Very few rehab challenges are as great as increasing the activation of the easily inhibited Subscapularis muscle in shoulder rehab! This video is one of the simplest ways of achieving this accurately and safely.
SUPRASPINATUS TENDON REHAB - WILL THIS WORK? How are you doing with the deep-dive into the Rotator Cuff?? Hope you can do a few more reps with me ;) Our last idea about Supraspinatus rehab is "That resisted External Rotation exercises…
Supraspinatus Isometric Iso-Integration to the Rehab Vault so don’t delay having a look at it :) Thanks again Tim and Whitney you’re awesome! The key thing to remember here is that the primary job of Supraspinatus is as depressor of the ball…
So - Knee Pain…and specifically when you have a really sore to touch Patellar tendon (but I think many other types of knee pain also), one of the best starting points is Isometric Holds for the Quadriceps. Pain levels on…
Thanks for your patience last week, and now let's open up the world of Isometrics for you! It’s a more recent development in the world of tendon rehab, and I’ve certainly used it to good effect with my own grumpy…
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 /…
Did you get the concept for Achilles Tendon compression pain from the two pictures in last week’s newsletter? Limit "loaded end of range dorsiflexion”. Not sure what that means? - well you’ll have to wait until after our next Stretchband Mobility…
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…
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…
If you haven’t seen it before let me introduce you to the decline board for patellar tendon pain - an idea developed specifically for the purpose of eccentrically loading degenerative patellar tendons, in order to create positive changes in the…