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Why Pitch Counts Won't Prevent Injuries
Why pitch counts won't prevent injuries in youth baseball. The research shows numerous other factors that contribute to the increased injury rate in young throwers...
Is Blood Flow Restriction Training Safe? What are the risks? What should I know to be safe? Can anyone do this? This is NOT meant to be an all-inclusive list that could possibly encompass all the nuances and considerations for BFR. It is meant to guide and enhance understanding of...
Blood Flow Restriction Effectiveness
For anyone who has heard about Blood Flow Restriction training, you may be wondering if it really works. You may be skeptical. Even if it does work, what does it work on? What do you use it for? How is it effective?
Blood Flow Restriction Safety - Is it safe to apply BFR in your training? BY FAR, this is the most often asked question. The short answer is...
Blood Flow Restriction - How it works
Recently, blood flow restriction (BFR) training has been discussed more and more in the fitness, sports, and rehabilitation worlds...but how does it work?
Growing evidence has continued to show...
I hear this question often. "When can I _____?" Get back to running. Return to my fitness class. Lift weights. Play basketball. My answer is always the same. How do you move? Do you have pain? If the answers are...
Our bodies can do amazing things; however, your body doesn’t know you “need to”
- sit in a meeting
- mow the lawn
- stand at a workstation/counter
- finish a project at the computer
- train for a marathon, play your sport, etc.
As a physical therapist, a big part of my job is educating patients on interrupting the pain cycle. So, ...
Last post I talked about making a change...interrupting the pain...move better. Today, I will introduce some basic movement patterns that we should all be able to perform. Before I go into all of them, I want you to be critcial of yourself. Don't start by saying, "I've never had good balance" or "I've never been very flexible"
Running Form - Do you have imbalances?
This post on running form is going to focus on the common injuries and biomechanical faults I see clinically...I’d like to start with arguably the most commonly injured muscle group, the hamstrings. It can be somewhat complicated, but I am going to address it as straight-forward and general as I can and give some treatment ideas to address.