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    Continuing Education

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    Course Takeaways

    PRI vs. DNS

    Exercise

    Wait until I debrief on the no-armed pushup

    Coaching

    Anchoring Old Movements to New

    Coaching Progressions

    Compliance

    Getting Changes to Stick

    Home Exercise Execution

    How to spot compensation during movement

    Regional Interdependence Education

    The Guide to Remote Coaching

    Core

    Carries

    Crunching

    Sequencing carries

    Situps

    General

    Asymmetries

    Breathing

    Breathing During Exercise

    Breathing Strategies with Training

    Does Breathing Transfer?

    Exercise Dosage

    Lateralization

    Long Term Athletic Development

    Self-Correction

    Stability

    Stretching

    Toe Touch

    Lower Body

    Back Squat

    Basketball Ankle Mobility

    Breathing During Squats and Deadlifts

    Calves

    Deadlift Stance

    Death of the Vertical Tibia

    Elevated Heels on Squats

    Screwing the Feet

    Slideboards

    Spinal Hyperextension During Weightlifting

    Squats

    Squat Stance

    Stacking During Big Lifts

    Unstable Surface Training

    Performance

    Agility

    Asymmetrical Muscles

    Mental Resiliency

    When It’s Safe to Load

    Programming

    Exercise Programming

    Periodizing Physical Therapy Sessions

    Speed

    Backside Mechanics

    Upper Body

    Crossfit Shoulder Injuries

    Dead Hangs

    Handstands

    Neck Strength

    Overhead Pressing

    Overhead Press (Progressions and Utility)

    Pulling

    Pushups vs. Quad Sets

    Reaching

    Upper Body Unstable Surface Training

    Warm-up

    Warm-up

    World’s Greatest Stretch

    Health and Wellness

    Sleep is definitely up there on the whole health and wellness game

    Minimizing Social Media

    The Off-Switch

    Sleeping Tips for New Parents

    Snoring

    Stress Response

    Taking care of your health

    Personal Development

    that’s what I hear.

    Daily Routines

    Building Daily Routines

    Deciding What to Learn

    Just in Time Learning

    Embracing Failure

    Detaching

    Refocusing

    Check Your Ego

    The Art of the Debrief

    Work-Life Balance

    Professional Development

    No college required

    All about Jobs

    Communicating with people who speak a different professional language

    Finances

    Handling Not Getting Jobs

    Mentors

    Managing Performance Teams

    Networking

    New Grad Advice

    Preventing Clients from Falling in Love with the Clinician or Coach

    Questions to ask an interviewer

    Speeches

    Rehabilitation

    The mustache – an essential piece to becoming a good clinician.

    Ankle & Lower Leg

    Achilles Tendinopathy

    Ankle Dorsiflexion

    Ankle Pinching

    Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome

    Assessment

    Assessment Priorities

    Can Posture Be Changed?

    Can Ribs Go Out?

    Distance Assessment

    FMS/SFMA

    Gait Mechanics

    Leg Length Discrepancies 

    Manual Muscle Testing

    Muscle Imbalances

    Overhead Squat

    Perfect Posture

    Postural Evaluation

    Quick Assessment

    Self-Testing

    Shortcomings of My Approach

    Should I Use Movement-based Tests or Passive Tests?

    SFMA

    Structure vs. Function vs. Pathology

    Trusting Your Assessment

    Variability Testing

    Breathing

    Belly Breathing

    Breathing Starting Positions

    Cramping

    Diaphragmatic Breathing

    Exhales

    Is the stack being achieved?

    Pain with Breathing

    Passive Exhalation

    Visceral Fat & Zone of Apposition

    Zone of Apposition

    Case Study

    Cauda Equina Syndrome

    My Movement Limitations

    Thoracic Pain with Full Thoracic Motion

    Clinical Reasoning

    Trial and Error

    Craniocervicalmandibular

    Bruxism

    Cervical Radiculopathy

    Cervical Retraction

    Cervical Rotation

    Cosmetic Dentistry

    Deep Neck Flexors and Tongue

    Deviated Septum

    Mandibular Retrusion

    Missing Molars

    Occlusion

    TMJ and Neck

    Tongue Posture

    Elbow

    Elbow Range of Motion

    Ulnar Nerve Subluxations

    Tennis Elbow

    Exercise

    Elevating the Lower Body

    Useless Exercises

    Foot

    Address supination and pronation deficits

    Big Toe Extension

    Bunions

    Collapsed Arch

    Flat feet

    Foot and Hip Association

    Foot Arch

    Foot mechanics during the squat

    Foot Position During Resets

    Foot respiratory mechanics

    Morton’s Neuroma

    Plantar Fasciitis

    Shoewear

    Shoes (most recent update)

    Gait

    Hip Extension in Gait

    Hand

    Hands

    Hand Health

    Hip

    Adductors

    Anteversion & Retroversion

    Excessive Knee Bend

    FAI

    FAI Mechanism

    Femoral Anteversion

    Glute Amnesia

    Hip Adduction and Abduction

    Hip Clunking

    Hip Flexion Limitations

    Hip Extension

    Hip Flexor Tightness

    Hip Internal Rotation

    Hip Laxity

    Hip Openers

    Hip Range of Motion

    Hip Rotation

    Hip Separation

    Iliotibial Band

    Interpreting Hip Rotation Assessments

    Measuring Hip Rotation

    Pooch Belly

    Post-Rehab Total Hips

    Tensor Fascia Lata (TFL) Inhibition

    Total Hip Replacement

    Knee

    Fixes for Common Knee Issues

    Hamstrings and the ACL

    Genu Recurvatum

    Knee Pain

    Knee Pain During Resets

    Quads after Knee Injury

    Terminal Knee Extension

    Tibial Rotation

    Total Knee Arthroplasty

    Lumbopelvic

    The Abdominal Draw-in Maneuver

    Abdominals Explained

    Abdominal fat and movement

    Anterior Pelvic Orientation

    Back Surgery

    Bulging Discs

    Diastasis Recti

    Diastasis Recti 2.0

    Excessive lumbar flexion

    Flexion After Spinal Fusion

    Flexion Intolerance

    Hamstrings

    Hemorrhoids

    Hernias

    How Does the Pelvis Rotate?

    How does a spinal fusion impact breathing?

    Imaginary Lat Syndrome

    Infrapubic Angle

    Is Spinal Flexion Bad?

    Kegels

    Lat Dominance

    Lateral Shifts

    Lower Back Pain Red Flags

    Lower Back Weakness

    Lumbopelvic Mechanics

    Neutral Spine

    Obers Test

    Overbracing

    Pelvic Dynamics

    Pelvic Floor

    Pelvic Tilts for Hip Internal Rotation

    Pregnancy

    Pooch belly

    Posterior Pelvic Tilt

    Posterior Pelvic Tilt (part 2)

    Reducing pooch belly in standing

    Rotation vs. Tilt

    Sacroiliac Joint Pain

    Sacroiliac Joint Tests

    Scoliosis case with several fusions

    Self-assessing the infrapubic angle

    Spinal Extension

    Spinal Lordosis

    The Straight Leg Raise

    Troubleshooting the Hip Shift

    Umbilical hernia

    Which motion should be restored first in the lumbar spine?

    Manual Therapy

    Chiropractic Adjustments

    Chiropractic Adjustments part 2

    Cupping

    Kinesiotape

    Manual Therapy

    Manual Therapy part 2

    Manual Ribcage Work

    My Joint Went Out!

    Scars

    Smashing Tissues

    Thoughts on Manual Therapy

    Voodoo Bands

    Modalities

    Modalities

    Multi-Disciplinary

    Educating Other Practitioners

    Finding Dentists

    Psych Referral

    Nervous System

    Neurodynamics

    Restoring Sensation

    Sensation Loss

    Pain

    Acute Pain

    Arthritis

    Explaining Pain Simply

    Fear-avoidance

    Graded Exposure

    Hypersensitivity

    Navigating Flare-ups

    Pain vs. Suffering

    A Trainer’s Role in Persistent Pain

    Pathologies

    Are You Really a Complex Patient?

    Complex Patients

    Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)

    Hypermobility

    Identifying with Medical Labels

    Iliotibial Band Syndrome

    Piriformis Syndrome

    Sciatica

    Patient Interaction

    Biomedical Education

    Dealing with Late Patients

    Ending Passive Care

    Meeting the Patient at Their Story

    Meeting the Patient’s Needs

    Noncompliance

    Overuse vs. Deconditioning

    Patients owning their care

    Position Education

    Tissue Tolerance

    Posture

    Swayback and Respiration

    Profession-Specific

    The Complete Guide to PT School

    Clinical Practice Guidelines

    Expanding Physical Therapy

    Expanding your scope

    Finding Good Clinicians

    Mastering the Fundamentals of Physical Therapy

    The Orthopedic Clinical Specialist (OCS)

    PTAs

    PT in 25 years

    PT School Problems

    Real-World Physical Therapy

    Travel Physical Therapy

    Posture

    Alignment

    Sitting Posture

    What is the best sitting posture?

    What is a swayback posture?

    Shoulder Girdle

    Addressing shoulder external rotation limitations

    Compensatory Scapular Mechanics

    Frozen Shoulder

    GIRD

    Lat Stretch Arm Position

    Packing the Shoulder

    Restoring Shoulder Flexion

    Restoring Shoulder Motion

    Rotator Cuff Tears

    Scapular Respiratory Mechanics

    Scapular Upward Rotation

    Shoulder Abduction

    Shoulder External Rotation

    Shoulder extension

    Shoulder Impingement

    Shoulder Issues

    Shoulder Limitations

    Specific Populations

    Fall Prevention

    Geriatric Power Training

    Geriatrics

    Hypermobility

    Treating Powerlifters

    Worker’s Compensation

    Spine

    Dowager’s Hump

    The cat-cow exercise

    Thoracic Spine

    Thoracic spine position during inhalation

    What influence does the lower trapezius have on the spine?

    Thorax

    Airflow during trunk rotation

    Asymmetrical Infrasternal Angles

    Breathing for Beginners

    Differentiating Posterior Thorax Expansion

    Harrison’s Grooves

    How do reaches impact ribcage movement?

    Hunching

    Immobile infrasternal angles

    Infrasternal Angles

    Infrasternal Angle Development

    Infrasternal Angle Updates (4/2019)

    Kyphosis

    The manubriosternal joint

    Narrow Infrasternal Angle

    Overhead vs. Quadruped

    Overhead Reaching

    Pectus Excavatum

    Posterior Thorax

    Posterior thorax tilt

    Prioritizing RIbs or Spine

    Programming for wide and narrow infrasternal angles

    Reaching

    Rectus Abdominis

    Rectus abdominis compensations

    Ribcage Dimensions

    Ribcage Pump Handle

    Rib Flares

    Rib Rotation

    Rounded Back Breathing

    Scoliosis

    Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

    Thoracic sidebending

    Too Much Serratus

    Too Much Traps

    Upper thorax compensations with wide and narrow infrasternal angles

    What areas should I prioritize when improving ribcage dynamics?

    What type of exhalation strategies should narrow and wide infrasternal angles use?

    Wide and narrow infrasternal angle compensatory strategies

    Wide Infrasternal Angle and Traps

    Variability

    Coordinating Three Planes

    Impingement

    Mastering the Sagittal Plane

    Proximal before Distal

    Sagittal Plane

    Staying Neutral

    Triplanar Movement

    Usain Bolt

    Research

    Microscope, essential for any coach or clinician.

    EMG

    Evidence Based Practice

    Influential Studies

    Staying Current

    The (f)Utility of Research

    Soft Skills

    Building Rapport

    Client wants vs Needs

    Sports Science

    Oxymoron perhaps? Stay tuned

    D-League Readiness Measures

    Photo Credits