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, [...]
Knee pain. Knee Injury. “Certain athletes are at higher risk of knee pain and non-contact knee injury than others.” End of post. (just kidding) The above statement is well known but unfortunately, not many of us know exactly why. Thankfully, the American Journal of Sports Medicine gave us some input into the biomechanical reasons some [...]
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 [...]
Scientific knowledge expands daily. This article was published in 2008. I started this blog 3 days ago…THEREFORE…the information you are about to read MAY contain concepts that are obsolete…READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED! The following is a summary of the IOC current concepts statement published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine last year. Contained within [...]
Although the assessment and treatment of myofascial and kinetic chain dysfunction has been used for numerous years, its presence in therapy clinics and performance centres have increased tremendously in recent times. Clinicians and strength coaches are well adept at developing the functional kinetic chain, however, very few understand importance of the fascial system. In order [...]
For my first post, I would like to summarize the developments of the most recent symposium on concussion in sport. This was held in Zurich last year and brought together the “big dawgs” in sports concussion. Since this is merely a summary, I ask that you all read the original document in its entirety as [...]
