Audience: Patients
Format: Patient Handouts
Topic: Trunk, hip and knee motor control exercises to improve control of knee position
This post is a handout that I give to patients. As with all exercises they should be done under some supervision (physiotherapist, personal trainer, chiropractor) and always with a health professionals guidance. In no way are these exercises stand alone. They should be tailored to each patient’s needs and progressed or modified accordingly.
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Audience: Therapists, Strength Coaches and Patients
Purpose: Pointing out that not everyone has tight hip flexors and stretching the Psoas may be a very bad thing
Anterior hip pain is common and many of us feel a pinching, catching or inside thigh pain with squatting and other hip movements. Physiotherapists and chiropractors will see this everyday and it is often challenging to treat due to its multifactorial cause. This pain can manifest during walking, squatting (a pinching sensation felt during a squat) or during different exercises. There are certainly many causes and one possible cause of this anterior hip pain is stress applied to the anterior capsule of the hip joint. In severe cases this can lead to what is called a labral tear. Functionally, you can refer to the dysfunction as excessive anterior femoral glide. (more…)
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