by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Note: In this blog series on optimizing tissue healing, we will be looking at food, nutrients and supplements. We will be discussing products from our partner, Titan Nutrition. The owners at Titan are longtime friends and they make superior products at a great price (message me for a friends […]
Optimizing Tissue Healing: Micronutrients
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Note: In this blog series on optimizing tissue healing, we will be looking at food, nutrients and supplements. We will be discussing products from our partner, Titan Nutrition. The owners at Titan are longtime friends and they make superior products at a great price (message me for a friends […]
Optimizing Tissue Healing: Protein
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Note: In this blog series on optimizing tissue healing, we will be looking at food, nutrients and supplements. We will be discussing products from our partner, Titan Nutrition. The owners at Titan are longtime friends and they make superior products at a great price (message me for a friends […]
The Squat Variation You Likely Aren’t Doing
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS I’m a HUGE squat fan. I love to squat with my athletes and patients. It is a fundamental movement pattern that everyone should be able to do with at least some level of efficiency. I like back squats, front squats, overhead squats, split squats, and on and on. […]
Titan Nutrition Partnership
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS We are so excited to announce a new partnership with Titan Nutrition. Titan has been around for a long time and very active in the bodybuilding world, but in their effort to better serve the general population, Titan has chosen to partner with Maximum Training Solutions. MTS will be […]
Details Matter
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS As you know, I teach a number of courses to clinicians around the country, covering a variety of topics. One of my favorite courses to teach is the Rocktape FMT Blades course. FMT Blades provides evidence informed guidance with regards to how to properly perform instrument assisted soft tissue […]
Lumbopelvic Dissociation
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Lumbopelvic Dissociation is a challenging topic with poor understanding of why it is important. The concept of lumbopelvic dissociation is based on the fact that most people don’t know how to separate their pelvis and hip from the lumbar spine. If you have poor dissociation, the pelvis and low […]
How Does a Strength Coach with MS Train for a Half Marathon? Part 2 – Lifting
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Last week I provided a high level overview of my training as I prepare for the 2022 United NY Half Marathon while living with Multiple Sclerosis. Between the challenges of working, parenting, managing my symptoms and working hard to get enough mileage in for a half marathon, my training […]
How Does a Strength Coach with MS Train for a Half Marathon? Part 1 – High Level
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS mitchfightsms.com I recently shared with you my quest to run the United NYC Half Marathon in March and raise money and awareness for the Tisch MS Research Center of NY. In case you missed it, I am coming up on my 10 year anniversary of being diagnosed with Multiple […]
The Underpinnings of Mobility
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS I train mobility a lot with my patients. It is important that we have access to the range of motion that is required to get into the positions that we desire. I do think that mobility is often trained incorrectly or at the wrong time and often gets blamed […]
Advanced Tweak Taping
I have long said that Tweak Taping is the closest thing to magic that I have ever seen in the rehab world. It is simple, highly effective, and versatile. It is a way of using the skin to tap into the nervous system to decrease pain, improve range of motion, and improve performance. It utilizes […]
What Does an MRI Tell Us?
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Working at a DI university athletic department, we order a LOT of MRIs. We order them for a variety of reasons. Usually we order them to look deeper into an injury for diagnostic and treatment purposes. Sometimes we order them to track changes over time. Sometimes we order an […]
Dominate Surgical Knee Rehab – Stream
Discover a step-by-step process for managing the post operative knee for the athlete or active individual. Dominate Surgical Knee Rehab gives you a systematic approach to doing everything necessary to maximize the outcomes following knee surgery for your patients. There are a lot of progressions to work through and things to consider when performing long […]
The First 7 Days After Knee Surgery
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Over the past 20 or so years of working with athletes and active individuals, I have performed post operative rehab on hundreds, if not thousands of athletes. This includes simple surgical procedures such as a mild debridement, as well as ACL and ALL reconstructions, osteotomies and even joint replacements. […]
What if I Can’t Dry Needle?
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS For weeks now, I’ve been discussing the properties and advantages of dry needling. But, I also recognize that needling isn’t for everyone. It isn’t legal in every state and some clinical disciplines aren’t approved to dry needle. I also recognize that some clinicians aren’t comfortable dropping needles into people […]
Moving Beyond Simple Dry Needling
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Now that we have covered the how’s, why’s and when’s of dry needling, I want to cover a few areas to consider if and when the basics don’t work as well as you had hoped. When I say basics, I’m referencing inserting several needles into local tissue in an […]
Combining Needles with Other Modalities
By Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS As you likely know if you read my blog very often that I’m a huge fan of all kinds of tools and modalities. Things like IASTM, cupping, flossing, massage and tape are staples within my therapeutic process and just because I have adopted dry needling into my practice doesn’t […]
My Favorite Things to Needle
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS In case you are just joining me, I’m in the middle of a blog series on all things Dry Needling. Dry Needling is not usually my first intervention, because it is invasive and has risks, but it is a game changer of an intervention when it is indicated. […]
Likely Dry Needling Mechanisms
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS One of the very first questions that I get when I talk about Dry Needling is “how does it work?” Of course, the answer is, it is complicated. And, quite honestly, we don’t always know the exact mechanism as to how this and a lot of our other treatments […]
Kicking Off a Dry Needling Series
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS As I recently announced, I’m super excited to be partnering with Master Dry Needling to teach Dry Needling techniques as a part of their education team and become the first ATC in the US to teach this powerful modality. As I have been preparing to teach a new course […]
Finding Homeostasis and Why it Matters
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS There are a ton of things that we can do in the therapy world to improve outcomes. Many times we take a complicated approach, trying to upregulate tissue, downregulate tissue, impact pain receptors, and build new neuro pathways. These skills are important to have and many times warranted in […]
5 Rules for Training Kids
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS As my kids get older and more engaged and active in sports, I am more and more excited about my opportunities to work with them and enhance their performance and improve their resiliency. The age old question still exists of when should they start training and what should it […]
Densification v Fibrosis
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS A common point of discussion within live courses that I teach is this idea of fibrosis and densification. It is often a foreign concept and goes against what a lot of us were taught in school, so I understand why people are looking for clarity. First, lets look at […]
Why I Love Dry Needling
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Dry needling has been around for several years and has been the source of a fair amount of controversy due to state regulations, insurance company pushback, and turf battles. There has also been a lot of confusion amongst providers and the public as to who, how and when needles […]
TRX Retraction Variation
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS I’ve been a big fan over the years of the TRX suspension trainer for injury rehabilitation, injury prevention, and performance training. It allows us to layer complexity onto some pretty standard movements and it also provides us with the ability to regress movements to meet the needs of everyone […]
What is Post Activation Potentiation?
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS One of my favorite techniques for both strength and conditioning and rehab is post activation potentiation. Many people refer to it as contrast training and it is a highly effective way of producing power. What is it? Post Activation Potentiation (PAP): The peak torque of an isometric twitch in […]
Part Clinician, Part Psychologist
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS For the past few years, we have talked more and more in the physical wellness and rehab world about how the words that we use really do matter. A younger me would have told you that picking words that are “less abrasive” is just semantics and a bunch of […]
