SLD are perhaps the most overrated exercises that continue to annoy me as kinetics and kinematics are clear. Enough with the thoracolumbar fascia rehashing as that system is mainly structural. My first experience with the exercise was in the early 90s watching glide style shot athletes use it for their balance work. SLD is not a strength exercise as single leg contact decreases the balance point [...]

Muscle strains seem to be the most common diagnosis for a musculoskeletal injury when a coach, athletic trainer or physical therapist is either unskilled, uneducated or too lazy to assess the actual injury. While muscle strains certainly exist and can be problematic they are not nearly as prolific as their number of diagnoses would indicate. More often than not injuries that are assessed as muscle [...]

Foam rollers have a place in the training environment. That being said in most situations they have a very small place. Just like any other training tool they can be overused. In my understanding they are a form of self myofascial release. I have found the roller especially effective for use on the IT Band and the serratus. As far as I am concerned the foam roller is best used in cooldown, not war [...]

I received this call for help yesterday on my web site. I thought it would be worth sharing. I am getting dreadful stick from my Physio at work for doing band-walking with my cricketers (was at the ECB conference that Vern did) he is saying it will cause tightness of the ITB. Bearing in mind I just do this as part of the warm up to activate the glutes. Has Vern got a beautifully succinct and conci [...]

Joe wrote me the following after yesterdays post recommending the book Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance by James L. Oschman “I beg to differ with you on the energy medicine book. Oschman starts with sound science, then takes these wild metaphysical leaps. The fascia system acting as a second nervous system?? You should see the junk that's being passed off as science [...]