Today I am happy to bring readers another fantastic guest post by Rupert Egan. Rupert wrote Part 1 of this article series a while back, and I’m excited he is back for Part 2. I think Rupert brings up some crucial points here that coaches and athletes can benefit from learning more to enhance their strength […]
This story begins with a simple Google search, purely out of curiosity, with no specific expectations for the results. “Gymnastics physical therapy.” The top result – hybridprspective.com (now SHIFT). That’s how I found out about Dave Tilley a year ago. As a lifelong gymnast, coach, and now physical therapy student, this seemed too good to […]
I’m very excited to announce that I have accepted a new position at Champion Physical Therapy and Performance, located in Waltham Massachusetts. Starting February 16th, I will start seeing clients for Physical Therapy and performance based services. Along with becoming a location for me to see clients, this will be a great environment for continuing to grow my […]
Over the last two months I’ve been outlining my thought process for the rehabilitation of gymnasts with extension based lower back pain. The acute phase, sub acute phase, intermediate phase, and advanced phase of rehabilitation were Parts 1 – 4. Before you dive in, if you want to learn everything I think about and do for […]
Over a few different posts in the last month, I have been offering my thoughts behind the rehab progression of a gymnast with extension based low back pain. In Part 1 I first covered the acute phase, then in Part 2 the subacute phase, then in Part 3 the intermediate phase. Once through these stages, […]
In the first part of this article series I covered pushing passive hyper extension for the back hip of splits, then in the second part I covered skin the cats / hyper flexion stretches. Also, before you dig in more, remember you can download literally all my thoughts on gymnastics flexibility, as well as the exercises […]
In the first part of this article, I went over why pushing hip hyperextension and back leg split flexibility stretching makes me really concerned. In this article, I want to go over two types of commonly used passive shoulder stretches I fear are contributing to the high rates of shoulder injuries and instability in gymnastics. I […]
I try my best to not be on the offensive side of the coin when it comes to my writing. However, lately I have seen a ton of flexibility drills that I feel are not only dangerous, they likely are causing large performance drops in gymnasts. I want to be clear, this post series is NOT intended to […]
Over the last few weeks I have been trying to offer some of my thoughts around how I approach the rehabilitation program of a gymnast with extension based back pain. In part 1 I went over calming down acute hypersensitivity and addressing issues above/below. In Part 2 I talked about continuing with local pain management, […]
I recently evaluated an optional gymnast who was struggling in the last year with pretty intense high hamstring pain and “tightness” limiting her splits, leaps, sprinting for Yurchenko’s, and inbar skills. As it turned out, I felt her hamstring problem was much more a core control problem and not a true hamstring flexibility problem. By addressing the […]
