Nov 30, 2012 | Back pain, Exercise, Injury Prevention, Motor Control, Performance
Try this simple technique to reduce your low back and hip pain and spare your lumbar spine and hips. The technique is to brace your core when doing specific movements. The best way I know to CUE this is to imagine that someone is about to punch you in the stomach...
Oct 24, 2012 | Exercise, Injury Prevention, Motor Control, Posture, Rotator Cuff, Shoulder
Keeping a neutral spine and not arching the lower back, you should be able to bring your upper arm past your ears. Keep your arms straight and your hands close together. Notice the lack of full flexion in the first picture and the lumbar extension/curvature...
Sep 12, 2012 | Chiropractic, Exercise, Injury Prevention, Motor Control, Performance, Posture, Rotator Cuff, Shoulder
I’ve been dealing with my own shoulder impingement issues lately as well as working with a couple of patients which has motivated me to learn more about shoulder pain and shoulder health. And since shoulder pain is so common… “Shoulder pain is highly...
Jul 2, 2012 | Chiropractic, Exercise, Injury Prevention, Motor Control, Performance
Movement is a full body endeavor. Somewhere along the way, most of us lose our ability to move well much too soon. Our current state of general thinking on exercise however, likes to break movement into individual parts. We go to the gym to work our legs, our...
