by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS One of the first things clinicians learn about post op patients is to improve their range of motion as quickly as possible. Because, in order to have joint stability, you have to have joint mobility. Over the years of working with tons of knee patients, I have found a […]
Post Op Knee Taping Technique
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS I’m always looking for ways to improve the outcomes for our post operative patients. One of my irritations over the years has been with the braces that a lot of orthopedic surgeons place on knee patients while in the operating room, shortly after closing their incision and then require […]
Reengineering the Straight Leg Raise
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS I, like so many clinicians, was taught in school that we must perform the standard quad sets, glute squeezes, and straight leg raises with every patient immediately after knee surgery. To be perfectly honest, these movements didn’t make a lot of sense to me then, and they still don’t […]
Don’t Run with (open) Scissors
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS “Don’t run with scissors!” That was something that we all learned from our parents when we were kids, right? The thought of tripping and impaling someone with a sharp metal object is pretty scary as both a child and adult. I was curious, so I did a quick search […]
Lumbar Disc Taping Technique
For the most part, I usually cringe when I hear that one of our athletes is getting an MRI on their low back, because I never know exactly what it is going to tell us and what some physicians will want to do with the findings. I’m a firm believer that the vast majority of […]
Update: Trap Bar Deadlift: Friend or Foe?
A while back, I wrote a post about the positives and negatives of the Trap Bar Deadlift as opposed to a traditional, barbell deadlift (if you missed it, read it here). That article drew quite a bit of attention from fitness and performance professionals and lead to some great conversations. In that post, I made […]
