Protocols vs. Concepts / When to follow the recipe

We all have that one dish that our mom or grandmother has made for years, right? Yet they rarely follow the recipe and yet it always turns out the same - delicious. How does that happen?!

Well, it’s because they understand that the concepts often outweigh the protocols.

The same goes with rehab and treatment. Protocol based care only gets us so far.

What do we do when someone is progressing faster than expected?
What about when someone isn’t progressing fast enough?
Or what do we do when that person is actually falling behind instead of progressing at all?!

Sports Chiropractic & Rehab for Hip Pain

Merely focusing our movement patterns on flexion and extension based habits like walking and sitting to standing may lead to completely ignoring the internal and external rotators of the hip as well as the Ab/Adductors. Furthermore, with our more sedentary lifestyle in general, the patterns we utilize to access our flexion and extension can lead to inhibited Gluteal Muscles and over-dominant or ‘taught’ feeling Quadriceps Muscles. These imbalances are what we attribute as a cause to a lot of chronic Hip Pains we see clinically.

"nEW pAtiEnT SpeCiaL" / Quality Care > Marketing Gimmicks

You ever hear the phrase, “If you pay, you pay attention?” No? Well you’ve had to have heard of “you get what you pay for” then right?

I just bought a knock off Athlemon shirt from Amazon for $16 vs the Lululemon shirt I could have bought for $60. And guess what?! The quality is definitely 3.75x less. Which means it won’t last as long in the closet and therefore I’ll have to keep buying new ones more often.

What's the Difference?! Sports Chiropractic vs. Traditional Chiropractic

“We’re not better. We’re just different.”
I struggled to find the most precise way to illustrate the difference between what we do and what a “normal chiropractor” does until I had a phone call today with a potential patient and the phrase above just came out of my mouth without thinking.
As Sports Chiropractors we work to solve the puzzle of WHY you’re feeling the way you’re feeling. This means a more thorough assessment as well as more thorough treatment. It doesn’t stop there. The person who has the most control of the situation is the patient - so we expect them to do some work as well in-between sessions.

Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injuries

Did you know that an ACL injury may occur even when there is minimal to no contact at all (1)? How does this happen!?

The main reason this can happen is due to compressive forces on the knee joint that cause your lower leg bone (the tibia) to move slightly forward when we switch from non-weight bearing to weight bearing (1). Think about cutting or doing a ‘juke move'.’ When doing this, we have to absorb the forces from the ground to the body.

Mobility Vs Flexibility- A Never-Ending Battle Within Our Joints

Mobility is the ability of a joint to travel in its full range of motion (ROM) without any constraints or pains. It is all about how well you can control your joint through the necessary ROMs. Having good mobility is important to maintain pain-free, unimpeded, fluid, and independent movement.

Flexibility, on the other hand, is the ability of a muscle to fully lengthen. We have talked about different types of flexibility before and ways to increase your muscle’s length. It is important to have good flexibility in order to unlock the full ROM a joint complex has and utilize it to generate explosiveness by full muscle contraction.

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