Jony Sena

🔥TOP 5 FRIDAY & HAPPY NEW YEAR🔥 Okay, this week’s Top 5 is super corny, but I had fun thinking about some of the most common ways our evidence suffers due to illogical thinking. Applying evidence to practice relies on finely tuning a fluid combination of what the best literature tells us, what our clinical experience tells us, and what the patient’s values are. Villians of Evidence Based Practice by Cameron Faller  Some common pitfalls get in the way of this and can create scenarios where clinicians become skewed in their thoughts and interpretations of certain events. Post-Hoctopus - This villain has allowed for the continuation of individuals placing a high value on certain low-supported interventions such as KT tape, MET, ultrasound, etc. despite not understanding the true effect of these interventions. Sir Please-A-lot - It is important to include the patient's values as part of your treatment, but we are also doing them a disservice if we aren’t fully educa...

In this episode, Andrew goes over a recent interesting case where he treated a young woman in her early 30s with no red flags. However, her hip and LBP just didn't add up, even though things were progressing well for her back pain, the hip pain was not responding. Untold Physio Stories is sponsored by EDGE Health and Tech Solutions  - we level up your website with full SEO optimization, turn it into a referral generating machine and do full G Suite and Telehealth integrations Modern Manual Therapy Insiders - over 650 Exclusive videos, Research Reviews, Webinars, Online Discussion - learn easy to apply Clinical Practice Patterns, integrate Pain Science with Manual Therapy and Patient Education -  Join now ! Also, be sure to check out  EDGE Mobility System's Best Sellers  - Something for every PT, OT, DC, MT, ATC or Fitness Minded Individual Keeping it Eclectic... This article was originally posted on Modern Manual Therapy Blog Via RSSMix.com Mix I...

Click here for Parts 1 and 2 if you missed them or want a review! Squats with more anteriorly placed loads resulted in: Decreased trunk flexion. Decreased pelvis anterior tilt angles. Increased low-back moments. Similar lower extremity moments compared to squats with more posteriorly placed loads. FIRST: The transformer bar imposes similar lower extremity loading as a straight-bar back squat. Therefore, can be considered as an alternative training strategy for people with upper extremity limitations. SECOND: Changing anterior-posterior load placement may not induce as many changes in low-back and lower extremity moments as thought. As individuals can adjust their trunk and pelvis angles to mediate the effects of load placements on joint moments. Additional instruction and feedback may be needed to achieve greater effects of load placement manipulation on low-back and lower extremity joint moments. THIRD: The straight-bar front squat has more knee loading, ...

The holidays are here and our clients are busy hanging decorations and eating lots of holiday food. Most of this holiday food is loaded with extra calories from added sugars, fat, and processed junk. After climbing their ladders, lifting the boxes, and the stress of traveling and seeing family, they come crawling into our clinics or gyms with extra weight and a sore back. What can we do as Doctors of Physical Therapy (DPTs)? Aside from our traditional physical therapy treatments like manual therapy and exercise, we should be using patient education for weight loss. Here are some of our top tips for PTs and weight loss. Journal Your Foods Holidays bring big emotions and lots of junk food. Many of this junk food is eaten without our clients' being aware they are eating hundreds, if not thousands, of extra calories. These calories add up quickly promoting weight gain, reducing glycemic control, and stimulating inflammation. To improve your PT outcomes and shed some pounds, dat...

Back Squat v Front Squat v Transformer-bar Squat: SERIES (2/3) 💪🏽💪🏽 Biomechanical Differences ✍🏼✍🏼 METHODS: 10 males and 8 females performed 6 squat conditions: Back Squats with straight bar. Front Squats with straight bar. Back Squats with transformer bar. Front squats with transformer bar. Posterior loads with transformer bar. Anteriorly loads with transformer bar. A constant load of 70% of the person’s 1RM in the straight-bar front squat was used. Kinematic and kinetic data were collected to quantify joint biomechanics at an estimated parallel squat position in the descending and ascending phases. 👀👀 FINDINGS: Squats with more anteriorly placed load significantly decreased trunk flexion and pelvis anterior tilt angles. Squats with more anteriorly placed loads increased low-back extension. Hip, knee, and ankle extension were generally similar. Participants adjusted their trunk and pelvis to mediate the effects of load placements on low-back and lowe...

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What is Cervicogenic Dizziness? Physiologically, cervical dizziness is explained by the presence of connecting fibers between the somatosensory system of the cervical spine and the vestibular nuclei.    Through these fibers, afferent somatosensory information from the cervical spine can alter the spontaneous firing rates and synchrony of firing among neurons in the vestibular nuclei. When the somatosensory influence turns out to be a major influencing factor compared to the otolith, semicircular and optical stimuli, the symptoms can be called cervicogenic dizziness.    When the compensation fails from these systems, a vestibular syndrome can occur. The symptoms are usually described as dizziness, lightheadedness, unsteadiness or drunkeness.    True vertigo is rare and typically not a symptom of cervical origin.   Overall, we can consider these patients to have postural instability and altered head on neck awareness.  The practical cons...