Picking our battles
Functional Movement Screen solutions…with a twist!
Thoracic outlet syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome, reciprocal inhibition, manual therapy for neck pain, etc.
A short video to assess scapular dyskinesia courtesy of Mark Hutchinson and youtube.com
A note on the Functional Movement Screen and Selective Functional Movement Assessment
What to look for when screening and assessing the moving human body.
A study testing the reliability of their pain charts by a clinical trial
This one’s for the manual therapists out there. A brief little review of 2 landmark papers pertaining to fact joint pain and referral patterns.
On Friday, I finally received my DVD copy of Assess and Correct in the mail. I had already read the manual and accompanying material a week and a half prior but patiently waited for the DVD before I formed an objective opinion. Upon initial glance of the written material, its contents did not seem novel [...]
Tendinitis? “That’s such an old term…no one uses that anymore!” Tendinopathy? “Hmm…too vague. Get some diagnostic skills will ya?” Tendinosis? “Now that’s more like it. Most tendon pathologies pass the inflammation stage and go directly to the degeneration stage…right?” But do they? Well maybe not! Franklyn-Miller et al recently published an editorial piece entitles “Fasciitis [...]
The use of “Trochanteric Bursitis” as a diagnosis for lateral hip pain is extremely common in orthopaedics and manual therapy. In fact, a simple google image search of the terms “hip” and “greater trochanter” led mostly to diagrams pertaining to such condition. However, given the numerous anatomical structures in the region of the lateral hip, [...]
a manual therapeutic approach, based on developmental kinesiology and aimed at activating the “Integrated Stabilizing System” for the purpose of improving function This “method” of manual therapy originates from the Rehabilitation Prague School and can be indirectly linked to one of the pioneers of manual therapy, Vladimir Janda. Some of you may view this approach to therapeutic [...]
Here’s a little clinical vingette to get your brain going on a Monday… An 18 year old junior hockey player walks into your office complaining of lateral shoulder pain of 3 months duration. He says he hurt it in training camp and it just hasn’t gotten better. After a thorough clinical history, he reveals that [...]
