Podcast Episodes

Unexpected Result While Treating Post-Stroke Symptoms 20 years Later

Episode 136

This was a little mind-blowing to see this week. I was treating someone who had a stroke 20 years ago and then this happened!

HINT: There was a musculocutaneous nerve entrapment I wasn't expecting …

Published on 14 hours ago

Why We Shouldn't Trust a 5/5 MMT on an Athlete (And what we should do instead)

Episode 135

The 0-5 scale on Manual Muscle Tests was created in 1915 to find neuromuscular issues in paretic patients (like people with polio).

The MMT should not be trusted for Sports Optimization and Injury …

Published on 1 week ago

Pain above the Knee is Very Common for Athletes - And This is What Resolves It

Episode 134

I rarely see pain above the knee on my average patients, but I see it very often on athletes, especially jumping sports.

Here's what I've found to work and what I think is the underlying cause.

O…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Sports Performance Optimization for Overhead Sports Part 2

Episode 133

Part 2 of the Kinetic Chain is the shoulder elbow and wrist in the acceleration phase of pitching and the deceleration phase (where the injuries are more common)

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Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Sports Performance Optimization for Over-Head Sports: Part One -The Kinetic Chain

Episode 132

Ground Reaction Force (GRF)

Hip-To-Shoulder Separation (HTS)

The Anterior Oblique Sling

The Posterior Oblique Sling

Setting the groundwork for Part Two about Baseball Pitching

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Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Hip Optimization for Athletes - Part Three - The Transverse Plane

Episode 131

The Hip Internal and External Rotators are important for agility to rapidly change direction and have an important role to play in proprioception and to avoid knee injury.

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Published on 1 month ago

Optimizing the Hip Complex for Sports Performance - Part Two - The Frontal Plane

Episode 130

The Abductors and the Adductors of the Hip are essential for sports with lateral movement, cutting and changing direction with Power and Agility.

Optimizing the Lateral Stabilizers will also help t…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Bilateral Foot Pain and Numbness on a Football Player

Episode 129

Interesting case this week of bilateral foot pain and numbness on an American Football Player. 

I walk through my thinking, my way to assess and confirm my assumptions and the results mid-way through…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Optimizing The Hip Complex for Sports Performance: Part One - The Sagittal Plane

Episode 128

Part One of Three

How we can optimize Sports Performance by working on the Lumbopelvic Hip Complex in all Planes of Movement

Today it's about Triple Extension

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Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Back from Barcelona and an Interosseous Foot Injury

Episode 127

Thank you to everyone who made our Barcelona Acupuncture Congress a success!

I give a brief recap of what I talked about.

Then a college Volleyball player had an injury of the interosseous muscles of…

Published on 2 months ago