Today's blog post is a tiny rant inspired by overhearing this conversation time and time again between runners...
"Yeah its about time for me to replace my shoes, my 'insert body part here' has been acting up lately and 'insert symptoms here'. I definitely just need to get some new shoes."
While I concede the fact that slowly overtime the properties of your shoe
This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Selective Functional Movement Assessment(SFMA) certification course in St. Louis, Missouri. More specifically, the course was hosted on the beautiful campus of Logan Chiropractic College/University. Logan did a great job of hosting this seminar and they were very accommodating and even had snacks/refreshments/coffee
I am finishing up my last year of graduate school and for one of my courses we have guest speakers from other health professions come and present to our entire athletic training graduate program. This week we had a pleasure of a having a local Physical Therapist(PT) come and present to us on Dry Needling.
Dry Needling is a practice that is growing in popularity in the United States and more and more clinicians are getting trained in it. Athletic
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
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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
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.
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A Case of Bilateral Femoral Acetabular Impingement(FAI) and Labral
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.
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
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
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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