Mike Reinold

Are you in on Twitter?  I guess you could say I am, with over 2000 followers.  But I know I don’t use Twitter to it’s fullest potential.  I do see the potential and do recommend that you at least try it (and follow me of course).  I get the personal reason for using it, updating [...]

My friend Jason Gauvin, who is a really smart guy, shared with me a great version of the shoulder pendulum exercise for postoperative patients that may be pretty useful for everyone.  Looks like a great technique, especially for those patients with early guarding and hesitation moving their arm.  Check it out below.   Cradle the [...]

For the first time in the two years that I have had this website, I am taking a week off.  After a long season, it’s time for a little break to recharge to battery.  I hope that this break allows me to come back with even more energy.  In the meantime, here is a link [...]

I was talking to Eric Cressey the other day and we thought we could celebrate him getting married this weekend with a special discount off our DVD set Optimal Shoulder Performance.  We’ll call it our special “Eric is getting hitched” sale!  I know that many ladies in the Boston area are going to be terribly [...]

One of the most common postoperative complications following ACL reconstruction is loss of range of motion, particularly loss of knee extension.  Recent studies have shown that up to 25% of all ACL reconstructions will have a loss of knee extension range of motion postoperatively.  That seems like a pretty significant amount of people to me. [...]

One of the most popular posts over the lifetime of this website has been my “essential reading list.”  For those that haven’t a had chance to read it, I polled many experts in a variety of rehab, sports medicine, manual therapy, and fitness fields to find out what books that they feel make a lasting [...]

Are you ready to take your knowledge of the shoulder to the next level? If you are a newsletter subscriber, you know that I just announced last week that my online continuing education mentorship program on the recent advances in evidence based evaluation and treatment of the shoulder is set to begin again on Monday [...]

I’ve talked a lot over the past several years on this website about one of the key things that I find most therapists and rehabilitation specialists lacking in their education and clinical skills – simply understanding how to assess and correct dysfunctional movement patterns.  It is hard to teach both WHY you need to look [...]