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Below are Tensioner videos for your irritated and sensitive peripheral nerves. Warning: please only do this if your knowledgeable health care provider has taught these and specifically said that you should do these exercises. Gentler “Slider” movements can be seen at a previous post here: Slider Videos
Update: I am not the first to write about this area. I found a great post by Todd Hargrove tackling the same topic and saying much the same (he does it more succintly and I address a few other areas as well). His post is here: http://www.bettermovement.org/2011/does-excessive-sitting-shorten-the-hip-flexors/ The Tight Hip [...]
Audience: Therapists and Patients Purpose: This post is video overview of the sample exercise progression I might advocate for patients (primarily runners) who present with persistent longstanding high hamstring pain. Background Runners, particularly faster runners, will often present with high hamstring tendon pain. The pain is typically felt where the [...]
Below are a number of exercises that are typically called stability exercises. While this might be true they are really movements to me. These movements can make you stronger, can calm down your pissed off nervous system and can increase your capacity to withstand stress. We typically say that they [...]
Audience: Patients Purpose: Exercise videos for patients wishing to train their trunk and hips This article is just a video series for runners to do some basic strength work. Stop worrying about the core. Just get strong during all movements. We try to build capacity to withstand load. We [...]
Audience: Runners and Therapists Purpose: A quick guide to running injury prevention. Preamble Injury prevention for runners is not rock-solidly founded in science… and may not even be possible. With runners it is more injury management. You are going to get injured and you are going to have some aches [...]
Audience: Patients and therapists Purpose: A brief argument on why attempting to lengthen your IT Band with stretching or foam rolling is a waste of time and not possible. I am in the minority when I cringe at the rampant unjustified use of the ubiquitous, seemingly harmless but actually evil [...]
Rapid Fire Overview Most of the ideas are from the work of Magnusson. I have been preaching this research for 15 years and was basically motivated because of self intentions. My flexibility is poor and I never thought that stretching the spine made any sense for low back pain prevention. [...]
This article is purely conjecture. I have no hard data and would not even know how to create a study to test for it. BUT, I consider it biological plausible. Tightness is a common sensation for people with pain and for athletes during training. However, when someone reports being tight [...]
Audience: Patients Purpose: Exercise videos for those doing shoulder rehabilitation Preamble The same exercises or movements can be used with different intentions and to achieve a different goal. Some possible intentions being: 1. Motion is Lotion - we are moving your shoulder in a manner just to calm down nerves, [...]
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