Coming off of our post on knee pain, we are going to move just below the knee to the foot and ankle. With all of the regions that we have previously clinically discussed, there may not be a more important one than the foot and ankle. The foot and ankle are literally our bottom block […]
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Continuing on in our clinical series we will move just below the hip to discuss knee pain. The knee can be a very problematic and painful joint. This is supported by the fact that the knee is by far the most commonly replaced joint in our body, being responsible for 54.5% of all joint replacement
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Following our last discussion on shoulder pain, we are going to discuss the other ball-and-socket joint in our body, the hip (known as the femoroacetabular joint, as it is formed by a connection of our femur, thigh bone, and the acetabulum, a socket formed in our pelvic bone) and some of the more common reasons
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Shoulder Anatomy & Function So moving on from the neck, we are going to move just below the neck to the shoulder and discuss shoulder pain. When looking at the shoulder, we often think of the shoulder as the ball and socket joint where our upper arm bone (known as the humerus, the ball of
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Coming off our discussion on low back pain, let’s move into another common area of pain, the neck. Neck pain has become more prevalent over the last decade or so, relative to technology and communication. The progression of our everyday tasks being handled by computers, tablets, and cell phones has its advantages, but not when
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This week we are going to start another series. I’m going to classify the next few posts as our clinical series. Our first post in this series, we are going to discuss Low Back Pain (LBP). As a chiropractor of over 20 years, this is a symptom (notice that I did not say condition) that
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So, coming off our training series, today we are going to discuss fitness for golf. Golf is a game of rotational power just like baseball, softball, tennis, and lacrosse. In order to effectively swing a golf club there are some underlying physical requirements that we should possess to the best of our ability if we
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Today, we will be wrapping up our training series. This week we will put it all together by discussing how we take the principles that we have discussed to this point and utilize them in developing a training program. Our first step in developing a training program is to determine the areas of priority which
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Today, we will be continuing on with our training series with a post on balance. So far, we have covered mobility, stability, strength, power, and conditioning. If you have not had an opportunity to review our past few posts that cover these topics in depth, I would encourage you to go back and review these
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Continuing with our training series, we are going to move from functional strength training to training functional power. Where strength training is more focused on moving load through force production, power training takes this a step further by emphasizing the ability to generate force rapidly. Simply put, power equals force times velocity. (Power = Force
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