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One of the most difficult things to do is get buy-in into your pre-participation physical testing or your group testing or performance testing. I think it's probably what we face the most, and particularly getting coaches to buy in.
One of the things that I heard this spring training that I absolu...
The most common question we get after our ACL reconstruction rehabilitation course on MedBridge is why do you emphasize that you need to achieve full knee hyperextension after ACL reconstruction?
So I thought I would dive in deep into this topic. And I think it comes with some natural questions or...
Is how you are consuming social media subtly hampering your potential as a rehab or strength and conditioning professional? For many, the answer is yes, and the reason that it is might surprise you.
Chris Pollard with Duke Baseball had a great presentation during the Duke Sports Medicine Baseball Symposium about developing his team’s mindset. He summarized it with this:
- Process: Routine, Breath (it resets you and you always have it with you), and Mindfulness
- Servant Leadership: Focusing o...
By Adam Devery, ATC, PTA, CSCS & Phil Plisky, PT, DSc, ATC, OCS, CSCS
In Upper Extremity Closed Chain Testing Part 1 we discussed a closed-kinetic chain testing series for overhead athletes as well as the general population. In that series, the Y-Balance Test Upper Quarter was identified as a dyna...
[Phil]: Hey, everyone. I've been having some discussions with Dr. Kyle Matsel, and he's joining me again here. And we've been talking about ACL reconstruction rehabilitation, and we've really talked a lot about return to sport and high level competition.
But what I want to talk about is how do thi...
Hey everyone! I have the pleasure of being joined by Dr. Kyle Matsel. We get tons of questions about our ACL reconstruction rehabilitation courses on MedBridge, where we take a person from early stage rehab all the way through high level performance.
One of the questions that we get surrounds ret...
Phil: Hey, everyone. I have the pleasure of being joined by Dr. Kyle Matsel. We did several courses for MedBridge on returning to full performance after ACL reconstruction, and we get a lot of questions, so I thought we'd take this opportunity to answer one of those questions today. One of the thi...
Once I have taught good plyometric form, these are my go-to early plyometrics. They work well to teach key concepts: toes not turning in, knee alignment, absorbing force and quickly producing force
One of my favorite plyometric progression is line jumps and barrier jumps because they can be progressed easily. My typical gradual progression would be double leg line jumps, double leg low barrier jumps, double leg cone jumps. Once we are at 8 or 10 inch cone height, I like to go through the same ...
Full knee hyperextension equal to the contralateral side is essential after ACL reconstruction. or any post-operative knee.
I know most of you are already looking at this post-operatively and are doing this very well, but we still see this missed quite frequently. We find that if there is pain or ...
I want to tell you how to use the discharge testing checklist. It's organized in such a way that it goes from simple activities all the way down to complex. So it starts off at range of motion and strengthening and goes all the way through hop testing, agility testing and that type of of higher le...
