The Rotator

What is it?

A device that can be used in physical and manual therapy settings, as well as in the sporting arena.

Jumping Rope: A triathlete’s off season secret weapon?

As I was jumping rope in between workouts yesterday (thats obviously not me in the picture by the way), I came to the revelation that this exercise may just be the secret weapon many triathletes are looking for to add to their arsenal this off season.
Let me tell you why:

POSTURE: In order to jump rope [...]

The Shoulder in Sport

The Shoulder in Sport: Management, rehabilitation, and prevention
Andrea Fusco, Andrea Foglia, Frank Musarra, and Marco Testa
Bologna, Italy
Churchill Livingstone, 2008
331 pages
The Shoulder in Sport is a specialty text, authored by expert physiotherapists, Fusco, Foglia, Musarra, and Testa. This book illustrates a multidisciplinary approach to the shoulder health of athletes and through its specific application to [...]

Neurovascular Problems in the Athlete’s Shoulder

This review is a summary of my recent submission to Research Review Service. The information below was derived from Thompson & Driskill’s Neurovasular Problems in the Athlete’s Shoulder, recently published in Clinics in Sports Medicine. For a greater understanding of the following information, including the etiology and  management strategies of the various conditions, I strongly [...]

QSS

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 the [...]