This is classically a technique done by Physiotherapists, but is so safe, effective and valuable that we have had to include it if you really want to help a client. First test your client's Hip mobility in supine with knee…
As a progression from the half-kneeling position, use the belt to distract the hip joint in the same way - laterally and posteriorly. This will create a little room within the hip joint as the client moves into loaded flexion,…
Commonly a hip joint will experience impingement pain into flexion, adduction and internal rotation as it gets stiff. This stiffness and pain can often be overcome by using a Seatbelt pulling laterally while gliding into the movement. Take care that…
Otherwise known as the "Figure 4 Hip Test", it very quickly tells you if the affected or painful hip is blocked / stiff as part of the problem - meaning that Hip Mobility drills would be warranted (such as other…
Are you getting what this 3-part series is all about? The key is that to excel at Functional Movement Training you need to have a really good grip on the 3 Layers of Dysfunctional Movement and what they mean... A…
Did you ever get a chance to read Part 1 of this series by the way? If not, download it here before you read today’s follow up article (and before they both get put into our Rehab Vault so you can better…
Lucky last in our Tendon Compression series is the poor Rotator Cuff - have we missed any? Please write in, if you think there is another one I should write about that gets compressed around a bony prominence… Supraspinatus /…
I suppose the main message we are trying to bring forward with this series on Tendon Compression locations around the human body is simply that: Biomechanics matter more than Pathology! The main problem with each of these sites of compression…
Let’s dive around the back of the lower limb to look at what may happen (especially for athletes) at the upper hamstring: The upper hamstring tendon attaches onto the ischial tuberosity. When the hip is in flexion, the hamstring tendons…
Today Chris and I will touch base with last year’s Grumpy Knee Series as we dive deep into the Patellar Tendon and why / how it gets compressed and painful. The concept we are looking at for six weeks (last…
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…
3 Layer Injury Screening for PTs. How you can know if your Client Sucks at Functional Movement Training Part 1: 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... 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…
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…
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…
I’ve been looking forward to this! Rehab-Yoda Adam Floyd, in #6 of our "Musculoskeletal Conditions PT’s Need to be Aware Of”, brings more of his injury wisdom to the topic of “Older Shoulders”. I’ve often thought how freaked out I would be,…
If you really want to master rehab and training of shoulder injuries, you must take on board these passive stretches we show you today in our video. Period! Use them in warm-ups and warm-downs, and daily efforts to increase mobility in…
We’ve all heard of “Growing Pains” … well, finally you will learn a bit more about them in this the 5th of our Musculoskeletal Conditions PT’s Need to be Aware Of. With any serious pain / injury in teenagers, you…
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…
You might be finding it challenging to even pronounce today’s 3rd Musculoskeletal condition, let alone understand how it might affect your Rehab and Training of clients! It is: “Spondylolisthesis” - a structural fault or change in the lower lumbar spine, where the…
PERSONAL TRAINERS BEWARE! #2 In our second of 10 musculoskeletal situations that are important to have in your background knowledge, let us look at Hypermobility. Perhaps it is a bit harsh to say “Beware!” about this common condition, rather we could say…
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…
Wow thoracic spines are a juicy hot topic for Rehab Trainers around the world! The “backbone” of so many issues (geddit? c’mon, smile with me), and that's not even thinking about digestion / gut issues, breathing mechanics, cardiac disease and…
I want to encourage you to stop for a minute, take a deep breath, straighten your spine, and think… how tight is my mid-spine, my thoracic region? Stiffness in this region is one of the most common sources of upper…