Did you know that back pain is treatable with a combination of rest, exercise, and physical therapy? Read about 5 Exercises To Help With You Back Pain and find out how you can begin treating a bad back, today!
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Exercise and conditioning are critical for golf performance. Improved flexibility, strength, balance, and endurance improve the golfer’s ability to execute a successful swing.
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Having a golf performance assessment and program can help you to reach your maximum potential as a golfer while reducing the risk of injury.
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Running is an excellent form of exercise, but it can come with risks. Many people experience different types of running-related injuries.
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Properly preparing your body before running is essential to have the best experience and reduce the risk of injury. Here are 5 things you can do to prevent injury when running.
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At some point in most of our lives, we will experience back pain. It happens to all of us. But what many people don't think about, is that often the inactivity and not staying active is what causes the pain.
Read MoreWe have many patients that ask if it is safe to exercise with back pain and if they should rest until the back pain is gone, or what they can do to help alleviate the pain they are experiencing. While rest can help in some cases, we recommend staying active and moving as much as you can to help reduce the pain and strengthen the muscles that are important to you being pain-free.
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This blog outlines what many of us do during setup that causes a problem during the golf swing, resulting in back discomfort and troubles after playing. There is a simple remedy that might greatly reduce your back discomfort when playing golf.
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Golf is a sport that puts a lot of strain on different parts of the body. The torque, speed, and rotation needed to play the sport can put stress on the back, knees, shoulders & wrists.
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There are three common anti-rotation assessments that Motus Rx Physical Therapy uses to evaluate golfers’ ability to speed up and slow down rotationally. This blog will walk you through each of these assessments and inform you of what your results might yield for your golf swing.
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If you are slicing the golf ball, you need to be executing an inside-in club path to get your club face more square. Driving into your lead leg more to create more ground reaction force and clear the hips, having more torso side bend, and improving shoulder rotation will help you break habits that are causing you to slice the golf ball.
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If you want to prevent running injuries, you need to treat running like a skill. Often times we just run. The problem is that if we don’t have a good quality ownership of the required positions, loads, and reactions the body needs for something as repetitive as running, then we’re doomed from the get go to experience a running injury.
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There are several common misconceptions surrounding strength training that have pushed people away from strength training. Strength training has been around for quite some time, but is finally starting to make its way to the forefront of many workout programs in 2022. Which, with unmatched benefits, it is hard to imagine why it was not at the forefront to begin with.
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Shoulder pain can make everyday tasks a burden. Tasks like putting a shirt on in the morning, combing your hair, or holding your hand on the steering wheel can all activate your shoulder pain. Not all shoulder pain leads to surgery or relying on ibuprofen and Tylenol. Everybody’s shoulder pain is individualized to their specific situation. While surgery may be an option for one person, it may not be for another.
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Every golfer is always looking for more distance to their drives. The two main benefits of adding distance are a shorter approach to the green and a better likelihood of making par. Dr. Eric Wallace has recognized several commonalities with golfers who cannot seem to add distance too their drives and writes how to fix them!
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Speed and strength for softball players is a common aspect of our game that has the most potential to implement game-changing aspects of your performance. The demands of a softball game call for quickness, power, and explosive movements - but is your speed and strength program matching those demands? Often times speed, strength, and working out for softball is considered completing your high school’s generic after-school program, going for a run, or doing a high intensity interval workout you found online. While these are great for general fitness, it is not specific to softball and may be why you are not seeing the results you’d like.
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Turn in the golf swing increases rotational power, driving distance, and decreases strokes. Learn how to optimize your hips, shoulders, neck, and mid back to have the most efficient golf swing and forceful turn!
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Dr. Eric Wallace sits down with Derek LaBonte, owner of Packerland CrossFit in Green Bay. They discuss the role of sleep, nutrition, mindset, and working out/crossfit in living an active lifestyle. You’d be surprised to find out you maybe shouldn’t focus on simply one aspect.
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This blog covers how to go about discovering your baseline swing speed for golf and how to increase your swing speed. There are 4 major swing speed assessments that you can complete anywhere and with anyone to get a good idea of where you are at. The significance of each test in correlation with swing speed will be revealed throughout the blog.
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Haley Hestekin sits down to talk with Motus Rx Physical Therapy about her experience as a collegiate athlete, the importance of physical preparation, strength training, and mental health. Haley gives some rock-solid advice to any junior athlete looking to compete at the next level.
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