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What Manual Therapy Techniques Do You Use? Poll Results

What Manual Therapy Techniques Do You Use? Poll Results

Looks like the votes are in and I would say that I am a little surprised with the results of my poll on what manual therapy techniques are most commonly used.  If you didn’t see my past post and poll on popular manual therapy techniques, you may want to go back as there was many [...]

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Muscle Imbalances Revealed

Muscle Imbalances Revealed

I can’t stress enough how valuable assessing imbalances throughout the kinetic chain is when working with people with injuries, but I feel like many of us don’t get the right education on the assessing injuries and many times don’t get to the true “cause” of an injury.  This results in worse outcomes and the frequent [...]

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Rotator Cuff EMG During Daily Activities

Rotator Cuff EMG During Daily Activities

A frequent topic of discussion on this site involves the postoperative guidelines following rotator cuff repair.  We have had many discussions about the contrast in preference between early rehabilitation and conservative rehabilitation among clinicians.  Obviously, if you have read some of my past posts and publications (check out here and here), you know that I [...]

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Nonoperative Treatment of Anterior Shoulder Dislocations – 25 Year Follow-Up

Nonoperative Treatment of Anterior Shoulder Dislocations – 25 Year Follow-Up

For this short holiday week, I have a guest post from my Friend and frequent contributor, Dan Lorenz.  This time, Dan talks about a couple of recent studies that assess the success of nonoperative treatment following anterior shoulder dislocations over a 25-year period.    RESEARCH UPDATE: LONG TERM FOLLOW-UP ON NON-OPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF PRIMARY ANTERIOR [...]

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Meniscus Repair or Meniscectomy? Comparison of Long Term Outcomes

Meniscus Repair or Meniscectomy? Comparison of Long Term Outcomes

There is an interesting study about to come out in an upcoming article in the American Journal of Sports Medicine comparing the outcomes of arthroscopic meniscus repair and partial meniscectomy.  The authors compared 42 patients undergoing meniscal repair to 39 patients undergoing partial meniscectomy at a mean of 8.8 years after surgery.  The authors specifically [...]

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Core Stability Exercises: A Modern Approach to Abdominal Training Part 3 – Putting It All Together

Core Stability Exercises: A Modern Approach to Abdominal Training Part 3 – Putting It All Together

Over the last couple of months I have slowly shared with you some great information on Craig Liebenson’s thoughts regarding a modern approach to abdominal training, a 3-part series originally published in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies.  This was a great series of brief, straight-to-the-point information that really helps shape your mind regarding [...]

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Core Muscle Activation During Swiss Ball and Traditional Abdominal Exercises

Core Muscle Activation During Swiss Ball and Traditional Abdominal Exercises

A new study was recently published in JOSPT by my friend Rafael Escamilla to assess core muscle activation during Swiss ball and and traditional abdominal exercises.  This is a great research topic as the Swiss ball (or physioball, exercise ball, etc.) is widely believed to enhance core EMG.  Selecting core exercises is typically more complicated [...]

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Abdominal Bracing – A Modern Approach to Abdominal Training Part 2

Abdominal Bracing – A Modern Approach to Abdominal Training Part 2

A few weeks back I posted a great article by Craig Liebenson on a Modern Approach to Abdominal Training.  The post received some interesting questions and Craig was kind enough to answer them well.  I always love the dialogue that occurs after these types of posts.  In part I, Craig laid the groundwork for many [...]

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