Cupping has been around for thousand of years, but slowly is making its way into the Western style of treatment for Musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders. Cupping has a mechanical and neurophysiological effect and can help reduce pain, improve tissue extensibility and even aid in recovery. It needs to be part of a comprehensive treatment approach that …
Category Archives: Fitness
Cupping: Why We’re All Seeing Spots
I came across this blog post on the APTA website. Couple of paragraphs should out to me: “As physical therapists, we want to maintain our position as evidence-based experts in the restoration, maintenance, and promotion of optimal physical function. To do so we must continue to uphold the value of well-established and rigorously investigated interventions …
Training with pain?
We all will have to deal with this at some point. You may have some pain, but still want to workout. Should you? Can you? And if so, how? Reduce the ROMBy working a shorter range of motion (ROM) you can typically reduce symptoms. If you have pain, regardless of load and volume, in a …
Injured? Want To Work Out?
If you are in pain, or had a recent injury/surgery, and you want to start working out again, but don’t know where to start: reach out to a Physical Therapist. PT’s can help you safely start moving again. They understand your medical history and they understand exercise. However, if you want to start lifting weights …
How To Do A Pull-up
Performing a solid pull-up is not easy, but all of us can master this exercise. Its like a badge of honor in the gym when you can show off your pull-ups, right? If you you want to strenghten and develop your lats, the lat pulldown machine will be just as effective. Read this blog post …
How to Bench press
How to do Bulgarian Split Squat
The Bulgarian split squat isn’t an all-around better exercise than the barbell back squat, but if you incorporate it into your plan intelligently, it can help improve your leg development while reducing your risk of injury and muscle imbalances. Benefits 💪It’s a unilateral exercise, so we can reduce differences between left and right 💪We can …
How to Hip Thrust
Popularity The Hip Thrust exercises has become a lot more popular and for good good reason. For the longest time everyone resolved to do squats to build lower body. While the squat is a great exercises it mostly targets the quads, the large muscle group in the front of the thigh. Balance For function and …
Pain with overhead press?
Many patients and athletes report difficulty with overhead pressing. Neck pain and shoulder pain are common, but even low back pain is frequently reported with this challenging exercise. Especially if done in standing with a barbell. Common faults Anterior bar path muted hips hyperextension of spine forward torso The anterior bar path is seen when …
The Squat Series
Squatting is a key exercise that should be part of everyone’s fitness routine. However, the squat can be limited die to a variety of factors and this can lead up injuries. I use the Overhead Deep Squat as an assessment tool to see where in the dynamic chain we may find some issues: the thoracic spine; …