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I rarely see pain above the knee on my average patients, but I see it very often on athletes, especially jumping sports.
 
Here's what I've found to work and what I think is the underlying cause.
 
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Part 2 of the Kinetic Chain is the shoulder elbow and wrist in the acceleration phase of pitching and the deceleration phase (where the injuries are more common)
 
 
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Ground Reaction Force (GRF)
Hip-To-Shoulder Separation (HTS)
The Anterior Oblique Sling
The Posterior Oblique Sling
Setting the groundwork for Part Two about Baseball Pitching
 
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The Hip Internal and External Rotators are important for agility to rapidly change direction and have an important role to play in proprioception and to avoid knee injury.
 
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The Abductors and the Adductors of the Hip are essential for sports with lateral movement, cutting and changing direction with Power and Agility.
 
Optimizing the Lateral Stabilizers will also help to avoid knee and ankle injuries.
 
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Interesting case this week of bilateral foot pain and numbness on an American Football Player. 
I walk through my thinking, my way to assess and confirm my assumptions and the results mid-way through and the adjustment I made to get to 100% pain-free.
 
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Part One of Three
How we can optimize Sports Performance by working on the Lumbopelvic Hip Complex in all Planes of Movement
Today it's about Triple Extension
 
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Thank you to everyone who made our Barcelona Acupuncture Congress a success!
I give a brief recap of what I talked about.
Then a college Volleyball player had an injury of the interosseous muscles of the foot.
 
 
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Most thumb pain can be fixed really quickly with electric stimulation acupuncture on the motor points of the thumb muscles. Here's what I do for thumb pain. 
 
 
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I've been showing this to people in live seminars for years but I'm finally willing to say with certainty that this is repeatable and reliable for relieving the lower leg symptoms from sciatica. 
 
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Until now, sports medicine has been highly influenced by the MDs who treat injury so we often follow suit as acupuncturists.
Functional Acupuncture is always looking at the whole picture. We can treat more than just the injury. We can look up the chain or into the past to find healthy muscles to optimize and improve sports performance and avoid injury. 
 
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I'm working on a tough case of knee pain on a college football player and I'm telling you here how I went about treating and adjusting my treatment as new information became clear. 
 
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I very likely resolved two cases of hand tingling and numbness in 1 or 2 sessions.
 
NTOS and some other interesting trigger points.
 
CORRECTION: I was speaking off the cuff when I called the Lower Trapezius an Downward Rotator. It is, of course, an Upward Rotator. So much for the theory of Lower Trapzius increasing compression with the help of Pec Minor and Levator Scap! Sorry about that.
 
 
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In this episode I share my own self treatment to prevent low back pain with point location guidance for each point.
 
This is the same protocol I use for pregnant women with sciatica or SIJ pain (without the electric stimulation of course).
 
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I think I've been exercise resistant much of the time in spite of working out and eating right.
 
Dr. Coyle shows us that we need at least 8500 steps a day for an hour workout to have the metabolic fat-burning effects we want it to have.
 
Coyle EF, Burton HM, Satiroglu R. Inactivity Causes Resistance to Improvements in Metabolism After Exercise. Exerc Sport Sci Rev. 2022 Apr 1;50(2):81-88. doi: 10.1249/JES.0000000000000280. Erratum in: Exerc Sport Sci Rev. 2022 Jul 01;50(3):172. doi: 10.1249/JES.0000000000000295. PMID: 35025844.
 
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