TENDON COMPRESSION PAIN: ELBOW
Today I want to hand you over to one of my ‘mates’, one of the world’s best Sports Physiotherapists, our top Educator at Rehab Trainer, the "Sports Injury Dr" himself - Chris Mallac! Some of what he has recently talked about really relates…
GYM JUNKIE’S ELBOW SUPINATOR RETRAINING
Quick test for you to see if you have been paying attention: Have a close look at both these exercises - which muscle are they both working, and are they concentrically or eccentrically working in each situation? You guessed it:…
GYM JUNKIE’S ELBOW BICEP RETRAINING
Unexpectedly, many sufferers of Elbow pain struggle with Bicep Curls due to pain. Often this is due to the over-working of the other two muscles that help with elbow flexion: Brachioradialis and Pronator Teres. The fix may not be complicated…
GYM JUNKIE’S MFR FOR LATERAL ELBOW
So - hoping your elbow problem comes up negative for High Risk and you only got tightness but NOT pain on last week’s nerve movements? I have a treat for you today as I beat up on my friend Brad’s…
GYM JUNKIE’S ELBOW RISK ASSESSMENT
If you’ve ever done our most popular and long-standing 3-day course Rehab Trainer Essentials (remember the laminated cards you received when you did it?), you will know that the “R” in R..E..H..A..B stands for the first critical point of assessment that should…
GYM JUNKIE’S “TENNIS ELBOW” SELF-ASSESSMENT
Today we progress to targeting the lateral elbow joint specifically for mobility barriers that need improvement if you have anything like what is generally named as “Tennis Elbow”. “Tennis Elbow” is more technically called “Lateral Epicondylalgia" by the experts because it affects many…
CASE STUDY #1: THE CLIMBER’S ELBOW
Let’s throw some real-time situations out there to give you some context for different types of elbow pain – and there are many. What resonates with you in this first case study? Do you have an emphasis on chin-ups, pull-ups,…
Poor Serratus Poor Overhead Press
Overhead Shoulder Press is the pinnacle of shoulder movements in terms of functionality and optimisation of movements of the whole upper body. If you haven’t got every element of your kinetic chain in good working order and synergising well, something…
Personal Trainers Beware #8: Chronic Pain
The longer you are in pain, the more it messes with your head, begins to affect how you think about yourself, destroy healthy routines like exercise, how your relationships work, and finally your deepest beliefs about life, the Divine, and…
PERSONAL TRAINERS BEWARE #10: Unusual History
PERSONAL TRAINERS BEWARE... IF YOU DON'T ASK - YOU'LL MISS IT! As Adam explains in his last video in our current series, the critical thing is to ask the right questions in order to bring out the important information about…
PERSONAL TRAINERS BEWARE #7: PSYCHOLOGICAL / EMOTIONAL STRUGGLES
THE PSYCHE WILL AFFECT PAIN "Pain Is All In Your Head" - did you know that? When you whack yourself with a hammer, it feels like the pain is in your thumb. But really, it's in your brain.Countless human stories, neuroscience…
PERSONAL TRAINERS BEWARE #9: NEUROLOGICAL ISSUES
So while in previous Rehab Cafe posts we have stressed the ideas that emotions may increase the pain experience, and that chronic pain is actually in the brain not the body, let’s now also remember that the body does break down at…
PERSONAL TRAINERS BEWARE #4: ARTHRITIS
In all my years of clinical treatment, I found this Musculoskeletal condition the most subtle, the hardest to identify, and therefore the easiest to miss - Inflammatory Arthritic conditions that change the blood content and therefore trigger autoimmune system responses…
PERSONAL TRAINERS BEWARE #1: ALTERED ANATOMY
I’m delighted to introduce you to Adam Floyd (see BIO), my buddy and fellow Rehab Educator and Physiotherapist in Perth, Western Australia - he runs a Physiotherapy Clinic and a Gym! The next 10 newsletters will include his Conference presentation that YOU voted for! He…
HOLDING PATTERN #6: ELBOW BEHIND
HOLDING PATTERN #6: ELBOWS BACK Not many would consider that holding the elbows behind the line of the body is a sub-conscious "Holding Pattern”, but trust me it is - and it is very common in those with niggling and serious shoulder…