Flexibility: Strength training vs. stretching Let’s talk about flexibility for a bit. Flexibility is a topic around which there are a great many myths and uncertainties. Perhaps the most famous of which is that stretching before an athletic event helps to prevent injury during that event. This myth has long been...
Shoulder impingement syndrome is a common problem for people walking through my office doors. In this problem soft tissue structures pinch under the acromion, that bony “roof” of your shoulder that you can feel with your fingers if you rub the upper angle of the joint where the rounding of the ball and socket...
Yet another Tendinopathy update - managing pain by modulating the nervous system! Tendinopathy is a topic that I seem to have returned to a number of times on this blog. But I do it for good reasons. First, Tendinopathy is a very common problem that brings people into clinic, and if there are so many with...
How to jump train your glutes (or your quads). A long running theme in this blog is the concept of moving beautifully. Specifically we all deserve to move beautifully for two reasons. First because moving beautifully looks great, instills internal confidence and makes a fantastic impression on everyone around...
Why should I move beautifully? Well, because injury is complicated. Almost never does someone come to my office complaining of symptoms where there is only “one simple thing” wrong. Occasionally injury is simple but it is certainly not the rule. In fact we can typically get away with just one issue without...