Warning: this post contains liberal amounts of ad homonyms, strawman arguments, and pure cow manure; but hopefully will inspire some mutual eating of crow and perhaps some critical thinking. I Have a Joke For You, And It's Not Your Ugly Squat It's truly amazing that amongst all the peasantry and squabbling in [...]
After the polarizing red circles on Michael Phelps shoulders surfaced last week at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, many questions arose pertaining to the science, application and efficacy of the myofascial decompression technique also known as cupping. As claims and debate started to rip through the world of sports performance and physical [...]
The feet never get any love. Nobody likes feet. Some people see a bare foot in the room, and they run! No other structure in the body seems to inspire such powerful, albeit negative, sentiment. But, given the foot’s importance, the script should be flipped! The feet should be praised, worshipped, even [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. When it comes to postpartum fitness, stop being mislead by mainstream society telling women to jump right back into intense exercise after giving birth. Yes losing baby fat as quickly as possible is important, but managing your systemic and orthopedic health is MORE important. [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Not everyone is built the same, has the same past injury history, the same skill level and movement competence or has the same goals. So why would everyone deadlift the same way? 2. Appreciating and measuring the differences in ankle, hip and spinal structure, mobility, [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Chronic knee pain and meniscus dysfunction are some of the most common injuries in the active population. But don't be fooled, surgery is NOT the only option when it comes to making a full recovery. 2. Do you have meniscus dysfunction? Do this QUICK test bringing your heels [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Fluffy functional training with little scientific or anecdotal backing has a limited role in a physical therapists patient care, but seems to be the most popular use of "therapeutic exercise" prescription in the industry. 2. Thinking that principles of strength and conditioning no not apply to [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Functional training is the latest craze in the fitness and sports performance industries, but its blatant lack of "functional" carry over based on the science makes it one hell of a misleading hoax. 2. Just because a functional training exercise may look or even [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Physical Therapists are the experts in the movement system and their ability to be professionally identified as the go-to movement practitioners in the medical system with this movement based body system helps to solidify physical therapy's place in the health care continuum. 2. Staking this claim [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Trainers and coaches, if you do NOT hold a license to manipulate soft tissues, manual therapy is off limits to you, even if you think you are doing your clients a favor by going out of your scope of practice. 2. There is a [...]
