Is it possible to have too much flexibility?
Often has health and fitness professionals we encounter people with pain, stiffness, and tightness.
One of the go-to techniques is to give our patients or clients stretching or mobility exercises to address this, but what about those clients that...
Here we have an ACL reconstruction rehabilitation case performing anterior hop testing for the first time approximately 12 weeks post-surgery.
As we can see massive discrepancies from side to side which is particularly amplified following a running fatigue protocol to make these test findings...
Want to know a simple trick to get down to the root cause of every patient and clients complaint?
5 Whys is an interrogative technique used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular problem. The primary goal of the technique is to determine the root cause of a problem...
At the Movement Assessment Technologies, we always assess movement function top to toe, especially the big toe.
Often as health and fitness professionals, we neglect the importance of proper foot and toe function. These are areas hidden away in our shoes that just provide something...
At the Movement Assessment Technologies, we are big believers that when it comes to upright function against gravity and ground reaction force there is no such thing at Antagonist and Agonist muscles. Just Synergists, that is the whole body working together to achieve the movement goal.
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The following picture shows intradiscal pressure as a percentage of standing in many common positions adopted in the gym and activities of daily living.
At the Movement Assessment Technologies, we always want to consider how starting position and load variables can influence stress...
Often as therapists we can get hung up with whether an individual has "flat feet" or "high arches". At the Movement Assessment Technologies we believe that this isn't too important as long as we test for how a foot functions. Can it evert/invert, pronate/supinate, load and unload against gravity...
- Do you need a diagnosis to help someone?
- ACL injuries do not always require immediate surgery. It is a major decision with many pros and cons.
- Surgery is not the only factor that needs to be considered, as the rehabilitation after surgery lasts a number of months and may take up to a year or longer to make a full recovery.
- Often the...
- Often success for health and fitness practitioners particularly for Physio’s is about knowing your numbers and having great communication skills.
- “Communication isn’t what is said, it’s what’s heard.”
- Great communication skills help us educate our...
- Pain is a multifactorial experience from the brain in response to a threat. It’s supposed to help and inspire us to take action to remove ourselves from the threat.
- Our role as health and fitness professionals is obviously to decrease that threat and help people.
- What we need to do is...
