Sep 30, 2013

HEP for the HIP: Self Hip IR mobilization!

This is a quick video that I shot in the Athletic Training clinic the other day when working with a basketball player. This is a self-hip internal rotation mobilization that I have my patients perform on their own. This helps to maintain the benefits gained from treatment and manual therapy when working with me in the clinic.  Ideally, this would be done about once an hour for a single set of 10-20 reps but it can be hard to have a student-athlete

Sep 24, 2013

Tuesday Morning's Interesting Finds!

Sweetclipart.com Eat. Head on over to Yelling Stop to see Tucker Goodrich's post on the ketogenic diet of a top endurance athlete. Run. Like breaking down and analyzing the gait of others? Head over to see Pete Larson's latest post and RunBlogger to analyze some elites in SloMo. Rehabilitate. Check out Mike Reinold's latest post on what GIRD is and is not. Do

Sep 18, 2013

Bilateral Femoral Acetabular Impingement In a Collegiate Soccer Player

Today's case comes to us from one of my colleagues and classmates, Kathryn Deterding, ATC. Kathryn consulted with me about this case and then went on to implement a treatment protocol based off our discussion. http://www.eorthopod.com/images/ContentImages/hip/femoroacetabulr_impingement/hip_FAI_intro01.jpg A Case of Bilateral Femoral Acetabular Impingement(FAI) and Labral

Sep 16, 2013

Case of The Week: Persistant Postural Headache

Today's case is hot off the press. Hot as in I just saw and treated this patient today. History: This was a 22 year old collegiate softball player this plays catcher. She has a previous history of occasional headaches that weren't associated with general medical illness. Four days prior to seeing my this patient began suffering from an unusually strong headache.

Sep 8, 2013

Empathy: Better to Have too Much or too Little?

This is a short post today that I am typing up on my cell phone.  I'm on the team bus riding back from a football game where I just had to tell a college freshman that their first season of collegiate athletics was over after playing only one game. This athlete most likely completely ruptured their ACL today and will probably need season ending surgery. This wasn't

Sep 6, 2013

A Few Friday Finds!

Eat: Earlier this week Mark Sisson discussed or should I say ranted about the haters of people choosing to go or live a gluten free life. His thoughts on this topic parallel very well with my own. Although, haters gonna hate. Run: Dr. Gangemi aka the "Soc Doc" did a Q&A over at the Natural Running Center. Questions ranged in topics from NSAIDs to orthotics

Sep 2, 2013

Case of The Week: Bilateral Plantar Fasciosis

Today's post is centered around a patient that I have been working with lately. This athlete is a sophomore collegiate runner that competes in middle distance running events. History: This patient is now a 19 year old male that began running in 4th grade. He was in a running club affiliated with his grade school and was soon running around 160miles a year. He began

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