Greetings Readers! I am excited to share some new and important research with all of you. The Journal of Athletic Training (JAT) released a new study for early publication on March 20th, 2015 titled Development and Validation of the Athlete Fear Avoidance Questionnaire by Geoffrey Dover, PhD, CAT(C), ATC and Vanessa Amar, MSc, CAT(C) from Concordia University in Montreal,
Howdy Readers! After yesterday's post ice seems to be a hot topic. I may have misled some of you yesterday with my thoughts on ice. Like many things in healthcare, science, and research the answers to questions are often shades of grey...not black and white like many would prefer. Therefore, today I wanted to share with all of you a guest post that I wrote for another
-Thanks for pic, WebMD.com
Hating on cryotherapy or “icing” musculoskeletal injuries
seems to be the flavor of the month thing to do. Decades of conventional wisdom
has told us that everything should be iced immediately after injury. RICE &
PRICE were so-so nice we thought. However, when held under the light of
scientific inquiry the evidence for cryotherapy was
Howdy Readers! It is that time of year again when everybody begins to look back and review the past year. 2014 was definitely a big year for myself professionally and personally. In fact, 2014 was my first full year of blogging since beginning to write back in early 2013. Some highlights of my past year include finishing my master's thesis and degree, going to the final
Howdy Folks, today I wanted to
discuss a growing body of literature that highlights a relationship between
ankle dorsiflexion and movement patterns (kinematics) that are associated with
anterior crucial ligament injuries. One such article that was recently
published online by the Journal of Athletic Training was conducted by Dill et
al1.
Photo Taken from Dill et al journal
Welcome readers to my second monthly traffic & income report. I started this tradition last month by reporting my statistics for October. You may have noticed that this is only my second post this week. I attribute this to it being finals week so the only things that I have done are studied for my own exams, given the class that I lecture their final exam, taken exams,
Another Monday means another movie to be shared with all of you. This week's video is a clinical pearl to keep in mind when assessing great toe dorsiflexion/extension (whatever nomenclature you like for sagittal plane motion at the great toe). This is especially important when dealing with runners and running injuries due to the influence of the great toe during gait.
Many of us have been scolded since childhood to "sit up straight", to stop slouching, to keep our chins up and other various cues in attempt to hammer home "perfect posture" habits. However, the more I think about it and think about human movement I start to think more about how there isn't really such a thing as bad posture. When I say this...I mean that there is nothing
Good Morning Readers! As you may have noticed last week was a busy week for me with the holidays and I only ended up getting one post done for all of you. My fiance and I actually drove across the country to see family and then had to drive back. I don't really want to sit in a car anymore in the foreseeable future. I don't understand how people can sit at a desk for 8-12
Howdy Folks. Today's video is a simple test that I use when assessing gluteus maximus function of my patients. I learned this test from Jay Dicharry, MPT, SCS, the author of Anatomy For Runners and he also taught it as part of his Healthy Running seminar.
It is a simple bridge test that looks at the ability to activate the glute max as the primary hip extensor,
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