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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 …

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 …

Glute Strenghening

Banded walks If you want to strengthen the glutes, sidelying clams and prone hip extension are a great place to get started. But lying down exercises do no carry over to functional activities. So next level up is banded walks. Most people place the bands round the knees and get working on those glutes. Again, …

Why Is Your Mobility Work Not Working

Are you loading your ROM? It’s great you are gaining mobility and flexibility, but unless you load the newly gained ROM you will not be able to maintain it. Example: if you have worked your hamstrings with some foam rolling and then some dynamic stretching, you should follow it with some type of deadlift exercise. …

Kettlebell-Swing or Deadlift for Low Back Pain

Both exercises have a strong advocates that tell us we need to perform either one of those 2 exercises to help with back pain. The deadlift and the kettlebell swing are at two ends of the same hip hinge spectrum. Integrating the strength of lats, core and posterior chain is equally necessary for a heavy …

Back Squat and Front Squat

Regressions for back and front squat   Many people have difficulty performing a back squat, or a front squat with good form. This can lead to more harm than good, so until you have good mobility and stability needed to perform your squats, you better regress your exercise to a level you can perform safely …

Hamstring Flexibility

The hamstrings have been blamed for lots of problems. Typically people need or want to develop improved hamstring extensibility. In this video series we are showing a few variations of hamstring mobility exercises, from passive stretching to active stretching to motor control drills. There is not one exercise that fixes everyone’s problems: different people with …

Hamstring pain Series 4/4

Hamstring Tendinopathies Exercise progression part 4 of 4 In the clinic we always talk to our patients about “Reset, Correct and Connect” The first 3 videos fall in the Correct-category, but this video is a good example of “Connect”, a functional exercise that you need to able to perform before you can start with more …