https://youtu.be/swzlw0CGgT4 How to Test Your Shoulder Mobility and Eliminate Tight or Stiff Shoulders! The Appley Scratch Test Here is one quick mobility screen/test we do in physical therapy, and this gives us a general idea of how limited you are in terms of mobility from side to side. Often patients with shoulder pain complain of …
What’s Causing Your Shoulder Pain? Fix Tight Shoulders! Read More »
Does Deadlifting Cause Back Pain? The deadlift exercise often times gets a bad rap if you go into the doctor’s office for back pain. But should this exercise be feared when it comes to preventing back pain? In reality, deadlifting (usually dosage or how much volume you are doing) can be considered as a factor …
Is Deadlifting Bad For Your Back? Fix Back Pain! Read More »
5-Step Progression to Relieve Lower Back Pain and Pick Up Things From the Floor Pain Free Again! Low Back Pain Can Be Tricky at Times! Many people struggle to “flex” their spine when they have low back pain, meaning they avoid bending over to pick up something from the floor. This can be really challenging, …
How to Relieve Lower Back Pain – Touch the Floor Pain Free! Read More »
https://youtu.be/x9XmT0BRgFI 🦵Hamstring Sliders 🔥 Hamstring sliders are one of my favorite accessory exercises because of how easy they are to progress/regress. This video shows a simple example of how you can progress this exercise- working from a double leg curl- through a single leg eccentric- to a full single leg curl. Not my finest work …
How to Train Hamstrings Like a PRO – Fix Knee Pain! Read More »
Train Your Hamstrings – Help Fix Knee Pain Hamstrings play a huge role in our athletic performance. Strong hamstrings can make us powerful and fast when sprinting, or can keep us on the wall while climbing. On the other hand, weak hamstrings can leave us performing suboptimally and set us up for an increased risk …
How to Train Hamstrings Like a PRO – Fix Knee Pain Read More »
Do You Struggle With Keeping Your Balance On One Leg? Wall angels are a great exercise to test and improve your balance on a single leg. A simple, but effective balance exercise, all you really need for equipment or setting is a wall to stand next to This is a great exercise to try while …
How to Improve Your Balance – Best Exercise for Single Leg Stability!!! Read More »
Testing Knee Strength With Isometrics Have you struggled with knee pain despite being active? Or maybe you’re a runner that has to slow down or modify your training due to knee pain. When assessing runners in our physical therapy clinic, one test we like to do is single leg strength. Using this device, we can …
How to Test Leg Strength – Fix Knee Pain in Runners Read More »
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 …
How to Strength Train Like a PRO – Rotational Strength Testing Read More »
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 …
What is IT Band Syndrome – How to Fix Lateral Knee Pain Read More »
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 …
All Rights Reserved. Web Design & Management by Clinical Marketer
