I was going to talk about Day 1 of the BSMPG conference but I frankly was not there the whole time and much better writers exist and I am burnt out of blogging I wanted to finish strong without compromise. Since every conference has VIP and pre pre conference work I simply ran out of juice before the conference began and Friday evening dinner was perhaps the most interesting. Everyone talks about [...]

A private workshop will be in Rhode Island this June and a few people will be presenting on Tensiomyography and therapy. I have no clue what the case study is because they will be flying an athlete on a private jet when a soft tissue injury is present! No preparation, just live diagnostics and sound team work. What is interesting is the explosions of interest in evidence based medicine in the clin [...]

I am in favor of the Poland School of Regeneration, since software without hardware is just a dead computer. I am also shocked how many people who do attend Modality Empires and buy civil war tools to scrape fascia are so lost that one must witness real therapy to recalibrate reality. Waldemar, one of the top physiotherapists is not just hype or attached by athletes, but a master therapist who is [...]

I was forwarded and likely baited two links to therapy about how foam rolling and tennis ball rolling of the feet were producing "great results" and I was taken back how one can not see the problems with the study designs. My belief is that American sport science's main export to the international community is placebo. Americans are masters of placebo. We are brilliant in snake oil that I think [...]

"...Like when he huddled with Beckett and told the righty that putting too much weight on the toes of his back foot causes him to lean toward third, witches forces him to throw back across his body and miss outside."-ESPN the Magazine on Sandy KoufaxIn 1987 technology in pressure profiling the foot was started to reduce injuries, based on the innovations in 1977 with Nicol. Fast forward to 2009, [...]

"It looks as if the reaction time test has been forgotten mainly because it simplicity it isn’t a very “sexy” test and does not need hi-tech equipment."-Henk KraaijenhofThe most important monitoring device is the auricle, or human ear. At the end of the day the relationships between athletes determines what the coach is able to do. I am strongly in touch with technology, but the ancient ma [...]

One of the biggest gripes I have is short sprinters with bad starts. If you run the 400m" just be legal and consistent", I don't agree but understand. Still, in the 100m or 40 yard dash the start is everything. Not only does it set-up the run and have heavy time influences, it is perhaps the least athletic component in terms of mechanics. Clearing the blocks and starting is a different componen [...]

The final installment is not a crude summary but a reflection of best practices observed by the best internationally. Being firsthand witness to some of the masters, it was humbling to see how much craftsmanship and system based thinking exists when collaboration with great people occurs. So often I have seen coaches limited my medical professionals, coaches ruining the therapy of amazing talents, [...]

"Hence Rose's appearance in the walking boot. They are trying somehow to get the pressure off of that foot. The problem is that this NBA schedule does not allow that to happen." Measuring risk and looking at the big picture, it's always better to appraise risk than to be paying for it later. Pressure mapping with equipment such as the Fscan and Pedar system is an effective way to see what is w [...]

With so many questions requested after the first three posts, including research and validity of different measurements techniques, I wanted to go over some of the research studies and show why many teams struggle to implement technology and evidence based medicine into sport. Going to google scholar and looking up the different methodologies isn't hard, implementing it is another story.The prima [...]