I was recently received the following comment from a reader: I am only 2.5 years out from cheilectomies of both big toes. I thought I was looking at years of […]
If you looked at my blog stats, you’d pick up on a few trends. People break their ribs a lot over the weekend, hence why my blog post about broken […]
“Overuse injury” is becoming a well known term among health professionals, pro athletes, amateur athletes, and parents. The term overuse implies that there is a known level of activity that […]
“I am recovering from 3 broken ribs and feel like my shoulder and neck are out of joint or misaligned slightly and always need to be cracked. Also stretching those high […]
Let me set this one up for you. I was a clinical student at an outpatient physical therapy clinic. I had graduated with my undergraduate degree about 2 weeks prior, […]
*disclaimer – I wrote this over two years ago when my main patient population was pediatric sports medicine patients Memo To: Parents who are trying to make their kids into […]
I had just pinned the ball on the backboard. It was a thing of beauty. The type of thing they show on ESPN’s Top 10. I had already turned mid-air […]
A few weeks ago I read Greg Lehman’s article on why you should stop foam rolling your ITBs. I thought it was well written and very well thought out and […]
We don’t have to travel far from the big toe to get to my #3 most underestimated injury, the ankle sprain. Maybe ankle sprains aren’t the most painful condition of […]
Traditionally rotator cuff (RTC) exercises have consisted of internal(IR) and external rotation (ER), rows, shoulder extensions, T/Y/W’s, and maybe if your PT was adventurous, and there was no impingement, bicep […]
Mike Scott, DPT 