Understanding and Treating Back Pain in Athletes -

Today on the podcast we are bringing you an exclusive behind-the-scenes peek of a lecture I gave to the students at Champion Physical Therapy and Performance.

The place I work and see patients, giving you an inside look into how I treat people for back pain.

We’ve done a lot of more general episodes lately on culture, techniques, and gymnastics general ideas, so I want to do an episode for medical providers, athletic trainers, physical therapists, doctors, and chiropractors, who deal with a lot of gymnastics back pain, but they’re a little overwhelmed on how to evaluate this, how to treat this, and how to safely get somebody back to the sport.

Unfortunately, sometimes people rest from sport and as soon as they go back, they feel their pain comes back again which is really frustrating.

It’s definitely more on the medical, dorky side for a reason but hopefully coaches trying to learn more can pick up some of those ideas too as well.

I talk about some of the evaluation concepts that are super important, including knowing what things make someone’s back worse, and what things make someone’s back better.

I also go over exercises to help somebody in those first few weeks after an injury and the progressions of those exercises to eventually get back to sport.

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