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Hip Mobility and Range of Motion

If you take one thing from this series, I hope it is that mobility at the hip is incredibly important. Maintaining that mobility requires both tissue flexibility and control of movement at the joint. Today we focus on the flexibility component of keeping the hip joint moving so that when you add the exercises for […]

The Hip Joint: A Case for Mobility

hip joint with ligaments

Mobility at the hip is incredibly important. I can’t overstate how important mobility at the hip is for a healthy hip joint, as well as the surrounding body regions that it supports. So here it is again: Mobility at the hip is incredibly important. If you think of the body as a number of individual […]

Shoulder Pain: Exercise to Build Resilie...

Shoulder exercise should be used when you are able to complete the movements required sufficiently without significant discomfort or pain production. These activities involve more complicated shoulder mechanics and recruit a greater proportion of muscles surrounding the area than isolated exercises for specific muscles. The more you are able to complete exercise like this, the […]

Shoulder Pain: Reintroducing Movement

Shoulder Movement

Early management of shoulder complaints is similar to other issues that patients present with: create as much shoulder movement as possible while avoiding pain generation when you are able to. As noted in the first posting, the shoulder is a highly mobile joint that is built to create a lot of movement — so maintaining […]

Shoulder Pain: An Introduction

Shoulder Pain anatomy

Shoulder pain is a frequent complaint for patients that can present in a number of different ways. For example, some patients experience significant limitations caused by their pain, others have low-grade discomfort that lingers across days, and still others experience more sporadic episodes of discomfort that come and go, but are no less limiting in […]