How to Test Rotational Strength Here is one way to assess rotational strength! We were playing around with the @exsurgo.tech gStrength to asses rotation strength. Generally speaking, this isn’t something we assess a whole lot in the rehab/fitness world, but I like the application for sports that use a lot of rotation… Realistically, finding …
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What is IT Band Syndrome? IT band syndrome is gonna be pain around the outside of the knee due to compression of the fat pad that lies under the it band. We used to think IT band syndrome was from injury to the IT band itself, but we have more recently realized that it’s actually …
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What’s Causing Your Knee Pain? Here is one test we do in clinic to help assess our patients with either knee pain or hip pain. It’s called the lateral step test. What we are looking for in this test include: coordination with the movement knee movement (medial/lateral) strength (how easy/how many) Lots of times …
What’s Causing Your Hip Pain? Here’s one test that we do in physical therapy to assess patients with hip pain. We’re just doing a FABER test, which is the figure four position where your opposing leg is extended. We can either use this as a tissue length assessment or as a pain provocation type …
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Overhead Squat Mobility Test Here is a test that we do in clinic to assess several areas of mobility. The region that this will examine include: Shoulder Mobility Hip Mobility Ankle Mobility If you are limited in any of these areas, the depth and quality of your squat will be affected. What we’re seeing is …
Simplest Low Back Pain Exercise Here’s one of our favorite things for low back pain. A lot of times we don’t load our back in flexion. Many patients fear to bend over and get a lot of bend at their spine when we’re adding load. It can be scary for some, especially if the bout …
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What Can Strength Testing Do For You❓ While we don’t break out the @exsurgo.tech Gstrength on every patient, we do find this to be an especially helpful tool when working with athletes. Whether you’re a 50 year old skier with an ACL reconstruction, a 30 year old climber with a past pulley injury, a …
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Load Your *DANG* Hip Flexors Many patients we see in physical therapy often just get into this hip flexor stretching position or the mindset that they need to stretch their hip flexors to get rid of hip pain. Tight hip flexors does not automatically mean that you need to stretch out your hips or get …
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This Sciatica Stretch is Everything! If you have sciatica, this is one intervention we do to help relieve some of that sensitivity you get in your lower back or down your leg. The idea with this exercise is to “tension” the sciatica nerve to hopefully improve mobility and reduce how sensitive the nerve is. With …
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