The Baby Get Up for Midline Stabilitiy

Person in a blue hoodie focuses on midline stability while performing a dead bug exercise on a gym mat, with legs bent and arms extended, next to a brick wall. Sports Medicine Northwest - West Seattle Chiropractic Clinic

The hollow body position is painful for many lower back injury progressions.  This partial baby get up is a great lateralization.  It also has a functional advantage for unilateral applications such as prepping for kettlebell or dumbbell snatches.  Give it a try.  Try holding 1 minute on/ 30 seconds off in each direction for 3 rounds.  Make sure to keep those feet off of the ground.  Balance your weight on your trochanter and only use the support of the elbow and scapula as much as is necessary.

Shoulder Chiropractor Seattle

Shoulder Chiropractor Seattle

I work with a lot of athletes who require tremendous speed and power in the overhead position.  This is a way to incorporate speed and and all-important shoulder flexion lockout position into your band work.

Airplane Hip Stability Pathways with Dr. Skylar Pond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIbQ1k8TDSY?rel=0

Tibialis Anterior Stretch for Shin Splints

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrW4gVPiCa0?rel=0

TACTICAL Banded Hip Extension

Shoulder Doctor in Seattle Impingement Syndrome

It has been a long road of earning and recovering from my own shoulder injuries as an athlete before graduating from school and becoming a shoulder doctor in Seattle myself.  The next few posts will highlight several of the rehab tools that have helped me along the way.

Shoulder impingement syndrome is common following minor inflammatory injuries in and around the rotator cuff of the shoulder.  When the subscapularis muscle fires late due to past or present injury, the window through which the rotator cuff muscles travel becomes smaller and the impingement grows more severe.  This series is an effective treatment and preventative series to activate the subscapularis.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN_0AjHV7Zk?rel=0

Hip Hinge Drills

Hip hinge drills are a way to cultivate the POP in your swings, lifts and jumps.  They’re also an easy, sport specific movement to substitute for athletes with upper extremity and spine injuries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVu9ptPfX60?rel=0