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Adam Young on Motor Learning in Golf
My guest on this episode is Adam Young, a golf instructor and author of the excellent book The Practice Manual. We discussed Adam’s personal journey in developing a unique task-oriented teaching style. He explained how his early experiences with textbook-based instruction led to physical injuries and frustration, prompting him to explore alternative methods.
How to Relax Your Shoulders While Sitting
Picture courtesy of Wikimedia commons For this week’s episode of the podcast I have a 15-minute movement lesson you can do while sitting in a chair. The goal is to release unnecessary tension in the shoulders and neck. Based on the Feldenkrais Method. If you are enjoying these movement lessons, stay tuned for a coming announcement about a new series of online classes starting in January. Share
Failure Rate & Influencing Factors
Key Points 14.8% of meniscal repair surgeries failed within two to five years. Failure rates were lower in surgeries with lateral repair and concomitant ACL reconstruction. BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE The menisci play an essential role in the normal function of the knee joint in terms of load distribution, cartilage protection, proprioception and as a knee stabilizer. Meniscal repair results in slower progression of joint degenerationand less joint space narrowing compared with partial meniscectomy.
What 3 Hybrid Physical Therapists and Strength Coaches Want You to Know About Pain, Exercise, & Movement
If there’s one thing the media (social media in particular) has taught us, it’s that everyone has an opinion on everything. It’s become frighteningly easy for people with a limited understanding of a topic to disseminate their opinions on that topic to large audiences. We need look no further than the likes of Dr. Oz, whose masquerade of a TV show has been shown to follow scientific evidence less than half the time.
Lisfranc Dislocation: A Rehab Case Study
Why this injury? Designing rehabilitation programmes for athletes with long term injuries is a professional passion of mine. In 2014, with the help of Phil Glasgow, I published a theoretical model to outline the optimal progression of a single exercise (here). A pretty simple model, that described the opportunity to regress a variable of an exercise knowing that you have progressed the demand of the exercise in a different, but logical way.
Andy Clark on Embodied Cognition and Extended Mind
Not quite John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, but pretty impressive. A great demonstration of how our movement patterns are governed not just by the nervous system, but by the structure of the body.
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