A summary of the three phases and healing process
If you are a strength coach or manual therapist, I can say with 99.9% certainty that you have at one point or another recommended a Standing Wall Stretch to a client or patient. You may have done so for various reasons, including improved triceps surae length, but have you recommended this stretch with external assistance?
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 [...]
This is quite a touchy subject and while you may THINK you have a good idea on whether to stretch or not, guess again! By now (2009), most of you think stretching is bad. Some on the other hand, still use “stretching” and “warming up” synonymously (these people probably tug really hard on a slab [...]
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 [...]
