Category Archives: injury rehabilitation

ACSM Summit: Corrective Exercise for the Shoulder, Fun, Networking and More!

I had the privilege of delivering a presentation at the American College of Sports Medicine 2009 Summit in Atalanta Georgia last Thursday and Friday. We stayed at the Omni hotel right at the CNN Center! It was awesome! This was practically the view from my room! I have attended the ACSM Summit in the past, [...]
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STOP!!! STOP!!! STOP!!! What About Your Corrective Exercise?

I am at the American College of Sports Medicine 13th Annual Health and Fitness Summitto deliver two runs of my presentation “Corrective Exercise for Shoulder Impairments”. I have been enjoying the show and the first run of the presentation went great! We deliver it again tomorrow night for the cameras and it will be distributed [...]
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The "Core" of Injury Prevention for Tennis Players and All Athletes; Core Training

After a great tennis lesson from Tim Smith and some kettlebell work yesterday my abs are sore today! In a good way, like many workout enthusiasts, we like know that we did something. Tim was teaching me to quiet the movement of my body and use my lower body (amongst a flurry of other cues) [...]
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Australian Open and Tennis Injuries

“Tsonga recovers in time for Australian Open Monday, 19 January , 2009, 12:27 Melbourne: Australian Open organisers were breathing a sigh of relief Monday after 2008 finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga declared himself fit enough to play after a back injury scare. “I’m feeling much better than the previous days and excited to go out there,” said [...]
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Ankle Sprains; A Common Tennis Injury

Over 2,000,000 severe ankle sprains diagnosed in emergency rooms throughout the United States every year. How many times have you had a pretty bad ankle sprain and not gone to the ER? That accounts for hundreds thousands if not millions more ankle sprains per year that are left out of this ER statistic. Ankle sprains [...]
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