Olivia came in with what she thought was Low Back Pain but actually was glue pain masquerading is something else. The glue can be the origin of a lot of people’s issues, and it goes underdiagnosed because every time someone has some kind of radiating pain down their leg. We like to blame the lower back, but it was more important for her to address very small musculature located in her gluteal region. After a few appointments, Olivia started to really learn how to take care of her issue and became a masterof her pain. After all this, she was feeling 100% better and has continued to show out earning higher level degrees and showing us what she’s capable of!
Carlton quickly learned the advantages of PhysioLogix Style Physical Therapy when after our first few appointments he was sore, not from his auto accident, but from his training in the gym with Dr. Rob. He really turned on the jets with recovery and rehab and saw a great transformation from hobbling to hero! Listen to his story below to learn from his succcesses!
Vail-Bound and Pain-Free: A Mountainous Success Story
Just four days shy of his Colorado skiing trip, Martin walked into the clinic hobbling on a cane, his face etched with worry. Subpatellar knee pain had him sidelined, threatening to turn his winter wonderland vision into a snowy nightmare.
Shoulder training can be a double-edged sword.
Sure, everyone loves those side raises with thumbs down to hit the lateral deltoids, but lurking in the shadows is a nasty villain: impingement. Internal rotation from those thumb-down movements puts stress on your rotator cuff, potentially leading to painful pinching in the front of your shoulder. Dealing with subacromial impingement? Not fun. Rehab can be a long, frustrating journey.
Dave came in with intense low back pain that began out of nowhere. Within a few days, he went from going to the hospital for an emergency visit to feeling 100% better. Dave says that he was feeling amazing after our second visit as well. We still keep in contact to this day, and he continues to do the exercises that we reviewed together to keep his pain at bay!
Thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) can be from a multitude of causes. Sometimes our pecs are tight, sometimes there is a problem with our first rib pressing down on our nerves and other times our scalenes (neck muscles) are entrapping is the descending nerves from the cervical spine. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
In this photo I am beginning a pec minor stretch in which I hold the upper extremity in 120+ degrees of abduction and pin the pec using my opposite hand. This can help relieve symptoms of numbness, tingling and that asleep feeling many get in prolonged postures. ⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Tired of the same old bicep curls?
Feeling stuck in a groove with limited results? It's time to unlock the full potential of your biceps with the game-changing incline curl!
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TAKE HOME: Try these out before or as a superset with some of your most frustrating lower body exercises as they are a great 'break' allowing the tug of war sensation occurring in the lumbar spine ease up, allowing a breather for the erector spinae musculature in general.
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We see a more lateral/diagonal shift of the patella when she squeezes her left quad and a more superior-compression only movement on the right.
IT’S a DAMN SHAME! I say,… The Cat-Cow is a wonderful exercise that I give many of patients with “stiff” or “stuck” low back pain because of the awesome light they shed on what is really restricted in their movement pattern. It exposes which angles are flaring up their pain sensitivities in the low back with a simple animal themed movement! Watch below…
Thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) can be from a multitude of causes. Sometimes our pecs are tight, sometimes there is a problem with our first rib pressing down on our nerves and other times our scalenes (neck muscles) are entrapping is the descending nerves from the cervical spine. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
In this photo I am beginning a pec minor stretch in which I hold the upper extremity in 120+ degrees of abduction and pin the pec using my opposite hand. This can help relieve symptoms of numbness, tingling and that asleep feeling many get in prolonged postures. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
My awesome Miami area boxing coach Will of BOXR studios needed a way to loosen up his back on a more grandiose level. Enter: cups and kettlebells. Combination of these two elements provide soft tissue pinning and an anchor point in which the tissues between can really stretch out.
Side note 📝 the hip flexors are not just your iliopsoas and rectus femoris (the ones everyone talks about) but muscles like adductor magnus, adductor longus, gracilus, sartorius also contribute to hip flexion. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Similarly, hip abduction is not just Glute and Glute med work. Several deep hip muscles play a role as well. Moral of the story: no action at the hip joint happens in isolation so targeting a single muscle group is, well... impossible!
In a study by Worrel et al. 2015, it was shown that this was a significant advantage for the hip thrust exercise via EMG testing. This could be possibly due to the hips extended position + being perpendicular with the pull of gravity during the hardest part of the lift making it a novel and targeted 🎯 glute max activator.
Listen as Azarel Cobos discusses his experience with PhysioLogix physical therapy! From start to finish he has been a great patient over the years and we look forward to treating him more and more.
And there I was… famous! I was on the Miami Herald website giving an impassioned interview about the stae of the Hurricanes football team. People were hanging on my every breath, excited to hear the next idea I had related to these impeccable new…. jerseys.
This simple exercise is one of the first and most effective shotgun activities that I implement with many of my low back pain patients. I have seen this exercise (and some of its variations) relieve many a patient’s low back stiffness just with a simple movement.
Within two months, Ara came in post-surgery following a quad tear. After eight weeks of rigorous rehabilitation and strict adherence to the protocol, he was able to walk and jog effortlessly. Soon after, he resumed simple leg exercises. He even competed in a bodybuilding competition thereafter and continues to work out daily at the gym where the clinic is located, allowing me to witness his remarkable progress firsthand!
Mary came in with Chronic Low Back Pain and we helped fix it! Teaching her the correct exercise and doing plenty of soft tissue work on top of learning bow, mechanical concepts that she could carry over into her own home and activities of daily living. She noticed that things became easier around the house, and she spent less time in pain. She still does her exercises to this day, and we keep in touch. Great work!
Roberto came in to physical therapy with severe left shoulder pain that would not go away and also came across his chest area. It was messing with his performance as a piano player, and with his ability to press and push. This even went up into his neck area. Thankfully, we were able to solve the puzzle of this issue, and he got back to performing at the top of his game! He even invited me to his piano performance Were hundreds were in attendance a few weeks after I discharged him.
Jojo came in as a bodybuilding athlete with Low Back Pain. She often times had issues with pain in things like squatting, dead lifting, and general fitness as she was always trying to push harder and further while maintaining a low calorie diet prior to her bodybuilding competitions. Following the rigorous plan of care, she was pleased with the results!
Case Study!
My patient Carlos came in with pain on the inside of his distal patellar tendon/Tibial tuberosity. This is the area when your quads and kneecap insert into the top of your shin!
This exercise is super effective because it allowed her to anchor some of her newfound sensation of alignment with a basic breathing-deep core activation-movement progression.
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Frozen shoulder sometimes takes its own course (1-3 years sometimes). If gone untreated and unmanaged can lead to long-term or permanent Shoulder restriction. It is important to get your frozen shoulder checked out as soon as possible and to continue a program that increases its range of movement before things get too sticky!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Britain Hart is a bare knuckle fighter with years of experience. She has been punched all over the ring with and without gloves and she has punch people herself, usually coming out on top. Unfortunately, before one of her fights, she developed severe neck pain that travel down both of her hands and arms, and needed emergency attention over the week prior to the fight. She would have missed her fight if it weren’t for her coming to PhysioLogix and getting that taken care of just in time!
Did you know that between each and every one of your vertebrae there are donuts? These donuts are more anatomically referred to as the intervertebral discs. Each one of these discs provide mobility, support, stability and shock absorption to the spinal column. The combination of these properties allow us to perform tasks that require great amounts of mobility like bending and twisting, but also tasks that involve tons of compressive force like squatting and lifting.
Will came into the clinic following a freak accident where his roof fell on him and as a way to recover from fight training. Over the course of months I had the privilege of working with Will to restore upper body mobility and tissue elasticity. He ended up winning fights and gaining a ton of range of motion in the process. To this day, he continues to show great strides and trains very hard regularly.
In this case we have a patient who is lacking extension. Because of this I am pressing each verbetrae posterior to anterior which mimicked the act of neck extension. This immediately led to increases in active neck extension and pain relief for the patient