Strength, Speed, and Power, 3 key sport inputs PT will help you with!
Strength and speed are great for sports and activities. But power is the vital stat is key to excelling at these endeavors. Power which is work/time, or in physical activity force x velocity dictates what we can do with our explosive movements. Power can be easily visualized and measured by recording jump height or distance, […]
Pain nerves and how injury changes everything.
Pain causes physical and chemical changes to the mind and body. The most recent blog covered the theories of pain and opened the doorway to some of the concepts that I want to cover here. We’re all different in the ways that we perceive the world, and pain is no exception. On average males and […]
4 Different theories on pain and one important fact to embrace.
Pain is something we all relate to because it’s something that we all deal with. But pain is not something we should ever normalize. Pain is a warning; its textbook definition is “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.” An important distinction is pain is subjective, we’ll come back […]
3 Different poor postures and pain associated with them.
Posture pressure and pain Stand up straight! Chest up! These and other similar commands have been barked at most of us at least once in our lives. For many it’s a nearly daily banter or just part of the soundtrack to every other day. But these chastisements are more than just a holdover from the […]
3 phases make a run a run. PT will help you make the most of each.
3 things differentiate running from walking and jogging. When you run you have a shorter stance phase, a longer swing phase, and you enter into double-float (both feet off the ground). All three components make sense and are easy to identify with just a little bit of practiced observation. Within the swing phase and stance […]
Movement can be the #1 medicine, if you use it the right way
Movement is something we engage in everyday, but it’s no simple task. Each and every movement we engage in requires an intricate choreography of electrochemical signaling, muscular recruitment, balancing agonists and antagonists, and having access to the ROM to complete the task at hand. One of humanity’s greatest strengths is adaptability, and this is true […]
Sleep and stress, how you feel changes how you heal.
Sleep is an essential part of life. We know we need it, we know we don’t feel great when we don’t have enough or have too much. Something less intuitive about sleep is the vital role it plays in not only healing, but also in avoiding injury in the first place. Studies of adolescents have […]
Headaches are not a problem you have to live with. It’s one PT can fix.
Headaches are a fixable an ailment that are far too commonly just accepted as a fact of life. 47% of adults experience some form of headache. This problem is so ubiquitous that migraines alone cost between $13-17 billion dollars last year. Despite the cost physically, financially, psychologically, people don’t often go any further than the […]
Tactical Athletes, their challenges and injury risk.
Tactical athlete is a term that has become more common in the medical community as we have acknowledged the unique physical challenges faced by soldiers and first responders. The unique combination of stressors placed on these individuals via physical demands, environmental demands, mental stressors, and fatigue all contribute to higher risks of injury. In 2014 […]
Wellness, PT has to consider more than just the site of injury
Have you ever felt sick to your stomach from fear, nervousness, anxiousness, or excitement? Much of this is actually the result of the Vagus nerve (CN X) going from your brain to your abdomen. The body is wired in a way where systems that you may think are miles apart actually work hand in hand […]
