For football fans and parents who have kids who play football check out my podcast interview on the CoachXO show. Coach Shane is doing an amazing job helping coaches and kids excel at football and school.
We discuss my program Build Better Knees and a wide range of topics on the show:
Ankle sprains, Knee injuries, groin pulls and overcoming shoulder injuries.
How to prevent injuries by building a strong foundation
Off-season mobility training to prevent injuries and build strength faster
Getting back on the field faster after injuries
How to build whole body strength
Nutrition, supplements and protein shakes
& Much More!
What a pleasure it was being interviewed by coach Shane. He’s doing some amazing work on and off the field.
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Hamstring strain or tears can cause thickening and adhesions at the site of injury. Creating “sticky” spots with poor skin glide and mobility. Self mobilization using a lacrosse ball is one way to help break these adhesions and improve mobility of the hamstring. Once the tissue mobility is restored often much easier to stretch and strengthen the muscles.
This technique can be done for 5-10 minutes every other day. Once the tissue mobility improves and you are not as tight or sore can do the technique more frequently.
Build Better Knees is a complete program that will guide you through the entire process of diagnosing your imbalances, providing you with specific clinical solutions to treat your injury, and getting you back to running pain-free. It’s a action-packed book filled with tons of great information.
Conventional treatments like surgery and medications are expensive, traumatic, and prone to errors. Don’t take those risks. Instead, choose to run and live pain-free by injury-proofing your body in a natural and effective way.
The therapeutic knowhow and techniques contained within this book have allowed my patients and me to continue running at a high level. I know they can help you achieve the same.
After working 15 years as a physical therapist, I felt there was something missing in the current medical system. I saw a lot of patients repeatedly coming back into the system, unable to conquer their issues with chronic injuries. I observed that the current medical system unfortunately focused more on treating patients’ symptoms and often neglected their underlying problems.
To treat my patients more effectively, I combined exercise science, physical therapy, and Ayurveda practices, which fundamentally transformed my practice. Using a holistic approach helps patients recover faster, stay healthier, and remain injury-free.
I created Build Better Knees to give people a comprehensive solution that they can use to take care of their knee injuries. I see this program working every day in my practice. With dedication, it will work for you.
Chondromalacia patella is degenerative changes or wear and tear of the cartilage under the kneecap. This is often due to repetitive trauma, impact injury, poor mechanics and poor health of the internal system.
It’s difficult trying to figure out what exercises one should do to maintain strength without irritating the joint or tissues further. In my view, the emphasis should be non-weight bearing exercises/activities + massage+ heat+herbal supplements = improve strength/mobility + without irritating tissues + improve circulation for healing + nutrition to injured tissue + restoring balance to the whole system.
Eventually you can progress to weight bearing exercises once the joint can tolerate more loading.
Patella Alta or high riding patella is a condition where the kneecap alignment is off. The kneecap sits too high possibly resulting in knee pain, patellofemoral syndrome, knee stiffness, etc. This problem can be structural or due to tight quadriceps, quadriceps tendon and patellofemoral joint restrictions. Mobilizing the patellofemoral joint and improving the mobility of the quadriceps muscles and tendon can be helpful in correcting the alignment and relieve knee pain.
