Mike Reinold

You may have noticed some changes to the content and frequency of posting on my site the last several months. For almost 3 years I have posted twice a week, but felt the need this spring to cut back and focus on one quality article per week.  What I found was that I have written [...]

Certain areas of the body may influence other areas throughout the kinetic chain, but have different impact based on how far away the two areas are, this is the kinetic chain ripple effect.

By performing even simple exercises, you can have a dramatic reduction in the incidence of patellofemoral pain.

I remember when the YTWL shoulder exercises started to become popular.  Using the “YTWL” letters was is a pretty good description and easy way for people to remember the shoulder exercises.  I even joined the bandwagon and started training everyone bilaterally, even injured people rehabilitating from a shoulder injury.  Because the YTWL shoulder exercises are [...]

Do you ever feel like you are stuck in a rut, doing the same exercises and manual techniques with every person?  If you have been reading this website, my books or journal articles, or have seen me present at meetings, you know one thing I do is pride myself in is being up to date [...]

A few weeks ago I published an article on what I thought were two essential exercises that we should include in every program, which included the shoulder W exercise and the hip external rotation clamshell exercise.  After that post I received a lot of emails asking for a video of the shoulder W exercise, so [...]

If there is one thing that I would say is the most important concept to understand regarding the shoulder, it is simply that you can not work the rotator cuff to failure as rotator cuff fatigue causes superior humeral head migration and subacromial impingement.  That is it, I just summarized the role of the rotator [...]

Last week I wrote an article on what I considered essential exercises to add to every program, which included the shoulder W exercise for external rotation.  I received a lot of feedback from that article and many requests to post a video describing the technique.  Although, this is a pretty simple exercise, there are some [...]