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Top 5 Fridays! 5 Exercises for a Strong Core and Low Back

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🎯Strong Core & Low Back - 5 Exercises⤵️ Video reposted with permission from my pal Matt Ibrahim on instagram . ⠀ 🔑Bulletproofing the low back is a surefire way to develop longevity in the iron game, in athletics and in overall health. ⠀ 🔑Strengthening the low back in concert with the abdominals (core) will help to provide the necessary durability for spine health as well. ⠀ 🔑There's simply way too many ways to strengthen the low back and core to truly go into depth here. However, here's a short list of 5 exercises that I like a lot to help you get the ball rolling on this front. ⠀ ✅Exercise list: ⠀ 1. Band Resisted Plank ⠀ 2. KB Tall Plank w/ Alternating Drag ⠀ 3. Band Side Plank w/ 1-Arm Row & Top Knee Drive ⠀ 4. Band Lateral Bear Crawl ⠀ 5. Roller Tall Kneel Roll-Out Want to learn in person? Attend a #manualtherapyparty! Check out our course calendar below! Learn more online - new online discussion group included! Want an approach that enhances...

Untold Physio Stories - Bias or Experience?

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When you use pattern recognition to influence your clinical decision making, and there is a good outcome, it's experience! When you make similar decisions and there is either no effect or negative effect, it's bias! Listen in as Erson recounts some clinical bias that recently affected one of his cases Search for Untold Physio Stories on your favorite music/podcast apps!   Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by the EDGE Mobility System, featuring the EDGE Mobility Tool for IASTM, EDGE Mobility Bands, webinars, ebooks, Pain Science Education products and more! Check it out at  edgemobilitysystem.com  .  Be sure to also connect with Dr. Erson Religioso at  Modern Manual Therapy  and Andrew Rothschild at  Modern Patient  Education . Keeping it Eclectic... This article was originally posted on Modern Manual Therapy Blog Via RSSMix.com Mix ID 8246245 http://www.rssmix.com/

Chronic Ankle Instability: What Structures are Weak?

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Chronic Ankle Instability: Strength Deficits ℹ️ℹ️ INTRODUCTION:  After ankle injury, some individuals develop chronic ankle instability and repetitively injure their ankle. ℹ️ This can be a frustrating and debilitating problem for many athletes. ℹ️ Understanding if specific strength deficits exist can guide and inform the rehab process to resolve chronic ankle instability. ℹ️ Khalaj et al. (2020), systematically reviewed the literature to determine whether impairments in lower limb muscle strength exist in individuals with chronic ankle instability (CAI) compared with uninjured controls. 📊📊 RESULTS:  12,397 unique studies identified. 20 included. 16 eligible for meta-analysis. . 📊 Meta-analyses showed individuals with CAI (when compared to controls) had lower: Eccentric evertor strength Concentric evertor strength Eccentric invertor strength Concentric invertor strength Concentric knee extensor strength . 📊 Ankle eccentric dorsiflexor strength wa...

Top 5 Fridays! 5 Exercises for Runners

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🏃🏻‍♂️5 Exercises for Runners⤵️ Reposted with permission from my pal Matt Ibrahim 1. Plate Overhead Iso w/ 1-Leg Linear Pogo Jump ⠀ 🎯Essentially, running is repeated jumping, which is similar to plyometrics. In that regard, it becomes crucial to prepare the heavy hitters in the ankle complex (ankle joint, Achilles tendon, gastrocnemius and soleus) through ballistic efforts with force absorption and propulsion as focal points. ⠀ 2. Copenhagen Plank ⠀  💥We know that the hamstrings are important in running and sprinting. However, we don't always associated the groin (adductor) muscles as being as important. We should be though, since they neighbor the hamstring muscles and become key factors in hip and knee health.  3. Nordic Hamstring Mid Iso ⠀  🧠Speaking of the hamstrings... Most folks just aren't ready to jump directly into the Nordic Hamstring Curl or even the eccentric (lower down) version of it quite yet. That's why this isometric (hold) exerc...

Knee Tilt Mobilizations - Improve Knee Flexion Past 90

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This is one of my favorite old school manual therapy techniques I learned while in Fellowship with the University of St. Augustine. When my current techniques of tibial IR, lateral tibial glide, or other Functional Mobilizations I do in closed chain don't work to improve knee flexion, I try this knee tilt. It can be enhanced or made much more comfortable with an EDGE Mobility Band. Try this mobilization and let me know what your results are! Want to learn in person? Attend a #manualtherapyparty! Check out our course calendar below! Learn more online - new online discussion group included! Want an approach that enhances your existing evaluation and treatment? No commercial model gives you THE answer. You need an approach that blends the modern with the old school.  NEW - Online Discussion Group Live cases webinars lecture Live Q&A over 600 videos - hundreds of techniques and more!  Check out MMT Insiders Keeping it Eclectic... This articl...

Your Body Keeps the Score

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Your body keeps the score of every bump, bruise, emotion, thought, situation and trauma together with your genes. It’s one continuous story. This post was first found on Specialist Pain Physio's  - reposted with permission It has take your whole life to get to where you are now. Everything that happens is brought forward, embodied and within our present expectations. The body keeps the score, is a phrase that I often use with people to help them understand their current experience of themselves within their world. I have borrowed it from a super book by  Bessel van der Kolk , as it captures a reality. When I meet people suffering persistent pain for the first time, I invite them to tell me their story. What is it like to be them at the moment? And how did they arrive at this point, in this particular way? Nothing happens in isolation and hence the ‘past medical history’ is far more than a list of other conditions and incidents. These life events make up the journey that ...

Top 5 Fridays! 5 Marketing Tips to Avoid in 2020

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The New Year brings all sorts of new energy, renewed motivation, etc.; and, marketing is almost always on the forefront. However, excellence in marketing is the same as excellence in many things —  you’ve got to play the long game . “ Growth hacks ” or any other short term tactic are just that… the effects tend to be unimpressive and you’ll find yourself very much close to where you started. In the world of marketing, there are all sorts of traps: There are mindset traps. Shiny object traps. All the eggs in one basket traps. So… BE WEARY! Just as patient’s benefit most from a consummate approach when the clinician considers the big picture, marketing works in the same fashion when a company invests in a strategy as a whole —  an ecosystem approach.  Today, we cover the top 5 traps in marketing for a practice’s growth in business and some thoughts on what you can do to find your true north. 1. Our Website “Is What It Is” Year after year, survey after survey, we find...