“A STILL, RELAXED FOOT will provide you all the feedback you need, your core and hips will provide the stability” When we teach isolateral movements you will hear this phrase over, and over, and over again. I just want to take minute today and explain why. As stated in our “epic importance of the foot” […]
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The EPIC importance of the foot.
The picture attached shows the body proportionally to the density of nerve endings per body part. When looking at it think from an evolutionary standpoint. How would each of the oversized body parts help primitive man survive? Four organ systems are oversized in the picture. The mouth and lips, the hand, the genitals (edited off […]
Non contact ACL injuries and the female ...
Whenever we work with soccer teams, particularly women’s teams, one question constantly comes from parents. “What are you doing to protect her ACL?” It’s a very valid question, considering over 50% of collegiate women’s soccer players have at least one ACL tear during their careers. Before we can answer it though let’s define our risk […]
Understanding Valgus Knee (part 2): Why ...
When watching last weeks’ video, hopefully some of you saw that notable dysfunction and wondered, ” Why don’t you just coach her to keep that knee out! She’s gonna hurt herself!” First off, I applaud you. We most certainly don’t want to strengthen our athletes from a valgus knee position. Strength on dysfunction is a […]