3 Mobility Drills to Improve Your Deadlift Does your low back hurt when you deadlift? This is one of the most common complaints we see everyday athletes in our PT clinic for. While an assessment is needed to properly identify what the root cause of the problem is, we commonly find people that are missing
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5 REALISTIC Tips to Keep You on Track This Holiday Season By Lindsey Paczkowski, PT, DPT Pn1 The leaves are changing colors from the bright greens to the yellow, red and orange hues, the days are becoming chillier, for at least a brief part of the morning here in San Diego. It’s finally the season
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How to Improve Ankle Mobility and Why It’s Important If you’re missing ankle mobility, there’s a very good chance you’re not going to be feeling, moving, and performing as well as you’re capable of. A lack of ankle mobility is one of the common findings we see in those with knee pain, achilles tendinitis, shin
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Want a Bigger and Stronger Back? Having a strong and muscular back does much more than just look cool. While that is an added side effect, a stronger back can often equal healthy shoulders and lower backs. Along with helping create healthy joints, a strong back will help improve athletic performance in sport and in
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Don’t Let Traveling Wreck Your Mobility Mobility work isn’t easy while traveling. However, finding mobility exercises to do after traveling can help us feel and perform our best. We’ve all likely had to travel for extended periods of time at one time or another in our lives. Some of you have to travel very regularly
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What is Your Rotator Cuff and Why is it Important? We’ve all likely either had ourselves, or known someone that has had, rotator cuff strains, rotator cuff impingement, or rotator cuff tears. As common as it is, most do not know what the rotator cuff is or why it is so important for the shoulder.
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Is It Safe For Me To Be Squatting? We’ve all heard the importance of the squat as it relates to overall strength, health, and fitness. But how do you know you’re ready for squatting and how do you know you have the prerequisite strength and mobility to perform it correctly? While the squat is an
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Stay Fit and Healthy on the Road Finding time to take care of yourself while traveling isn’t always easy, but that doesn’t mean it should not be a priority. Whether you travel regularly for work, or occasionally for leisure, you know how it feels when you let yourself go during travel. It’s hard enough to
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Why the Strict Pullup? The ability to perform a strict pullup is essential for your health, your strength, and arguably your safety and longevity. Performing a body weight, unassisted, strict pullup requires good strength and mobility of your spine, shoulders, elbows, and wrist. Why are so many people unable to perform a strict pullup? The
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The Infamous Bench Press If you’ve spent any length of time in a gym, you’re all too familiar with the bench press. If you’re a guy that went through high school, then you definitely are familiar with the bench press. While the bench press often has a reputation for just being a ‘bro’ or a
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