This is a three part series: Part 1: Recognizing the issue Part 2: Why are surgeons so beat up? (currently reading) Part 3: An exercise plan Why are surgeons so beat up? I’m a personal trainer. Imagine you come into the gym to meet me for a workout. I hand you one of those light, […]
July 9, 2018
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This will be a three part series: Part 1: Recognizing the issue (currently reading) Part 2: Why are surgeons so beat up? Part 3: An exercise plan Recognizing how many surgeons are in pain Our starting point: –Prevalence of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Surgeons and Interventionalists: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis When you visit a […]
July 2, 2018
There are three common areas people have either been told, or somehow started to believe, can’t regenerate. That once the area has been injured, or started to degrade, you can’t do anything about it. They are the, Brain Heart Cartilage Scientifically, this has also been the case. Many in science used to think certain structures […]
June 25, 2018
Bench Pressing is the most common exercise causing shoulder pain. Some seemingly can bench however, whenever they want, but many end up having issues with it. You’ll often hear this is caused by imbalanced programming. A person is doing too much chest work and not enough upper back work. They’re working their “mirror” muscles too […]
June 1, 2018
This is a continuation on some of the more common muscular length imbalances I see and how you can identify them yourself. Here’s what some common tight muscles are. On to the long ones: 1) Upper trapezius I’m not exactly sure why but the upper trapezius gets a bad rap. At least in the […]
May 11, 2018
After writing up this post on massage techniques I had a few people ask, “How do I know if a muscle is tight or long?” While there are norms for neutral body alignment, taking out your goniometer or protractor to measure every angle of every joint is a royal pain in the ass. However, knowing […]
April 27, 2018
Compared to some of the other information on this site, this is going to be a nerdy post. For anyone reading this who has shoulder pain there are definitely some important pieces of information. However, there is a lot of anatomy talk in this that I realize not everyone is familiar with (or wants to […]
April 23, 2018
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About once a month I update my testimonials page. There is a lot of debate in the fitness world, but it’s hard to argue with results. The more results, the better! There is no better way for people to assess whether someone knows what they’re talking about then to hear it from others. Here are some from the […]
July 16, 2018
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