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My visit to Stanford University’s Clinical Anatomy Lab

January 21, 2014

I recently visited Stanford University’s School of Medicine, specifically their Division of Clinical Anatomy. About a month prior to visiting I found they offered anatomy tutorials open to what seems to be anyone. I have a good deal of anatomy background, I talk about it all the time, I took your standard Anatomy and Physiology […]

Rethinking how and why you’re training your glutes

November 20, 2013

One of the changes the internet has done to fitness programs is give people a greater focus on training their glutes. It started as, “Need to get faster? Train your glutes!” Then, “Knee pain? Work your glutes!” “Lower back pain? Squeeze those glutes!” There are certainly some merits here, but, now it seems to be […]

A day with Tom Myers of Anatomy Trains

October 8, 2013

I recently went to a conference where Tom Myers of Anatomy Trains was presenting. I’ve written about him in my posts on tennis elbow, the importance of direction in manual therapy, stretching the IT band and hamstrings. I listened to him for 7 hours, so, I took a ton of notes. – Background This was not a personal training / physical therapy / […]

Correcting a swayback posture by…changing how you sleep?

September 24, 2013

The first one of these is An example of how important your sleep positioning can be. In that I cover the similarities between a lateral pelvic tilt and how one sleeps. Next up, the similarities between sleep positioning and a swayback posture. First up, going over a swayback posture. I’ll use some pictures from Kendall’s […]

Some quick notes on piriformis syndrome

September 9, 2013

One day I’ll write something thorough on piriformis syndrome and sciatica. Til then, here’s some brief info from en email exchange. Edited for relevancy: Hi Brian, I recently took a trip driving to Arkansas from NJ with my family. After getting home (actually I knew while in Arkansas) my hips are out of sync, my […]

6 Exercises to Loosen the IT Band

August 20, 2013

I’ve received a nice amount of traffic on this website for my post “The best damn IT band stretch.” In the comments of that post I’ve repeatedly mentioned it’s not the only stretch I use, how some people shouldn’t do it, and it’s not the only method of loosening the IT band. Rather than continue […]

A different explanation for Adrian Peterson’s amazing ACL recovery

August 7, 2013

“Amazing.” “Unbelievable.” These are the words most often thrown around when discussing Adrian Peterson’s recovery from reconstructive ACL surgery. His own surgeon, James Andrews, doesn’t have an explanation for how he’s done it. Referring to him as “superhuman.” Andrews is pretty much a god in this world. By his own estimation about 50% NFL athletes who […]

Better exercises to stretch the hamstrings

July 29, 2013

Before we can understand the how to stretch the hamstrings, we need to understand how they work. – Anatomy Common hamstring talk: The hamstrings are three muscles. The semimembranosus, semitendinosus, and biceps femoris, which has a long and short head. The semis are inside (medial), the biceps outside (lateral). They all start at the top of the […]