Simply Not Easy

Today involves an intiment look at the upper cervical spine. Whiplash Associated Disorder, motor vehicle accidents, Canadian C-Spine Rules, neurological compromise involving the spinal cord, and some of the key anatomy players involved. Featuring the Dens, Transverse Ligament, and Sharp-Purser maneuver.

Former basketball star for the Oregon Ducks, number 1 pick in the WNBA draft, guard for the New York Liberty, Sabrina Ionescu had a grade 3 ankle sprain on the court recently. We talk about her injury, the anatomy involved, and why rehab is essential for an injury like this for all levels of athletes.

Hard work and hustle is a passion and a privilege. Not something to bear down and grit your teeth over. Did you read that? Or do you believe that?

A while ago I gave a little review of the book Raise Your Game by Alan Stein. Now I'm taking the lessons learned with feedback gained and implementing it.

Mentally imagery is a powerful tool. Let's not neglect it.

Not every day of training or goal attainment goes exactly as planned. Big surprise, right? That doesn't mean it's a wash. These bad days provide context, perspective, and self awareness.

If you need a snack on the go for some simple fuel and great nutrition, have a couple of these uncommon bite size pieces. Brazil Nuts, packed with the selenium you need.

Pain is something we all experience. It can be useful and has its place. What happens when we can't figure out what it's original place is? Sometimes it's like friend tapping you on the wrong shoulder, tricking you into a misdirection. Today we dig into an interesting patient case.

Guard for the NFL reigning Superbowl champions Kansas City Cheifs, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, has officially bypassed the upcoming season. He has elected to take a small stipend offered by the NFL for players who choose not to pay due to corona virus concerns. This NFL player is also a Medical Doctor looking to tackle the virus in his home community.

The physiological principle of Post Isometric Relaxation (PIR) is important in the feild of physical therapy. It also has less specific broader implications that we benefit from.

What's your next big opportunity? Why do you want it? What will it do for you? More importantly, how will you leverage its impact after it's over?

It's not about who you're around. It's about what you do with who's around you.

I love to hate these workouts. The intensity boarders on great and far too great. Nothing like revving that metabolic system up, to pretend it recovered for a second, only to bombard it again. Like the best songs, put it on repeat one time too many.

If other episodes are saturated with the good stuff, this one is unsaturated with the good stuff. Time to find out if there's different benefit nutritionally to having olives vs olive oil.

This is a second part update with a previous episode centered around the Flexor Carpi Ulnaris muscle in a clinical case. Be sure the checkout the original for some context before getting these clinical reasoning updates.

Patrick Mahomes got paid and he's backing up that big raise with his off season work. Officially the largest contract in professional sports history... So far. Who's got next?

We all need those frequent reminders to bring it back to the present moment.

If you were given a second chance, what would you do with it?

Back after it again. Thank you for being patient as I took a step back from this. This podcast isn't about the number of listeners (although I appreciate all of you) or the number of days in a row. It's about making my life a little better. So when something came up as a much more important priority it was a no brainer to take a hiatus.

Living purposeful through my priorities.