. I explain more in this video.

May 31, 2016

Injury Treatment

Integrating Breathing Drills

This month’s Inner Circle webinar is on Integrating Breathing Drills. In this presentation, I review a couple of quick techniques I use to determine what type of breathing drills to incorporate into my programming. I’ll overview several different breathing techniques and progressions that you can start implementing.

May 23, 2016

Injury Treatment

The Best and Easiest Way to Restore Knee Extension

One of the most common complications following a knee injury or surgery is not restoring full knee extension. Losing knee extension causes a lot of issues, ranging from anterior knee pain, to altered movement patterns, to even difficulty when walking.

It’s super important to assure you restore full knee extension.

In this video below, Lenny Macrina, my co-owner of Champion and co-author of OnlineKneeSeminar.com [link], shares what he considers the best way to restore full knee extension. Luckily, it’s not only the best in our minds, but also the easiest to perform! More importantly, he discusses why he doesn’t like one of the most common exercises that people tend to use.

May 9, 2016

The One Thing You Must Do When Evaluating for an ACL Injury

Clinical Examination

The One Thing You Must Do When Evaluating for an ACL Injury

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are common. When evaluating the ACL, special tests like a Lachman Test or Anterior Drawer have been shown to have great reliability and validity.

However, there is one main reason why you may get a false positive for an ACL injury of the knee that is often overlooked – you actually injured your posterior cruciate ligament (PCL)!

I know, it seems backwards, but watch this quick video for my explanation!

May 4, 2016