Empowerment Rehab and Training

Hiii! I’m Megan. I just want you to know that I’m the kind of athletic therapist who gets super excited for you for everything from doing your exercises and hitting your rehab goals, to hearing about a big win, cute date, what you’re learning about, the gossip at work, where you had a great latte, and if you have any updates on concert tours.

When was the last time you just got up and ran, played, lifted, or tossed a ball around, without spending more time warming up and recovering than you did actually doing the thing you love? If you have to think about it...that’s ok. Just know that you CAN have the tools to tighten the timelines, feel confident, and go do the thing, without a million questions or worst-case-scenarios running faster than you are.

4 phrases you’ll never hear me say if you have back pain or are training your core] flex your abs as hard as you can Suck your belly button in Pretend someone is gonna punch you in the gut... hold your breath when you bend/lift Why? because a sore back doesn’t need more compression it’s way more beneficial to create intra/abdominal pressure then just tensing up the outer layer muscles you should absolutely be able to separate the functions of stabilization and respiration (max RM power lifts aside) your diaphragm and pelvic floor want to help your back (which also wants to bend and move), so let it all happen. drop a in the comments if you’ve been told one of the first 4 points in this post too many times!

Guess what I don’t care about when we are figuring out your chronic aches and pain! Y O U R. P O S T U R E. Because guess what;... It’s not going to kill you. Or be a sign of impending doom for your outcomes. If your shoulders are rounded forward, that’s okay :) I care more about if your shoulder works like a shoulder should, if your shoulder blade can move all the directions it needs to, and all that kind of fun stuff. Because guess what else- I’ve seen a lot of good outcomes from general mobility and exercise. I haven’t seen many people have change in their resting [shoulder] posture, though...

Start asking questions if you don’t feel these 3 things after your rehab sessions. . .. ... ..... . #athletictherapy #firstprinciplesofmovement #athletictherapist #kinesiology #fpmmentorship #rehabequalstraining #movementoptimist See more

This is 100000% why rehab fails. And it’s actually not a fail- it was just incomplete. If you stay on the floor or with only your body weight, and don’t use load of some kind in your exercise, your body will never learn how to adapt.... So then even if you do feel fine, you won’t be feeling great when life requires you to move quick, pick something up, or push/pull. Moral of the story? Get strong. And listen when @coachbobalejo talks.

Can we just put this out there? Pulling on the hip in a set up like the picture above, or with a band around the front of your hip tied to a squat rack behind you, is often fighting a losing battle. These kinds of mobilizations are supposed to create more space when there’s a pinch type sensation at the front of the hip when it flexes.... Which yes, cool, I love joint mobs and the convex-concave rules for therapy as much as the next person, But pinching hips =/= needing this. That silly capsule and joint often just gets blamed and beat up because it seems logical at first glance. And when the pinching sticks around, the joints just get pulled on harder, and the muscles start getting smashed too. Then when it still doesn’t feel better, everyone is frustrated, and no one has checked the other reasons for those symptoms. The mobility. The soft tissue stuff. The control. The strength. The actual joint end feel. Specific assessment = specific intervention = specific result. You with me?

What do people think athletic therapy is? Usually taping ankles, emergency first aid, athlete return-to-play rehab, and hanging out at practices/games in case someone is hurt. What athletic therapy really is?... Assessment, rehab, and management of any type of injury to muscles/ligaments/bones/joints, for any kind of human being. What athletic therapy with me is? Efficient, effective, and empowering.

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athletic therapy = teamwork :)

Please stop calling tendinitis an over use injury. It’s most likely an under-prepared injury. Capacity was overloaded, so things got inflamed and irritated.... Meaning, a little soft tissue work, tape, or anti-inflammatories for symptom management is cool, but while things get calmed down, a LOT of specific loading to the symptomatic and causal areas are what’s really important for resolution.

Short version: 85% of back pain can’t be attributed to a structure, 1/3rd of cuff tears are asymptomatic, and osteoarthritis doesn’t need rest. so how are you addressing pain in client interactions? Long version: https://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1007/s11097-019-09624-7

If you can’t move your joint on it’s own using your muscles, it’s definitely going to hurt when momentum forces you there.