Apr 29, 2014

Low Back Pain in a Collegiate Basketball Player

Howdy Readers! Today I wanted to take some time to report on a case that I was presented with during this previous basketball season. Then I will discuss how I addressed the case and what I wish that I could have changed about the case. I will also be using my findings from the patient's Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA), and so here is the SFMA acronym legend: FN:

Apr 25, 2014

It moves, it breaths...it LIVES!

I wonder if any of my blog readers are still "sticking" around? Howdy Readers (if I have any left)! I just wanted to take a quick moment to let you all know that I am still alive. I have so many post ideas, videos, and things that I want to share with you all. However, I am ashamed that I have let my dedication to posting slack so much! I thought that this short post

Mar 19, 2014

Guest Post: Acute idiopathic torticollis in a male high school basketball player.

Hey everybody! Today's post was written by my good friend Yuya Mukaihara. He was telling me about some success he was having using some Rocktape samples that I had given him so I asked him to write up one of the cases for my blog. So without further adou here it is: I am one of Adam's classmates at Illinois State University and I work at a local HS. I am a Certified Athletic

Mar 16, 2014

Rock Tape Technique for Anterior Knee Pain

Hey Readers! I use a lot of different tapes, and taping techniques in my toolbox when dealing with athletes and their injuries. A lot of these things are just "tools" from my toolbox to help athletes cope with their injury(s). I don't think I can think of a single incidence where I consider the tape to be a fix to a problem but it does work as a great complementary treatment

Mar 3, 2014

Concussion, Cervical, TMJ/TMD or a Combination Thereof?

Myofascial Release of the Temporalis Welcome readers! Today's post is about a very recent case of mine straight from the clinic! This is a mini case-study about a 22 year old male collegiate basketball player. This patient took direct blow via an elbow to the anterolateral aspect of the cranium during a basketball game on Saturday evening. After the game the athlete presented

Mar 2, 2014

Help Me, Help You: I'm on Google Help Outs!

Hey everybody! It's an exciting yet very interesting time for me right now. I am half way done with data collection for my master's thesis, and if I finish it on time then I'll be graduating in the beginning of May. On top of that and the focus of this post is that I am trying a new hat on for size with an endeavor into the world of Google Helpouts.  Google Helpouts

Feb 19, 2014

Where Have I Been?

Howdy Folks! I am sorry that I haven't been blogging even a quarter as much as I would like to be lately. However, in all fairness I have been pretty busy. What have I been busy with you might ask? Well...on top of being an athletic trainer for a collegiate basketball team (that is ranked #4 in its division for the entire country and likely to win their second conference

Feb 3, 2014

Rocktape: Fascial Movement Taping Levels 1 & 2 Course Review

Swollen Knee? Try this on for size. Howdy Folks, this past weekend I had the opportunity to attend both levels of Rocktape's Fascial Movement Taping(FMT) Seminars. This was a Saturday/Sunday conference and to an outsider it probably looked like an odd waxing/hair removal ritual with the use of some brightly colored kinesio-tape. In the past, I have been very skeptical

Jan 17, 2014

My SFMA: A Case Study - Multi-Segmental Flexion Breakouts

Today's post is the fourth part of my self-SFMA(Selective Functional Movement Assessment) case study series.  Specifically, We will look at and break out my dysfunctional Multi-segmental Flexion movement pattern from my SFMA Top Tier Post.   I'm jealous of those that can do this. Here are the links for the first three posts of this series:SFMA

Jan 1, 2014

A Year in Review: 13 Lessons of 2013

Happy New Year and welcome to 2014! This is my first post of the year and my 75th post overall.  This is going to be a reflection on some of the things that I learned in the previous 365 days. I was inspired to write this post after reading many of Mike Reinold's similar posts over the last few years. I guess I learned a lot this year because this turned into an epically

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